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Xanadu with Nathan Killoran

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Nathan Killoran (@co9olguy) guides Eric Anderson (@ericmander) through the cutting-edge world of quantum machine learning at Xanadu, a quantum computing company that is innovating with its use of photonics. Nathan is Xanadu’s Head of Software, Algorithms, & Quantum Machine Learning, and has detailed insight on their main open-source software projects, StrawberryFields and PennyLane. On today’s episode, Nathan explains how the barrier to contributing may be lower than you think, even if you don’t have a PhD in quantum physics.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Designing software for Xanadu’s unique approach to quantum computing
  • Machine learning, differentiable programming and more in the quantum domain
  • How even high school students can contribute to an open-source quantum computing project
  • Is there a road map for quantum machine learning?
  • Nathan’s “blue sky” interview questions

    • Links:

    • Xanadu
    • StrawberryFields
    • PennyLane
    • ProjectQ
    • TensorFlow Quantum
    • PyTorch
    • Qiskit
    • Pyquil
    • Cirq
    • Alpine Quantum Technologies
    • Quantum Open Source Foundation
    • Unitary Fund

      • People mentioned:

      • Christian Weedbrook, CEO of Xanadu (@_cweedbrook)
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