Best Ethan Hansen Podcasts (2025)

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"Choose Your Own Adventure" with Amir Karamlou (Google QuantumAI) 32:09

1M ago32:09

32:09

Happy *belated World Quantum Day (Week/Month/Year). This episode is about the journey that one can take in navigating and getting started in the quantum technology space. This was recorded live at the NYU Abhu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good. This episode I talk to Google QuantumAI's esteemed research scientist who was part of the Wil…

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For the Love of Quantum 3:19

3M ago3:19

3:19

The return of the QCN podcast!! This episode was meant to release on February 14th! Ethan's mic (quite literally) has been passed on to me, Shway, and I'll be the new host. I hope I do nearly as great of a job communicating the journey of learning quantum computing as he did... Thank you my friend. (Also congratulations to Ethan & his fiancée!!!!!)…

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A Brief Inquiry Into the Nature of Giving Up 16:17

1+ y ago16:17

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Reprogrammable Quantum Secure Hardware with Mamta Gupta - Episode 47 51:03

2y ago51:03

51:03

We've heard on the show before about software needed to secure devices in a post-quantum world, but what about the hardware? Mamta Gupta from Lattice Semiconductor is here to tell us all about that! A note: at one point, Mamta talks about massive parallelism being the reason for quantum computing's speedup. As far as I can tell, it's not. I didn't …

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Hello (again) World! - Episode 46 23:12

2y ago23:12

23:12

Guess who's back? Back again? Ethan's back! Tell a friend! My research on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04093 https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen [email protected] QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC3…

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Interview with creator of Elixir programming language, Jose Valim 1:35:54

2+ y ago1:35:54

1:35:54

Jeremy chats to José Valim, the creator of Elixir, and puts your questions to him. We'll be focussing on José's decision to make Elixir a functional language, and discussing its evolution. Don't miss it!By Exercism

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Quantum Quests with Ethan Hansen 1:10:00

2+ y ago1:10:00

1:10:00

Ethan Hansen is a current computer science student at Case Western Reserve University studying the intersection of quantum computing and cybersecurity. He loves all things open source, private, and secure. He's also a big fan of the V language - so he built the track for it on Exercism! You can check it out here and give it a try - https://exercism…

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Programmer by Accident with Thelma Lubkin 34:40

2+ y ago34:40

34:40

Thelma was raised in Bronx, NY. She studied for a BBA in Economics from Baruch School, CCNY. Currently she is a widow with an adult daughter and son. She worked as a programmer, mostly C and simulation software at Johnson Controls and smaller firms; long retired. Now she walks all the time for recreation and to run errands; she bikes and swims in w…

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Push Off With Python with Carl Oscar 34:34

2+ y ago34:34

34:34

Looking to get started with coding? Carl's story should inspire you to push off into learning Python...As a total newbie to coding, her took on the Exercism Python track without knowing anything about programming and is now flying. Carl, known in the community as “meatball”, lives in Sweden and is a full time student. He recently discovered his lov…

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Conquering Cancer & Accessibility Activism with DJ 49:00

2+ y ago49:00

49:00

What happens when you get life-changing news or information? How do you respond? How do you process? Catch up with DJ to hear how he reframed his perspective on hearing he'd been diagnosed with cancerBy Exercism

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Becoming a Polyglot Developper with Erik Schierboom 56:22

2+ y ago56:22

56:22

Erik Schierboom lives in The Netherlands and works as head of open-source for Exercism. There he builds the software and infrastructure that powers the open-source elements of the platform, ensuring each track is a joy to work with. He was a top Exercism volunteer before joining full-time. As a true polyglot developer, his biggest passion is learni…

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Beating paralysis: 3D printing a one handed keyboard with Bobbi Towers 1:04:00

2+ y ago1:04:00

1:04:00

Today we are catching up with Bobbi Towers, the self-proclaimed "Child of Exercism", who began their journey of contributing to open-source software right here with us. They joined the community in 2018 as a student on the Clojure track and went on to become a mentor. When the pandemic fell upon us and we began work on v3, the track needed a mainta…

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Isaac Good: Prolific Mentor and System Automater! 37:00

2+ y ago37:00

37:00

We caught up with Isaac who is involved with Exercism, specifically in mentoring learners across numerous different programming languages. A self-proclaimed techie. Jack of all trades. Coffee hobbyist. Enjoying motorcycles, bicycles, woodworking, welding, DIY, fantasy novels, gardening...amongst other things. We are so grateful for all the effort a…

