Four games of playoff baseball in the books yesterday four games won four games lost. Let's talk all about him What's up everybody welcome back to another episode of talking baseball it's a show we talk baseball on it We like baseball we post these on YouTube we post them on all the podcast apps We appreciate everyone that's gotten on board is hanging out with us each day to recap the games that were Today's a doozy because there's four games yesterday Jake the most amount of games that can be played in the MLB playoffs were played and Because of the outcome of the NLDS games there will be four games again guaranteed on Monday So we are in the thick of the playoffs right now the most action that can be happening is Happening this weekend in early October. My name is John boy. I'm coming to you from New Jersey I've got my coach Jake. He's in Denver and this episode of talking baseball is proudly sponsored by Adam You have to make You said when they only have one name they're baseball players So I think people are leaving one name to find out what baseball player they are are you going to ball That's most obviously Adam Duvall. Okay. I thought it was to to be honest. Yeah, I'm glad we're starting the show with honesty Alex Emmett Alex Emmett Nick Sanders It's coming close coming close to my fake enemy Nick Sanderson. Yeah, this is just Nick Sanders See oh, you got a baseball player The first name see oh, so that's that's a player's initials I'm gonna have to dive into that during the show and see what I can find Okay, but yeah, that's a that's someone with the initials s. I. Oh Sio Steven Ikels O'Brien So you just took your last name. Yeah one of the most generic s names Yeah, and then you said Ikels in the middle. Yeah, it's been on a my thing. Okay. It's a chance and AJ AJ ooh see That might be an issue for you It's not AJ Pollack. He's already a friend of the program. He's proud. I thought I was gonna Barnett No for you this is bad news it's AJ Cole Why is that bad news for me? Because you were so hard on him at the end of his Yankee career. Oh I forgot his first name was AJ Well, there you go. That's the biggest missus connect that just happened there Cole world Cole world can't get enough Whoo, all right. Well, those are our most recent patreon supporters and subscribers They get to listen live as we record this as well as some other perks along the way Jake, how are you doing in this fine Saturday morning? I'm doing well. I just had a a funny realization That's kind of a classic rude ale to nl take but I'm glad The American League will be taken off tomorrow so I can watch some of the NFL games Did my toe elsewhere because I think my eyes are starting to go baseball blind I messaged you during last night's game There is a while that I had to watch the Yankees game in the reflection of my windows Because my eyes were hurting so much from watching the TV The baseball is bleeding out of my eyes, but then it was just my TV I started watching on my computer for a bit and I was fine. So that's a that's weird if we've got any ITV doctors Don't be don't be shy to reach out But I'm doing great man. I I needed some rest. I got I Think I I got like six hours, but they were a hard six. I was out The hard six year old college nickname, so I'm doing good. I'm ready for ready for Saturday like a six out of ten Yes, I'm like that like I like they saw me like that guy's a hard six out of ten Yeah, if that is that what you meant because that's awesome. No, I was talking about your winky six inches I Couldn't figure out the insult either way is a huge compliment. Yeah, never an insult. Okay, great. This is fantastic Yeah, have a good have a happy Saturday, man. How are you doing? The weather is really nice other? I'm really tired dude for gate. I did a I already say this I did I said it yesterday I did a little behind the scenes. Maybe I'll get it edited today Long day when we were doing talking yanks.  I got to listen to their talking yanks garbage.  I caught it. I caught it fairly quick, but changed it. Anyway I'm really tired Four games is a lot dude. You know, like during the regular season on this show We'd be like hey, it's impossible to watch every game. It's not impossible to watch every game But it's like I watched the Astros raise game Jake. Yeah, I had to remind myself about it I had to go look at the box. It's like what happened. I watched the whole thing. So that's kind of where I'm at.  It's really fun It's taxing. I'm taxed It's uh, it's it's a little daunting and it's Again, we're only gonna have One one more four game slate. So I'm gonna appreciate it. Um, it was I mean in in mountain time zone I went I Mean noon to midnight with baseball Pretty pretty insane, but I'll uh I'll take that more often than not we uh, we are not the guys that's gonna complain about the length of the game I know uh, there was a little bit of that on a couple of the broadcast last night But don't care good baseball is good baseball. I think all the games yesterday were good games We'll get into them. You have burns the rays and and Houston is the only one that I think wasn't like Actually, okay, the Yankees and the twins at the end for for non Yankees fans Yeah, both both those games the wheels came off at the end Where I think The other ones kind of wrote it out But I mean the Tampa Houston was a great game through five and should have been a better game But you want to burn it, but let's go. Yeah Here we go Jackie burns game two game one ALDS on your mark get set Game one Tampa Houston the final level boss Justin Verlander and his Houston Astros posted the Tampa rays hoping they wouldn't be made of glass now as Tyler takes the mound for them a Couple power right ease insert your own Republican joke I don't care like your ugly friend in college were scoreless through for until Jose Altuve Jose Altuve To run shot into the Crawford boxes glass now would work out of it Oh No, Brandon Lowe two runs would score on a miss pop-up yikes And you can't do that against Houston and you especially can't do that Against Justin Verlander seven innings pitch one hit eight K's Why you mad Tampa as the who what where went and why is of yard and in newly both hit RBI Doubles the rays push a couple across laid off of Ryan Elvis Presley But Houston says thank you very much as they take game one six two final Elvis Elvis in the morning Didn't you date a girl that also dated Elvis I Dated Elvis is X X Elvis Okay, okay Elvis Andrews Andrews This game we were talking about this game together when we were doing whatever we were doing yesterday One Verlander guaranteed seven innings. That's pretty much what I said.   They almost got him glass Glass no, I'm gonna keep mistaking them because I want to talk about McKay later Glad I got a jump on glass no early, but he was looking good, man Then that out to ve homerun. You have to be perfect. He gets pulled. It only goes four innings and a third Which I you know with the raised bullpen it's not kind of crazy Maybe that's all they needed or you know what I mean like they're they're fine They're a team that's fine with a short leash kind of like the Yankees but That drop ball. It's a stark reminder. Oh, no, we're the raise. They're the Astros and we just gave them a favor and I I think I I think Yeah, Jim before this game I think I said something verbatim like the what to watch for is what's gonna make the Rays crack and when that pop-up dropped it was over I Mean the the game ended right there and yeah glass now he looked really good out to ve got him It was a high fastball It's why out out to ve's a special dude 98 and at his shoulders out to ve cranks it to left field for the homer he's uh, if if you're a young kid who's listening, hey Take all your family's phones and leave us five star review and Send us picture their credit card too. No, I don't do that last part. Just the just the reviews thing But when your coaches are telling you like hey go up there wanting to swing Jose I'll to ve is why yeah because you you could learn how to take pitches you can't learn how to do that and Yeah, I mean that that was the first crack and then when that pop-up dropped. I mean there there was no coming back That's a real cuz they scored two later on And I do think that's important for them if the Rays walked away from this game with no runs on the board I think you're kind of doing a little aww shucks And then if you don't score in the first couple innings against Garrett Cole, which you're probably not You're gonna be like, okay, are we just gonna go scoreless this whole playoffs But they got to Presley in the bullpen and this is what I was kind of saying the other day And I got a little kickback, but Presley hasn't been the guy who started off the year with 30 scoreless appearances or whatever So they they get to the bullpen a little bit they get it they see a couple runs get put on the board I do think there is a slight piece of importance on that Garrett Cole and 14 strikeouts later. It might not matter, but that's that's for later Well, I didn't the Rays use Why'd they use McKay out of the pen like white? Isn't that dude like was the name Nick Anderson? Yeah, I mean they're all about matchups So I mean what whatever they saw and I think he came in Did Brantley get him or no, that's that's the whole pop-up thing I don't know.  Yeah, and that's that you we as you said to start this and I texted you during the game I said if the rays got through that fifth inning, which they clearly did not That I thought it was it it was basically a coin flip the rest of the way because you were gonna get two more Verlanders and then the Houston pen verse that raise bullpen that'll that'll match you up to death They couldn't get through and I mean that was kind of it You want to share our thoughts on McKay because I think it's funny Jake was so excited about Brandon McKay Because he's a two-way player is a high prospect. You probably learned about him in your nerdy baseball game outside the park baseball So it's called Yeah, and he was like a top pick in the draft. I'm usually pretty good with those guys, too But yeah, I got excited Louisville. I think he won the Golden Spikes. He could pitch he could hit and Like with the Ohtani noise.  