Okay, so the following is a live stream that Candice and I

did promoting our Impact Quantum Advent

Calendar where we find a really cool and fun way to

share the some of the insights that we had.

It's definitely a lot more fun than your average highlight reel episode,

so I encourage you to check it out@impactquantum.com advent

calendar. There'll be a link in the show notes and let us know

what you think as well as wish you all a very

happy and healthy holiday season. And

I can't wait to share with you all the cool stuff Candace and I are

working on in the new year. So enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome to

Impact Quantum, an impromptu live episode. If you

enjoyed the new dubstep theme song I have from the

Frank's World live streams, let me know in the comments below. Wherever

you're watching this, be sure to like, share, subscribe all that good stuff.

My name is Frank Lavinia

and you can catch me at the following URLs

and with me is Candace Kahooli, the most

quantum curious person I know. I always like to say

the most quantum curious supposed. The most curious person I know because, you

know, I think I said that on the stream and I was like, wait a

minute, that's not right. How you doing?

I'm doing great. Thank you so much. I'm actually really excited

to join the the live, the live stream today

to, you know, talk about what we're doing, you know, what

we're doing for the rest of the month and just to say hi to

everybody. Yeah. So you may have noticed that there was no

show per se, on the usual Monday cycle that we like to be on is

because we decided that

one creative way to kind of end the season and it's been a successful season.

If you look at our numbers. Like it just took off this year. Right. And

this is season three and you know, season one and two. I mean, they're worth

going back and listening to. But like, I think it really picked up this year.

I think it was the addition of Candace for sure,

as well as the industry itself has really taken off. Yeah.

Starting last December actually with the Google's Willow announcement.

And then, then you kind of had this, you know, nothing, nothing drives

clicks like controversy. So then you had Willow's announcement

of their success they had last December,

and then ces

where Jensen Wong was trash talking quantum computing. And

that went to a back and forth between him, Bill Gates and a bunch of

other people. Obviously a lot of people in the quantum

quantum industry were not so pleased with that. And then he

kind of walked back his comments about a month later

at some other major conference.

So, you know, so when, when the CEO of a, you

know, a 5 trillion dollar company, I haven't checked today if they're still in the

fives or in the fours, but, you know, the,

the biggest valued company in the world trash

talks your industry. It's a problem. Right.

Because people listen. Right. And Jensen Wang is, is,

you know, I would say 99 of the time,

you know, knows what he's talking about. And that extra 1%

isn't throwing shade in his direction. It's. He's still

human. Right. And

speaking of which, there's a really good audiobook I highly recommend.

It's called the Nvidia Way. And if

you don't have an Audible subscription already, if you go to the data

driven book.com, you can get

a free subscription on us, basically. Free book on

us. And then if you get a subscription, we get a little, A little

attaboy on the back from. From Audible.

So what are we here to talk about today, Candace? We're

talking about our Advent calendar.

Yes. And we are super festive

because this was actually your idea. I will give you credit for that. Oh,

thank you. But frankly, it really, really

came from the amazing season that we had.

A hundred percent. You and I were talking about doing kind of like a highlights

reel for December to

kind of give us a breather. Two of my three kids have birthdays in

December, plus the holidays and plus, you know, the general kind of

urine stuff that I got to do for my day job.

And it was kind of like, you know what, let's hold. Let's keep our powder

dry until January when we can properly, you know,

launch a new season. And we have a lot of cool stuff in store

for, for season four. But we also had a lot of

cool stuff happen this year. Yeah, I mean, we had 37.

37 episodes was season three.

And, you know, and when you think about

the conversations that we had back in March. Right.

You know, and, and so relevant, so exciting.

And I just wanted to kind of take everything that we did,

kind of mix it all up and say, let's just grab,

you know, 24 highlights that

we, you know, we don't want people to forget and make that,

you know, a sweet little clip for every day,

you know, with something festive. And then that's how we're going to

highlight what we did in our podcast this season.

