Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Very nice interview with Prof. Prabha Mandayam where she shares with us some fascinating life experiences and insights, like how she got into quantum, what she enjoys most about her job, recent QEC breakthroughs, and more! Very fun, informal and a relaxing listen :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejx...

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

Transformers in Protein: A Survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.2... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint

Always found the connection between rectified flows and optimal transport a bit confusing. Glad to see some clarity. TL;DR: Rectified flows ≠ optimal transport. arxiv.org/abs/2505.19712

"A Panorama of Tensor Networks: from Condensed Matter to Quantum Field Theory, Holography and Beyond" TN2025, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Oct. 6-10, 2025 indico.global/event/10052/

[History of Physics] The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Study Through the Canonical Papers Eren Volkan Küç 🧪⚛️ arxiv.org/abs/2503.13630

Introduction to Online Control (192 pages) An introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control. arxiv.org/abs/2211.09619

A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo A comprehensive conceptual account of these theoretical foundations, focusing on developing a principled intuition behind the method and its optimal implementations rather of any exhaustive rigor. arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434

Can machines learn density functionals? Past, present, and future of ML in DFT arxiv.org/abs/2503.01709 #compchem

Yes, the quantum tech industry needs PhDs, but as a career move, I don’t think it’s the best bet. Why? Read my blog post here: aggiebranczyk.com/blog/2025/ph... #quantumcomputing #quantum #careers #phd 🧪

New review on quantum simulation of molecules in the (hopefully soon) early-fault-tolerant quantum computing era. arxiv.org/abs/2502.02139

Hello world! The quantum journal is now on BlueSky!

Academics in the Wild has a new website. Would love to know if we should add anything else to the FAQ. 🧪 academicsinthewild.com

Summary stats can be deceptive! Always visualize your data! These datasets have nearly identical mean, SD, & correlation yet they look completely different! You can explore the data yourself in an app I built: nickmmark.shinyapps.io/data_science/

Today #quantum arXiv selection: Hamiltonian simulation, barren plateau , non-unitary VQE, simulating noisy quantum circuits, quantum compilation, and improved QAOA. More details and links below:

🗿📜 Did you know that statues are not the only wonder of ancient culture found on Easter Island? Besides the monolithic human figures known as moai, another great puzzle seen in this southeastern Pacific Ocean island is rongorongo, a mysterious system of glyphs carved on wooden tablets. 🧵⬇️ (1/6)

You asked! We've added Bluesky buttons to the Quanta site to make it easier for you to share our stories on this platform. Try it on today's article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

This semester, I am considering modifying the participation portion of my course: a small % of the overall grade will require identifying a relevant Wikipedia page, and creating/improving it. Any experience in doing so, and advice on pitfalls to avoid? The side goal being to help improve Wikipedia.

My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...

Wait! Over 35 *thousands* people already registered for the AI Agent course in a few days... time to find the biggest conference center in the world and gather everyone for a giga-conference on agents? you can still join the online course here bit.ly/hf-learn-age...

Introduction to representation theory These are lecture notes that arose from a representation theory course. The notes cover a number of standard topics in representation theory of groups, Lie algebras, and quivers, and contain many problems and exercises. arxiv.org/abs/0901.0827

It seems like a tradition is emerging here, and it is out duty to maintain it. So here is my part announcing the publication of our review in semidefinite programming for characterizing quantum correlations @dulwichquantum.bsky.social journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social! What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

Hey quantum crowd! I made a quantum feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... Let me know if you want to be on the list for your quantum posts to be seen there by replying to this post. Share a link to your personal web page at your quantum lab, company or startup or your google scholar as a credential.

Just landed here! 🔥 A nice news to start: *Alice in a differentiable wonderland* has gone over 1000 copies sold on Amazon and I am super happy about the feedback! If you happen to buy a copy feel free to drop a review and/or send me suggestions on the material: www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Btw come join our final careers in industry AMA this Thursday. We have a couple of folks from the UQ glory days (and other cool ppl too) lu.ma/yzknjwdp

This is actually one of the most sober, balanced articles about Willow that I've seen so far. No breathless hype, no vitriolic hate. Nice job, PC Gamer. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/goo...