And so yeah, and I'll I'll preface this and I'll I'll tee you up, Jim, but I love baseball Obviously, we have a lot of t-shirts saying that Baseballs fun And and don't get that as like oh you don't have to be competitive because winnings fun I think that's why people like to go play for the Patriots and and wherever you go to win Brandon McKay is having a bad time when he's on a baseball field. It just looks like a Pouty boy You look so angry. It's like dude have fun out there, man. I think he's the most brooding man in baseball He's like the John Snow of starting pitchers It's like like John Snow was kind of just like sad and sometimes it was funny You're like you do look sad John Snow McKay's so like pent up It's like dude throw a curveball strike someone out and smile That's funny because I was like dad this guy socks presents on the mound alone and Yeah, I think if if you're if you don't fully understand what are what we're saying Maybe listen to when we talk about Edwin and Carnassio and later We just watch a game with McKay on the mountain see how he's the most brooding man in baseball. Yeah, or that Well that all right next game was Was next game Cardinals Braves? St. Louis, Atlanta. All right, here we go on your mark Get set burn Game two in the ATL as the Braves would turn to Mikey Nevic Hoping faulty wouldn't be faulty verse. Oh, that's a bad man mommy Jack flash Flaherty one of the more special second halves of a season you'll see from a pitcher as St. Louis tries to make it a 2-0 series lead Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams Josh Donaldson brings the rain with an RBI single in the first they needed that and then guess what Jim Faulty and flashballs shoved that JD RBI in the first was the only run until bottom 7th And what manager Brian Snicker called the old no? Yeah moment Adam Duvall does it all to run pinch hit homer hitting for faulty Wow It's three nothing Melanson would shut it down by only giving up two hits no runs Atlanta bravely bounces back to win game two and tie up the series Whoo, I think we said like you got to get if you want to get to I say it's about every rookie pitcher if you want to get to Flaherty you got to get to him the first inning It's your best chance glass now as well. They got one across and that was good enough for a while They rode Flaherty into the 7th because I Don't know It was a classic case of it was good enough for a while But everyone in the building knew what happened yesterday and knew that one run was not going to be enough I mean once they push it to three it turns out they did shut them out But if you saw Melanson in the last inning One run wasn't gonna do it. So yeah, I guess that would be the conversation in st. Louis a little bit is Wonder I mean, yeah, I had to flip over to Yankee stop at this point, but I wonder who was warmed up because once they pinch hit for the pitcher obviously Like faulty was shoving so maybe They leave faulty in with the one nothing lead because they want him to keep going and the Braves bullpen is bad So maybe if you're the Cardinals you think okay, well, you know McCann got a single. He's not that fast He's not gonna score On a double even maybe There's two outs and the pitchers up So clearly you leave them in if the pitcher comes up then they pinch hit Duvall For the pitcher. I think you can still I think it's still fair to have confidence in Flaherty against Duvall Duvall just came through Yeah, I mean Matt if it was Joyce, maybe you say okay lefty and his splits Jim this is where baseball Takes over and if you want to get mad at the managers you can but think about what I was just saying about the Braves bullpen They looked like the least One of the least reliable things in this playoff. So they're pulling faulty With a one-nothing lead and faulty just looked dominant.  It's it's kind of one of those do or dies He didn't know that was gonna hit a 423-foot Homer off Jack Flaherty, but he did it's three nothing and he looks like a genius. Yeah, and The cards get shut out.  He got sent down And he just kind of wasn't right and he started showing signs towards the end of the season And this is this was huge for him because I he's a guy that was supposed to be part of this Braves future going forward He had a pretty atrocious year and now he's kind of cemented. That's the guy. They know and love in Atlanta. So good for him And how about freed coming out of the bullpen? Yeah, I mean back-to-back games, right? Two strikeouts again one inning pitch two strikeouts again We're seeing a lot of this in the National League Yeah, and it's gonna be he's he's still lined up for game four It'll be Soroka game three freed game four unless something changes But yeah, that's that's what the Braves have to figure out the rest of the way is because Anibal Sanchez they they have him and How and where are they gonna use him? Is he just their emergency guy? And if he's not your emergency guy, then is Julio Teheran another name. We slot her all the time Tehran Is what how are you gonna use one of those guys? You have to use Hannibal or you have to use Julio Who's I don't think Tehran's on the roster? He got he replaced Coldplay guy. Oh Martin, that's what I'm saying. Yeah So now that you have both of them you need to figure out how and where you're gonna use at least one of them Interesting Well, we'll preview game three tomorrow of that series But that's fun. There's not gonna be a sweep in the National League and then the other thing that the other big note about this game Jimmy, I don't know if you saw this but a coon Ronnie hustled the whole game as a normal baseball player would and His quotes after were the quotes that they were looking for yesterday He like apologized to little kids and he's like it's that's never acceptable And he said I've done that twice this year and it's never acceptable. So just like that I mean, look how the storyline of this series and everything that happened in game one. It's fully changed. Yeah, well, I'm sure that He got a hard talk at you from someone in PR department or or Hopefully he saw that his teammates were taking it serious. I'm like, no, it's not cool But I mean it's I don't want to do it again. It's not that big of an issue Yeah, and the other thing that was missing that you you did say yesterday I mean the stuff that kind of gets lost in translation even the good quotes that came out after the game yesterday They were still like just a little offbeat because there is a barrier Yeah, I yeah, it's funny I'm laughing cuz his translator You'll love the way the Braves translator looks So looks wacky He looks like a music conductor for some Spanish I think I have seen that guy. Yeah. Yeah He like translated him with like a stammer, which I don't know. Maybe the Yankees translator just cleans it up But he like yeah, yeah Come on Fix it. Oh, dude Let's go to the next game Jake and this was ours Yankees versus the Twinkies Yankees Same burn that you did on talking to extra. Did you do a new one? Same burn. Let me let me make sure I've got it here. Yeah, I wasn't gonna rewrite another one So if this one has too much Yankee bias, I'm sorry, but Noses your poses On your mark Get set Game one of the ALDS is the Minnesota Twinkies were hosted by the 27-time world champion New York Yankees How about some syrup on your pancakes on a nice autumnal day James Paxton the big maple verse? Jose twigs and barrios as Minnesota tries to gather a win in the boogie down like pre-gaming when your buddies aren't home How about a couple solo shots Jorge Placido, Polanco and Nelson cruises one out a pair of runs for the twins Bottom three show me your bird Edwin's back RBI double baby, baby, Glabie Oh To run score with a little help from the air from CJ Crone three two Yanks, Minnesota would tie it up in the fifth, but they pulled a leak or so not so fast my friend Happy college football Saturday. You got to see the baby the Venezuelan Victor Gracia stay Caracas to RBI double for the kid Glaber Torres five three Yanks But you so know the twins aren't just gonna roll over as Miguel goes yard But at five four the bombers would open up the floodgates ago DJ DJ La May you bomb red solo cup.  He goes solo job a palm from Brett Gardner 7-4 then like punching your address into your Tesla. Let the machine bring you home La Machina DJ La May you bass is clearing double another hit The pitching goes packs into Vino to Kainley to the goose Chad green to Britain to happer Hello to Chappy pinstripes take game one ten four final So long one I still like that one a lot as the longer as a Yankee fan I got a lot of good stuff in there second time hearing it a lot of good stuff There's a lot of tidbits. Yeah, I don't normally do the pitchers at the end for the other burns But yeah, no, and I had to clarify the goose being Chad green Yeah, well, he's the goose.  I think there was a lot of home runs hit. There's four Yeah, Polanco Cruz Suno La May you and guardie. So there's five five home runs hit all solo shots The Yankees had guys on base every inning. I think every inning one They had guys on base a lot of traffic. They scored ten runs. They left seven on base Which is good. I mean good for the Yankees the and the twins pitching is Suspect Yeah, and I know everyone likes to think that about the Yankees pitching the Yankees bullpen is good Paxton Wasn't amazing in any in any regard. It wasn't anything you'd write home or show highlights of but he gutted out four and two-thirds all solo shots Whatever barrios Barrios no one was fooled by his off speed the entire game like they were just spitting on it the entire game and small So it's like he started it too low. It's obvious. It's an off-speed pitch. So he struggled the story is The Yankees had eight walks Yeah Yeah, and it's a the whole savages in the box rant that my friend on the other end of the mic brought to the world They they control the zone. It's been their motto all seasons and spring training Eight walks and there was only only one of the walks was a guy that came out of the twins bullpen That was clearly over matched in his first like playoff outing The rest of them were like good walks. Giancarlo Stanton was spitting on pitches. He had three walks Judge had some great at bats For Yankee land the big takeaway is that there was a couple guys. Well for me. There was a couple guys that were injured and Carnation Gary Sanchez and Giancarlo hasn't barely played this year. They all looked Good slash healthy enough And for Giancarlo and Gary, I think it's a weird mix Gary doesn't look right right now necessarily But he still looks solid Giancarlo looks locked in at the dish, but he's he's running at it like 75 percent But yeah, I don't know and I think this game this game played out almost exactly how you and I thought it would like Yeah, there are some homers And they kind of went shot-for-shot a little bit But that Minnesota bullpen and I'm sorry to all my twins fans, but you're gonna have to point out to me The one guy that you should that Yankees hitters should be worried about Yeah, that sounds harsh Brewstar grader all he looked fucking good. He's the guy He was throwing they need to up him up. I mean, do you think? Well, we'll see how many games they have they play but do you think like If the twins were to make the ALCS, I think grader all is gonna have to become a main cock But they're gonna have to ride him Yeah, just because no one else puts fear into hitters at all He's the only guy that's coming out of the pen with with special arm talent We we only saw one of the killer teas yesterday as I labeled them. I think he was He was the only twins picture that didn't give up a run Yeah, and grader all But yeah, so we didn't necessarily see the twins best guys and it did open up a little more Kyle Gibson's had a horrible year Stash it got knocked around So yeah, I mean maybe Taylor Rogers and Brewstar figures it out and and that changes the storyline But yeah, I mean the Yankees kind of Yankees the twins last night Hopefully it'll happen again tonight We'll preview that in a little bit, but we got one more game to burn and this one was a little bit of a doozy National League has been giving us good games. Jake. Are you ready? I? Am ready take us to LA Eddie Bach isn't Steven a Strasburg and the Nats trying to break serve versus the Dodgers and Clay and Bigsby Kershaw as they try not to Crack in Hollywood, but top one Howie Mandel Kendrick deals out an RBI single one Nothing natitudes top two the Nats are eaten as Adam hits an RBI single followed by Carmelo Anthony Rendon Shooting a deep contested to his double scores Ian and it's three nothing expose Just in the wild link Turner turns things north for the Dodgers with a sack fly in the six only run They get off Strausberg six innings pitch ten K's dominant, but oh boy here come the Nats pen Do little does just that as Max Muncie Pimp jobs one one run game as Drooble Cabrera with the big Geico insurance run the natitudes show Fortitude as the score is four to two