Quantum Fiery Voices: Dr. Bob Sutor
For Aiding and Abetting The Quantum Dragon's Relentless Assault
Quantum is way too interesting for anything written about it to be boring, and yet The Quantum Dragon struggles each week to find non-boring content. One of his regular sources, however, is Dr. Bob Sutor – Quantum and AI, a newsletter published on both LinkedIn and Substack. On July 20, 2024, Dr. Bob Sutor began providing links to news, articles, and papers, but on October 18, 2024, he started adding commentary. He also started spitting fire….
Here are some of The Quantum Dragon’s favorite lines:
October 18, 2024: Stop trying to sound novel by inserting “hybrid” into the mix.
November 2, 2024: As I travel around and speak at conferences, many people have questions about this deal….
November 7, 2024: As some have learned to their reputational detriment, do not make bold statements of the superiority of quantum computing before the classical algorithmists have had a chance to respond.
November 20, 2024: I’ve been reading a lot of quantum press releases lately and so, for fun, I provide this template for the first sentence of your announcement….
December 2, 2024: You are not all “world leaders in quantum computing.”
December 5, 2024: I’ve decided that I’m going to highlight text in link descriptions that vendors use to describe their global, intergalactic, or universal leadership.
December 10, 2024: There’s some marketing fodder around a septillion years, but frankly, I don’t care how long it takes to benchmark some useless problem.
December 17, 2024: Note the last sentence.
December 31, 2024: You can easily simulate 3 to 4 times this many qubits on a classical computer.
January 8, 2025: Constructive note to PR team: normally press release titles have much fewer than 260 characters and the body of the release includes the date.
January 24, 2025: Homework: why is there a focus on shallow-depth circuits for superconducting quantum computers?
For these lines and many, many more, The Quantum Dragon recognizes Dr. Bob Sutor as the zeroth of his Quantum Fiery Voices.
Quantum Fiery Voices
March 18, 2025 — Jack Krupansky
March 4, 2025 — Prof. Chris Ferrie
February 5, 2025 — Dr. Bob Sutor