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Engineering the Impossible

[Obehiofficial @Obehiofficial]

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The Quantum Advantage.

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[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

A country used to excellence is used to excellence

There is NO construction project in Nigeria that can be commissioned with a clean video like this

No mud
No wheel barrows
No red sand pile
No dirt around

You will see Nigerian road projects when commissioned with dirt all around, no finishing, no shoulders, no nothing. Just new and dirty

Look at this video below
See how the project looks like it was installed ready made. Clean and fresh

Being dirty is clearly a Nigerian thing.
Lack of excellence too is our thing.

[Bremen @Rxbremen]

In 2019 Techpoint released an article titled Opaycalypse, it was the raiding of top talents from across Nigeria to come and work for Opay, 13 of them moved to Opay

1) Awolowo Moses, cofounder of Gokada, joined Opay as director of Oride Business.

2) Iniabasi Akpan, left Telnet after 18 years and joined Opay as country manager.

3) Moriam Durotimi-Etti, exited Flutterwave to join Opay, she had previously worked at Andela also.

4) Osagie Alonge, Joined Opay as Director of growth.

5) Olalere Ridwan, exited Flutterwave as a software engineer and became director of operations at ORide.

6) Enyi Chukwudiebele, joined Opay as the Senior marketing manager, after exiting Nairabox.

7) Ebunoluwa Shipe, joined Opay as senior operations manager, after exiting Gokada.

8) Moses Nmor, joined Opay as sales and business manager after exiting https://t.co/XwmpKOxj9q.

9) Damilola Layode, joined Opay Manager, Growth and Marekting Oride, came from RADP.

10) Oluwakayode Awe, joined Opay as Senior operations manager, exited Gokada.

11) Kunle Olumuyiwa, joined Opay as Director of Business Operations and remittance services, exited Bitpesa

12) Akinwale Afolabi, joined Opay as senior manager growth and marketing, exited Gokada.

Now to the main brain behind your tweet, Mr Dotun Adekunle, joined Opay as Director of payment Integration.

Read about him here, it was published 2 weeks ago. The money might have come from Asia, but the brains behind Opay has always been Nigeria.

Shoutout to my senior colleague, Olu Akanmu who was the former Co-CEO of Opay before he exited and is now on the board of Moniepoint.

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[Desmond @DesFrontierTech]

skywater's final 10-Q changed how i'm thinking about the acquisition. i've mostly thought about the deal as vertical integration. ionq gets fabrication capacity, advanced packaging, process development, and more control over its supply chain. but in the filing skywater says it expects customer-funded capital investment to be a significant driver of its business model. customers invest in skywater's manufacturing base and help develop the technology platforms that drive future growth. theres another detail. skywater purchases manufacturing equipment for customers that gets installed and qualified inside skywater facilities before the customer takes ownership.

i've been assuming the value of owning skywater is more control over manufacturing, faster iteration, and less dependence on outside suppliers. but skywater isnt a factory waiting for ionq's work. its model combines advanced technology development with production-scale manufacturing to move specialized technologies from development into volume production. i'm starting to wonder whether bringing skywater too far inside ionq could remove some of what makes it valuable.

manufacturing knowledge doesn't only come from equipment. it accumulates in the organization doing the work: qualifying tools, solving yield problems, working through failure modes, packaging difficult devices, managing suppliers, and figuring out how to make something repeatedly. none of this means ionq gets access to customer IP. i'm talking about the manufacturing knowledge that accumulates from doing the work. the organization learns by manufacturing. and ionq now owns the organization.

my first question was how ionq decides how much skywater capacity goes toward its own roadmap and how much remains available to everyone else. i'm not sure that's the question anymore. every outside customer brings skywater another problem to solve. skywater gets paid to work through those problems, and sometimes customers help fund what skywater needs to solve them.

advanced-compute ATS development increased $30 million year over year in Q2 and $49.9 million over the first six months. i want to know what's underneath that $30 million. what are those customers actually paying skywater to learn how to manufacture?