But as the Joker said you always need an ace in the hole and out of the bullpen comes their defender of the night Max Scherzer strikes out the side in the eighth calling him Michael or for how he blindsided the Dodgers Daniel Hudson does some yoga on the mound as he bends, but doesn't break huge strikeout a seager to end it Nats head back to the capital happy four to two win series tied They had the Dodgers had the bases loaded in the ninth ready to break it open But Hudson came through and struck out seager Yeah, Corey seager puts a ball in the gap that burns a lot different. Oh, yeah This was a good game and Scherzer out of the pens a fun storyline feel bad for Kershaw because Did you like see we were watching the Yankees game when this game started but I went back and likes it's pretty brutal Man, like yeah, I hit by pitching the first a hit by pitching the second and then kind of like the first inning is pretty sad because it's Double by Trey Turner, then the first out you get they gave you an out because they wanted to move him over Then you hit then you hit Soto Kendrick gets a hit Ryan Zimmerman pops out and Then Suzuki's out. There's like nine press abouts there Yeah, it's I mean It's it's playoff Kershaw and it's a debate because he ends up having a quality start But in the playoffs is it especially when you when you give up the runs early like that and then that's were three Nothing and in control Obviously the story would have changed if If if the Dodgers put up a seven spot, but they didn't because Strasburg's dirty But yeah, I mean this is this has kind of been like the story of playoff Kershaw like it's not bad But it wasn't good enough and that hit by pitch on Soto. You could see like his You could almost see the demons come back into his body.  I just hit him with that So that was that was tough for them Strasburg man, I everyone's I don't know if you've seen these stats circling yet But technically in four games started he has the lowest playoff you ever Yeah, don't I can't believe you brought that up I'm in on Strasburg, man. I like Strasburg.  Okay. Thanks for share the stats They're relevant You think Dodger's fans are getting a little worried or bummed out about Bellinger doesn't have a hit yet Interesting are they bummed out about Bellinger? I'd say no I mean you saw it was Corbin game one Corbin's got a wipeout slider When he when he figured it out he figured it out And Strasburg, I mean like you just said he's the best playoff starting pitcher ever So I I don't think you can necessarily hold Cody at bay. He needs to do something in Washington though He needs to get hit Someone in the chat said I'm salty Strasburg is amazing.  He deserves it Don Larson. I Think he's had more than that though No, we're just doing minimum one game Right, but it's it's like career stats. What's that? You're yeah, I mean they're technically two different things, but I see what you're doing Bellinger needs to get hit a big hit with how bad he was in the postseason last year and He's hitless eight played appearances zero hits.  I think you're a little too far I mean, yeah, they you obviously want that out of that guy, but he got on base twice in the first game He got walked and then he like like you and the salty chat is telling you he faced the best playoff starter ever so he's he needs he needs to do something in In DC for sure his career postseason on base percentage is now 227 It's not good 33 games Yeah, the other the other thing from this game a the catch Rendon made in the ninth. Did you see that? Yeah, it was pretty nuts. I have data that could have also changed the burn Significantly if he doesn't catch that ball And then this is just kind of a fun fact. Well a and I I don't know if you want to dive into this a little bit But Scherzer comes out of the pen He strikes out the side in the eighth inning and it was the first time a Nationals pitcher had struck out the side in the eighth inning since June when Max Scherzer did it in a game.  He's like, oh, yeah, we didn't think they'd use Strasburg and it's like whoa, man I mean think about it for more than a second Yeah, what what changes though like they would prep for Schrasburg I mean you you may be managed the game differently thinking You you may be managed the game a little more differently thinking that instead of hey We're gonna have three innings at this terrible bullpen instead of we're gonna have two innings at this terrible bullpen and one by arguably the best pitcher in baseball we were a little surprised they didn't just go Scherzer for two they brought Hudson out and We were a little close to being correct Hudson loaded them up and Again, the burn would be different this whole podcast would be different if Corey seager gets one which he almost did There's the seven straight high high in a way fast balls that he had a chance to put the barrel on Hudson does get him night with a nice inside backfoot slider, but yeah, and I if you're going to use Scherzer there Which it clearly they made a conscious decision before the game. It's not like hey max. What do you you want to run out there, bud? No, like they came into this knowing they were gonna use Scherzer and man if Hudson blew that game a To run game and you did burn 14 bullets out of Scherzer. I mean that would have been an awful look Yeah, that's true. I would have used Scherzer for true and again, that's the whole playoff managing I mean we would be killing killing The Nationals manager if Hudson got rocked in which he basically did but he didn't yeah. Yeah Come on see your change of storyline. No, I'm happy that it's a one-to-one series both nationally series are good I was watching MLB TV and who's the guy in MLB TV? I can't do Rosa. No, no, no, no How we oh the like main broadcaster guy, no and he's on the studio like it's such a popular name that I just Reynolds Harold Reynolds Harold Reynolds. I don't know why I was blanking on that Harold Reynolds was Talking about how you know These nationally pitchers are just attacking and they're just going right at batters and they're doing really good And like he wants to see that in the American League and I'm like like dude look at the Astros Yankees and twins lineups in comparison to the Braves Nationals and The Dodgers have a good lineup, but the Braves Nationals and Cardinals like there's clear holes plus a pitcher hitting That allows you to just attack.  He's really good. That's that's the consensus He has 10 strikeouts the Dodgers as a team have 17 strikeouts, but 13 of those came from Strasburg and Scherzer to a two of the best starting pitchers and then the other ones came from who are supposed to be the Back end of their bullpen So that's a little different and then we touched upon it with the twins The twins clearly came in yesterday like let's get ahead which they did a lot But they weren't gonna give the Yankees anything They wanted the Yankees to get themselves out and they refused eight walks It was not necessarily the prettiest baseball, but if you like a good at bat The Yankees were just saying no if you're gonna be off the plater in the dirt We're not offering and I think that's well Maybe this is the segue but in in today's Yankees twins game. That's the number one what to watch for For anyone watching behind the scenes We have an ad agency that sometimes put ads in for us anyway, all right Let's preview these games coming up what you segue at us into we have the two American League series The first game of the night is the Yankees at the twins Yankees have Tanaka going who we have blind faith in in the postseason. He's been nothing. Yeah Do we have to preface this whole thing? No, I'll tone it down. We have blind faith in Tanaka. He's Does he have rough games like sometimes he's a bit of a coin flip. Sure He's always brought it in the postseason. So hopefully he does again for me as a Yankees fan the twins apparently had Odorizi warming up and then scratched him put him on game three and have Dobnack pitching game to Randy Dobnack as a cool story started the season in single a Was an uber driver in the offseason But that's kind of getting blown out of proportion because a lot of minor leaguers have other jobs in the offseason Like a lot our good best friend Tim Melville works at a barbecue place in the offseason So I'm kind of sick of people acting like that's so crazy Like yeah, he's got a part-time job because minor league baseball players get paid dirt pretty normal But he's only started five games this season he's appeared in maybe ten He hasn't really faced any good line-ups his starts were against No playoff teams, right? Yeah, he only had one appearance against the playoff team It was one inning against the Nats and they did score a run I mean, I'm not gonna deep dive into that. It's um, they're taking a chance Randy Dobnack has pitched really well for them I think his eras at 1 5 9 or something like that good Listen, I said I'd tone it down a little bit, but I've been saying this I've been saying this all season All of the twins good stats are bullshit. Yeah, Randy Dobnack looked really good against the Royals and the Tigers in late September Yeah, what's the judge there? What's what are we judging? Don't tell me Randy Dobnack looked really good in September He literally faced teams that were already bad that have zero interest in playing baseball So we will see but it's kind of like how all the twins numbers you kind of have to like really peel in and like wait hold on This isn't as impressive as it seems Played a lot of bad teams and yeah, the odor is he thing is interesting and Jim I personally like the move because and and again tweeted me talking Jake If you think this is too Yankee land, but think about the names I'm about to say Jake Oda Rizzy who's been around the league and done it for a while in the AL East for a little while nonetheless Randy Dobnack. We already covered that rookie who's gonna be on the mound at Yankee Stadium today against one of the better lineups you'll ever see on a baseball field I Like it because I think if you're the twins you're trying to think of how to win baseball games hot take Jake here I am again What are we working on today folks? So all Rocco today the meeting is how are we gonna win the next how are we gonna win? And I think if you if you laid out the remaining options for Minnesota It's okay. Are we gonna try to put something together at home the stadium? It'll be rocking in Minnesota target field, baby and we're going Randy Dobnack to the pen and we'll figure it out or Is your best chance? Hey, we'll throw Dobnack and a bunch of different guys at you And maybe the hitting goes off and maybe the pitching figures something out and if it doesn't we lose which? bias bias podcast right now But Oda Rizzy at home and game three gives them their best chance to win a game. So I like that for them Okay, cool The lineup should be about the same for both teams I believe right? There's not a lot of splits going on a lot of some Yankee fans think DD might be out and Voight might be in I think they roll back the same lineup Yeah, I think the Yankees after the win are gonna roll back the same lineup and Masahiro Tanaka We said blind confidence before He does have 30 playoff innings to the tune of a 1-5 ERA That's the reason why we have blind confidence in him for the twins Jim. You might see a little bit of platoon stuff The one that's gonna be interesting and I'm sure as a conversation is Mitch Garver who's had such a great year And was batting leadoff yesterday They also have Jason Castro who came back down to earth a little bit, but he is a lefty bat So do they throw him in? versus Tanaka I think that's really the only conversation because the The lineup didn't fully do their job that it was all solo homers But I mean the the twins bats are there if if if there's runners on base you need to be worried about these twins Yeah, I was trying to find something Randy Dobnack Jake Yes The other thing so like I'm too confident and it's gonna it might come crashing down on me or it may not That's the gamble of life He pitches to contact Right Against the Yankees Yeah in the postseason Pitching the contact to the Royals in September might work out you can see how scared of contact The twins were yesterday eight walks. So we'll see Maybe we'll be punching ourselves in the faces and it'll be frustrating as all hell And you know how impactful a double-play ball is in the playoffs And I I think the only other thing for the twins is maybe they try to get Jonathan Scope in the lineup somewhere because he's he's a righty Um, or excuse me. No, they won't try to get scope in there. I was thinking about yesterday's game Yeah, I don't know Randy Dobnack prove it.  