Ond y gallu'n gilydd y cwestiynau yw eich bod yn cael ei gwниw gweld yn cael y mewn edrych? Fe wnaeth yn meddylu, mae'n gwybodon ein dnifesiaid a'n cael ei wneud ein gylwgr o bwrdd diolchol o gyfnodau Fe yna ei wneud o withildau i gwybodaeth, a'r berthynat o'r peth sy' nid, erbyn hyn yn cael ei gwirionedd yma, mae'n gwybodon eu gofoedau sy'n cyffredinol o'r pethau a'r taffaith yn gwneud. ..y'r head of design technology, so my teacher at the time said, you know, this is probably his first day level year. You like, you like DET, you like kids, why not be a teacher and that was it. So what happened in my second year of sixth one was he put me when I was free into year seven classes to teach lessons. So we did a plan and had a little project and I really liked it. And then there was a mock interview to kind of prepare for the university interview process. So it was a four year Bachelor of Education at Goldsmiths College at the time. And that's how it got started. And four years of six to eight week teacher placements and four different schools all round south east London. And that was it. Brilliant. Yeah, so Mr Boldie. Mr Boldie. Yeah, Paul Boldie. I still keep in touch with him now actually. Goldsmiths. No, he was head of design technology at Fleetwood High School up in Lancashire, Blackpool. And he's around Chawley area in Manchester now. But it was nice because a while ago he found out I won an award and sent me a message for an email. And I think he's got my book and follows me on Twitter. So it's lovely. So that's, that's, every teacher's got a great teacher story. And that's, it was Paul Boldie who got me into it. So maybe then you could talk us through about how you became, you know, the most successful educational blogger that's out there at the moment. And how you handled the kind of genesis of teacher talk here and that sort of thing. So teacher talk, I've been tweeting since 2007 or 2008 personally. And then there was a time when the teaching tweets started to interfere with my personal having a beer and playing with my son kind of tweets. So at that point, it was about 2010 when I really was getting into Twitter in the classroom professional. I thought I've got to make a professional decision here. So I created, I created a few accounts, one for a classroom which was for kids and it was locked down. And another one for me personally, which is teacher talk it, which was a pure, it was an interactive channel. But my mission was to just be interact, an output channel. And it was just all about teaching full stop. Pretty much what tweeting is. It's what status updates, what I was doing. But gradually it became a bit more deep and meaningful. And so that's how it started. And my logo actually started with a keep calm carry on symbol. And as it got gathered speed into the thousands of and then towards 10,000 people, I thought, well, I need to copyright issues and might come into it. So I then found a photograph inverted it, kept with a red background and put just put teacher talk. I will have a teacher talk at my first created the account. So that's how it started. But the writing and the blogging came in 2011. I've always loved writing and also creative imagination, but I've never known if I've been good at it because I struggled with English and reading as a kid. And I still do today. But it started when my son was born in hospital in 2011. We were 85 miles away. So he was born premature three months early. He was born around nine life and death, et cetera. So three months. So there was really poor reception and to try and communicate every kind of key decision with families. Just hard work, never mind the emotions. So throughout this eight or 10 hours would be there every day. I just started to go on blogger to start with on my phone and just type notes to it was very good therapy. And it was a great way to get home and reflect on the doctor's notes and publish it to my family. And because it was a raw story, life or death, I knew the risk of that, but it gathered momentum and it went up to 150,000 hits very quickly. And the baby charities and people got hold of it and that led to contributions in different books over time. But I started to enjoy it and not necessarily the line, but there was a stage probably 30 days in where Freddie was going to be safe, where I could start to enjoy the writing and updating and I was getting lots of feedback. And I thought, well, this is great. Let me apply it to my teaching. So I started a teacher blog as well. And it was, it wasn't very passionate at the time. It was just kind of trying to think of stuff to do or things to talk about. And eventually I found WordPress, which was a better platform for making it work smarter. And then I just made a real focus on everything teaching, things that I'm doing, reflecting. And through Twitter I was getting lots of feedback. So the blog allowed you to express much more. And that's what I did. And it's, you know, in the two years now I've done it, it's 1.3 or 4 million hits, which is amazing. And the opportunities, you know, this here now or the book, or House of Commons being requested for X, Y and Z, it's just because I'm blogging. And anyone can do it. I don't normally believe this, but yes, if there's a time commitment, yes, you've got to have a passion. But more, I think probably success is because I've made it with my design experience, a bit of theory I've created my own brand or my own kind of strategies. And I've learned ICT skills through my own doing. You know, I've got a grade F for ICT as a GCSE student. I've learned, and I guess that's resilience, isn't it, to a degree. So that's the story. That's how I started writing. And I suppose also to add is that you are trusted, aren't you, above most people for good advice about how to be an effective teacher. I was wondering if you could talk a bit about that. Originally I didn't do it without, I put thought into it, but I didn't put thought in terms of the odd, well, that's a lie.  But in the very beginning, when I was using the TES, it was, this is really nice, let's just share it, and that's it. But with the power of social media, you can spread a document online much further than you maybe could have in the past. So there's that issue. And then as the audience has grown, more thought has been required because I do see myself as, although I'm an individual, some people do think Teacher Talk is a brand or a company, I just see myself as an individual, just sharing ideas. And because of the immense and wide range of feedback from around the world that I get, I have to put much more thought into the one on the stream there. I've just thought about its presentation. Can anyone understand it? How will it be used? Where am I going to put it on? Will there be a blog to explain the theory behind it? I mean, I found another website that comes up with nice interesting fonts, for example. So I don't see it as anything unique. I love how things appear, being a designer. I love thinking about the visual quality of a document or a resource.  I can't answer the question, I don't know the answer. But I think there's lots of parts of it. I think it's like anything you do if you're writing a book or writing an essay. You invest in the time, you refine it before you put it out there. If you get feedback, you tweak it. I suppose I've learnt what works or what people want, because people don't want to read a thousand pages unless they deliberately are seeking something like that, such as a huge book. But if teachers are busy people so they want something quick, something that they'll know that will work, and something that they'll know will work from someone who's used it, I think that's probably the key thing. So because of all the power of social media, if people are speaking to each other behind the scenes without me being involved in sharing things, then that's validation that it is successful. Again, with the teacher talk at ICOT, people know instantly where to go and ask. I would like to think that 99.9% of tweets that I get I do respond to if people want clarification or help. I think that's also a trusted source as well. I would like to think that all my followers know that they'll get that back. It's hard to keep up, but when I was saying to you earlier before we started that I might not be able to manage everything, so I'll either find some ICT tools to help me cope that, or save things for another day and respond later when I've got a bit more time on my hands. These things do impact on work to a degree, but it obviously works first, but it does impact on the home, so I just have to adjust when I do do things and when I shouldn't. That's been a lesson to learn, and I wouldn't be denied that I've been in the doghouse when we were young. I'm learning to deal with that because as the audience increases, the demand has increased as well, and I have to be very, very careful that it doesn't consume me, and there have been many times where I feel it has. I've just been more ruthless for myself that through the social media epoch, I can share something at any time, and it will, with the audience and the power of retweets and blogs and staggering or buffering various content. There's no rush to get it out there because people will share it for you, or people might not be wanting to look at it when you want to share it, so there's all these clever tools that can stagger content out. So there's less panic to get things out because I've found a lot of times I've wanted to share an instant idea, but there's a time for reflection consolidation, and I think of my blog, I've got about 35 articles in reserve because I'll think of something and I'll tweak it and I'll revisit it, or I'll have missed a bow in terms of the season it should be. So that could be something for the future, or it might fit in with another topic, another point. So that's just something I've learned over the last two years. It's a nice strategy to keep in mind actually. Very good. I suppose a bit of a tricky question, but off the top of your head, what would be the key advice you would give for teachers to just improve their practice? In the classroom or through...  