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Entrepreneurial by Design with Taiyab Raja 51:00

2+ y ago51:00

51:00

Taiyab Raja is the principal UI/UX designer behind Exercism v3. If you think Exercism looks and feels awesome, he’s the man to thank. Taiyab enjoys all things startups, design and entrepreneurship. Born to entrepreneurial immigrant parents and raised in a deprived neighbourhood in Birmingham, England, Taiyab fell into his love for tech, design and …

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Expeditions, Elixir, and Exercism with Brian Underwood 44:15

2+ y ago44:15

44:15

Brian Underwood is an Elixir consultant for Erlang Solutions living in Stockholm, Sweden. He likes to learn, understand, and play. Show Notes: "Risky Business: James Bagian—NASA astronaut turned patient safety expert—on Being Wrong" Erlang SolutionsBy Exercism

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Don’t be too productive with Franziska Obbarius 49:23

2+ y ago49:23

49:23

Franziska lives in Germany and has a full-remote position as a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian (the company behind Jira, Confluence and Trello). She works on Go services for a new product called "Jira Product Discovery". It aims to support product managers with their work and is currently in public beta. Before joining Atlassian, Franziska wo…

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Problem solving your way into being a tech lead with Gabriel Nelle 52:28

2+ y ago52:28

52:28

Gabriel Nelle is living in South Germany near Baden-Baden. He’s sharing the apartment with his girlfriend and two cats. He studied to be a teacher for mathematics and German at university in Siegen which he finished in 2008. Since then he worked as a developer in the web-space mostly with JavaScript, PHP and Python. Early 2016 he switched to Go and…

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ABAP and ABAP with Lars Hvam 30:50

2+ y ago30:50

30:50

Lars Hvam lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and loves the ABAP programming language. Having put together the ABAP track on Exercism, we caught up with Lars and had a chilled chat about how he ended up in tech.By Exercism

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Learning to code by telling the story of a program with Rebecca Mark 38:26

2+ y ago38:26

38:26

Rebecca Mark works for Unison Computing, where her mission is to make learning the Unison programming language as fun and accessible as can be. She started programming after a career in education; her favorite question from a student has been, “Is Rebecca a real grown-up?” to which her answer is another question: “Does that exist?” She started stud…

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Womanium Quantum Panel 1:01:32

3y ago1:01:32

1:01:32

Original Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIkM6Io6pU Womanium Quantum website: https://www.womanium.org/Quantum/Computing

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Summer Update 2022 2:34

3y ago2:34

2:34

What's going on with this podcast? Is it dead? Is Ethan dead? Find out all that and more on this exciting installment of Quantum! Computing! Now! QC Zero to Hero repo: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero The Quantum Pod: https://anchor.fm/thequantumpod Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast: https://www.mustythoughts.com/podcast.html https://…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 035 10:10

3+ y ago10:10

10:10

Links to resources used today: https://quantum.country/qcvc https://quantum.country/qm https://app.element.io/?pk_vid=d4b162e0e6c511851631808451ab93fb#/room/#quantum_computing:matrix.org Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 028 52:07

3+ y ago52:07

52:07

Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/LinearAlgebra Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 027 1:00:59

3+ y ago1:00:59

1:00:59

Links to resources used today: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas/tree/main/tutorials/ComplexArithmetic Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torr…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 023 35:29

3+ y ago35:29

35:29

Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/matrix-multiplication https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/3d-transformations https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/determinant https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/inverse-matrices Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 022 47:29

3+ y ago47:29

47:29

For some reason the audio was all weird for this recording and the recording cut off at the end before I finished up. That's okay though, I just went through the exercises for that video by myself and the summary I put down was "see day 14" because it was basically the same content Links to resources used today: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 014 17:09

3+ y ago17:09

17:09

Links to resources used today: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/visualizing-linear-transformations?modal=1 https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/matrix-transformations/linear-transformations/a/practice-associating-matrices-with-transformations?modal=1 Also check out the Rieman…

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Superconducting Qubits with Jan Goetz – Episode 45 32:40

