I've been asked several times to comment on arxiv.org/abs/2602.11457, which claims to reduce the qubit cost of factoring by 10x. My take is that they demand a *lot* more qubit connectivity for that number. Your mileage depends entirely on how plausible you find those demands.

In quantum chemistry and manybody physics, Transition-state geometries are (generally) the ones that we want to solve and the ones that are just too hard to approximate well classically. We’ve designed a protocol for ground-state preparation at these configurations

I saw “Wuthering Heights”. In many ways it’s better than you expected. In others it’s worse than you’ve imagined. Kinda hilarious. Person next to me cried (laughing)

At this point it seems like if a team doesn’t get obliterated by us the comms guys think it’s been a great showing by our opponent.

@jonmackenzie.bsky.social surely the correct answer for how “Sean dyche” feels about not being on the list was “utter woke nonsense”

Chelsea are the first team to have 2 victories over Arsenal this season, and deserve immense congratulations 🏆

Reassuring to see we are going after a midfield profile we are severely lacking.

Liverpool fans will tell you the only reason we might win the league this year is because city fell away. Completely forgetting that both times they’ve won the pl City were at their absolute worst. They had basically no challenge either time. But yeah sure, we’d be lucky

If I am the manager of Tottingham Hotspur, I’d probably avoid being pictured with an Arsenal coffee cup. Give yourself a chance man!

Doing Nazi-flavoured kiddy porn to own the libs.

@arsenalvpodcast.bsky.social @philcosta.bsky.social Here’s a question that I was asked today: in a world where after Klopp leaves, Arteta goes to Liverpool and Arsenal get Slot, what does the premier league table look like, this season and last?

On the one hand, if Chelsea can pull a rabbit out of the hat against city that’s good because 7 points would be a great buffer. On the other hand Chelsea…

Sent to Arsenal on X I really hope you guys win the treble. However, as an Evertonian I have a request. Please tell your away fans that the 'Feed the Scousers' chants were out of order. People are struggling to feed themselves all over the UK, including in London. There's banter and there's cruelty.

@arsenalvisionpodcast.com I gotta tell ya man, I’ve never agreed more with @poznaninmypants.bsky.social than the last three weeks. Last night Jesus’ influence on Nelli was absolutely a huge factor and Jesus was dynamite. Kaya also made note of it in his write up. Tho I’d say Eze was fine 1st half.

scirate.com/arxiv/2512.1... Approximate counting!

“And that’s how I spell sour grapes” www.nytimes.com/athletic/684... Joshua Kimmich says Arsenal are not best team Bayern Munich have faced this year: ‘They rely on set pieces’

Didn't you know? They invented fair play.

Theranos only raised $700 million with a peak valuation of $9 billion and never went public. Proud to see multiple quantum companies exceeding these numbers with very similar business plans!

Three papers today from my good friend and collaborator, Gabriel Waite, on variations to the local Hamiltonian problem arxiv.org/abs/2509.25829 arxiv.org/abs/2509.25821 arxiv.org/abs/2509.25815

Tenure track assistant prof job up for grabs in Basel. It's quantum computing theory, based in computer science, and part of the NCCR SPIN. Whoever gets this job will probably have to collaborate with me. Whether you see that as a pro or con is up to you. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Sometimes to extend the class of quantum models that can be solved by a mapping to free fermions you have to kill your siblings… arxiv.org/abs/2509.09092

A new book "Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik" presents biographies of 16 overlooked women in the field’s history. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Believe women.

www.bbc.com/news/article... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social it’s over

It’s always nice when this happens.

"Investors and the public should know what quantum devices can and, more importantly, can’t do. Currently, no quantum chip can solve real-world problems." --‪Joan Étude Arrow‬ (@quantumjustice.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@arsenalvisionpodcast.com can you and @clivepafc.bsky.social do some scouting on psg. I’d love to hear Clive’s thoughts on the way to approach this tactical battle

So happy Marina has taken this on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Updated resource estimates for simulating corrosion and prevention on a quantum computer!! arxiv.org/abs/2406.18759

I need someone to root for. C'mon Valerie. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

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I can now announce that our recent preprint on scheduling for mbqc has now been officially published in PRA! journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

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My New Year’s resolution is to use of instead’ve have and have instead’ve of to bother grammar pedants

Ryan L. Mann, Samuel J. Elman, David R. Wood, Adrian Chapman A Graph-Theoretic Framework for Free-Parafermion Solvability https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09684

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