I'm a firm believer in my two catchphrase poses. I'm not the same teacher I was 20 years ago to what I am today. I certainly wasn't the same teacher I was last term. The reasons are because I am open to feedback. I'm reflective. I'm constantly thinking about how I can get better. I don't think perfection exists. I don't think outstanding exists every day, but I found a nice quote earlier there. I forgot who it was, but excellence is a habit and I want to strive to be excellent as much as I can and all the time. I think that maybe might be the difference between being a teacher who I have been in the past where I just turn up, do my bit and go home to using the time that I have to think more about it. It does impact what I do today at home, but you were one 10 years ago as a busy headed department. I still was the same person thinking about all my ideas for the department all the time, so I think that's probably just me and my quality or my characteristic. Not everyone will be like that, but my key messages will be to always observe other teachers, always visit other schools so it's the best CPD you can have, and to always get people into your classroom beyond your appraisers and sometimes beyond your colleagues to get some mutual feedback and to work hard at having our clear focus, planular lessons together, observe together, observe each other, and then review and reflect and how it really goes into this kind of lesson study model or a good intent programme which I've kind of created myself and started to gather wind here, and it's nice to know that I'm on the same page, it all goes down to triads and co-planning, co-observing, co-reflection, and that's key, and the only debilitating factor will be skills not given teachers the time to do it regularly or consistently, and that's key, so that's the time of money issue. But I was under conversation today with my governors and it's not really, I mean if you take a member of staff off time table for a week, it's a thousand power in cover and send them off with their class, their formal class to go and observe their lessons in their own school for a week, think of that time, you will give that member of staff to see all lessons around the school to reflect about great ideas they see or to not some great ideas and to reflect about their own practice or the kids that they teach in other areas and see how those kids interact. That's a great idea, I don't know how feasible it is, but that would be incredible CPD for your teachers and even if you reduce it to one day and calendar it, you're giving staff real opportunity to see teaching beyond their own classroom and see what the kids diet is in your school. So there's loads of ideas, but I think the pinnacle will be the reflection part of a teacher to know that you can always do a little not better, but you can do it differently to open doors and break down barriers and things like that. So I suppose it's very much a co-operative model that you're talking about. And that involves, it's pretty much what I've been working on today, it's not just the teacher, that involves the kids and your audience are the students and they should have a say and they should be able to be part of that process. And there's a time and place where you want to have them in rows and in silence and tests and didatic and repeat, repeat. There's a time and place for that, there's also a time and place where you want students to lead their own learning and for them to feed back into your planning and then to give you some critique, but some of us might not be open to that and I've been in situations where I don't, on the whole I think staff don't build it into their planning enough to take the student views, they'll plan for the students but they won't necessarily ask the kids what they thought about it. And some of the best lessons I've observed with teachers over a long period of time have asked kids for their ideas, have given them feedback and then have actually implemented what the kids have wanted and it's just really evident to see how much you're learning going on in that classroom because the kids have had a say. Yeah. You know and there's other things like data looking in books and typically in support which is your routines. So if I observed you for dare or say a one off lesson I need to make sure that I'm looking at progress over time so I'm looking at what's typical so are the kids like that because it's something that you always do or are they putting their hand up saying so why are you doing that these are all the signs that you'll pick up when you gather observational experience and you know all teachers can get to that stage but they need to have the opportunity to go and see teachers in their own schools to get to that kind of level. And where do you stand I mean you know as much talk about the sort of competitive model for education we talked about the cooperative but you know teachers sort of performance related pay and things like that so what are your thoughts on that in that context? I haven't formed a real opinion yet because I've worked in schools where standards have been incredibly low and things have been put in place where performance has improved and not saying money has been a factor but you know clear consistency clear policies there's other things that will raise standards so you could almost call that an open process rather than a closed process which is your data or your money and it's going to be new to us all but I think what has helped is the condensed and clearer teacher standards I really do think they have helped and there's been lots and lots of change far too much for us all to keep up with I think we need to slow down and I think policy makers and government there needs to be something fixed into power where they can't change X, Y and Z for a certain period of time until it is probably evaluated but to answer your question I'm more of a no than a yes but to be a respected profession there's a good 80 billion to pluck a figure out of the air that we have within the economy that's put aside and we have to be accountable and not to be respected we have to show that we know our staff and we should be qualified to gain that credibility and we have to fight all the media and the poor headlines and things up there and I'm trying to get to the key part of your question I think you can reward staff in other ways so for example where I'm working now we have a recruitment and retention I know that's died of death but it's another way of giving staff a pocket of cash that they can bid for to aid their professional development it's voluntary, it's not forced some people use it, some people don't but it's for their professional development and it's a nice way of saying to staff you've completed a term or completed a year or you've been working here for five so it's put anum so you've been working here along the amount of time and staff have been putting in requests for some digital devices that they can use at home or in school or to pay for flights to go to a conference in another country I mean if I was much younger and not a committed family man I would be off to Sweden and Finland and go and see what it's all about and go and visit some schools and it's nice to know that my school would support me with some flights and to think of the schools where I've been in where I've wanted to improve my practice I've wanted to complete a masters and they've been very stingy with the money that they've given me to aid my professional development I've left feeling a bit aggrieved and a bit miffed off that it's been such a battle that I've wanted to commit back to the school some action research so that's not really answered the question I think we do need accountability performance-related pay across the board I'm not sure but certainly when you get to your threshold what we've been used to I don't think it should be automatic where it has been for many years and that's how I've evolved and been institutionalised as a teacher but at the stage where it does get to threshold I don't want to tick box culture is a danger as well but where you can properly evidence some hard data some progress some professional development then there is a case that that might be needed because ultimately it's public funds we're working in a public service but I've put my difficult union hat on I've paid my mortgage and I've got a life that I need bills to pay and I'm getting berated and I've got to do this, this and this and I've got a 90% teaching time table XYZ I turn up to work, I do a good job every day and I deserve to be rewarded and then there's the other issue with being paid in line with other graduates and other careers I don't think we are but again it goes back to the credibility the accountability and a bit of data and XYZ and then perhaps we might be in a position of high inflation pay rise or whatever so I know there's been lots going on working conditions but I'm in a leadership salary now and I've never been so skinned in all my life if I think just back 10 years ago where there was a bit more money around in the schools I'm not saying money was thrown at me but it was certainly thrown at me as a head of department where I had the opportunity to spend and invest in staff and facilities on the kids and it was happier times and happier times professionally for spending and working conditions and I was busy and the usual squeeze on timetables and things like that but I was happier personally I'm happier today though but financially it's harder 2014 you tell me anyone who's better off today I think the answer is going to be no and maybe moving on from that it's really the very exciting and free market world that you're entering with selling your resources maybe you could talk a bit about that and explain how that's come about so the blogging read to an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing to get in touch and say I want to rebrand the book so it was a hundred ideas brand and I wasn't going to say now I thought great because writing a book was never a dream but writing was so blogging was keeping