For your consideration: Nadhira Attaya Nasution
By Brian Siegelwax posted 03 Apr 2026
Erik Anspach asked nicely to share that Nadhira Attaya Nasution, a second-year Communication and Media student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, is seeking an internship in marketing, social media, or PR. Mr. Anspach is entertaining The Quantum Dragon’s suggestions for Q+AI and PQC+IQT, so this is returning the favor.
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This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:
In this edition:
- Introducing “Friends of The Quantum Dragon”
- 5 Highschoolers and a Qubit
- Back to the quantum future
- Even Google doesn’t know the best type of qubit.
- Can I pay you in qubits?
- If a picture is worth a thousand words…
- QuEra is the alpha dog.
- PQC as an Insurance Analogy
- Quantum RomCom
- Music for Building a Quantum Computer
- Rubidium Atom Dancing in Magneto Optical Trap (MOT)
- Registration is now open for Spin Qubit 7
- QCi’s Diraq-3 on Quantum Corridor’s Network
- “Quantum computers are toys.”
- Oh-So-Easy Circuit Cutting & Knitting
- Stabilizer Error-Correcting Codes as Superstar Twister
- Energy = Milk x Coffee²
- Quantum Noise Detector
“Friends of The Quantum Dragon” is the equivalent of a “Letter to the Editor.” It is free-to-submit, short-format content submitted by readers to express opinions and/or to share news in a public forum at the editor’s discretion. It is an optional free section of The Quantum Dragon.
Have you ever prepared an introductory talk for highschoolers, only to find out that they know way more than you expected? It happened to me. Here’s a small group playing with a SpinQ Gemini Mini during their lunch break, as Bobby Corpus of the Quantum Computing Society of the Philippines looks on.
I don’t know if Prof. Peter Rakich’s team at Yale Engineering should make the cut for using an iconic pop culture reference or for mentally traveling back in time to bring back 19th-century technology to address 21st-century quantum computing, so let’s just call them overachievers, shall we?
Rajiv Shah of MDR Quantum offers a unique twist on the news that Google Quantum AI is extending its research beyond superconducting qubits and into neutral atoms. Everyone else seems to be viewing this as a proverbial feather in neutral atoms’ cap, but hedging one’s bets is another way to look at it.
An email from Anaconda asked, “Can I pay you in tokens?” This is in reference to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang offering AI token budgets on top of base salaries. Am I the only one wondering if compensation can include qubits? Here are some reservations to play with each month to see what quantum computing can do for your work.
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Normally I report on the emotional state of The Quantum Dragon in response to various postings, but this time Russ Fein has my canine son going absolutely berserk. Fortunately, The Quantum Dragon likes QuEra and he’s trying to help me calm Tolindoy down. Those barks must be some NSFW words, though….
Brian Lenahan of the Quantum Strategy Institute makes so much sense here that I’m wondering how I haven’t encountered this analogy before.
I’m not critiquing the content of Monit Sharma’s article, “The Fault in our Qubits: What It Would Actually Take to Break RSA with a Quantum Computer.” What got my attention was the featured image that makes it look like a review of some romantic comedy. This link does not seem to need a Medium account.
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I’ve obviously not built a quantum computer before, but the folks at Infleqtion make it sound like I’d want to bring along some red wine and chocolate.
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Infleqtion must’ve hired some video aficionado, because here we go again. I’m guessing this person recently read Dr. Bob Sutor’s “Dancing with Qubits.”
QuTech got me good! I saw this announcement and assumed that I could register to access a new 7-qubit silicon spin quantum computer but, no, it’s just a conference. As I think about it after the fact, it probably would’ve said Spin-7 instead, but I just got excited and clicked on the link.
This is interesting for 2 reasons: 1) it’s the first commercial deployment of a Diraq-3 that I’m aware of, and 2) I once ran one interesting experiment on Diraq-3. In addition to my personal anecdote, allow me to shamelessly share CIR’s “Markets for Photonic Quantum Computers,” where you can read more about the company.
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If Dr. Thomas Ehmer is going to title his podcast with Yuval Boger thusly, then I am contractually obligated with myself to share it. I sure wouldn’t want to sue myself, know what I mean? Also, this gives me an opportunity to shamelessly plug my own podcast with Mr. Boger, titled “Moving Atoms & Earth with Yuval Boger.”
Classiq Quantum AI is self-correcting and can execute self-generated code on external platforms, so the logical next step is to see if it can figure out distributed quantum computing.
Kudos to Quantum Machines as I think this is the first Twister analogy I’ve seen. I’m awarding some admittedly worthless bonus points for using Einstein and friends as the players. I almost missed that, to be honest. I’m also curious who’s missing a head, but that’s neither here nor there. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
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Steve Suarez invoking Einstein and coffee in the same post is legen… wait for it… dary. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Alan Ho and Prof. Michael Biercuk inspired the Resuscitated Quantum Bullshit Detector, but the original(?) has resurfaced on Bluesky. It’s back to reposting a simple “bullshit” or “not bullshit,” so The Quantum Dragon will continue to monitor for challenges, controversies, and debates under this new name from Dr. Bob Sutor.
- Repent! The end is near! Thanks to Google’s new PQC migration deadline, there are way too many hysterical links to include here, so I’ll just include this article from Frank Landymore at Futurism that invokes “Armageddon.”