good morning so we are heading today to
qiskit camp quantum hackathon in
Switzerland so let's get going
good morning it is day one of the qiskit hackathon we are in Switzerland I
arrived here last night I flew into his
the Zurich Airport took an uber to the
IBM offices hung out there for a bit
met a bunch of people then we took a bus
out here to this town called murren
today we're taking another gondola up up
the mountain and we're gonna be having
the hackathon at Piz Gloria which is
this restaurant that was featured in
this James Bond movie but there is
apparently a bond museum up there it's
all themed and we're gonna spend the
whole day today hacking away in the
morning we're gonna have team formation
and pitches spent the rest of the day
hacking have breakfast lunch and dinner
up there hang out and then we'll
continue that tomorrow morning
okay so we're a little lost I think
we're going the right way you know at
least we get the view even though we are
a little lost and we're late 9 a.m.
so we took one gondola up because we
were told to get to the peak it's only
one but apparently we have to take a
second gondola up so we did the nice
thrill walk without anyone else and now
we are gonna try and find the actual
mountain and I hope they're still
breakfast
what's your project this is 4.0
Instagram Instagram of the future where
Instagram takes your picture and figures
out your internal emotional state
represented by complex quantum bits then
exposes up to the bar
this is like the original image my eye
then he sorry some more stuff so say
that although he's a bit sad we believe
in that future the quantum can reveal
these emotions that are behind do the
sales pitch this is the actual circuit
that we build it and so you have
superficial emoji and emotion and then
it gets in out it gives you that deep
ocean without behind the picture so this
is like you know speculative many many
many emotions in my picture so it goes
from the national stage and it gets the
noise which is almost a different
emotions sadness fear you're gonna make
texting even harder because now you're
gonna have like what quantum
interpretation of this emoji am I gonna
have amazing which is a quantum you
on me using the site was a big challenge
Sutton we managed to simulate what's
your project let's unpack our swag I'm
so excited
amazing sweater which is awesome because
it's actually kind of cold here in the
mountains and what else do we have
the kiss kit logo bag with kiss get
socks umbrella that's awesome Oh
actually has the logo on it what else
stickers going straight on my laptop
lots of stickers and bag tag Oh another
kiss get sticker and a IBM bag tag an
IBM research t-shirt so thanks to Chris
who let me know on Twitter to call him
when I was in the IBM office and now I
also have an IBM research shirt and you
are all kiss kisses for speeding up and
there's some issues there that we see
benchmarking profiling some circuits
investigating so one of the issues is a
quantum object that you get out it's
very very long so that's it takes a lot
of time and a lot of you know space and
passing it to me yeah once you get up to
Tony's human we start building out the
tools just to make performance profile
easier for everyone so one of our big
deliverables is creating a memory size -
profiler that everyone can use and so
he's not escape the Hawks install
everything is moving Elton and now we
have like a standardized method for I
don't everyone to look at this before
every one so I wanted to cover a few
questions I've gotten in my Twitter
diems and Instagram about the quantum
camp a big question I've gotten is how
do you actually get to go to the
hackathons
so it's an invite-only event so if you
haven't been invited yet what I would
recommend doing is start getting
involved with the Kiska community work
on some projects with his kid post them
online talk to the IBM folks on Twitter
they're very open to help you with
questions join the slack community just
become active with the Kiska community
also if your school is an IBM q school I
believe there's some universities of
access to the network talk to the
professors and the students that are
running those and that way you'll have a
bigger chance of getting into invitation
to the event the other question I got do
uni is no Python or kiss get to
participate I would say you don't have
to there's a few projects you could do
using just the visual circuit composer
in the IBM quantum experience so it's
not fully necessary but I think that
knowing Python and knowing at least a
little bit of kiss kit is really
recommended to make the most of your
hackathon experience and uh let's go
should I have this what if I don't have
a project or I know anyone so that's
totally fine I went alone and you'll
meet people on the bus you'll need
people at the hotels and what happens
before the event is we all get added to
a slack group and we can start talking
about projects there there'll be a
github open as well with a bunch of
issues IBM Rouge will contribute project
ideas
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