Eric Aspling

Time to heal up and get back to life.

Thank you! You too!

The Muppet tiny Tim right? I can't even picture another one.

Merry Christmas everyone and many more to come. Whichever holiday you celebrate make sure to hold your family close.

Yeah I'm finding that out. Sometimes I feel much better and then I magically don't anymore 🫤. Appreciate it.

Thank you!

Clarification: you can choose who gets rights to your designs during the patent process. It's easy and often textbook, to allow access to everyone not-for-profit. Science continues and corporations aren't allowed to claim rights without compensation.

Unfortunately, IBM will be celebrated for the partnership, despite making the wrong decisions along the way.

I just hope y'all patent your designs. Patents don't limit science, they protect scientists.

With all this in mind, Cisco decides to partner with IBM for networking. 🤯

The story will go: some small group, academic or otherwise, will likely fix M2O transduction. Cryogenic tubing will disappear from industry, Cisco will do Cisco things and small/medium range quantum networking will develop.

I know, I know, IBM has had "partnerships" in the M2O community but one can't overlook that IBM still plans to scale up production with cryogenic tubing. Such endeavors are excruciatingly impractical.

The IBM/Cisco partnership has got to be one of the biggest let downs of 2025 in the quantum sphere. Not only was Cisco moving away from ScQs and suddenly did an about face, they have decided to partner with the only company still not working in the M2O transduction sphere directly.

2.5 wk update. Surgery was successful. Voice is very different but I'm starting to look like myself again. The surgery revealed stage 3 MEC removed with clean margins. Some days are better than others but the journey is still far from over.

Yes, the left side of my face is pretty immobile 🤷.

Made it.

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Yesterday on Twitter, homeboy said we could put quantum computers in the dark craters of the moon.

Imagine just saying shit, without any type of knowledge on the topic, and people go nuts.

Thanks Mark! As soon as I can confidently speak intelligibly I'll reach out 😅.

I'm Beyond disappointed in our government, and incredibly thankful for notable scientists pushing back publicly.

Congress is a disaster. Republicans and Democrats alike are so invested in self serving agendas and don't realize the damage being done to scientific progress.

Let alone the health of the american people. 🫩

Perhaps what I should say is that I'm a huge fan of your efforts pushing back against Congress. We see it and it's so important!

The past 8-9 months have been challenging. In such close proximity to government employees, watching years of hard work be stripped out from underneath them.

Thank you Henry. Huge fan of your work in Congress. Please let me know if my experience in M2O transduction can help. Please steady the course.

After surgery I may not look or sound like my old self. Regardless, I'll be passionate about understanding the nature of quantum computing and quantum information. This... I can live with.

I can't thank my mentors and motivators enough that I could come out the other side as a PhD researcher, passionate about my work. @bgreene.bsky.social, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, Erick Weinberg, Chuck Nelson, @markwilde.bsky.social, Michael Lawler, and so, so many more.

Recovery will take weeks and even months but I am thankful for modern medicine and the decades of cancer research that will ultimately lead to my longevity.

More than a decade ago I sat in an alley, disgusting and distraught with my life as a cook/chef wanting for something more.

At the end of September I was diagnosed with mucoepidermoid carcinoma, a rare type of salivary gland cancer. Thanks to modern medicine and cancer research, it will likely be curable with surgery and some continued treatment. Surgery is one week from today and I can't explain how I feel.

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It will either get there one day, or someone will win a major prize demonstrating the physical limitations make it useless. Either way it will win something 😅

ML will have it's day. No doubt about that.

cQED and Josephson junctions is a really great prize. Also very happy they didn't give it for quantum computing specifically. Let's hope they show that same integrity for the latter prizes.

Climbed Mt. Marcy!

While the scientifically useless rhetoric of the press statement causes every working physicist to roll their eyes, I am truly excited to see more companies focus on this step of realistic and sustainable scalability. Moreover, I'm excited to see the AFRL be a part of this.

One might think that to be obvious (as it should be), but up until very recently there has been no financial incentive for companies to invest in transduction enabled scalability.

In some circles they still don't believe but let's be real cryogenic tubing just ain't it folks...

Quantum transduction and networking for scalable computing applications Overview

The significance of this article isn't that we've done this with trapped ion systems specific to IonQ, it's that there has been demonstrated commercial interest in transduction efforts.

Similar to that of Google's recent expressed interest as well
research.google/programs-and...