if skywater keeps solving hard problems for outside companies, those companies get something they need and skywater gets experience it didn't have before. ionq owns the organization accumulating that experience. manufacturing for other companies may not be taking something away from ionq. it could make an asset ionq owns better at what it does.

but that creates a problem i hadn't really considered. what happens when a company ionq competes with wants skywater to solve a manufacturing problem for it? there may be cases where helping that company also makes skywater better at what it does. ionq would have to decide whether that's worth it.

there's a problem in the other direction too. why would another quantum company bring its hardest manufacturing problems to a foundry owned by ionq? skywater can't be ownership-neutral anymore. ionq owns it. maybe skywater has to become useful enough that other quantum companies use it anyway.

ionq benefits from skywater working on outside problems. owning skywater may make some of those problems less likely to come through the door.

how open does skywater need to remain for ionq to get the full value of owning it?

maybe that's the decision underneath all of this.

what is skywater supposed to optimize for now? ionq's roadmap? its own merchant-foundry business? or does the merchant business matter to ionq because it keeps expanding what skywater knows how to do? those things can all work together until the same engineering team, tool, process-development slot, or piece of fab capacity is needed by both ionq and an outside customer.

manufacturing isn't simply what happens after ionq invents something. every time something new has to become manufacturable, skywater gets another repetition at turning development into production. the advantage may be shortening the time between those iterations.

if that's right, skywater may not be most valuable because it can manufacture whatever ionq already knows how to build. it may be more valuable because it keeps getting better at turning new things into things that can actually be manufactured. outside customers may help pay for some of that development along the way.

and that's the part i didn't see when i started reading.

i started with the question i've been asking all week: what can ionq sell to competitors without making those competitors better at competing with ionq?

i'm not sure that's the question anymore.

maybe the thing ionq has to protect isn't skywater from its competitors. it's the outside work that keeps skywater learning.

[IonQ @IonQ_Inc]

Today we are excited to announce that we have signed a memorandum of understanding with @SandiaLabs to explore accelerated co-design of quantum information science technologies in support of U.S. national security innovation.

Together, we will explore a range of technical areas tied to quantum system co-design and mission-relevant use cases that align with U.S. economic competitiveness and national security priorities, such as:
🔸 System optimization
🔸 Device development
🔸 Characterization and testing
🔸 Advancing quantum capabilities

Read the full announcement → https://t.co/KkuWJnpph0

#IonQ #QuantumIsNow #FutureOfQuantum

[Temitayo Mabayoje · Omidan Abẹyẹrẹ́ @Temitayomab]

Recruitment can be a funny old thing here in Nigeria. You can put an advert out for an executive assistant and, because you are paying well above market rate, you will get people who really have no business being executive assistants applying for the role. You have a degree in Statisticd and you’ve worked as a statistician for a number of years—why would you then want to be an executive assistant to a lawyer?

This is what economists and labour-market specialists describe as occupational mismatch or professional downgrading. People are educated and may even have specialised training, but there are not enough properly paid jobs that use those qualifications. They therefore move into roles below, outside or unrelated to their training because those roles offer better income or greater stability.

It’s really unfortunate.

[PsiQuantum @PsiQuantum]

PsiQuantum CEO Victor Peng joined leaders from across the government and the quantum computing industry at today's White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation.

The sense of urgency in Washington around strengthening and sustaining American leadership in quantum computing has never been greater.

At PsiQuantum, we're proud to partner closely with agencies across the U.S. government like @DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, the Department of @CommerceGov, the @USAirForce Research Laboratory, and National Labs across the Department of @ENERGY ecosystem in our efforts to build and deploy this critical technology.

Today's gathering marked an important opportunity for the private sector to hear directly from the Administration about how we can continue working together to ensure this technology, once fully realized, delivers greater prosperity and security for the American people.