Neural Attention Memory Models (NAMMs) are a new kind of neural memory system for Transformers that not only boost their performance and efficiency but are also transferable to other foundation models, without any additional training! Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.13166

marimo.io looks quite nice, heavily inspired by @julialang.org's pluto notebooks but with some extra utilities for turning your notebook into an app

We absorb information from those who are 2 years ahead of us. We help those who are 2 years behind us.

For those who use QuTip, a summary of the latest developments in version 5 is available. arxiv.org/abs/2412.04705

Congrats again to John Hopfield & Geoff Hinton on the well deserved #NobelPrize in Physics. A couple of weeks ago I gave a colloquium on "The physical origins of artificial intelligence" at the Stanford Linear Accelerator explaining the prize. Video: colloquium.slac.stanford.edu/events/2024-...

in time for the holidays - whether you’re looking for a gift for some else or you are looking to stock up for your own winter break - here are some terrific leads on science authors of all sorts! Recommended browse through & follow. go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

Being new to this platform, I thought I'd quickly introduce myself. After 7+ years as a digital journalist/editor at @nytimes.com, I started up @quantamagazine.bsky.social in 2012 and served as its first editor-in-chief until April 2024. My farewell letter: www.quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic... 🧵

Getting started in design of superconducting #quantum circuits? What are your favorite references? Here's a few to start: A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits https://buff.ly/4irOZ6Y Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics https://buff.ly/4irqnv2 1/2

2-dimensional analogies are often used to motivate physical concepts in our 3+1 dimensional world. But a world with 2 space and 1 time dimensions would look *very* different from our world Some crucial differences:🧵 1/10

For anyone interested in fine-tuning or aligning LLMs, I’m running this free and open course called smol course. It’s not a big deal, it’s just smol. 🧵>>

May have shared this before elsewhere. But these are good -- are based off Nathan Carter's 'Visual Group Theory', and more or less cover the entire book: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How awesome is Bluesky? The tools around it are going to become so amazing: Check out this list~ repost this if you know someone who might find it useful. 🔵🌍 github.com/fishttp/awes...

learned that overleaf is down today, so a good chance to advertise typst.app it's a "new latex" if you will. once you go typst, writing latex (and using overleaf) will feel like ancient technology, so use with caution (in particular if you still depend on latex submissions to journals 😬)

🚨new paper🚨 out today! We use the same kind of artificial intelligence model that underpins ChatGPT for quantum feedback control! The “attention” mechanism that lets generative AI understand context also helps us deal with memory effects in the measurement record! arxiv.org/abs/2411.19253

If you're curious about quantum computing and want to learn the basics, check out the "Quantum Quest" created by me and Michael Walter! www.quantum-quest.org/material

Asking the following earnestly: what is the strongest case for GANs standing the "test of time"? Are they important 10 years later in modern ML research? How have they influenced the way we think about generative models today?

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

Hey #Quantumsky 👋🏾 This is an attempt at indexing the growing quantum community here on Bluesky. Please let me know if you'd like to be added to the list. Genuinely happy to see what looks like a successful migration from the birdsite 😄 go.bsky.app/VHXg1yi

Minhyuk Sung's course "Diffusion Models and Their Applications" at KAIST is now fully online, including all lectures, slides, and programming assignments: mhsung.github.io/kaist-cs492d...

Write math on 🦋 with UnicodeIt! For example: θ ∈ ℝⁿ or pp̅ → μ⁺μ⁻ Use website or install system-wide in Linux, macOS, or windows www.unicodeit.net (Created several years ago with @svenkreiss.bsky.social)

Just realized BlueSky allows sharing valuable stuff cause it doesn't punish links. 🤩 Let's start with "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com The book is a great summary of embeddings, from history to modern approaches. The best part: it's free. Link: vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...