My vibe-coding project Pony Express, a text-based email client for IMAP with local mirrors (no gmail though) and fast search is quickly maturing. A lot of problems had to be addressed, but it is converging to a decent product and is my daily driver. juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/

"Units of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States." www.science.org/content/arti...

A decent summary of AI impact on programming skills. pca.st/episode/a0d6...

Un placer participar por primera vez en este intenso e interesante evento de dos días.

📰 Preprint alert: "Mesoscopic Regimes of Temporal Entanglement in Ergodic Quantum Systems" Sergio Cerezo-Roquebrún, Jan Thorben Schneider, Stefano Carignano, Aleix Bou-Comas, Mari Carmen Bañuls, Esperanza López, Luca Tagliacozzo [🌎]

A good example of how to clean up a complex scientific workflow. Main takeaways: focused methods/functions and separation of data from manipulation. The kind of things you need to learn! AI will not magically clean your sloppy code youtu.be/F5Av5yDGSQs?...

Open source hS a security crisis. Both SOTA LLM models can discover vulnerabilities as well as cheap, even local LLMs, can discover vulnerabilities from patches uploaded to repositories. There's no way to distribute fixes faster than bad actors can discover them youtu.be/M_HxHr7du5M?...

Nuevo número de la revista Telos de Telefónica. Nuevo formato y dedicado a la cuántica, con contribuciones de numerosos colegas. publicaciones.fundaciontelefonica.com/api/view/pub...

Are you a master's student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in Quantum Science? Join QTYR26 – Quantum Technologies for Young Researchers workshop! Valencia, June 22–26 cuantica2025.es/qtyr-2026/ @rsef-esp.bsky.social @gefes-rsef.bsky.social @dpe-csic.bsky.social @quarc-csic.bsky.social

Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...

This is bonkers. Happy that Excel is not a format my field uses.

Article and accompanying discussions arising from mathematicians successfulñy using LLMs news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807...

Spring cleaning the computers

Physical Caveman Letters. Just saying 🤣 youtu.be/L29q2LRiMRc?...

Most relatable comic of all time?

The first time I understand how a hybrid really works.

So beautiful. So many repeated mistakes.

Somewhat related, a student tells me my book is promoted in China, but in pirated copies. To which I can only say that the book was in libgen *one week before* it was published online. Go figure 😅 I'm not getty rich from this anyway

Admission to the UIMP-CSIC Master's Degree in Quantum Technologies is open until May 29th. Interested? Offiical online presentation on May 11th 2026, 17:00 CEST. Link to the meeting and more information: qtep.csic.es/master-quant... (from @mj-mjcp.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...)

This week I will be teaching superconducting circuits at Univ. Palermo, hosted by Prof. Francesco Ciccarello and the Quantum Theory Group. Looking forward to an exciting lecture sprint.

The most annoying thing with the latest model: "Pre-existing failure, unrelated to this change. All other tests pass." Which is often not true

Finished developing py-latexmk, an almost complete replacement of latexmk, the script to run LaTeX compilers, BibTeX, etc, used in editors such as VSCode. This is a standalone program that does not require Perl 1/ github.com/juanjosegarc...

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the 2026 Biannual Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF), Sevilla 20-24 July, has been extended to *11th May.* 1/ bienalfisicasevilla2026.es/RSEF2026/abs...

🚀 Want to understand how tensor networks help simulate complex quantum systems? Luca Tagliacozzo, researcher at @csic.es, introduces the fundamentals: 🔗 What tensors are 🧠 How they connect ⚛️ Why they matter ▶️ Watch the full video here: youtu.be/s_JUMeGKrfs #TalentQ

Ouch, the new token limits are very strict...

Wow www.science.org/content/arti...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Today, as part of our Strategy on Quantum Technoolgies, @csic.es announced the creation of a new research institute in Madrid, the Quantum Advanced Research Center or QuARC @quarc-csic.bsky.social This new institute launches now with 24 PIs and a total of 100 researchers 1/ quarc.csic.es

Feliç Sant Jordi! Happy world book day too!

This is great. Now students can also fake manuscript documents openai.com/index/introd...

Nos vemos allí mañana

➡️ El #CSIC presenta mañana su Estrategia de Ciencia y Tecnologías Cuánticas 📖 También dará a conocer su revista #CSICInvestiga sobre Física Cuántica 🗓️ 23 abril de 2026, a partir de las 10:30 horas 📍 Salón de actos de la sede central de la institución, en Madrid

Crafting long posts with mentions in Linkedin is horrible.

Running Gemma 4 locally in llama.cpp Not too bad performance to be just CPU-bound

Rescuing old photos from the beginnings of our Spanish Network on Quantum Information and Quantum Technologies

I always have a hard time judging how much oolong to use. 😅 Compare the amount before and after adding water

Background, read-only MCP server and installers on the way. You can now query the mail program with your AI agents, while you continue browsing or composing email.

Unfortunately my family can totally back this fact. An old woman initially with a broken hip and then with two fractured vertebrae, going to the ER and later to consultations with doctors, being explained (by men and by women equally) that pain is "subjective". Two years of insufferable pain.

I've been training myself for the last month on using AI, in particular coding agents such as Claude and Codex, with specific pipelines. This is the first end-to-end project fully developed with Claude: a text-based email program juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/ 1/

The hospitality school at Leioa, Bilbao, publishes all its recipes from all dishes it offers in the cantine along the year. A valuable resource if you run out of ideas: sutondo.hostelerialeioa.net/es/gastro/re...

🤝 El #CSIC firma un acuerdo en Pekín con la Academia China de Ciencias para reforzar su colaboración científica 🌎 Promoverán proyectos en ámbitos como salud, agricultura, biotecnología, cambio climático, biodiversidad y ciencias marinas 👉http://tiny.cc/m9w1101

Extremely happy with this collaboration, that started with the EU project Superqulan and culminated with a very nice demonstration of photon mode multiplexing in quantum links, led by @andreasateth.bsky.social's group at ETHZ arxiv.org/abs/2604.129...

Good morning Bilbao

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

This is an amazing trove of concert recordings. Surprisingly good quality for many of them. archive.org/details/@aad... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768...

So this happened www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere... #smbc #comics #math

Yet another fantastic image www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

This might be the MOST STUNNING photo from Artemis II yet Crescent Earth illuminated by light above 🤩 📷 Artemis II

I have written a small piece on scientist identifiers and how we use them in our group to find out publications. I wrote it because not everybody seems to be aware of them or know how to use them properly quinfog.hbar.es/news/how-we-...

New desktop background www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...