[Infleqtion @infleqtion]

Two weeks after the signing of President Trump's quantum executive orders, Infleqtion's Matt Kinsella and Pranav Gokhale (@_pgokhale) were back in Washington for the @WhiteHouse Summit on American Quantum Innovation.

The conversation has shifted from policy to execution, with government and industry working together to strengthen supply chains, grow the workforce, and accelerate American quantum leadership.

The work of building America's quantum future is underway, and we're committed to helping make it happen.

[Christian Weedbrook @_cweedbrook]

Happy to be invited today to the @WhiteHouse on behalf of @XanaduAI for the quantum summit

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Tony Elumelu reveals his most regrettable decision.

He says he shouldn't have merged Standard Trust Bank with UBA.

STB was the 5th largest bank while UBA was the 3rd largest bank. So the merger opened a door for another player

And also there were a lot of integration issues.

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

If you start a business today, the first person you should hire is an Accountant. Not Marketer, not Secretary, Not Anyone else.

[Sahil @sahilypatel]

samsung is the weirdest company on earth.

> makes chips for its competitors
> makes display for iphones
> manufactured moderna's covid vaccine
> helped build the burj khalifa????
> makes ev batteries
> runs one of the world's largest shipbuilding business
> sell life, health, auto insurance
> builds oil refineries and petrochemical plants
> runs cloud and logistics businesses
> owns hospitals and healthcare businesses
> owns luxury hotels and duty-free stores
> runs a global advertising agency
> owns south korea’s largest theme park

apple, tsmc, maersk, pfizer, marriott, publicis, and disney all rolled into one company.

[Jim Cramer @jimcramer]

Now, Anthropic, the most promotional private company I may have ever seen is said to be building its own custom chip with Samsung. Of course that sends everything down because we really don't have anything but a rumor. I want to hear it from either company or both

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

The best ideas rarely come on a mountaintop in a flash of lightning.

They don’t even come to you on the side of a mountain, when you’re stuck in traffic behind a sand truck.

They make themselves apparent more slowly, gradually, over weeks and months.

And in fact, when you finally have one, you might not realize it for a long time.

[Quandela @Quandela_off]

How can quantum computing create real-world value?

Marta Reina, Quantum Application and Algorithm Scientist at Quandela, explains how Lucy helps researchers test practical applications through hybrid quantum-classical computing.

Watch the video 👇

#QuantumComputing #Quantum

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

I feel like startup twitter needs to hear this. You need to stop trusting one hit wonders.

The problem with taking advice from someone who succeeded once — especially someone who knocked it out of the park on their first swing. They don’t actually know why it worked.

When you’ve only done something a single time, you can’t separate the signal from the noise.

You can’t tell what worked because of what you did versus what worked in spite of it.

You can’t tell skill from luck. You just know you won — and you assume everything you did along the way was the reason.

It usually wasn’t.

[Lance Teren @LanceTeren]

THE QUANTUM COLD WAR

Everyone who is into Quantum should give this a read. I don't care if you like $INFQ or $IONQ more, what modality you support, IT DOESN'T MATTER. This is a shift for the whole industry not just one stock.

We're truly in a "Cold War" for Quantum that's going to ramp up hard over the next few years as governments fight for supremacy over this technology as it's dire for national security and supremacy.

The Trump admin has woken up to this fact and China has already been quietly racing for a lead. But I have a prediction based off history that shows this is just the start of a massive shift in funding, policy and more.
$INFQ $IONQ $QNT $XNDU

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[Obehiofficial @Obehiofficial]

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Read “The Impact of Obehi NanoFab on Nigeria and Africa's Technological Sovereignty“ by Odion on Medium: https://t.co/oflTtKhaY1

[Obehiofficial @Obehiofficial]

Read my latest Article on Sub stack.
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[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Don’t really care about personnel gossip stuff but is that really thinking machines’ twitter handle?

[Siddharth @s7ddharth]

finishing a workout or run before 8am will teach you how much time you actually have in a day