It'd be a big story So I don't I don't think I don't think we're that out of line with this because if Randy Dobnack Deals against the Yankees for even five innings of like one hit ball. That's a huge story Like that's gonna be like Randy Dobnack came out of nowhere and beat the Yankee like you know what I mean Well, no, I think that would be the counter I think if our twins fans are listening they'd say hey, Dobnack was good man. He's got really good numbers We're expecting him to be good today Yeah, but they yeah, and then if he was they'd say hey you guys you guys Yankee fan jerks Randy Dobnack's a stud I've been on I've been hard on the twins Way before I knew we were gonna play the postseason day one Beat good teams and I won't be hard at you They had for anyone that's listening for the first time twins had the most amount of games against teams under 500 They had the least amount of games against teams over 500 And they had a losing record to the teams that were over 500 And their only team in the playoffs to have a losing record against teams over 500 Because they play in the worst division in all of baseball Yeah Three teams actively trying to not win games So that's my day one stance has been This twins team is going to need to prove me wrong and I didn't know they were going to be playing the Yankees So yeah, it's not a Yankee thing No, and uh today's a big game for them because that another thing that they They did have there was a good stat for the Minnesota twins was they had the best road record in baseball Which is impressive. However, you want to dice it up Even if a lot of those if a lot of those games are white socks royals Tigers it does make it easier But an impressive road record is an impressive road record But game two at the Bronx Zoo today Dobnack Um, I don't know So surprise me twins, but like totally don't at all because I'll kill you In the other game Astros versus rays, we got Blake Snell versus Garrett Cole. Hey, here's verlander seven innings one hit now enjoy Cole Honestly and not to be shots fired at Garrett Cole, but It's it's still better than verlander Yeah, all right, you gotta take Yes, I agree You know Garrett Cole his postseason He's got pretty good postseason stats a three seven two e r a 29 innings.  So, um, I don't know if you're Tampa I think kevin cash actually handled it. Well, he said hey, we got verlandered. Um, It is what it is Yeah, you just you got to put together some at bats and again You have that belief from yesterday that if you get a chance again if you're in the game versus houston's bullpen that's a basically as much as you can ask for for tampa and Go do it, right? Yeah, Snell hasn't looked that good since coming back from injury and He's never made it out of the third inning in two games where he threw 50 pitches and then 62 pitches so that could have got him if he was pitching well, but I mean In his last game jakey gave in 2.1 innings. So that's seven outs Before he got seven outs. He allowed three hits and two walks So before he got seven outs, he put five people on base in the game before that He only went one and two thirds. So that's five outs before he got five outs He put five people on base two hits and three walks So It's been a tough last two. He's gonna have to like step up and bring it Snell at his best is really really good, but I wouldn't be surprised if houston jumps him Yeah, they've got so many good tough, righty bats. Um And they might only ask Snell to get through the lineup once depending what that pitch count looks like They they're hoping that he would get through clean twice Um, but I wouldn't be surprised if they kick it.  Um, but I I don't know I don't want to this this sounds like such bad sports radio.  You had a bad year You could cover up a lot of that and there was injuries. You could cover up a lot of that with one good start today And he's he's got all the talent in the world.  Well, then Emilio Pagan at the end Chasrow they used yesterday. I think drake they used yesterday So maybe they were saving churrinos and anderson for today. I have no idea And yeah Churrinos man, he's a guy that just frustrates you because it's good stuff. It's not necessarily strikeout stuff But it's good stuff That would be interesting if Snell could go clean and they kick it to churrinos Or I mean if Snell can get four, I mean you're into the actual dudes in that raised bullpen So I mean that's that's what that whole series breaks down to That's what that whole series breaks down to Boing I think we're good. I think we've covered our basis, right? We're good four games Maybe a longer episode than we wanted because it's four damn games But we have four again on monday, but first two on saturday both al's two on sunday We will be back each day to recap what happened in preview. What's coming up We thank you guys for listening.  It'd be very nice Thanks. Enjoy your weekend


Okay, so this is the 15 minute delayed and with an excellent improved intro to building quantum applications with D-Wave's leap. So we go to the next slide. So I'm going to skip over my intro, but the really quick version is that I am the manager of applications development technologies and tools at D-Wave. So one of our mandates is writing the open source tools in Python that people use to access the D-Wave system and to solve practical problems with our quantum computing products. So I also want to just say that, you know, we're really invested in the Python open source ecosystem and because of that pretty much everything I'm going to be talking about today is available in open source. Stuff is available online and in our leap platform and we really, really want feedback from you all.  Next slide. Normally I would do a quick demo with our online platform, but I think I'm going to cut that in the interest of time. So let's go on to the next one and instead and one more and talk about solving problems with binary quadratic models, which is the problem class that we at D-Wave are interested in solving with our system. So I think that the metaphor that we often use when we're talking about solving problems with our system is the so-called landscape metaphor, which is imagine that you are on a landscape and this sort of height of the various parts of the landscape, the hills and the valleys, are defined by or in some sense represent the quality of your solution. And the problem that we're trying to solve is to find the lowest space on the landscape and that one corresponds to the best quality solution. So it's a metaphor that's useful. We tend to talk about like there is a large energy ridge between two solutions, which means you have to walk like way uphill, except much, much worse solutions as you sort of journey from one solution to another using a classical algorithm. And the value that quantum computing brings is its ability to essentially, I'm going to use a metaphor here, physicists will get upset with me, tunnel through these energy barriers to sort of jump into other valleys in a way that a classical computer can't do. Next slide please. So to make this a little bit more concrete, I want to talk about a specific example that helps sort of demonstrate how we think about solving problems with these binary quadratic models and is a really good representation of how we solve problems on the quantum computer. So imagine that I have a network of pipelines, you can sort of see it on the right hand side there. And these pipelines intersect at various junctions. So you can see that, you know, the pipe between one and two and the pipe between two and three, you know, they intersect at a junction too. What we would like to do is to find a minimum set of junctions from which we can monitor every pipe in a segment. So if we jump to the next slide please. So you can see here on the right hand side an example of this so-called minimum cover, which is that from each of those different locations, we can, every single pipe is adjacent to at least one of those red junctions. And it's one thing, it's important to note that there's also some other options here. In fact, we could for instance have a monitoring station at node one instead of node two. That's fine, but the point is to find some minimum set, the smallest number of locations from which we can monitor every junction. It's also really, and, you know, you could sort of probably work this pipeline problem out on a piece of paper without too much issue, although it's not trivial, trivial. But, you know, as you can sort of imagine that as this gets bigger, this problem becomes increasingly difficult. Next slide please. But so here's what solving that problem with the ocean tools looks like. So everyone here I think should be, I normally would say, does everyone read Python? But I think here we can probably rest assured that people do. So here is the Python code using our packages that solves this problem. So at the top you can see we're importing network X, which some of you might be familiar with. It's a very popular graph library, open source library in Python that was developed by some folks out of Los Alamos National Labs, but is pretty widely used. And you can see right away that we're leveraging sort of Python's open source ecosystem because we have implemented our own sort of extension to that package called D-Wave Network X, which extends some of the notions in that one. And you can also see that we're importing the sort of some objects from our D-Wave system package that lets us access the quantum computer. Let's go to the next slide. So before I, I'm going to actually jump back to that in a moment, but I want to talk a little bit about how we organize our software stack. So at the very bottom we have a set of compute resources.  