me very happy so this is just a nice validation that it was working or it was well received on the other end so I grabbed that and as I told you earlier my first book within a few months got it out for the start of the last academic year and haven't had lots of meetings I've seen statistics within a year it's already I can't remember the exact data it's in the top five of education books over the last number of years per sales and that's again a nice validation but I was happy to write a book without getting into too much detail and upsetting Bloomsbury they make a handsome penny so I've learnt contracts and things like that and I've had several companies come to me and ask me for books but again I'm a teacher I'm a senior teacher I've got a job to do, books impact on my home life so I've refused a few and I've just stuck with Bloomsbury with what I know for now and I've got two more contracts with the possibility to write my own series and there's opportunities to have a teacher talk at app and things on the iPad I'm not quite sure yet but that's all we've discussed so that's really exciting and then you get to a point where you know writer's block and what I'm going to talk about but again I'm just going to come back to them writing about what I'm doing in my passion if that helps other people then great so there's all that and the other side is all the resources so traditionally I've put things online and I've had fingers burn and as you get with the power of social media I'm getting to that stage where I have to protect myself to a degree with licences and ownership and having put things on the TVS and having them removed or my moral or intellectual property taken away from me I've started to self host and that's then led to all sorts of stories and me then having the option to sell my own resources to help the financial difficulties we've experienced in the last three or four years at home and also to pay the petrol and it's not the only solution I will always share my thoughts and tweet and support because that's the generic characteristic of a teacher to support colleagues to support kids to share and to exchange ideas freely but I'm getting to that stage I will always do that so don't get me wrong but I'm at a stage where there's some things that are really hot property and there is a penny to be made and when companies approach me to do X, Y and Z they're making a buck so why can't I so there's been lots of ad hoc negotiations and deals along the way and there's been lots of decisions made on doing that this is mine, I'm going to do that and then that's led to sell-fi for example where I want to sell a resource but the five minute lesson plan has been quite a journey because a lot of people it's going to go digital next term so people will be able to a small little iPad program where they can tweak the headings and make it content for themselves and then it will save as a PDF making print it as evidence for a performance-related pay whatever whatever whatever so there's that option but then at a deeper level if they really get into that or it gets to a site-licence level for a school that a pay option then comes in so that's great for the company but at what point will I make a penny to pay for my petrol one month and not struggle financially because teacher conditions and the pinch on pensions puts me in a predicament I think you are at the forefront of something a lot of teachers are going to face in coming years that you've got many teachers with amazing ideas but at the moment effectively a given way for free on the TES side now absolutely and maybe, I don't know any thoughts on that really I mean not everyone will be able to do it everyone's got different circumstances people don't have time but I do make time to think about ideas and where to put them but with the world wide web as it is today teachers can do it for themselves and I guess teacher talk is a real great story of doing it for yourself and then opening so many doors when I've actually lost count of all the opportunities next week I'm going to the education reform summit and Michael Gove, Tristan Hunt Boris Johnson to be there at St James's Palace I'm just a normal guy who's doing something that I love and there will be thousands and thousands of teachers who have that same attitude that they love what they do they can do it for themselves you know your cynic might say you need a bit of ICT skill you need to have something to share there's all that Is there a room, I don't know Is there a room for more of a teacher co-operative thing perhaps the unions and other organisations haven't really no there's not been much thought the unions could do much more I've engaged through SLT chat with the DFE Ofsted and Ofcol through a Twitter channel where they are taking part and my blog has not significantly done anything but has I've seen Isted documents and proofread them and contributed before they went to print for the rest of the teacher profession and that's a result of blogging or Twitter channels and there's been a few others that have had that and now we see the DFE and whoever else having round table discussions with you know it might appear to be quite ad hoc and I still get frustrated that there's never many teachers involved in the process and there might be a reason for that one either they're not on Twitter and a lot of teachers aren't and there's a lot of teachers that do do not blog, that's a real minority and then there's teachers that actually don't care they just want to come teach, go home, be with family that's fine or there's teachers that might not be experienced enough and not know what to say rewind ten years I wouldn't know what to say and challenge policy but I'm in an experienced position now where I can which is maybe why I'm invited to a round table so teachers can do it for themselves union leaders are far behind they're not quite engaged with you know I've had a few party you know politics engage with me and ask me to write blogs and X, Y and Z but in terms of Twitter and a regular you know let's see the unions engage with grass root teachers they say they might survey their members and things like that but it's always not necessarily for grass root CPD it's more you hear all the other side of the working conditions which is important and the strike decisions which is important but not about teachers doing it for themselves taking stranglehold of their development and how their union can support them that's just one story but teachers can definitely do it do it for themselves we don't need huge companies having a stranglehold on the whole market those times are changed and I think lots of companies are starting to some are starting to realise that and they're starting to have to change the terms of conditions or their resources or their facilities and it's spoken to a lot of people who do contact me regularly to say can we do this or can you do this for me and look at the value of it for me as a teacher or the value of me kind of investing my time or the financial reward even and it's a real it's a real kind of tipping point I think and I think we will it will be one of those things that will naturally evolve through the online social media I think because it potentially could be very emancipatory in terms of the hole in the wall thing in India and the globalisation that your resources are available to someone the farthest reaches of earth just as long as they've got internet connection 5 minute plan as last count was 141 countries around the world it's been downloaded and used my blog is about 170 countries it's been read so anyone can do it and it is a freedom call for all teachers because if I suddenly found something inappropriate or some case study stories put it on my blog it spreads, it goes viral and then all of a sudden an off-stead or whoever have to think hang on a minute and those stories have happened and the more people that do it the more teachers can change policy and I think that's key so I kind of finished that answer on that really and finally just you know obvious question where next well I've got a new job as a deputy head I'm really excited about great body of staff great kids brilliant head teacher who I've known in another school so he's going to do some great stuff brand new building and as a design technology teacher I went on a tour around the other day and I was trying my hardest to keep calm environment is a significant factor and kids you know you can learn anywhere but an environment will make you really want to be at work as a teacher and I'll certainly want to make the kids stay in school for longer periods of time to do homework and learn to the best that they can so that's really exciting and I guess that's going to be you know x number of years doing that and who knows who knows what will happen head teacher is on the radar the words of Steven Drew who's on Twitter on TV now through education ethics he said you've got to be 100% ready you've got to have no doubt in your head and I don't have doubts I just know I'm not ready which is I suppose one doubt but that is the only doubt I do think I'll do a good job I do think I'll do passionately and love leading staff and love leading kids in the community but I'm not ready to do that yet I've got lots to learn still and with the writing the blogs that they're great and they're a huge distraction and then I'm getting lots of requests to speak at events so I've been invited to McGill University of all places in Montreal next February to talk about my book and leave an insert and again that's great it's kind of affirming but it's a huge workload you get a nice bit of cash but then you have to tell the tax man and then after all the calculations you kind of think is it worth it there's that discussion as well but it's great to get out and talk to people and share your ideas and if you can pay your petrol once a month then that's great but that's a huge extra bit of work as well so you've never contemplated just giving up teaching or going part-time three years ago I was made redundant before I started my current job so I took volunteer redundancy