3+ y ago32:40

32:40

In which Jan Goetz teaches me about how superconducting quantum computers work. IQM website: https://www.meetiqm.com/ Opensource software for designing superconducting circuits: https://github.com/iqm-finland/KQCircuits IQM at APS March Meeting: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR21/Session/L67.1 Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.co…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 003-005 1:00:19

3+ y ago1:00:19

1:00:19

Links to resources used today: https://www.learnpython.org/en/Hello%2C_World%21 https://www.learnpython.org/en/Variables_and_Types https://www.learnpython.org/en/Lists https://www.learnpython.org/en/Dictionaries https://www.learnpython.org/en/Basic_Operators https://www.learnpython.org/en/Conditions https://www.learnpython.org/en/Loops https://www.…

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QC Zero to Hero Day 001 & 002 25:29

3+ y ago25:29

25:29

If you're listening on the podcast version, so you don't waste your time I recommend using a podcatcher that can automatically skip silence like AntennaPod: https://antennapod.org/ (that's what I use!) Links to resources used today: https://jupyter.org/install https://www.codecademy.com/article/how-to-use-jupyter-notebooks Links for QC Zero to Hero…

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Humanizing Quantum Computing with whurley – Episode 44 36:56

3+ y ago36:56

36:56

In which whurley and I talk about the challenges and promises involved in bringing quantum computing to a wider audience Jon Skerrett episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Fact-vs-Fiction-Quantum-Edition-with-Jon-Skerrett--Episode-38-e13u6fv whurley’s FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/whurley whurley’s Twitter: https://twitter.co…

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Cold Atom Quantum Computing with Paul Lipman – Episode 43 37:30

3+ y ago37:30

37:30

Quantum London: https://www.qubits.london/ Forbes Articles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/people/paullipman1/?sh=487219bf657c Difference between Quantum Supremacy and Quantum Advantage: https://medium.com/@wjzeng/clarifying-quantum-supremacy-better-terms-for-milestones-in-quantum-computation-d15ccb53954f Quantum Economic Developmen…

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The Future of Quantum Computing with Scott Aaronson – Episode 42 52:12

3+ y ago52:12

52:12

The burden of proof lies on the side of the people saying quantum computing is impossible. Agree or disagree? In this episode Scott Aaronson talks about why he thinks it's true! Quantum Supremacy episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Googles-Quantum-Supremacy---Episode-5-News-e7ssst Scott’s website (including links to lecture note…

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Modern Quantum Programming with Roger Luo – Episode 41 38:49

3+ y ago38:49

38:49

In which Roger and I talk about Yao, mostly That’s Cool News talking about ITER: https://thatscoolnews.com/episode/62/ Yao tutorials: https://yaoquantum.org/tutorials/ Roger’s Blog post on building a quantum simulator from scratch: https://blog.rogerluo.dev/2020/03/31/yany/ Yao docs: https://docs.yaoquantum.org/dev/ Yao Summer of Code: https://yaoq…

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Why Quantum Needs Classical with Itamar Sivan – Episode 40 36:02

3+ y ago36:02

36:02

Classical and Quantum – a match made in heaven. And in the labs of Quantum Machines. Quantum Machines Website: https://www.quantum-machines.co/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen [email protected] QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Moner…

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Qubit Touchdown with Tom Wong – Episode 39 46:11

4y ago46:11

46:11

What the difference between football and quantum computing? How much funding they each get – take that however you would like Qubit Touchdown: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/qubit-touchdown Entanglion: https://entanglion.github.io/ Math football player: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel If you want more info on the hype of quantum co…

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Fact vs Fiction: Quantum Edition with Jon Skerrett – Episode 38 40:59

4y ago40:59

40:59

In which Jon and I debunk some common quantum computing myths and have a bit of fun in the process Also Happy 4th of July everyone! 3Blue1Brown Linear Algebra series: https://www.3blue1brown.com/essence-of-linear-algebra-page/ 9 second coherence time episode: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Coherence-Times-Longer-Than-My-Attention-Sp…

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Cryptographic Agility with Mike Brown – Episode 37 38:27

4y ago38:27

38:27

In a world where quantum computers put the entire fate of encrypted messaging on the line, only one man can stop them… cue action shots and tense music Just kidding of course, Mike Brown works with a whole company that can stop them! Listen to this episode to learn more about the real-world work that’s going on behind the scenes, and less about thi…

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Enterprise Quantum Software with Steve Reinhardt – Episode 36 52:49