But what's new and different when you, when you start talking about quantum computing is the addition of this quantum processing unit. And I really want to dwell on this for a moment because it's, it's, it's important to think of this quantum processing unit as another co-processor. It's like a GPU in that you, you're never going to use quantum QPUs to sort of, you know, one of the questions that gets getting asked is, can I play crisis on your quantum computer? And the answer is no, because you wouldn't necessarily, you wouldn't have an operating system on a quantum computer. You wouldn't use it for a text editing. You wouldn't use it for, you know, watching movies. You might use it the way they use a GPU to accelerate some aspects of that. So you might be doing rendering and use the quantum computer to accelerate that, but it's not in and of itself sort of a full fledged computer that can run, you know, an operating system and a GUI and run a keyboard and all that kind of stuff. So starting at the bottom you have these CPUs and GPUs and the QPUs. Sitting above that you have a set of samplers. So these are where this is the level that these binary quadratic models are solved at. So this is sort of a set of algorithms slash packages that people can use to solve that problem class I was describing. And then above that, being a software developer and having a team of software developers, we wanted a uniform abstraction level for these different solvers because they all have sort of different needs and they're all have strengths and weaknesses. Finally, sitting above that we have a bunch of mapping methods. One of the ones I touched on was this network X package. And then above that we have our applications. So let's go to the next slide, please. So going, you know, we can now go back to that little ocean script that I described before. And here you can actually see those abstraction layers in practice. So at the top there we have the sampler equals embedding composite d-wave sampler. So the d-wave sampler is our access to the quantum processor. It's the sort of, it's the object that encodes the, you know, the network calls and all of that to access the QPU. Around that we have this embedding composite. That's what gives us our uniform sampler API. That's what allows us to solve sort of in some sense arbitrary problems on it. And then we have our, we use network X to specify a graph. This is the same graph that I, you know, had in the picture before. And then we use the problem mapping layer, this min vertex cover function, where we pass in the graph and the sampler and it uses the sampler to solve this problem. So you can see that sort of abstraction layers in just one relatively short Python program. We could jump to the next slide. So I'm going to not dwell too long on this, but I just want to sort of give you the mathematical formalism that underpins the problem that we're actually trying to solve here. So really the way that you should think about using our quantum computer and using classical solvers that solve the same type of problem is it is trying to find a vector v that minimizes this equation. And the things I want you to note about this equation is number one that this vector v is over binary variables. So, you know, yes, no, or negative one one or zero one binary, I just mean two state. And the reason that this is the case is because our quantum computer has a set of qubits and these qubits ultimately end their computation in a classical state. That's why we can read them. They, you know, when you read them, they collapse into a classical state. And so ultimately our solutions are classical even though our computation is quantum. The other thing that I want to note is that sort of first term in the equation, which is this vivj aij. This is the quadratic part of the problem. This is what makes these problems difficult. This is that sort of second order interaction between the different antenna or the different pipes and the different network vertices in my pipe network. That's what makes the problem difficult. It's not just pick the cheapest set of vertices. It's pick the cheapest set of vertices subject to the requirement that each pipe have a sensor. Next slide, please. So going back to our our pipe problem, you can sort of see that why this is this binary quadratic problem. So first off, we have binary variables should junction one have a sensor or no at the binary variable. We have pairwise interactions. Each pipe must have a sensor. That's a sort of quadratic interaction and interaction between two different variables. And then we have a linear optimization. I want to do it as cheaply as possible. So this is this this pipeline problem was picked specifically because it is exactly already natively a binary quadratic model. So let's jump on to the the next slide, please. So I want to point out that these binary quadratic models are an NP hard problem, which I think a lot of you are familiar with what that means. But just to belabor the point, that means that if you can solve that problem faster than other NP hard than other NP hard problems, then there's a fast transformation from those other hard problems into yours. And so what that means is that we are able to affect a huge variety of problems, even ones that aren't sort of natively binary quadratic models. So we take a problem, we reformulated as a binary quadratic model, we solve it on the quantum computer, we take it back out, we undo that reduction. And some examples of things that we've looked at is formation of terrorist networks, we've looked at traffic flow optimization, we looked at satellite placement, we've looked at protein design, we've done image recognition, just 200 or more proof of concept and applications that have been run on the D-Wave system. We can go to the next slide. So I've talked a little bit about the binary quadratic models, but that's not quite a quantum machine instruction. You have to get from this binary quadratic model into something that the quantum computer can understand. So next slide, please. So here is the sort of, you know, the pretty pictures of the inside of our quantum computer.  This box is about the size of a, you know, a mid-sized bathroom. You can see the sort of server racks there on the front.  And then inside the box, there is a sequence of refrigerators that are designed to keep the processor as isolated and cold as possible. So starting at sort of outside the box, obviously, is room temperature. Inside the box, it's like a refrigerator. Inside that first canister, you're at 50 kelvin, then 4 kelvin, then 1 kelvin, then 100 millikelvin, and then 15 millikelvin. So for reference, this is colder than interstellar space. It's unbelievably cold. And this is all to keep a little chip that's about the size of your thumbnail, which you can see in that right-hand picture. Actually, let's jump to the next slide. A little chip that is about the size of your thumbnail, cold. And that's where the quantum, that's the quantum processing unit, this QPU. And you can see a picture there that's even zoomed in on that last picture where that sort of chip holder is bigger than this picture. So that chip is really quite small. Yeah, perfect. Thanks. You can see that it's being covered there by that little gold plate. If you remove the gold plate and you look at the next slide, you can see that's where the chip is. So jumping to the next slide. So again, this is a fairly math heavy and now physics heavy equation. This is the equation that defines the behavior of our quantum computer. This is called an icing Hamiltonian. And if you look over on the right-hand side, you see an equation that looks an awful lot like that binary quadratic model I was describing. You can see that there is a sum over a bunch of binary variables. And then on the right-hand side, you see that there is a sum over a quadratic interaction to those binary variables. We call this part of the icing Hamiltonian the quantum machine instruction. And this is the part that you are programming when you're programming the quantum computer. Next slide. And next slide. This is just the binary quadratic model, which shows you the similarity. And so there's a reasonable question, which is, how do you get a binary quadratic model into a quantum machine instruction? Because those are not quite the same thing. And the answer is that a quantum machine instruction is a binary quadratic model plus some rules. Those rules are, first off, your variables must be spin. So that's negative one one. Before I said they could be binary, they could be anything. Now they must be either negative one or one. And the reason for that is that our system is essentially running on little magnetic fields. And so your magnetic field is either pointing down or up, corresponding to spin values. We also have an energy range associated with our variables. And there's a sort of limited resolution that our processor has. And so that can be a problem. And finally you have to be hardware structured, which is to say you must be shaped like the quantum computer. Let's go to the next slide. So if you zoom in even further on that chip picture, you can maybe make out, depending on the resolution of your screen, you see there's kind of a checkered board shape on the chip. Those checkered board shapes, each square in that checkered board corresponds to eight qubits on our quantum processing unit. And you can see on the left the picture of the connectivity of our graph. So each of those eight qubit tiles is connected to the tiles to the sort of north, south, east and west of it. And so each of these qubits is connected to six other qubits. Next slide. Now that's true on our current 2000 Q processor, but in the fall, we're coming out with our advantage processor, which has quite a bit more connectivity and has a lot more qubits. So on the right hand side, you can see that it has a 5000 qubit processor with 40,000 couplers. And on the left hand side is our current technology with 2000 qubits and 6000 couplers. So ultimately, when you're getting your binary quadratic model, you need to shape it like one of these processors. And how you actually do that is a little bit beyond the scope of this talk, but suffice to say we have tricks to do that. Let's advance two slides, please. The next one, please. Okay. So before we move on to time for questions, I want to talk a little bit about hybrid algorithm development. So hybrid algorithms are combining the best of classical and quantum computing. So next slide, please. So we have in Python, we have our D wave hybrid framework, which is a hybrid asynchronous decomposition sampler framework. It uses a Python code to generate new hybrid algorithms in a very sort of plug-and-play kind of way. So you can create brand new never-before-seen algorithms with just a couple lines of Python. And I'm going to be talking a little bit about different types of hybrid algorithms. And in them, I'm going to have a little snippet of Python code to sort of show you what that looks like. So next slide, please. So the motivation for this package is that normally these algorithms are quite complicated to specify. So on the left-hand side, you can see sort of the pseudo code for a particular hybrid algorithm called QB solve. And then on the middle, you can see that this takes many, many, many lines of C and C++ code. And then on the right-hand side, you can see an example, that sort of loop racing branches, that is actual Python code that is used to implement this algorithm with only, you know, six lines of Python. And on the bottom, you can sort of see how this algorithm is organized. The basic idea is that you're running a problem both on a classical sampler on your local system, while the problem is being run remotely on the quantum computer in Burnaby. You then take the problem, you determine which had the better solution, and then you decide whether you want to keep going. And you can either go back around the loop again or exit. So next slide, please. So I want to talk about a couple different types of hybrid algorithms, because I think it's useful to have a sense of what one could do with hybrid. So the first one is decomposition. And this is obviously most often what people think about when they think about hybrid. So the idea here is I want to grab a sub-problem from the quantum computer. And I want to use it, sorry, from the larger