knowing I was going to become a father and then unbeknownst to me my boy was born three months early so I had garden leave which was handy really quickly and I had six months out and I won the Guardian Teacher Award I had a good 10 years ago now and I used that as a means to get into the garden and say look I won this award everyone else seemed to feel beat great stuff so I showed them some travel articles I've written and showed them to my son's blog that was inspiring that control and I got my first article I think it was about redundancy actually coping with redundancy was cool and it was written on the first week of September of me reflecting I'm not in school for the first time ever in 20 years and that's how that started so writing was a great part of it and at that point three years ago when I was made redundant I contemplated becoming a consultant or stepping back from teaching full time full time and I don't know what I do know what stopped me I wanted to be in the classroom I wanted to be in a school I loved the structure I loved the day-to-day interaction with the kids and the staff and all the ideas and still I'm in a nice position now I'm kind of the best of both I get events I can blog and share to the world and I can be in a school in a safe environment nine to five job nine to nine job but with a nice group of staff and great kids and do what I love and I suppose that's Do you find the kids how do the kids and staff react to your celebrity status but I've never seen myself as a celebrity but I have been in situations where I've seen people kind of double looking at the corner and saying I can see by the reactions they're thinking that of me and I always feel a bit awkward about it and I just want to come and say hello and I'll say look it's rough some teacher talk it you can do it too and I've been at conferences I've been at CPD events people saying on Twitter thanks for replying or emailing me saying I know you're busy but strangely when I went to my new school that was the first real time I've been in my own school environment where there was that bit of reaction and it was a bit embarrassing but I'm just rough I'm just doing my thing and I just want to share I found ad hoc in my current school staff read articles and I think they know that but we're quite just that earth here we just get on with it and you know you remember a staff someone might discover something online and it's mine and they'll say I saw that and that's cool but then there's the other side where so that's a bit weird but two or three years down the line if that's happening God help me in ten years time it's going to be crazy and there'll be a lot more people as well because there's definitely a Twitterati and then there's definitely a I do a negative side is I do see a Premier League evolving and a championship on social media and that could get quite dangerous but I think if we all you know all the other Twitterati that comes to your head as well if we all keep humble and remember it's grassroots and we're there to share and we're blogging and expressing our opinion and we might have a you know I started off with a hundred reads a day very humble and I carried on regardless because there wasn't one person and I got a bit of feedback and that was it and it's just gone it's just gone crazy and that's a nice validation but it's not the reason why I do it I'm just I'm just doing a bit of therapy really I'm writing and I'm sharing some ideas and now I'm in a stage where I can get instant feedback and that's what it is because I can improve my classroom practice improve my leadership and it benefits the school and it benefits people elsewhere and I think that's what's brilliant about it and why should everyone should do it and you shouldn't give up


What are you going to upload to Q&A? Q&A! Oh my god. Can you upload daily? Okay, first off I want to say a big thank you to everyone who asked questions for this video. If it wasn't for you guys, this video wouldn't be made. So let's just get straight into it. Why are you called Jelly Jess? Well, if you guys didn't know, my name is Jess. No surprise there, really. And Jelly was one of my nicknames when I was like 10 years old during school. To be fair, everyone kind of had weird nicknames back then because we thought we were cool. Shout out to Bubble Muffin. You know who you are. And I would always have Jelly as my username for things. I'm not kidding, it used to be my Moshi Monsters account. So I figured why don't I just go back to my roots? And that's why I'm Jelly Jess. Okay, side note before we get into the next question. People have been confused with the Jelly in my intro. I believe in America this is actually called Jello, not Jelly. And this is actually called Jelly, not Jam. I'm not sure if it's the same or different in other countries, but in Australia we call this Jelly. And this, Jess. Do you have merch yet? At the moment, no, I don't have an online store, but someday hopefully I'll get to open something like that. I'd also love to make some of these hoodies someday and even some tie-dye shirts, so stay tuned if you're interested. But if you guys are interested in supporting this channel, I have just created a new... I've kept it really simple over there so it's not overwhelming, but if you guys don't know what Patreon is, here's a basic explanation. You know if you go into a restaurant and if the service is really good, you give them a tip? Patreon is basically a tip jar for online creators. Instead of just getting tips and getting nothing with it, you will get rewards for your support. My Patreon in particular has four tiers. Strawberry Jelly, Raspberry Jelly, Blueberry Jelly, and Rainbow Jelly. Some smaller rewards consist of having access to the... Some smaller rewards consist of having access to the Patreon feed and also having your name at the end of all my videos. So an example of one of the medium-sized rewards is having early access to my videos before they come out on YouTube. And that means you'll be the first to see my animations. And the larger rewards include custom artwork and custom voice lines from me. The link is on the screen and will be in the description box below, so if you guys want to check it out, let me know what you think. Do you have any pets? Well, no. Not yet. I have had some pets in the past, which might be a future video. I am a huge animal lover, so I would definitely love to get a dog someday in the future. Do you like jelly? I didn't expect that this many people would ask this question, but anyway, here's my answer. I like it, but I don't love it to the extent of having it like every day. It's not my favorite food in the world, but it's pretty great. Do you have any phobias or fears? Okay, so I'm fine with spiders, but if there's just a random snake on the ground, just nope. Uh-oh, no, no, no, no. No way I'm gonna deal with that. I used to actually have so many nightmares over the years of snakes in my backyard, but the fear has gotten a bit better, I guess. Like, I'm not scared to look at them through a glass like at a pet shop or something, but if they were just out there in the wild, I'd be running for my life. So would most people, I'm assuming.  Next question. What has inspired you to do YouTube? I've been watching heaps of story time animation channels for the longest time here on YouTube, and I've always just had the thought of, hey, maybe I could do that someday. Some people who have definitely inspired me are the odd ones out, Jaden Animations, the Mursing, something else YT, etc. Just literally the whole animation community, I just love what they do, and I do like to tell stories myself, so I figured why not give this a go. Will you ever do a face reveal? Well, I don't plan to anytime soon, but you never know what the future might hold. Why does your character have her hands in her sleeves? I added that to my character because really, I do this in real life. During colder weather, I absolutely love wearing hoodies, and I tend to keep my hands in my sleeves if it's too cold. What would your channel be if it wasn't called Jelly Jess? Um, this is really weird, but I was gonna maybe call it Jusica? Sounds gross! The reason behind that was because there was a phase in my life where I really liked drinking juice, and Jusica sounds like Jessica, so, yeah. I didn't go with that because I mainly go by Jess, anyway. Yeah, I was very stuck for names. What programs do you use? I use the combination of Adobe Flash for the talking bits, Paint Tool Psy, and Adobe After Effects for the cutscenes, visuals, and slash animating. And then I took everything into Sony Vegas Pro to edit everything together. Some people have asked me how I do the bouncy effects on the cutscenes, and I just do that on Adobe After Effects with the puppet tool. What was your dream job as a kid? Okay, so a part of me wanted to be a singer, but that dream kinda died and went down the drain as I couldn't sing at all, and I didn't even try, so... Yeah, nothing went towards that one. Other than that, I wanted to be a vet because you get to hang out with cute cuddly animals. Well, I soon found out that wasn't the case all the time, and I kinda was lost with what I wanted to be when I was older. How long does it take for you to make a video? It depends on what the video is and how long it actually goes for, but normally the amount of time between uploads is how long it takes for the next videos to be made. I upload them as soon as they are done. What is your favorite TV show? I-COLLY! I KNOW! YOUTUBE! Okay, I'm kidding with that one. It's pretty hard just to pick one TV show, but I really love The Umbrella Academy, and I was a big fan of it when it first came out. I also love shows like Bob's Burgers, Stranger Things, Futurama, Avatar The Last Airbender, and just other things like that. Are you made out of jelly? How did you know? What were your favorite cartoon TV shows growing up? SpongeBob would definitely be one of my favorites, and I used to also watch a heap of Looney Tunes. I also watched a bunch of Futurama, and I did watch a bit of Rugrats. Oh yeah, not the ones all grown