Absolutely. And each one of them is a YouTube

short and an article

Right now, if you want to look at them, you got to go to our

LinkedIn page because that's where we're posting them.

And here's one. Let me know if you hear the audio cameras. Okay.

Welcome to day one of the Impact Quantum Advent Calendar. Today's

clip is on Schrodinger's graduate student. Quantum AI with Michael

Magid. So what is, Jeff, do you think is the biggest miss?

So we basically have a little short and then we have a link to the

full episode and stuff like that. If you're, if you're, if you're that inspired to

listen to the whole thing because, you know, again, we do want to, we do

want to boost our numbers, but also

learn the whole. Because I, you know, we highlighted these clips of

conversations because we think they're important. And we also have an article kind of talking

about the real kind of lesson from this. Right,

right now that's the best place to go. The

next best place to go is going to be when this is completed.

Because this was also Candace's idea

was how come we don't have a website where we can have this all. And

this is big shout out to Enterprise DNA or

NDNA who is sponsoring it this year.

And big shout out to them.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Right. We

are still working on this. I'm actually Vibe coding it, which again, this

isn't sponsored, but this is a perfect. I love this energy drink.

So this is Arctic Vibe. I thought

what better way to Vibe code with this?

So you'll see, like, you know, we have the different days and stuff like that.

But like, how long honestly did you take Vibe coding that. It was really

impressive. It was really quick. I would say 15

minutes for the initial structure and then the enhancements and stuff like that. The

hard part is now where I really have to pay attention because that's the one

thing I noticed about Vibe coding. You really have to pay attention to what it's

doing, right? It just can't be like this one off window to the

side. I mean, it can be because that's how I've been doing it, but you

really have to pay attention to what you're prompt it because like, if you. It

could easily get confused. And I would

say the first initial framework was within like 30,

15, 20 minutes. Right. And then

kind of like it does seem to, it does seem to

track with typical kind of development projects where like

the last 20% of the project takes 80% of the time. It

has that kind of xenon is It Xenon's Pirate Ox. I

forget what it is, but, like, basically, the further along you go,

the slower progress is.

And so this is gonna be. I'm still

working on getting, like, the links to stuff like that, and I have the pictures

and we have.

So you'll be able to click on it and kind of like all the stuff

you would see in the article or most of the stuff you'll see in the

article will be here. Right. So if you remember nothing else,

you should, of course, you know, follow us on LinkedIn.

But in the absence of that, if you go to

impactquantum.com advent calendar, this is going to be continually

worked on. I'm hoping to have it finished

in the next couple days. Before we complete the first row here,

I want to have it done and dusted and polished.

No, I think it's great. I think it's great. And. And the fun part is,

like I said, you get to go back and then listen. And

the numbers have been really great.

Now that I see we're highlighting specific episodes again

and, you know, like, the first episode again was talking

about essentially, the one thing you

need in this field is a healthy

dose of curiosity. Yes. And that was the first one,

Michael Magid, we had a great conversation with him

and really kind of like the key lesson there was

if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics,

right? So, like, the whole thing of. Because for most people, this is a new

field, right. Unless you're already studying

physics or particle physicists.

Particle physicists. This is new to you. Like, most normal

people don't deal with this on a daily basis. Most

people don't study this. Right. And it's hard

stuff. The math is pretty wacky. The. The concepts

behind it are so counterintuitive to how we experience the world

at the. What they call it, the

mesometric level. I think that was the. That was the.

The SAT word for the day, right. So the

idea is that, you know, there's three kind of

sizes of things, right? There's the world we experience, right?

That's meso. Meso is middle metric is measure. Right. So there's that.