4y ago52:49

52:49

Join Steve and I as we talk about the fact that quantum computing is different from high performance computing (among other topics). Real earth-shattering news you can only find right-here on quantum computing now. QCI Website: https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/ Qatalyst: https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/products New quantum material: https://…

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Quantum Amplifiers with Dr. Olivia Lanes – Episode 35 35:31

4y ago35:31

35:31

Everyone always asks "what is a quantum amplifier" but never "how is a quantum amplifier." Well in this episode I got to ask just that! (or rather, how is an amplifier quantum?) Dr. Olivia Lanes was my incredible guest who taught me a lot about all sorts of hardware surrounding superconducting qubits, although we focused on quantum amplifiers for t…

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Contributing to Pennylane with Jack Ceroni - Episode 34 40:50

4y ago40:50

40:50

Quantum computing and the space race share some commonalities if you ask Jack and I, but that’s not all we’re here to talk about today. Join Jack Ceroni and myself for a discussion of pennylane, QML, getting started with quantum, and what in the world are QNodes? Pennylane tutorials: https://pennylane.ai/qml/ Pennylane website: https://pennylane.ai…

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Coherence Times Longer Than My Attention Span – Episode 33 18:00

4y ago18:00

18:00

If only the progress of quantum computing could also help me not bounce from idea to idea like a pin ball... https://thequantumdaily.com/2021/04/05/uk-based-quantum-motion-researchers-report-they-have-blueprint-for-scalable-future-in-quantum-computing/ https://quantummotion.tech/quantum-computing-breakthrough-shows-blueprint-for-scalable-future/ ht…

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The Quantum Encabulator 3:56

4y ago3:56

3:56

In which I give the details of an interesting project I’ve been working on The Turbo Encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag A website I used for the script: https://www.thechiefstoryteller.com/2014/07/16/turbo-encabulator-best-worst-jargon/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1e…

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Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast - March Showcase – Episode 31 47:44

4y ago47:44

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In which I play the first episode of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/noisy-intermediate-scale-podcast ----- Notes from Michał’s Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13914305/1-what-quantum-software-engineers-do In this episode I talk about the job of quantum software engineers. What this job is about and how it…

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Nonlocal – March Showcase – Episode 30 12:10

4y ago12:10

12:10

In which I play a select segment from Nonlocal: a quantum computing podcast: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/ ----- Nonlocal’s show notes: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/001-the-origin-of-the-mermin-peres-magic-square The Mermin-Peres magic square is a simple game which is at the heart of many results in quantum cryptography and quantum complexity theory.…

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ALL the Frameworks 2: Electric Boogaloo – Episode 29 [Basics] 41:40

4+ y ago41:40

41:40

In which I refresh the list I gave a while back and actually make good on the promise of talking about ALL the frameworks (because I speedrun 2 lists of them at the end of the show) Silq: https://silq.ethz.ch/ Qiskit: https://qiskit.org/ Junye Huang Interview: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Junye-Huang---Episode-12-Interview-edec3o …

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QOSF Showcase – Episode 28 [Hybrid] 42:12

4+ y ago42:12

42:12

In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation. Spheres on Github: https://github.com/heyredhat/spheres Matt’s website: https://heyredhat.github.io/ Brooklyn Quantum Computing Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn_quantum/ IBM Open Science Prize: https://www.ibmquantumawards…

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Brandon Solo and Machine Learning with Tequila – Episode 27 48:03

4+ y ago48:03

48:03

In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;) APPLY FOR THE QOSF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM NOW: https://qosf.org/qc_mentorshi…

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Mike Strike and the Quantum Resistant Ledger – Episode 26 [Hybrid] 51:13

4+ y ago51:13

51:13

In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat. Blog with a little talk about quadratic speedup maybe not being enough: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/q2b-2020-in-8-minutes/ Q…

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David Gunnarsson and Dilution Refrigerators – Episode 25 [Hybrid] 42:21

4+ y ago42:21

42:21

In which David Gunnarsson and I talk about Dilution Refrigerators and what Bluefors does. What does Bluefors do? They make Dilution Refrigerators. Bluefors on thequantumdaily.com: https://thequantumdaily.com/?s=bluefors Bluefors website: https://bluefors.com/ Bluefors Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefors_ltd Bluefors YouTube: https://www.youtube.c…

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