up though. Do you like anime? Yes, I do. I'm currently watching One Piece at the moment, and it's pretty good. How did you develop your art style to what it is now? Since you just started your channel with a pretty clean art style, where could we find your previous drawings that led you up to here? I don't really have anything online anymore, but there are some examples I have on my laptop and other pics that I've drawn on paper. As you can see, there's a little bit of improvement. My first actual design that I was going to use for this channel, I ended up scrapping it as I thought it looked strange. Just look at it, there's a random flower going out of my head. So some things got fixed and this design was made, and I think I like it a lot more. What is your upload schedule? I still don't have one yet, it's just really when I can get videos done and post them for you guys. If your favorite color is green, then why is there only a little bit of green on you and a lot of purple? I just personally think they look better, and I don't know how I'd feel if the colors were reversed on my character. And I mean on the other design I had a green jumper and personally I just didn't think it looked that good. Have you ever had any horrible food or service from a restaurant? Or has there been something gross in your food? Yes, there has been a few. The most recent occurrence was probably when there was a large piece of egg shell in my fried rice once. It was not excellent. Okay, I'll leave. What is your favorite animated movie? Okay, so this is another really hard question. Treasure Planet will always be my top favorite as I grew up watching it and it's just so good. Bambi would also be my favorites as well. But then there's the more recent Disney movies like Moana and Bikero 6, those are just... MWAH! There are also Studio Ghibli movies that are great too and my favorites would be My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Arietti and Ponyo. So the answer to this question is that I honestly have too many good choices to pick from and I just recommend all of these. What is your favorite food? Probably a meat pie. I know. Basic. Do you play an instrument? No, I don't. What equipment do you use? I'm currently using a Huion display tablet and a blue Yeti to record my voice. What's the first thing you notice about a person? I don't know if anyone else does this but other than someone's face, I notice the shoes they are wearing. Or you know, sometimes there's no shoes and you know what, I'm not judging.  Hmm, since you said that, it's definitely tempting.  What is your favorite video game? My all-time favorite video game would absolutely be Crash Bandicoot. I mainly played the PlayStation 1 games but some of the slightly newer ones were really good too. I also really loved the remastered versions and before you say anything, yes, I am super keen for the remastered Crash Team Racing game. Let's be real, I'm going to be playing that like 24x7. What is something that you did as a kid and feel guilty about now? So when I was extremely little, I remember coloring in my coloring books with my crayons.  So I got under the table with my crayons and began to draw. So this is it. It's a masterpiece. It's been here for over 10 years. So let me explain what this is really meant to be. This is meant to be a mini-portrait of my mum. Just look at all those realistic details. But you see this next to it? That was me trying to spell mum and then I wrote lol. This was definitely in a time where I didn't know how to spell anything. There were also some green crayon marks in between the tiles as well. Those are still here to this day too. I'm sorry mum, please forgive me. Who were some of your favourite YouTube animators? Like I said before, there's a bunch of animators that are really cool and I watch all their videos. So there's the odd ones out. Jaden Animations, the Marzing, Cypher Den, Tim Tom, something else YT, Sugar, Illimation, Tabs, etc. Have you ever swallowed gum before? And if you have, tell me the story. Quick story time y'all. Okay, well yes I have. And I do have an unusual story to it. One day I was chewing gum at school, no big deal right, and then it came to lunchtime.  And the first few chews I realised I still had my gum in my mouth but I couldn't just take it out in front of everyone because that would have been gross. If I did, this random piece of bread would be covered in cream gum bits. Yeah, no thanks. Anyway, I just sat there and continued to eat and suffer. Gulp. The end. What is your favourite sport? It's safe to say it's not swimming. Lol, you know me too well. But my favourite sport would probably be soccer as I grew up playing it. Quick side note, I wasn't very good at it but I had fun and that's all that really matters. What is that thing on your leg? That thing on my leg is an anklet and in real life I wear that every single day and don't take them off. I switch them every single year. Okay, now for the fire round. Do you play video games? Yes, I love to play them in my free time. Have you ever had heat stroke? I think I've been close to it maybe when I was a lot younger but damn, Australia weather's like... Australian weather likes to challenge us. That is what I'm trying to say. Where are you from? Australia. Favourite colour? Green and purple. Favourite animal? Dogs for sure. Specifically two hours in Labrador's but Tasmanian devils are pretty cute too. Except they're noises. How old are you? 15. When is your birthday? The 25th of October. Bracket. Literally, someone just sent me a bracket. Why is your outfit an eggplant? Oh my god, it actually kind of looks like an eggplant. Have you ever thought of murder and thought of the whole plan but didn't go through with it? Dot dot dot. I have. Ewww. Have you ever been to Disney World? I went to Disneyland for the first time in Paris a little over a year ago. It was amazing. What was the best day of your life? Probably Disneyland. Okay, so that's all the questions I'm going to be answering today. Thank you guys so much for commenting your questions. But before I leave, I'm going to leave you guys with a question. My question to you is what should you guys be called? A few examples that I have thought of are the jelly cups, jellos, gels and wobbly boys. And if you guys have any other suggestions leave them in the comments below. That's it for this Q&A. Hey guys, thanks so much for watching. Just a quick reminder, if you are interested in the Patreon, there's a link right now and there is one in the description as well.


But I would like to introduce Felix, who went from a high school and college dropout to working as a web developer at several Bay Area startups. And then at Fostom 2019, he was presenting some of his open source work related to quantum computing, which led to his current gig as a quantum software engineer at IONQ, which is a trapped ION based quantum computing startup in Washington. And the quantum open source projects he's working on include QBuck, which is a debugger for quantum programs, and Quill Jason J.S. And today he's going to talk about quantum computing hardware and control systems. So please welcome Felix. Hey, what's up? So I work at a quantum hardware startup. We don't have anything open source, but I've worked enough on hardware that I can tell you feasibly how to put together an open source quantum computer using purely open source components and software. So this is a survey of what there is out there in the field and what it takes to put them together to have your own quantum computer. In my talk, I'm going to go over what goes into a quantum computer. We're going to be talking specifically about trapped ION. And we're going to actually go through and get all the parts we need to build it. And I'm going to have links to the relevant Github's. And then I'm going to talk about the state of the open source quantum computer, like what do we have, what needs improvement, what is the vision for the open source quantum computer, et cetera. So what goes into a quantum computer? In general, what are we going to need to do to build this thing? I'm talking about trapped ION. There are various varieties of quantum computing hardware. Trapped ION is what I know best. It's what my company makes. And I also think it's the best candidate for your own open source quantum computer, just because trapped ION, you can use a lot of off the shelf parts. And there's lots of reasons for that. It's a little slower, so you need less hardware and software can control more of it. And it's not, you don't have to build a sophisticated circuit like you would in other models of quantum computing. So it's relatively accessible to us as we're trying to build the quantum computer in our garage with only open source parts. The phases of running a quantum program in a trapped ION quantum computer, this is like all the tasks we're going to need to do. First we have a bunch of atoms and they need to be loaded. So we have our atoms, they're going to act as kind of like the memory of a quantum computer. They get put into an electric field and they kind of hover. And that's to, so they're not touching anything, they're isolated, we know exactly where they are. And they go through state preparation, so they're ready to be used as qubits, which I'm not going to go into too much. I think some of the quantum information concepts will be covered by other speakers in this track, but basically we need to get them ready. Then we go through a coherent phase where we're actually running the quantum program. And so for us we're kind of sketching into the atoms using lasers, the program. So we have lasers, but they're getting modulated, they're changing over time. So it's not as simple as just shooting lasers at an ION, they need to, the laser pulses actually change, kind of like a synthesizer. Then we go through detection where we see the result of our computation. So for us detection is which IONs emit photons and which don't. This is generally kind of what it looks like to be in a trap, to be an ION that's suspended. You have a rotating electric potential and you're kind of suspended. So