There's that Jesuit education where they forced me to study

Latin and Greek, paying off that this many years

later. There you go. And

then there's kind of like what happens at the scale of planets and black holes

and galaxies, right. It's slightly different than what we would

experience. And then there's also at the

subatomic level. Right. And those words, I Forget. But

basically, you know, so the world we experience on a day to day

basis is a very different world than you would experience in

quantum space. Although as we've kind of progressed through

the season, particularly in the last couple episodes, where we talk about quantum

chemistry and quantum biology, well, maybe, just

maybe some of the things we experience in our biology, in our

lives do have some kind of underlying quantum explanation,

right? Oh, absolutely. That's why I got so excited when we

were talking to quantum biologist and

then, and then when we were talking with, with Natasha and she's

a, she's a quantum chemist. You know, it's, it's in the

very molecules, in the very atoms, the very

fundamental pieces of our universe of who

we are are in fact quantum

and run in a quantum way. And

the fact that nature has existed and

there are so many elements of quantum, you know, that are going on

in nature and have been going on far longer than we have been

knowledgeable, that that's actually what is happening.

Right, right, right. And you know, we've had a lot of great

conversations about that. And

so I actually, I didn't tell you this yet, Candace,

because it just happened yesterday. So inside my day job, I work at Red

Hat, right. And that explains why there's a fedora over there.

But we have a quantum interest group

internally in the company and the, one of the organizers of it, she, she's doing

a grad program actually in, in quantum computing.

Okay. And she, part of her assignment is

to, to talk to people in industry. And then she's

like, can you talk to me about, you know, you know, like what she asked

me, like, why we started the podcast and stuff like that kind of. It was

an interesting conversation and it was,

I was telling her about like, you know, quantum biology, right? Like, you know,

that, you know, the, the fact

that almonds smells like

cyanide, right. Kind of an odd thing for them

to smell the same. And one of, one of the leading theories, I don't know

if it was ever confirmed, but the outer electron shell for both

those chemicals, I

forget what it's called, but the thing that makes almonds smell like almonds,

right, Whatever that is, has the same electron shell

shape as

cyanide, right. Obviously two very different, otherwise different

chemical structures with different radically different effects. But

the fact that, you know, our noses kind of see them as similar

kind of says something about our sense of smell, right. And

that maybe it is, maybe it is somehow measuring quantum effects, which

then has all kinds of other implications for, you

know, the whole notion that we don't experience quantum

kind of realities at, you know, mesometric scale.

There's, there's that sat word again, kids.

But it's true. It's like, you know, this, and also we, we, we

talked about how the, this, the, this sense of smell,

eyesight, you know, perceiving

of color on wavelengths. You know,

we talked about taste. Yep. You know, you have those

people who, like me, who think that

cilantro tastes like soap. Oh, really?

Interesting. It's a genetic thing. Like there's literally

like a gene that people have that, that turns that on or

turns it off, supposedly. And it's funny because, you know, I,

I, I, I have it, my husband has it,

and therefore both of our children have it. Everybody thinks

cilantro tastes like so here. But you

know, again, the fact that some people have it, other people don't,

and that's a whole other kind of quantum reality, which

is just fantastic. Right, right, right. And I think

that's exciting because in the virtual green room for this

conversation you were talking about, we're not going to reveal too much,

but there's a quantum sensing startup you

were talking with. Oh, so, and, and you were like, oh, I

just, just talking to a geologist. And I'm like, geologist?

It's got to be some kind of quantum sensing thing. And you were like, yes,

that's exactly what they're doing. Right. Because if you could detect whether it's, you know,

oil, gold, you know, other things that are

of value.

I'll never forget the first quantum conference I went to, which was

earlier this year. I went

to and, and one of the, one of the speakers was like, you know,

how many people here are into quantum planting? And, you

know, nobody raised their hands. And he's like, I'm really surprised at that because of

all the implications that you can have with quantum sensing, whether it's,

you know, drone detection, stealth

defeating, stealth systems or submarine detection.

