Business analyst and project manager who enjoys politics, maths, economics,developing screenplays & LCFC
Coventry, England
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IonQ has been selected for Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. We’re helping define what utility-scale quantum really means and building the roadmap to make it real.
Learn more: ionq.com/news/ionq-advances-…
#QuantumComputing #DARPA #Innovation
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If you spent $10,000 every single day, it’d take 100 days to spend $1 million. It’d take you 274 years to spend $1 billion. The gap is insane
IonQ is excited to collaborate with @NVIDIA as one of the quantum-process builders contributing to NVQLink. We are helping drive the integration of quantum and classical computing, enabling next-generation breakthroughs in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/n…
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When I meet with customers, often one of the first questions they ask is whether they have a problem that’s suitable for quantum computing. Not every problem needs a quantum computer, but the more computationally complex problems, often with a high number of variables that classical computing can’t outright solve or can’t solve efficiently, can benefit. To help identify quantum-suitable problems, we’re hosting a free webinar tomorrow. For anyone wondering whether quantum is right for your organization, this will be a highly valuable discussion. $QBTS
dwavesys.zoom.us/webinar/reg…
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My two cents. Nice PR spin, but let's call it what it is. A latency band-aid for bad qubits. Running error mitigation on an AMD FPGA doesn't fix decoherence, it just moves the problem into classical hardware. IBM's still compensating for physics, not solving it. IonQ's already at 99.99% gate fidelity with no patchwork layer. It's not hybrid, it's stable.
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My colleagues in the British commentariat are comfortable with a national political conversation which stretches from “centrists” to far right.
They absolutely do not want one that extends to the left.
They can huff and puff about it, but it’s screamingly obviously true.
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One of the most insufferably smug conversations in human history.
But what really comes across here is an anxiety that British politics might not keep to a script they feel comfortable with:
And which they feel gives them legitimacy.
“He is basically turning the Greens into a red party.”
Many people who voted Green in the last election “will absolutely hate” the direction Zack Polanski is now taking the party.
🗳️ How To Win An Election
🎧 pod.fo/e/3430a8
@HugoRifkind @Dannythefink @PollyMackenzie
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Find this kind of bollocks nauseating?
If you understand the basic principle that our environment is being destroyed by the super rich corporate polluters?
Then join.greenparty.org.uk
“He is basically turning the Greens into a red party.”
Many people who voted Green in the last election “will absolutely hate” the direction Zack Polanski is now taking the party.
🗳️ How To Win An Election
🎧 pod.fo/e/3430a8
@HugoRifkind @Dannythefink @PollyMackenzie
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@lisanandy You told the House of Commons on Monday that Maccabi fans were banned mainly because they couldn’t be protected. Interesting, given this article paints quite a different picture. Could you clarify what you were briefed? theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
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Has @BenKentish apologized to his listeners yet?
"Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned from watching their game against Aston Villa after police intelligence concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
‘What a disgrace for our country.’
@BenKentish reacts to news that Maccabi Tel Aviv have decided to not sell tickets for the Aston Villa game to fans.
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There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, politicians and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club.
This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim.
Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.
Our media and political class are rotten to the core. We’re not going to take this anymore.
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Sky News has made a clarification amounting to: We, along with the rest of the media, the government & political class, were so determined to present Maccabi Tel Aviv fans as angelic victims of antisemitism that we accidentally forgot to mention their previous violent rampages.
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IonQ | Major Breakthrough by OI.
They’ve turned a hurdle into an edge with a new control technique tackling thermally-sensitive errors in two-qubit gates. It actually operates above the Doppler limit, skipping ground-state cooling, at 99.99% fidelity. oxionics.com/blogs/accelerat…
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🚨 Landmark paper, IonQ fam. Must read. The real breakthrough is that the OI team made temperature irrelevant. >99.99% fidelity without ground-state cooling means trapped ions can run hot and still stay precise. That erases the old tradeoff between speed and stability. It's the difference between a lab system and a production platform.
🔗drive.google.com/file/d/11-5…
Paul is correct, the video is a must watch.
1 Ballance is bullish on the 256 q machines being ready in 2026
2 Highlights the importance of fidelity (give today's press release regarding 99.99%, very important!)
3 The sheer scale of the 256 compute space
4 The scalability.
Extraordinary podcast. As I’ve said ad nauseam, I could listen to IonQ/Oxford Ionics’ Chris Ballance all day. He’s why I’m all in and have doubled down since the Oxford Ionics acquisition/merger announcement. Chris is a visionary business leader - highly technical, yet entrepreneurial, strategic, organizational, and operational. A rare combination of skills for any one person.
Re the podcast, even now, with over 12K views of Rick’s (@CHB1284) original post, only ~ 300 people have even viewed this podcast, just 25 liked it, and even fewer have likely even watched this in its entirety. And you wonder why so many don’t understand this industry or company yet… Yup, it’s still so early and, yup, this is how you create alpha bc most will not take the time or don’t have the time. Been like this since the stock was in the low single digits.
I was going to highlight all the extremely critical points that Chris hit on during this podcast, but there are just too many - and it would take way too long to do. It’s simply a must watch for any current or potential IonQ investor.
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Extraordinary podcast. As I’ve said ad nauseam, I could listen to IonQ/Oxford Ionics’ Chris Ballance all day. He’s why I’m all in and have doubled down since the Oxford Ionics acquisition/merger announcement. Chris is a visionary business leader - highly technical, yet entrepreneurial, strategic, organizational, and operational. A rare combination of skills for any one person.
Re the podcast, even now, with over 12K views of Rick’s (@CHB1284) original post, only ~ 300 people have even viewed this podcast, just 25 liked it, and even fewer have likely even watched this in its entirety. And you wonder why so many don’t understand this industry or company yet… Yup, it’s still so early and, yup, this is how you create alpha bc most will not take the time or don’t have the time. Been like this since the stock was in the low single digits.
I was going to highlight all the extremely critical points that Chris hit on during this podcast, but there are just too many - and it would take way too long to do. It’s simply a must watch for any current or potential IonQ investor.
$IONQ 🚨🚨 New podcast with Chris Ballance who talks about advantages of trapped-ion systems and quantum computers versus classical systems. Some highlights:
1. IonQs modality is currently only architecture that looks and behaves like standard semi-conductor chip. This allows them to achieve superior unit economics.
2. Having best chip performance (fidelity) is IONQs entry ticket to the market, but having the best unit economics is what will allow them to beat the competition.
3. Chris originally declined IonQs offer, but ultimately decided it made to much business sens. Combination would also accelerate his dream of seeing large scale high performance quantum computing systems.
4. Chris believes next years 256 quibit system will be an inflection point for the industry. It will be substantially more powerful than any other QC system out there, and it would take 1B worth of planet earth's to power an equivalent classical super computer.
5. This is a classical disruption cycle. Its not a question of if quantum computers will disrupt GPUs and gain adoption, its a question of when. Classical computers will never be able to reach same level of performance due to energy costs alone.
6. Current energy dynamics of AI cant scale. Chris believes QC will solve this.
piped.video/watch?v=UFudqGRa…
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Today, we have released a landmark technical result demonstrating the world’s highest two-qubit gate performance with fidelity exceeding 99.99%! 🎉 Find out more on our website here: oxionics.com/announcements/i…
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Literally only two explanations here, @lisanandy:
1) You are a liar
2) You are hopelessly ill-informed.
Either way, how would you defend keeping your job?