problem. And then I want to solve that sub-problem on the quantum computer, because quantum computers have, at this point, a relatively small number of qubits. And not all problems can fit directly on it. Next slide, please. The next type is pre-processing. So the idea here is I'm going to use a classical algorithm to pre-process my problem before submitting it to the quantum computer. Next slide, please. The next one is post-processing. So for instance, I want to use, I want to take the quantum computer to see the classical algorithm. This is actually a very good thing to do, because the quantum computer is very good at finding pretty good samples quickly. Whereas classical computers can be very good at finding very good samples slowly. So if you can accelerate that by preceding the classical algorithm with the quantum computer, you can often get a lot of benefit. Next slide, please. The next one is the so-called meta-algorithm. So the idea here is I am going to take a purely classical algorithm and accelerate one part of it with a quantum computer. So for instance, if I'm trying to build a strong classifier out of a collection of weak classifiers, which is a typical machine learning task, I can use the quantum computer to help select my collection of weak classifiers to use to build that strong classifier. Next slide. And then the last one is, it's not really a hybrid technique, but it is a useful technique, which is so-called racing. So the idea is that the quantum computer, because it lives remotely in a lab in Burnaby, when you've submitted a problem to it, it has to, you know, if you're submitting it from Europe, say, it might take a second to sort of make its way across the internet and get to the lab in Burnaby, and then it solves the problem in Burnaby in a couple microseconds, and then it comes back over the wire over a second. And so, you know, your system is sitting idle for that two seconds, and there's probably a lot of computation that could be done in that time. And so by using racing, you can basically not, you can use that time to do other useful things to solve your problem. So anyways, that's the slightly rushed version of my talk. I wanted to open it up to questions, although I'm not 100% sure how the questions are going to get passed to me given our slightly messed up setup, but yeah. This is actually going to be quite easy because I'm just going to read them out. So okay, thank you for the talk. That was nice, very intense. I didn't really quite understand all that, but you know, just in theory, the top high level things, I think I do know. So the first question is, how far are we from commercial quantum computing as a service? So QCAAS? Yeah, I mean, so we have, I mean, quantum computers are available in the cloud today. That's both D-Wave and other providers like IBM's, Kiskit. So in some sense, and you know, they're all purchasable with time. So in the commercial sense, we've already, we already have that. I think implicit to your question is when are quantum computers going to be valuable to customers? When are we going to start seeing advantage with quantum computers? And you know, the answer I will give is that we are already seeing commercial advantage using hybrid systems. So that's combining quantum and classical. So we're already starting to see cases where we're able to provide advantage to customers, you know, value. Now, if the customer say was to, you know, hire a team of computer scientists and give them a year, could they come up with a classical algorithm that would, you know, be able to replace the quantum computer? Almost certainly. This isn't sort of a scientific result, but it is nonetheless promising that we reach the point of sophistication with quantum computers, that we are able to affect real world problems and use them in real world commercial applications. Do you think we will see Moore's law in quantum computing? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, just to sort of give a picture, the quantum computer, as I said, has to pass through all these different refrigerators, right? And when we're programming the quantum computer, you're sending signals down to that processor that's being kept at 15 millikelvin. And those signals are, oh, sorry, I'm actually talking about the ends of Moore law. First off, we have already doubled, we double our quantum computer about every two years, but I think that we're also going to run into similar limits that the classical computers are running into, which is that there's a fundamental limit, which is that eventually, you know, we're going to be able to keep doubling for quite a while, but eventually we're going to start running into, you know, physics limits, which is you can't, you know, program one billion qubits at 15 millikelvin because of the amount of heat you need to send down just to send those signals. So I both think that for a while we're going to get that sort of end over end, doubling every so every couple of years, but I don't think it's going to last forever, just like classical computers. And then we'll be talking about a new type of computer that no one has thought of yet, but I'm sure. Okay, excellent. So next question. Are there any resources where hobbyists can play around with programming on virtualized quantum computers and algorithms? Oh, I can do better than that. You can play on a real quantum computer for free. So if you go to our lead platform, you'll get one minute of free time on the quantum computer. I know that other vendors in the space have similar programs, so it's not just the wave that you can do that with. And then ocean itself comes with a collection of simulators and classical algorithms that kind of emulate the quantum computer that you can use to to play with them if you'd like, but a minute of quantum computing time doesn't sound like a month a lot. But since each problem only takes about five microseconds or 20 microseconds, it's actually quite a bit. All right, nice. So next question. Is it possible to sort faster than n times log n with quantum computers? Is it to sort? To sort faster than n log n? Oh, not that I know, but yeah. I guess you need some more QPUs you call them, right? Yeah, I mean, so there's, oh my god, I'm choking on the name, but the very famous quantum computing sorting algorithm that's not occurring to me right now. And that's a gate model algorithm that none of the quantum computers that exist today can run, really, because it requires error correction or universal quantum annealer and neither of those are available in the market today. Okay. So next one. Can you mine cryptocurrencies using quantum computing? Yes. And it's something that we've been asked about before. I would say that we have not yet reached, I'm not using it to mine cryptocurrencies. So I don't think we're quite at a point where it's, it'll save you money. On the other hand, quantum computers by their very nature because they're kept so cold, you can't put a lot of power down there. I mean, when I said before, like, oh, you're sending a lot of heat, I'm still talking about just tiny fractions of a lot. And so they are a very energy efficient way to do calculations. And so I do think that if cryptocurrency sticks around and all that, that quantum computing will be quite useful for that, just for that reason, having to keep them cold and having to keep your data centers powered is becoming quite a limiting factor. Right. I have another question, because there are normal questions in the Q&A. Would it make sense to build a quantum computing data center, let's call it, on the moon?  Yeah, it's a great question. And we get asked it some fairly often, you know, in terms of like, could you put it in a satellite? So the problem is, is that getting it to Kelvin, which is about the temperature of interstellar space and sort of the dark side of the moon, is actually the relatively easy part of the cooling. It's getting it down to 15 mili Kelvin. That's the hard part. And so, and on the moon, there's less, it's harder to dissipate than it is on Earth. So it's actually easier to have it here on Earth than it is on the moon. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah. It's a great question. I mean, yeah. Oh, I was just, you know, thinking maybe, you know, you can do that. What you said about the cryptocurrencies, though, I mean, if, if the quantum computers actually get to the point where you can do crypto mining using quantum computers, I think the, the cryptocurrencies are basically going to collapse, right? Because they will need a completely new crypto to still be, I mean, to still fulfill their purpose, right? So. Yeah, I actually, it's a question I don't, I'm sure somebody is thinking about quantum secure cryptocurrency. I don't, I'm someone, yeah, but I don't know much about it if it does exist, but I no doubt someone is. Okay, let me see. Okay, no, they're just discussing there. Is it another question here? Is it kept? It I suppose is the computer, is it kept in a void to be cooled down? Yes, it's also in a vacuum. That's right. And, and, you know, that that set of canisters is also to maintain that it's also kept in a ferrite cage, obviously, to limit electromagnetic interference. And I can also tell you that we have we are able to detect earthquakes with our quantum computer, because it has to be kept very vibration free. Do you have to put in any protection against cosmic rays? I'm not actually sure. It's a good question, probably, but I don't know. Okay. Good. Let me see whether we have more questions. Otherwise, I think we are done. No, don't see anything. All right. Thank you, everyone. Sorry for the rush talk. Thank you very much. Let me give you your applause. So


So the scripture comes from the Book of Mormon. It's Alma chapter 7 starting in verse 11 and it goes through about 13 and it says, and he, Jesus Christ, shall go forth suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people and he will take upon him death that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people and he will take upon him their infirmities that his bowels may be filled with mercy according to the flesh that he may know according to the flesh how to sucker his people according to their infirmities. Now the Spirit knoweth all things nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance and now behold this is the testimony which is in me and I just always really like these verses because it's talking about Jesus Christ and the things that he went through as part of the atonement for us and I like it because you know Jesus Christ is often associated with taking away our sins and I like how these verses talk about how he understands more than just that he understands temptations and afflictions and infirmities and that he has mercy on us and I remember someone told me that the word sucker as used in verse 12 means literally to run to in a time of need and I think that's a really good descriptive word that Jesus Christ you know when we have problems if we turn to him he'll he'll run to us and he's always there willing to help us and you know he understands the pains and temptations and the things that we face all the time you know big and small and so because of that he can he can help us through them he can as we seek his advice he can give us the information and the strength that we need to to make it through them and you know I know that I know that to be true and I've had that help in my life and I've seen it work in other people's lives and I think it's a fabulous thing that I don't think a lot of people realize or take full advantage of and I said that in the name of Jesus Christ amen