He's like, I'm in dc, I would expect that there would be a lot more

of that. He goes, but, you know, where you're really seeing a lot of this,

at least in the public sphere, is, you know, oil discovery, you know,

know, kind of like detecting stuff underground. It's

an interesting, it's an interesting field. And I think that,

I think that we are really on the cusp of something big in, in

that world. Oh,

I think so. And the other thing that I can't, that is a very public

thing is there's a place in Cherbourg, Quebec

called QV Labs. And

actually the the gentleman that I spoke to yesterday said, you know,

you. You need to call up there and you need to go take yourself a

little trip to Sherbrooke and go see this place. And

it's. It's an incubator for Quantum. For

quantum startups. Interesting. She give him a free copy of our

book. Absolutely. The Quantum sales playbook.

Yes. And I will say, like, anyone who is a

nice. You like the Fordham reference? Dave Whitney. Holy

moly. I went to school with this guy.

That's freaking awesome, man. Fordham represent, baby.

Yeah, Dave. Dave's an OG computer guy. He's actually

fun story. So I know this is a sidetrack, but

Dave could tell you this. I've been sidetracking my entire life.

It was his Sun Spark workstation

that I first saw Mosaic running. And for

kids today, anyone born,

Anyone born in the 90s will know what Netscape is. Right? But if you don't

know what Netscape is, I feel really old. But if you don't know with.

If you don't know, it was basically the first graphical

browser, basically, I saw on his Spark

Netscape thing. And I remember having a whole conversation with him, like, how do I

get this on my Macintosh or my PC back in

my. Back in my place? And the answer was not what

I wanted. It was. It was a lot of money, basically.

At least a lot of 1990s money. But, dude, that's

awesome, man. I told you. I. I

went on. I was on the Internet for the first time, you know,

before aol. I have really

good friend shout out to Scott Nanis,

who was, you know, an Apple genius, before

there was a Genius bar, you know what I'm saying?

We're old Oats. Remember before there were Apple retail stores?

Yeah, that nice. And he took. He took

my phone that I had at Columbia and he jerry rigged

that into my computer. And the phone was a modem.

Oh, yeah, that would have been. That would have been an engineering feat.

This is probably late 90s, I would say, right? Yes, exactly. And that was just

so exciting. So, like, I'm like, oh, my gosh, you know, what's the

Internet like? You know, everything is, you know, black and green. You know,

it's really just an eye opener to what was. What

was possible. Right. Remember I told you I got emailed my dad and he called

me up and he's like, oh, my God, you're going to get in trouble. Oh,

that's right. Emailed him. Yes. He's like, how did you find out my email

address? I was like, I don't know, I just kind of figured it's your name

at IBM. And there you go. And then he's like, I only talk to the

military. Like, what are you doing emailing me? I'm like, okay,

I just figured out how. How about we be impressed? Right?

Well, that was. That was the vibe back then. Yeah. Dave,

I'll. I'll hit you up on LinkedIn or message later, because I

don't think I have any of her phone numbers because I still have my Jersey

phone number from when I lived in Jersey and It's been like 21 years.

Which, again, speaking of feeling old.

I have my Westchester. I have. I have my. That's what. You still have your.

You still have your New York thing? Yeah, yeah. My New York cell phone number

that I've now made my international cell phone number. Because once in

New York are always a New Yorker. Like, that's born and bred, right? I walk

around Montreal, Quebec, and then I start talking and they're like, who are you? I.

And I'm like, oh, God. When I. When I speak French, it's really

butchered. Because my grandfather was from Montreal

and, like, and he was a country boy from. I guess it was still kind

of rural. He's where he was from. And

so it's kind of like country boy, French Canadian,

plus an American New York accent thrown on top of that,

because he never really taught my dad and never really taught me. I know all

the bad words, though, because he would always fight with, like, he had this one

lawnmower. He lived in Staten island where he actually

did have a lawn, but the Lawn was

maybe 20ft by 6ft.

