About this episode
<p><a href="http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/benjamin.html">Simon Benjamin</a> is a Professor of Quantum Technologies at Oxford. He is also the Principle Investigator for Oxford’s project on <a href=" http://quopal.com/">Quantum Optimisation and Machine Learning</a>.<br><br>This episode is more technical than <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/john-preskill-on-quantum-computing/">last week’s episode with John Preskill</a>. We start by covering some fundamentals then go into different approaches for constructing and scaling a quantum computer.<br><br>Read <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/simon-benjamin-on-quantum-computing-architectures">the transcript here</a>.<br><br>The YC podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/craigcannon">Craig Cannon</a>.<br></p>
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