this gives us kind of a clue about the complexity of this electric field that we're going to need to produce. It's always rotating, it needs to be very specifically orientated towards our IONs. So a lot of hardware, a lot of software goes into crafting the electric field. This is Felix's crash course to atomic physics. Hoping to do my physicists proud, but probably not going to. Basically what we're looking at is different states of an ION here. The black bars are kind of, like I was talking about, we want them to produce a photon or not. We have the various parts of the atomic manifold. Those are the black bars we see over there, the P's and the S's, etc. And basically if you're in a P, you're going to glow. You're in a glowy state, you're in an S, you're in a dark state, you're not going to produce an atom. And the arrows between them are lasers. So we use lasers to take in between the various states. And the number near those bars are the frequency of the laser. So the takeaway here is that in order to actually change the state of the atoms, our computer, we need a lot of different lasers. And there are also, the atom is still kind of a complicated place. There's lots of states that we don't care about, and they're dangerous to the functioning of our computer. So we need to control it very precisely. That's kind of the takeaway of the slide. So why do we want to build an open source quantum computer? That's our final slide, after I've gone through how one might go about doing it. I think my motivation is to empower the self-lander or kind of like the undergraduate getting into quantum computer. Quantum computing famously, the hardware is like very restricted and non-socialized. And I think if we had an open source quantum computer or something you could easily build and people were regularly interacting with small quantum computers, it would be a lot to unlock the intellectual capital of the field. So I think it's worthwhile thinking about it at least. Okay, so now we're actually going to build it with stuff we find just on GitHub and an open source generally. For the loading, we're going to need to do several different things. We're going to need to do something that can shape an electric field. We're going to need software that can model and solve for electric fields. There's a lot that's going on. So first thing we have to do is we're storing the atom somewhere and we have an oven, which is going to ionize and release them. So for an oven you can actually use QITI's oven controller. This is freely open source hardware. It has code, it has schematics, it actually has data sheets and documentation. It's a very thorough oven controller freely available to us. For loading software, this is what's actually going to control releasing the atoms and putting them into the electric field. We can use the Sandia's quantum operating system, Ion Control has a autoload plugin that hooks into several off-the-shelf components and could actually work with our oven controller. And Sandia's Ion Control has a lot of documentation, has a lot of support, is very thorough code-based. So this does, again, pretty much everything we need in terms of that. This is a picture of the actual trap. There's a vacuum chamber and the thing in the middle is a trap chip. So the trap chip is probably the least open source part of this because it's a very customized chip and there's no open source hardware for it. And this is what's responsible when combined with other electronic components for creating the electric field that suspends our atoms. So at this point, we've loaded our atoms in. They're ionized and they're in the trap. For the trap chip, this is what we have available in terms of open source. There's no schematics and models for a specific trap chip that you can run out there, but there's software to make them from Berkeley's Trap Diamond Group. The GenTrap and the Trap Design Testing Station is the bare minimum you need to kind of figure out how to model and make your trap chip. Trap chip is still kind of a custom in bespoke, so you can't just go out to a commodity electronic store and make your own trap, but as good as it's going to get for open source trap chip making, except if a good Samaritan wants to flesh out the trap chip software scene. I went through these repos and they could definitely use a little more documentation. As I said before, some pre-made schematics and trap models would be good, but it's possible. We could maybe make our own open source trap chip. For generating trap fields, we have to have software that actually controls the chip and remember that we need to like, there's some very complicated physics going on and it's very dependent on the atom we're using, how many atoms we want to load. I found through Berkeley's Trap Diamond Group QSIM and another trap simulator through Electrode, and so this is the software that actually gives us the data we load our trap chip with to create the exact electric field we need. In combination with kind of the software that actually will create a waveform, we need hardware to actually, that can change electric potential very quickly. So that's called the Trap Deck. And from MLabs, there's the Zotino. There's a like 32 channel electronic trap chip and a faster one called Fastino, that's pretty funny. So yeah, this is, again, this is more thoroughly documented than some of the other open source quantum computer parts we've seen and it's complete. So we have drivers, we have hardware, and we have physics software for doing everything we need here. And this is camera footage of a loaded trap chain. This is what it looks like. They're all suspended. They're all close together. There's even spacing. We call this a crystal because the chain of ions moves as one unit. And so what we used to record that chain is actually a camera. A camera is a big part of the trap-iron quantum computer experience. You need to be able to see your ions to see if they've loaded. You can use cameras to see if ions are glowing for detection. And there's no open source hardware for cameras, but there is a driver for an off-the-shelf camera component from Oxford. So, so far, we're missing open source camera and we don't have everything we need from the trap-chip, but we've covered loading. For our actual lasers, this is the part of the quantum computer that actually writes our program into our trap. What we need is to create really customized laser pulses, a synthesizer, as I've alluded to before. You need DDS, which is an electronic component that can actually output an analog signal. And if you have enough DDS, you can just make some together and more or less do everything you need to for a simple trap-iron computer. There's another electronic component called the AWG, arbitrary waveform generator. They can create literally any kind of waveform. So you need this for more sophisticated gates for, like, create entanglement between ions, but it's not super necessary for just a garage setup or something that students are going to use. And then you have laser diodes. The laser diodes are at the very end, they actually output the laser, and they get connected to all the other electronics we've been talking about that are just responsible for creating some signal, like a synthesized sound signal, basically. And the diodes are at the end of this. They aren't open source, but they're just a mechanical component. So who cares? DDS. So four open source DDSs. Again, Berkeley Strap-Ion Lab, which is very prolific contributors to our open source trap-iron computer so far. We have a driver and the actual schematics and everything we need for DDS. This is also, like, everything Berkeley does well documented. And conceivably, it looks like it could work, because I'm not a guaranteed here. I have not gone through and tried everything from Berkeley, but it looks legit. It's my assessment. With AWG, like with the camera, there is no open source AWG hardware out there. I went through and looked at MLabs, which is a group that has a lot of open source hardware, and they have one called Sinara, which might be open source, but it did not have anything in the repo when I looked at it, just documentation. From Sandia's iron control, we have a driver for off-the-shelf AWGs, the ones that you could just buy at a store. You have software that controls them. So we're covered in that sense, at least. You could, in your garage, iron computer, buy one at a store, and then you have the software you need to control it. So the status at the end of this is that we have no open source hardware for AWG, but we can do it. It's still possible. So far, we've run into a few minor speed bumps, but we're well on our way to having everything we need to run this computer. So we have the capability to produce any kind of pulse we want, but I'm, for instance, a high school dropout, and I failed calculus. So how are we going to create the pulses we need to actually run quantum gates? We need pulse solver software. We need physicists to say, what do you want to do? What pulse do you need to generate? And then we can just put it in our AWG easy. There's no package for doing that, though. It's very dependent on your ion and your atom that you're using. So there's nothing out there in the open source space that can do what we want. We have a package that does some atomic physics from Oxford, but nothing that will actually create an AWG pulse. So it's also a big deficiency of open source software in this space, too, is that we have nothing that can actually create quantum gates for our trapped ions. Lastly, you need optics. You need to route the beams so they're actually pointing at the trap in the ions. For here, most of it is just mechanical.  