Section 4 of Under the Sunset by Bram Stoker. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Shadow Builder. The Lonely Shadow Builder watches ever in his lonely abode. The walls are of cloud, and round and through them changing ever as they come, past the dim shades of all the things that have been. This endless shadowy, wheeling, moving circle is called the procession of the dead past. In it everything is just as it has been in the great world. There is no change in any part. For each moment, as it passes, sends its shade into this dim procession. Here there are moving people and events, cares, thoughts, follies, crimes, joys, sorrows, places, scenes, hopes, and fears, and all that make the sum of life with all its lights and shadows. Every picture in nature where shadow dwells, and that is everyone, has here its dim phantom. Here are all the pictures that are most fair and most sad to see. The passing gloom over a sunny cornfield, when, with the breeze, comes the dark sway of the full years as they bend and rise. The ripple on the glassy surface of a summer sea, the dark expanse that lies beyond and without the broad track of moonlight on the water, the lacework of glare and gloom that flickers over the road, as one passes in autumn when the moonlight is falling through the naked branches of overhanging trees. The cool restful shade under the thick trees in summertime, when the sun is flaming down on the haymaker at work. The dark clouds that flit across the moon, hiding her light, which leaps out again hollily and coldly. The gloom of violet and black that rises on the horizon, when rain is near in summertime. The dark recesses and gloomy caverns, where the waterfall hurls itself shrieking into the pool below. All these shadow pictures and a thousand others that come by night and day circle in the procession among the things that have been. Here too, every act that any human being does, every thought, good and bad, every wish, every hope, everything that is secret is pictured and becomes a lasting record which cannot be blotted out. For at any time, the shadow builder may summon with his spectral hand anyone, sleeping or waking, to behold what is pictured of the dead past, in the dim, mysterious distance which encompasses his lonely abode. In this ever-moving procession of the dead past, there is but one place where the circling phantoms are not and where the cloudy walls are lost. There is here a great blackness, dense and deep and full of gloom, and behind which lies the great real world without. This blackness is called the Gate of Dread. The procession afar off takes from it its course and when passing on its way, it circles again towards the darkness. The shadowy phantoms melt again into the mysterious gloom. Sometimes the shadow builder passes through the vapoury walls of his abode and mingles in the ranks of the procession and sometimes a figure summoned by the wave of his spectral hand with silent footfall stalks out of the mist and pauses beside him. Sometimes from a sleeping body the shadow builder summons a dreaming soul, then for a time the quick and the dead stand face to face and men call it a dream of the past. When this happens, friend meets friend or foe meets foe and over the soul of the dreamer comes a happy memory long vanished or the troubled agony of remorse. But no specter passes through the misty wall, saved to the shadow builder alone and no human being even in a dream can enter the dimness where the procession moves along. So lives the lonely shadow builder amid his gloom and his habitation is peopled by a spectral past. His only people are of the past for though he creates shadows they dwell not with him. His children go out at once to their homes in the big world and he knows them no more till in the fullness of time they join the procession of the dead past and reach in turn the misty walls of his home. For the shadow builder there is not night nor day nor season of the year but forever round his lonely dwelling passes the silent procession of the dead past. Sometimes he sits amuses with eyes fixed and staring and seeing nothing and then out at sea there is a cloudless calm or the black gloom of night. Towards the far north or south for long months together he never looks and then the stillness of the arctic night reigns alone. When the dreamy eyes again become conscious the hard silence softens into the sounds of life and light. Sometimes with set frown on his face and a hard look in the eyes which flash and gleam dark lightnings the shadow builder sways resolute to his task and round the world the shadows troop thick and fast. Over the sea sweeps the blackness of the tempest the dim lights flicker in the cots away upon the lonely moors and even in the palaces of kings dark shadows pass and fly and glide over all things yay through the hearts of the kings themselves for the shadow builder is then dread to look upon. Now and again with long wiles between the shadow builder as he completes his task lingers over the work as though he loves it. His heart yearns to the children of his will and he feign would keep even one shadow to be a companion to him in his loneliness but the voice of the great present is ever ringing in his ears at such times and joining him to haste the giant voice booms out onwards, onwards. Whilst the words ring in the ears of the shadow builder the completed shadow fades from beneath his hands and passing unseen through the gate of dread mingles in the great world without in which it is to play its part. When in the fullness of time this shadow comes into the ranks of the procession of the dead past the shadow builder knows it and remembers it but in his dead heart there is no gleam of loving remembrance for he can only love the present that slips ever from his grasp and oh it is a lonely life which the shadow builder lives and in the weird, sad, solemn, mysterious, silent gloom which encompasses him he toils on ever at his lonely task but sometimes too the shadow builder has his joys baby shadows spring up and sunny pictures alight with sweetness and love glide from under his touch and are gone before the shadow builder at his task lies a space wherein is neither light nor darkness, neither joy nor gloom whatsoever touches it fades away a sand heaps melt before the incoming tide or like words writ on water in it all things lose their being and become part of the great is not and this terrible line of mystery is called the threshold whatsoever passes into it disappears and whatsoever emerges from it is complete as it comes and passes into the great world as a thing to run its course before the threshold the shadow builder himself is as nought and in its absorbing might there is that which he cannot sway or rule when at his task he summons and out of the impalpable nothingness of the threshold there comes the object of his will sometimes the shadow bursts full and freshly and is suddenly lost in the gloom of the gate of dread and sometimes it grows softly and faintly getting fuller as it comes and so melts away into the gloom the lonely shadow builder is working in his lonely abode around him beyond the vapory walls pressing onward as ever is the circling procession of the dead past storm and calm have each been summoned from the threshold and have gone and now in this calm, wistful moment the shadow builder pauses at his task and wishes and wishes till to his lonely longing wistfulness the nothingness of the threshold sends an answer forth from it grows the shadow of a baby's foot stepping with tottering gate out towards the world then follows the little round body and the big head and the baby shadow moves onwards swaying and balancing with uncertain step swift behind it comes the mother's hands stretched out in loving helpfulness lest it should fall one step two it totters and is falling but the mother's arms are swift and the gentle hands bear it firmly up the child turns and toddles again into its mother's arms again it strives to walk and again the mother's watchful hands are ready this time it needs not the help when the race is over the shadow child turns again lovingly to its mother's breast once again it strives and it walks boldly and firmly but the mother's hands quiver as they hang by her side whilst a tear sweeps down the cheek although that cheek is gladdened by a smile the baby shadow turns and goes a little way off then over the misty nothing on which the shadows fall flits the flickering shadow of a tiny hand waving and onward with firm tread the shadow of the little feet moves out into the misty gloom of the gate of dread and passes away but the mother's shadow moves not the hands are pressed to the heart the loving face is upturned in prayer and down the cheeks roll great tears then her head bows lower as the little feet pass beyond her ken and lower and lower bends the weeping mother till she lies prone even as he looks the shadow builder sees the shadows fade away away and the terrible nothingness of the threshold only is there then presently in the procession of the dead past circle round the misty walls the shadows that had been the mother and the child now from out the threshold steps a youth with brave and buoyant tread and as on the misty veil his shadow falls the dress and bearing proclaim him a sailor lad close to the shadow comes another the mother's older and thinner she is as if with watching but still the same the old loving hands array prettily the knotted kerchief hanging loosely on the open throat and the boy's hands reach out take the mother's face between them and draw it forward for a kiss the mother's arms fly round her son and in a close embrace they cling the mother kisses her boy again and again and together they stand as though to part were impossible suddenly the boy turns as though he heard a call the mother clings closer he seems to remonstrate tenderly but the loving arms hold tighter till with gentle force he tears himself away the mother takes a step forward and holds out the thin hands trembling in an agony of grief the boy stops to one knee he bends then dashing away his tears he waves his cap and hurries on once again the mother sinks to her knees and weeps and so slowly once again the shadows of the mother and the child grown greater in the fullness of time pass out through the gate of dread and circle among the phantoms in the procession of the dead past the mother following hard upon the speeding footsteps of her son in the long pause that follows the shadow builder watches all seems changed out from the threshold comes a mist such as hangs sometimes over the surface of a tropic sea by little and little the mist rolls away and forth advances black and great the prow of a mighty vessel the shadows of the great sails lie faintly in the cool depths of the sea as the sails flap idly in the breezeless air over the bulwark lean listless figures waiting for a wind to come the mist on the sea melts slowly away and by the dark shadows of men sheltering from the sunny glare and fanning themselves with their broad sailor hats it is plain that the heat is terrible now from far off behind the ship comes up over the horizon a black cloud no bigger than a man's hand but sweeping on with terrible speed also from far away before her course rises the edge of a coral reef scarcely seen above the glassy water but darkling the depths below those on board see neither of these things for they shelter under their awnings and sigh for cool breezes quicker and quicker comes the dark cloud sweeping faster and faster and growing blacker and blacker and faster