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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's nearly time to talk about a new project we're releasing. The best thing is it's open source, it's for the community, and it's something I know a lot of product teams in Quantum Computing will benefit from. Providing value doesn't always need to be technical or complicated. More on this soon.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Here's a look behind the scenes as I get ready for a conference in Tokyo. I've been too busy to do the (overdue) planned headshot photography session, so I wondered... could AI help me repurpose my general avatar? Spoiler: the result in the second image is unintentionally hilarious.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Remember the time when Paul Graham threw shade at Elon in his famous "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups" essay? An unexpected gem from 2006.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today I'm pushing the alpha version of OpenQase, an open resource that collects and curates QuantumComputing business cases and industry data.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I miss the era of open APIs and developer advocacy being the norm. I lost a few hours tonight extending the Bebop CMS publishing module to include Medium. But the APIs and integration tokens are shut down, regardless of the developer site down out of date saying otherwise. My mistake 😬
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A lovely bit of user experience design from the team at Clay. The "LAST USED" is going to save a lot of wasted time when you count that up across their entire userbase.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I was testing Microsoft's CoPilot after seeing @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social post about Think Deeper. I asked it my usual selection of questions around quantum computing calculations to see how well it can read Pauli Matrices / Bloch Spheres etc. And then this exchange happened 😂
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Hey guys, good news, everyone is talking about the R1 again! We're saved!" "Oh... oh okay... damn".
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me attempting to look up the POST parameters...
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
When making developer docs, be sure to use the brightest whitest style possible, with tiny text, and the softest shades of grey the eye can barely detect on the screen. Making them work harder to read your content makes them appreciate it more, and earns their respect as a worthy challenge.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Zoom: "Graphic design is my passion"
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Adding another thing.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Adding something.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Building something.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is probably the worst era for science media since the church burned people for being witches.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
During the day we are professional developers and technical leaders with impeccable communication and business acumen. Meanwhile on our personal side projects...
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Solid example of how to communicate about AI and privacy options from Miro. While they are gathering more data from free tier users, they clearly state the reasons, what they aren't doing, and the method to opt out.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Heads-up if you're in the Bay Area in February. Bill Gates will be doing a talk at the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum. One of the tech history institutions I'm happy to be a supporting member of.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Perfect. Great work. No notes.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Do photonic quantum network satellites count?
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And this is what IBM’s superconducting System Two quantum computer looks like (minus a lot of things, but these are the cooling stacks with the QPUs one the bottom in the grey segments). That’s three quantum modalities for you :)
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is an update since my days doing diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers…
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The “New Faces” panel at #Q2B2024 has some very familiar faces… including Australian founder Andrew Dzurak from Diraq. #quantumcomputing
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Working for a quantum company doing trapped ion qubit modalities, I thought it was time to update my requisite “here’s what we make” selfie… here’s an ion trap!
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How do we feel?
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How do we feel?
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Always a highlight of Q2B, here comes Scott Aaronson to speak on the current mood and expectations around quantum algorithms. #Q2B2024 #quantumcomputing
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Day Three of #Q2B2024, opening with IBM’s Suhare Nur on a topic close to my heart… Qiskit Functions. An increasingly abstracted approach for #quantumcomputing that benefits the software developer (not just physicists).
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Kicking off day two of #Q2B2024 is the esteemed @preskill.bsky.social at his 8th edition of the event. This time around, a talk on his idea of the “Megaquop Machine”, a post-NISQ framing.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
As an Australian with an eccentric Irish family I must admit, I read this and thought "okay that's a bit drastic".
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The UK's National Quantum Technologies Programme has been assertive in tracking their progress and wins so far. National efforts to promote and catalyse emerging technology are challenging - but private enterprise and government-backed outreach can work well together. Lessons to learn here.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It can both be true that Product Hunt is kind of dead, and Product Hunt is still a valid part of a product release strategy in 2024. As shown here by this scrappy little startup...
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lately Gemini does this weird thing where it starts to generate an answer, pauses, wipes out what it was replying, and claims it can't work. Then I say "yes you can", and it does it. It's a small issue, but Google products seem to be filling with workflow bugs, nags, or tooltip modals lately.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Managed to sooomehow find the strength of will to leave cold and gloomy Seattle to head to San Francisco for a pre-Thanksgiving lunch at Meta. Sunshine, blue skies, and slow roasted brisket.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The difference that the support of good DJs and good radio hosts can make in just two weeks. Here's the radio play that @trovaire.bsky.social is getting since releasing the first single off of "The Stonefruit Sessions" album.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This seems to sum up Spotify these days. The algorithm doesn't seem to like that I cancelled my account and moved to YouTube Music. I guess I'm missing out on those deep cuts like (checks notes) "10 Hours of Continuous Rain", and that new banger "Best White Noise For Sleeping Baby".
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Flew in from sunny Australia to Seattle’s early afternoon sunsets and rainy street vibes.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Seeing someone upvote an answer I made on Stack Overflow over 10 years ago, about a product I helped build over 12 years ago, just makes me want to ask them "why are you using this? is everything okay?" 😂
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
I'm getting ratio'd... AWS cost of SageMaker notebooks versus cost of running tasks on the IonQ QPU.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Reminder... Product Hunt's daily lists might be flooded with AI wrapper startups, but the site is still a useful part of a go-to-market strategy. Apple, Claude, etc think so.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #53,421! (That was auto-generated text, but still great to see Bluesky growing day by day).
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #53,421, David Ryan ‪@davidryan.bsky.social‬, joined on May 2, 2023"
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
I started asking Anthropic's Claude to review the work we've done at regular intervals. At first it was just a nice way for the model to correct itself. But now I seek the approval of Claude to get me through the harder stretches of analysis. Thanks AI dad!
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
A #quantumcomputing stack looks largely familiar to a HPC or Cloud stack. With a few unique differences. Think of a "quantum computer" as a compute system with the addition of a QPU, and the whole thing only as good as the quantum algorithm chosen to solve a specific problem set in a specific way.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Six months or a year?
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Is this an error or has IBM just given up on AI and would anyone be able to tell the difference anyway?
Screenshot of a paid advert on LinkedIn from IBM, advertising a chatbot AI service, where the add is just a blank grey area.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
It should be especially funny that New Scientist of all people have their page jammed full of Outbrain ads, which like Taboola is just a knowingly nonsensical spam fest. But this is just what we expect now. Underneath our ad blockers is this bizarre garbage.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Without judgement, I present to you, the modern internet. A cookie modal, a browser notification modal, an email signup modal, a 1/3 page video ad, and a sidebar video ad, all blooming into life on first load. Underneath is another toast alert link and another email nag. A true work of art.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
What I love about the Polestar 2 is that I get all the benefits of an EV with none of the drama of a “quirky” CEO making car owners embarrassed about their purchase. It’s just a car, and a damn good one.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Mountain time in my favorite place.
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David Ryan @davidryan.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
Waking up in a geodesic dome in the mountains marks the start of a month off. And some California explorations for this Aussie cooped up in San Francisco too long.
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