So there's no software or hardware involved or anything that we would need from open source space. But some setups need motorized mounts, is the thing. You need to change the drain. Sorry, my bike fell off. One second. And so technically it's not necessary, but it's nice that we do have software for this as well. And the last thing you need is servos. And this is just to correct errors in the laser in terms of direction, in terms of laser intensity, et cetera. So for servo space, we have the NIST servo, which is an extremely full-featured servo from NIST. That's basically all you want. It has all these different control methods. So it can correct a lot of different error types. It has a UI. The NIST servo tells you everything you need to know about servos. It does everything you would want from a servo. Unfortunately, the hardware is flawed. So for people from more of a hardware and electronics background, you would need to... You probably need to go in and rewrite some of this hardware code in order to get it at the level of quality which you need to run a quantum computer. And the last thing is from Mlabs. You have a much more simple servo that doesn't have some of the features that the NIST servo does in terms of UI, things that you need like measuring transfer functions, et cetera, like very engineering-specific things. So this is someplace actually that more software investment would be fruitful, I think. So our status is that the NIST servo needs some more hardware and the Senara sampler needs some more software investment. But we have everything we need to actually run a laser setup on our trap-down computer. The last section is just control. So we have... We can put ions in a trap. We can shoot lasers at them. The lasers can do what we want. We don't have the physics for the lasers, but everything else, yeah. So in order to put the salt together, we just need control software. So this is what a real quantum computing operating system looks like. You have a bunch of devices over on the right.  You have tools for running quantum programs. So you see a little bit of code on the left. It's actually a code for an experiment on the quantum computer. That code needs to have access to the devices. So that's where the operating system comes in. It exposes the entire quantum computer to that code. In the middle, you can kind of see the execution of an experiment. So this is real data from an experiment. Those are logs from the experiment, et cetera. This is kind of your execution environment that goes through and using Python or JavaScript, stitches together all the devices we were talking about in order to do what we need. A quantum experiment needs to run very quickly, and you need to run a lot of them. So when we're talking very quickly, we're talking on the scale of nanoseconds. So generally what you'll do is you say what you want to do, you say how many times you want to do it, and then it runs on electronics. So it's not JavaScript or Python code running live during your experiment. You have a little CPU controlling all the electronics. It has its own program type. You send it off, you let it do 100 experiments, but it's all running in loop and very quick electronics. So for quantum operating systems, there are actually two open-source quantum operating systems, and they all integrate with the devices we've been talking about previously. So from Sandia, IonControl, which I've been talking about, integrates off-the-shelf components. In the actual code from Sandia, they tell you exactly which devices they integrate with, so you could just buy them and you could run Sandia's IonControl to control your quantum computer, like tomorrow, maybe. And Arctic is kind of the same thing. They run on M-Labs's open-source hardware, and they're very tightly coupled. So these control systems require specific hardware components. So you're ever buying them off the shelf where you're using M-Labs open-source hardware, but you don't get a lot of variety in hardware. You can't mix and match the operating system with the hardware. So the status of these code bases is that they have a UI, a documentation, they have supporting devices, they have relatively easy setup, but they're very tightly integrated. So we don't necessarily have the operating system we need for our particular open-source quantum computer that has its own trap, has parts from Berkeley, et cetera. I talked about kind of the needs of running an actual quantum program where we figure out everything ahead of time and we run it on a specific chip. Quantum programs need to be trolled at very high speeds, like custom CPU. Those you can also find open-source examples of. So the ones that M-Labs and Sandia use to run their experiments on the quantum operating system are open-source. Those are the links over there. It's kind of the quality of those offerings, those parity of their respective operating systems. So in terms of documentation, in terms of discoverability, it's a package deal of the operating systems of which they're associated with. And then finally, this is the last slide for hardware and this is just for me to complain about FPGA and circuit tool chains, which are quantum-adjacent but ruin my life. Most of the open-source hardware we use are the same as the Vavada or Altium. So if you wanted to use the code for the open-source hardware to actually make these things, you would have to have some really expensive licenses, like $6,000. So it's not really that open-source. In order to really have a dream of a student creating their own quantum computer end-to-end, you would need an open-source FPGA tool chain and probably a Schematics viewer alternative, that's open-source. The thing is, it seems basically impossible from when I googled this to make your own open-source FPGA tool chain. It's a subject of active university research. So someone's PhD thesis is doing this. So that looks pretty bleak. Won't lie. And finally, I'm going to go through and talk about the state of open-source quantum computing. Wrapping up everything we've talked about. What's wrong? Where could an open-source contributor make a difference? Where could you improve the open-source quantum computer? Et cetera. So first, we went through and talked about the oven, which is responsible for releasing atoms into the trap. And this is, we have what we need in terms of, like, a specific ion species. For our actual trap, as we said, it would be nice to have pre-modeled chips so we could just print out schematics for a specific chip and be ready to go. All we need is two ions for a student. For camera, we need open-source camera hardware. Cameras are very expensive, and I would say the quality of camera drivers is very minimalist. So it gives you the bare necessities of what you need to actually look at ions, but nothing more than that. For DDS, this is fully open-source and looks very high quality. For the AWG, we have no open-source AWG. Mostly we can do what we need with DDS, so this isn't that bad, but it would be nice to get this full entangling gates. For pulses, I'd say probably the state of physics of software open-source for a trapped ion is a little bleak.  For the operating system, all of the new physics software or quantum hardware that we use would need to integrate with the operating system, so the ones we talked about would need to be extended, or a new one would need to be written. And for experiment CPUs, same thing. Experiment CPUs are tightly, very tightly connected with hardware. They communicate directly with DDSs, things like that, with electronic components. And then for hardware tool chains, these are fully closed-source and very expensive, which makes it hard for our student persona we've been talking about. So the room for improvement I see. We've talked about what's missing. For running a quantum operating system, you're talking with sometimes like 50 or 100 devices. And so you would need a really large computer if a lot of USB hubs to run at your quantum computer. I think if you really want to emancipate the student quantum computer maker, you would have a way to run an operating system off a system head or like distribute the management of devices, so device servers. We need integrated trap ship design, waveform modeling, and DAC hardware. So you need an end-to-end thing that can create your electric field and physics and can run it on hardware. We need integrated trap modeling, pulse over and AWG. You need kind of like the Ableton Live of laser pulses. Something that can go through, produce laser shapes and actually program an AWG with them. Camera drivers are still very minimalist. We can look at ions, but we want to do things like automatically detect when they leave, when they enter, things like that. So this is for the computer vision researchers in the audience. Your time to shine. We have open-source servers, which either lack features or have hardware deficiencies. So we need to choose between one or the other. And it's not that great. That is my presentation about building our own open-source quantum computer. My Twitter handle and the last link at the bottom, IQ jobs. We are hiring for software engineers, electrical engineers, people of all shapes and sizes, physicists even. So if you like what you saw, drop us a line. And thank you. Felix, signal. Oh, sorry. One, you mentioned about FPGAs that they are really like not very open and like a lot of licensing and FPGA has been around since the 90s. And I come from an electrical engineering background and for years nothing really has been changed. And also last year there was some talks of people trying to like making open-source. Don't you think similar things will happen with quantum computing? And if not, why? Sorry, the question was... Comparing with FPGAs. Open-source FPGAs will change. Sorry, a lot of people are getting up. Yeah, comparing it. Like the field of FPGAs wouldn't really become open-source largely. Like some attempts. So why do you think quantum will be different? Well, we have almost everything we need to actually create an open-source quantum computer. It's very close to do it end-to-end. Why do I think it would happen with a quantum computer? I don't know that it would. Whether or not something becomes fully open-source is kind of a sociological problem. I think there's value in it that it's very close to becoming fully real. It's hard to say whether it's captivating enough to actually happen organically, but it could plausibly happen. It's kind of my takeaway. Any other questions? No? Okay. Thanks for having me.