and faster as it comes then those on board seem to know the danger hurried shadows fly along the decks up the shadows of the ladders hurried shadows of men the flapping of the great sails ceases as one by one the willing hands draw them in but quicker than the hands of men can work sweeps the tempest onward it rushes and terrible things come close behind black darkness towering waves that break in fury and fly aloft the spume of the sea swept heavenwards the great clouds wheeling in fury and in the centre of these flying whirling maddening shadows rocks the shadow of the ship as the black darkness of the heavens encompasses all the rush of shadowy storm sweeps through the gate of dread as he waits and looks and sees the cyclone whirling amongst the shadows in the procession of the dead past the shadow builder even in his dead heart feels a weight of pain for the brave sailor boy tossed on the deep and the anxious mother sitting lonely at home again from the threshold passes a shadow growing deeper as it comes but very very faint at first for here the sun is strong and there is but little room for shadows on the bear rock which seems to rise from the glare and the glitter of the sea deeps round on the lonely rock a sailor boy stands thin and gaunt he is and his clothing is but a few rags sheltering his eyes with his hand he looks out to sea where a far off the cloudless sky sinks to meet the burning sea but no speck over the horizon no distant glitter of a white sail gives him a ray of hope long long he peers till wearied out he sits down on the rock and bows his head as if in despair for a time as the sea falls he gathers from the rock the shellfish which has come during the tide so the day wears on and the night comes and in the tropic sky the stars hang like lamps in the cool silence of the night the forlorn sailor boy rests sleeps and dreams are of home of loving arms stretched out to meet him of banquet spread of green fields and waving branches and the sheltering happiness of his mother's love for in his sleep the shadow builder summons his dreaming soul and shows him all these blessings passing ceaselessly in the procession of the dead past and so comforts him to despair and die thus wear on many weary days the sailor boy lingers on the lonely rock a far off he can just see a hill that seems to rise over the water one morning when the blackening sky and the sultry air promise a storm the distant mountain seems nearer and he thinks that he will try to reach it by swimming whilst he is thus resolving the storm rushes up over the horizon and sweeps him from the lonely rock he swims with a bold heart but just as his strength is done he is cast by the fury of the storm on a beach of soft sand the storm passes on its way and the waves leave him high and dry he goes inland where in a cave in the rock he finds shelter and sinks to sleep the shadow builder as he sees all this happen in the shadows on the clouds and land and sea rejoices in his dead heart that the lonely mother perhaps will not wait in vain so time wears on and many many weary days pass the boy becomes a young man living in the lonely island his beard has grown and he is clothed in a dress of leaves all day long save when he is not working to get food to eat he watches from the mountain top for a ship to come as he stands looking out over the sea the sun casts his shadows down the hillside so that at evening as it sinks low in the waters the shadow of the lonely sailor grows longer and longer till at last it makes a dark streak down the hillside even to the water's edge the lonely man's heart grows heavier and heavier as he waits and watches whilst the weary time passes and the countless days and nights come and go time comes when he begins to get feebler and feebler as he grows sick to death and lingers longer dying then these shadows pass away out from the threshold grows the shadow of an old woman thin and worn sitting in a lonely cottage on a jutting cliff in the window a lamp burns in the night time to welcome the lost one should he ever return and to guide him to his mother's home by the lamp the mother watches till wearied out she sinks to sleep as she sleeps the shadow builder summons her sleeping soul with the wave of his spectral hand she stands beside him in the lonely abode whilst round them through the misty walls passes onwards the procession of the dead past as she looks the shadow builder lifts his spectral hand to point to the vision of her son but the mother's eyes are quicker than even the spectral hand that evokes all the shadows of the rushing storm and ere the hand is raised she sees her son among the shadows of the past the mother's heart is filled with unspeakable joy as she sees him alive and hail although a prisoner amongst the tropic seas but alas she knows not that in the dim procession pass only the things that have been and that although in the past the lonely sailor lived in the present even at the moment he may be dying or dead the mother stretches out her arms to her boy but even as she does her sleeping soul loses sight of the dim procession and vanishes from the shadow builders lonely abode for when she knows that her boy is alive there follows a great pain that he is lonely and waits and watches for help and the quick heart of the mother is overcome with grief and she wakes with a bitter cry then as she rises and looks past the dying lamp out into the dawn the mother feels that she has seen a vision of her son in sleep and that he lives and waits for help and her heart glows with a great resolve quickly then from the threshold float many shadows a lonely mother speeding with flying feet to a distant city grave men refusing but not unkindly a kneeling woman making an appeal with uplifted hands hard men spurning a praying mother from their doors a wild rabble of bad and thoughtless boys and girls hounding through the streets a hurrying woman a shadow of pain on a mother's heart the upcoming of a black cloud of despair but which hangs far off for it cannot advance into the bright sunlight the mother's resolve weary days with their own myriad shadows lonely nights black want cold hunger and pain and through all these darkening shadows the swift moving shadow of the mother's flying feet a long line of such pictures come ever an eye in the procession till the dead heart of the shadow builder grows icy and his burning eyes look out savagely on all who give pain and trial to the mother's faithful heart and so all these shadows float out into a black mist and are lost in the gloom of the gate of dread another shadow grows out of the mist an old man sits in his arm chair the firelight flickering throws his image quaintly dancing on the wall of the room he is old for the great shoulders are bowed and the grand strong face is lined with years there is another shadow in the room it is the mother's she is standing by the table and is telling her story her thin hands point away where in the distance she knows her son is a prisoner in the lonely seas the old man rises the enthusiasm of the mother's heart has touched him and back to his memory rush the old love and energy and valor of his youth the great hand rises closes and strikes the table with a mighty blow as though declaring a binding promise the mother sinks to her knees she seizes the great hand and kisses it and stands erect other men come in they receive orders they hurry out then come many shadows whose movement and swiftness and firm purpose mean life and hope at sunset when the mast make long shadows on the harbour water a big ship moves out on her journey to the tropic seas men's shadows quickly flit up and down the rigging and along the decks as the shadows wheel round the capstone bar the anchor rises and into the sunset passes the great vessel in the bow like a figure of hope stands the mother gazing with eager eyes on the far off horizon then this shadow fades a great ship sweeps along with white sails swelling to the breeze at the bow stands the mother gazing ever out into the distance before her storms come and the ship flies before the blast but she swerves not for the mother with outstretched hands points the way and the helmsman swaying beside his wheel obeys the hand so this shadow also passes the shadows of days and nights come on in quick succession and the mother seeks ever for her son so the records of the prosperous journey melt into a faint dim misty shadow through which one figure alone stands clear the watching mother at the vessel's prowl now from the threshold grow the shadows of the mountain island and of the ship drawing nigh in the prowl the mother kneels looking out and pointing a boat is lowered men spring on board with eager feet but before them all is the mother the boat nears the island the water shallows and on the hot white beach the men spring to land but in the boat's prowl still the mother sits in her long anxious hours of agony she has seen in her dreams her son standing a far off and watching she has seen him wave his arms with a great joy as the ship rises over the horizon's edge she has seen him standing on the beach waiting she has seen him rushing through the surf so that the first thing that the lonely sailor boy should touch would be his mother's loving hands but alas for her dreams no figure with joyous waving arms stands on the summit of the mountain no eager figure stands at the water's edge or dashes to meet her through the surf her heart grows cold and chill with fear has she indeed come too late? the men leave the boat comforting her as they go with shakings of the hand and kindly touches upon the shoulder she motions them to haste and remains kneeling the time goes on the men ascend the mountain they search but they find not the lost sailor boy and with slow halting feet they return to the boat the mother hears them coming afar and rises to meet them they hang their heads the mother's arms go up tossed her loft in the anguish of despair and she sinks swooning in the boat the shadow builder in an instant summons her spirit from her senseless clay and points to a figure passing without movement in the procession of the dead past then quicker than light the mother's soul flies back full of new found joy she rises from the boat she springs to land the men follow wondering she rushes along the shore with flying feet the sailors come close behind she stops opposite the entrance to a cave obscured with trailing brambles here without turning she motions to the men to wait they pause and she passes within for a few moments grim darkness pours from the threshold and then one sad sad vision grows and passes a dim dark cave a worn man lying prone and a mother in anguish bending over the cold clay on the icy breath she lays her hand but alas she cannot feel the beat of the heart she loves with a wild heart stricken gesture she flings herself upon the body of her son and holds it close close as though the clasp of a mother were stronger than the grasp of death the dead heart of the shadow builder is alive with pain as he turns away from the sad picture and with anxious eyes looks where from behind the gate of dread the mother and child must come to join the ever swelling ranks of the procession of the dead past slowly slowly comes the shadow of the clay cold mariner passing on but swifter than light come the mother's flying feet the arms so strong with love are stretched out and thin hands grasp the passing shadow of her son and tear him back beyond the gate of dread to life and liberty and love the lonely shadow builder knows now that the mother's arms are stronger than the grasp of death End of section 4