In this special bonus episode of the podcast, I\u2019m joined by Ewin Tang, a PhD student in the Theoretical Computer Science group at the University of Washington. \n\nIn our conversation, Ewin and I dig into her paper \u201cA quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems,\u201d which took the quantum computing community by storm last summer. We haven\u2019t called out a Nerd-Alert interview in a long time, but this interview inspired us to dust off that designation, so get your notepad ready!