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Hey everybody what's up it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation and today we are going to look at the number one women's discus throw in the world and what are three things that she does so well and makes her so dominant. So let's check it out. Okay guys so in today's video we are going to go through, we're going to kind of switch the pendulum a little bit and we're going to break down a more advanced technical throw and we're going to look at Valerie Ellman. Valerie Ellman is on fire, she's the Olympic gold medalist, she broke the American record the second of the year, what was that, 234, 571, 46, huge throw. She just did her first meet overseas and she just crushed it, claimed another W, a good performance and again we want to look at what are three things that I think she does super well. Now before we get into the video I do always try to make this disclaimer, one this is just my view and opinion, these are the things I look at. When I look at somebody who throws 234 feet I typically do not tend to see all the things that I think that they could do better, I tend to look at say what makes this so good and why is it 234 feet. Now this particular video is just a mirrored 220 something feet, so still a very, very good performance. So what makes her so dominant, what's making Val be in that position where she's just constantly crushing good throws. Now number one before we again totally dive in and again I will say that I'm always not trying to critique but bring more awareness to the sport in general and to these fantastic athletes and her coach Zebsian who's obviously done an amazing job, these two are like the dynamic duo and of course they have no affiliation with us, periodically people will ask or they use you know some you know people say that stuff. We do these opinion pieces and videos on all the throwers around the world and so clearly we aren't involved with all this because if you were you would hear about it all the time. So at any rate congrats to Val and her coach Zebs, their system is pretty awesome so from an outsider's perspective here's some of the things that I think are really awesome and one you know when we talk about our program and we just can't help but talking about throwing in terms of our six pillars right, again the six pillars are real simple we are looking at how do we break down the throw and teach the throw and then identify what every athlete needs so we just naturally look at the throw in this rate. Her setup is key and it's very consistent that's one of the huge things for any thrower and you look at elite level so she's in that status right she's in this just weekend week out year in year out she's just smashing huge throws and one of the things is she has a very nice consistent setup so when we see her set up here look at how long she creates this great stretch and you kind of see how everything is real centered this is something that we've talked about in our system for a long time and it's something that we teach beginning throwers and again as you get more advanced you know a thrower is going to be able to have and kind of add their own style and bigger range of motion but because they understand the mechanical positions so the first thing that I would say that she does so well is this setup if you look at the start again her pillar one she's going to be super consistent you're going to see that this throw and the throw before and the throw you know all of her meets this year the meets at the Olympics everything's consistent in that super critical so that you can get that super awesome rhythm now number two is we talk about here the position getting left is kind of the universal thing and throwing and that's our pillar to setting up maximum power how do we move around that axis and the thing that what you see with Val again is she really opens and here's the key she's using that left arm but you notice the chest doesn't open she's got the classic drag you know she's gonna get that sweep leg up and down wide and around really fast right and so you see how that left arm comes to a stop I think when we did the breakdown when she first went over 70 meters a couple years ago we talked about that and you can really see that she does this amazing job of decelerating the upper body and allowing the lower body to move the upper body this is something we teach at our camps this is something we teach inside of our system and it's a really tricky thing to feel how you kind of delay the upper body clearly they do this what it appears from my perspective right looking at it they go really big she's gonna go this real nice long she winds long she creates this little thing and now she can create this kind of like you know again inside our system we call it a cast we're gonna get that arm kind of cast it out long and then you see it stop and you see how that upper body so from her right shoulder to the elbow just kind of stays all together you see that disk is continuing to rise up to the high point and she just gets such a phenomenal high point so this would be the number two thing now there's so many good things and again we look at the throw it happens super fast right it vows level she's from the time that discuses back you know to the time she releases about 1.3 seconds so the whole thing's happening less than two seconds so the six pillars are helping you identify how to create positions so what are the three things that we like I said think she does so incredibly well the high point her high point and this extension and the vertical axis that she creates in the middle is just ridiculous like this this right here right is what throwers are trying to achieve you're trying to move across the ring and you have to move around that axis and look at how efficient it is look at her just move from start to finish so what she does is she gets that discus to the high point nice amazing counterbalance she's slowed down the upper body here and now you can see that she comes back out she gets that nice length from the balance arm to the discus and the discus is an incredibly high point she gets the foot down and she's just pulling it for days so that high point is so critical it's what helps keep the athlete on top and over the right leg and being able to turn around on it and that high point is like second and none I think her and Perkovich I think there's actually a ton of similarities between these two this is like clash of the Titans and I think that's inspiring me to come out with a almond Perkovich you know side by side to kind of look and I think that they actually have a lot of things in common and I would go so far as to say who wouldn't be influenced by Sandra Perkovich I would have to think any coach any coach who's coaching a female discus doors got a look at Perkovich and when you see this this is one thing that they do and I think vows discus is even slightly higher than Perkovich is which is pretty incredible okay so when you get here the thing that she does right she just pulls around now to me again it looks like she works on a focal point I think that's really tricky I talked about that in previous videos that can clearly work and it clearly works incredibly well for her but it's something that I think is a more advanced thing I don't I've seen too many athletes do focal points and developing athletes hold the focal points too long and they start to inhibit motion but so what what's the big thing you know she comes here she gets to that high point and this sets up the finish and she is just smashed so what's the third thing that I think she does super well she is down on the ground her finish is she comes off the right but she's moving in and this is a perfect example when people argue about should you be elevating at the finish or should you be you know going around this discus should be around the right hip is going to create the elevation and see she loses the ground but what she doesn't do is she doesn't lose the left foot right the left foot is smashed onto the ground this is what you'll see with all the best throwers in the world and you see that with with like stall daikers if you look at Goozdias right now Miklos Alekna is like blowing things up in the NCAA his foot's on the ground you're seeing that the information is out there this is critical you stay on the ground I see people trying to jump it doesn't work that way yeah so there are people who have been successful doing that here's a perfect example she's on the ground through the release and that is what just allows her to just smash the crap out of it and remember the discus the hip years ago I was fortunate enough to hang out evening with like Daniel Jizinski and Robert Harding and those in Robert talked about the acceleration factor of the hip all the way through the finish and that rotation elevation through and Val does that amazingly well and the fact that her block is on the ground that's the third thing clearly at this point that she does so frickin well and it's really awesome to see so like I said earlier big shout out to coach Sion and Valerie they are they've done an amazing job that chemistry of coach athlete gearing up doing everything at the right time and the consistency is just so fun to watch so when you look you of course want to pay attention to what are these little things that these guys do so well and that is like second to none I love her start it's super consistent she comes big great load and sprint delays that upper body amazing high point gets the foot down on the ground and it just stays down all the way through release and she just crushes it and she's so consistent you're seeing that and not to mention she's like a poster child for athletic physique and what throwers should look like lean strong fast powerful you know dynamic everything you would want to see an athlete and this is of course why she's the greatest American thrower ever she's an Olympic gold medalist and she's absolutely dominating and her first head-to-head this season with Perkovich she came out on top really good it's nice to see Perkovich throwing really well and that's going to be really exciting to see these guys in Eugene at the world championships so at any rate hopefully that kind of just this is just kind of some fun to look at all the things that she does super well there's so many things I think you could you know talk about and again I'm sure they're looking at this her and her coach right and they're saying well we can adjust this and we can just that because that's the nature of the sport but there's a lot of really good things and it would be I would love to hear from them at some point how they approach things and what they're doing and I know they did a conference over in Europe in the fall and that would have been really cool to see so any rate congrats them on a amazing start to 2022 congrats on the American record and for you guys watching hopefully these are just some things look at how consistent that start is that high point we talk about the orbit if you watch any of our stuff we talk about the orbit path and all that kind of stuff constantly her high point and orbit are amazing the radius is freaking off the charts and she's just nailing that finish right that block like stays on the ground and she just can crush it and you can see the discus is gone and the foot still on the ground it's it's really awesome to see the finish she just so that combo of a great setup super great balance and a monster finish those are the three things that I think make her absolutely incredible and clearly the performances are off the charts so congrats take care hopefully you guys like that now remember if you guys like information on how to learn the throw find out what you need in your throw check out our throwing chain reaction system links in the description and you guys do us a favor support the channel we really appreciate you watching give us a thumbs up hit that like subscribe all that good junk because that's how we are able to keep putting out content and we will see you guys on the next video take care


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