I don't know what that. I know what that is in Freedom Units, but I

don't know what that is in metric, but it's not very big. And

it took him like, you didn't really even need a mower to do it. Like,

you could do like a push mower. But, like, no, he bought this thing, like,

I guess in the 50s,

and he kept that thing running barely. So you would

take him like, half an hour to get the thing started, and then two minutes

actually mow, like, the small piece of grass. Right. He's proud. He should

be proud. And like. But, like, during those

30 minutes, you would get a lesson in French Canadian

profanity that.

It'S all religious. 90 is religious. So. So it's funny, right? So, like, you know,

I remember hearing the word tabernacle

said, and it's a whole. It's a whole thing. Yeah.

And the nun said it in church. Right. Because I went to, you know,

Catholic school and. And I was just like. Did she just say.

I mean, it's like the equivalent of the F word, basically,

or other words that I'm not going to say on the stream.

And I remember. I remember thinking like. And like,

there were not a lot of other French Canadian kids in my

neighborhood. In fact, there were none. Right.

I look around, and for my ears, I hear

basically something like the F word or another

bad word that equivalent of offense said by a

nun in church. Right. And I'm looking around and I'm

the only one who noticed. Which really does a weird thing to a

fifth grader's head. Where. Right. Yeah.

It's about the same age where all the kids. And I can't say it on

the stream, but they all learn how to say seal.

Oh, and steal. When you. When it really sounds like

the F curse. And they all walk around, they're in

hilarity. That they learn that in school. Right. I keep on seeing.

So you see all my boxes that are behind me. I noticed that. But that's

Christmas. I was gonna say. Yeah, that will also

end. Kids, birthday, like you talked about. Birthday. My son is

born December 30th. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.

He's like, I get. Every year, I get. I get jabbed.

You put the Christmas and the Hanukkah and. And the birthday

all together. And I'm like, well, you want like three. Three little slippy

things or you want like a nice, really good present. Right? You know? Right,

right, right, right, right. Yeah. And plus a birthday, like. Yeah. So two.

So. So. So Dave points out that the 917 area code and the

212 are coveted. That is true, man. Okay. I have a 914.

Right. Well, that's Westchester. That's a Westchester thing. But there's a whole bunch of

new area codes that have been added since I left. There's like. And I'm get.

I see them. Hell is that? And then, like, you

can ask. I don't want to say her name, but there's a voice assistant

from Amazon. If I say, you can always ask her, she'll tell you.

But.

So. So Dave may not know this, but I have since. Since I've last spoke

to Dave. I now have three kids, all boys. And two of

those boys have birthdays in December. So basically the back half of December

is a complete blowout. Right. So which is good because I always save my

PTO for that. Yeah. And you can make it Special. You

just, you know, it, it's. That's why I tell everybody I'm done

shopping. And I'm very, very proud of that. Like, I've gotten all my shopping

done. I make sure that I am not buying anything else after December 1st

because I have another. I have a daughter who's born in mid

October. Right. So once, I'm sorry, mid November. So once, like.

Oh, you kind of like getting to that birthday gift shopping thing. Yeah, I have

not done anything. Right. I have not done anything this year

yet, so. Although. What? That's why

there's the boxes behind me. So that's why the box is behind you. Yeah, I,

I know my gift is there. That's the DGX Spark. I'm not

even gonna ask for anything else for Christmas, but

I typically panic around when, when, when we get to December 10th, I'm like,

oh, that's usually when. Which is better than December

24th. Right? So, you know, baby steps. Well, you've probably already

ordered it if you're. Maybe you're just waiting for it to come in the mail,

but you know. Yeah, yeah, I actually, so actually

this is a fun story. So. So someone at work shout out to you. Jonathan

had sent me Nvidia. I should probably pull it

up, but Nvidia has a deal on some of their robotic stuff. And my

oldest is really into robotics. And

you know, I basically told him, I'm like, oh, well,

I probably should have read the email and the website more thoroughly because

the first item on the list is like a two, three thousand dollar thing

discounted from five thousand. So, you know. Okay.

But they had like the jets and nanos and stuff like that,

which you can plug into a robotics unit.

I was like, I was like, do you want, you know, if you

want something for that? But he's only interested in stuff that applies to the robotics

competitions. Okay. And I don't think that that qualifies, but I'm like,

I'm like, dude, if you want it, right, you know, your birthday and

Christmas are here and it's on sale. Right. So. Right, right.

But that's cool that he wants to, he wants to do the competitions. I

know, it's really interesting and the reason, I've always thought that was really compelling.

All right, I'm gonna be the dad that like, oh, like, brags on his

kid. He's a captain of one of their teams now.

Frank, that's fantastic. It's just absolutely fantastic. But I wanted to mention is that I

had spoken to two people who were Going to be airing the episodes

in season four. And both of them got their opportunities

to get involved in, in Quantum companies through hackathons.

Yep. And you know, that is, you know, very much

how some of these companies are looking for their talent,

you know, so it's great that he wants to start kind of competing in that

arena. That's very exciting. It's a very exciting and very

fulfilling, you know, pathway for sure. That's great.

That's great. I am looking

because I have this shirt on Quantum.

I am looking. And apparently it was removed from the.

Oh no, it's not totally removed.

Let's see.

It is an Amazon merch. But I'm looking for the US one.

Oh, okay, here we go. Here's the US one. I

will share that.

There you go. Oh, okay. I will put a link in the

description for that. We do kind of have a merch store. Do we?

Data driven. I need to,

I need to clean this up actually.

Yeah, this is one of my designs, Coaxes for boomers.

Okay. I had a whole discussion when we bought, when we bought this

house that. Oh yeah, Dave. I also, since we last spoke,

I moved to a different state actually, several times. But.

Yeah, you've moved several times since Fordham, for sure.

Yeah. Internationally too.

Let's see.

I don't know where I was going with this, but yes, we do have a

merch store and I do have to organize it. Shame on me if I'm not

getting it done by this. But I do love my Quantum

Quantum beltway shirt. This is what was originally designed for.

And I know you have to go soon, so. As do I. I have a

80 page document, training document I have to review in check.

I also do have to vibe code. They're not sponsoring us, but good

Lord, I wish they would. Man, just send Case. I'll be happy. Yeah, we should

talk to them. And

yeah, so. So again, look, we, we really,

we want to do something special to, to highlight what

we were able to do in 2025.

And you know, we know everybody's super busy

in December wrapping up their year. But you know what, it's also

just a really great time to just, you know, take a little break and say,

you know, let me learn a little quick something. You know, let me hear

what, let me hear what they're talking about. I mean, I have learned so

much. Seriously. And that's what the, the shout out to

you to my fellow Red

Hatter. And. But like, that was the thing

I told her. I was like, you know, like, honestly, like, I learn so

much from each episode that I get so much out of it. It's

just like, I can't help but do it now, you know? Yeah. And

I'm really excited to take everything that I learned and then adapt it into the

next season because it's. It's just. It's. It's just really, really

exciting. It's really, really is. And it's so relevant.

And, you know, that's why when you're seeing, you know, everyone, it took a while

to start seeing AI on the news, right? And AI

is on the news every night. And now, you know, it's

not every night, but now you're seeing AI and Quantum. And so it's

really exciting to see, you know, the

progression and the augmentation of what's

happening, you know, in. In the whole ecosystem. It's just

fascinating stuff. So I'm really, really glad that we did this. I'm

really 100. So go check it out. Join us now.

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that's. That's our holiday special,

right? It's a holiday special. Like, no, There you go. No singing

wookies or anything like that.

That's a deep cut from the 70s I don't think kids today will get. But,

yeah, that's our holiday special. That's what we'll call this episode on the

podcast. Okay. Impact Quantum Holiday special. Maybe next year

we'll have a singing routine. I don't know. You

can only hope or. Or. Or. Or fear. I don't know.

Exactly. Exactly. Right. Exactly. All right, I'll play out the

outro animation and catch you later. You got it.

Thank you so much.