wild that you can't install safari extensions without signing in to an apple account

Me after barely passing onboarding quizzes

while i was in amsterdam for 3 months i managed to run the length of 430 streets. not bad given i have roughly the same number of completed streets in seattle and i've been running here for 4 years

It aint even apr 1 and we’re introducing the “felinity”??

claude shannon was serving here

Poor authors who post serious papers today

We are living in exciting times. Starting today, the zoo will be completely redone by AI! errorcorrectionzoo.org/__41ai

After nearly 6 years of consistent releases, mitiq has its first major release. I’m very happy to have shepherded this project for the time that I have, but this release is a culmination of over 90 people working together to make quantum computers suck a bit less.

a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :))) nates.place/gates/

not sure if i've been spending too much time around @marisozols.bsky.social, but i'm increasingly convinced rep theory is the way to understand ideas through quantum

when you're spending all your money on m̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶e mitiq aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantu...

shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03... if i don't vibe code hard enough am i going to get left behind or am i going to just skip out on the early days of a rapidly evolving tech that will be fine to learn later if it has real value?

Best paper name today: Bell inequalities for Smells scirate.com/arxiv/2603.1...

one of the good things about being an open-source maintainer is i get free human-mediated tokens on other peoples LLMs

ugh @github.com i think someone broke your markdown "insert next number in the list when user hits enter" feature

LLMs train on the things humans choose to write about (tending toward the anomalous and extraordinary), not the things humans largely think and experience (tending toward prosaic/banal). Noted

saturday night gaming adam.math.hhu.de

to get MLB games on your calendar you either go through google or give your email to MLB (both ew). That said, MLB has a public API which has the schedule info. if you can run a python script then this script will create an ics file you can upload to your cal client gist.github.com/natestemen/a...

wondering what an xz attack would look like on mathlib. even if it wasn't to infect other computers, but just to get a proof across the line exploiting something in the LEAN compiler.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

if you have multiple options for some logical operator you want to apply on an encoded qubit(s), do you just pick the one that touches your least noisy qubits or is there some downstream effect you need to take into account?

Casual reminder to everyone that you can just turn off the computer

dutch movie theaters are really missing popcorn. is this a european thing?

run 8 miles: feeling amazing walk around museum for 2 hours: legs never been more tired

I have spent too much time this morning making a game about building numbers: https://number-builder.think.somethingorotherwhatever.com/

so Zapata patented QIR... the project that got started as a collaborative + open standard by multiple orgs (none of with was zapata). First, why were they granted this patent, and second... wtf Zapata, and third, I thought they turned into an AI company? investors.zapataquantum.com/news-release...

American's can stop worrying now. Our healthcare system is going to get so much better once we just add a bit more theory to it I swear it's good it's not just more surveillance bro I promise it's going to save you.

i somehow managed to make it 3 decades on earth without having read an Ursula K Le Guin book, but that era is over. why did no one make me read good scifi when i was younger???

running the pennylane unit tests and noticed there is a "run the not slow ones" option so I decided to try that... now i'm on bluesky waiting for 54k tests to run instead of 55k

I completed google's "hands on QEC" course and damn it starts slow, even introducing basic concepts of quantum states. Then once you get to surface codes, they expect you to have transformed into Alexei Kitaev

why is no one live tweeting QIP 😠

okay good job whoever named it "Bucket-brigade QRAM"

It’s funny hearing kids speaking Dutch randomly say 6-7

any good quantum conferences in europe jan-mar? good list here, but i'm sure there are more smaller ones too quantum.info/conf/

excited to announce I'll be visiting QuSoft/UvA starting next week for 3 months working on compilation and learning theory mostly.

IBM did a nice intro vid on QEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBe...

one of the most beautiful websites i've had the pleasure of reading

woah... a 2002 lecture from @dabacon.tachyon.institute popped up on yt www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCx... fun prediction about intel right at the beginning

very strange timing finishing The Deluge: final chapter has a catastrophic flooding event (in 2039), as Washington state is dealing with historic floods... Would highly recommend if anyone wants a climate horror to dream about for months.

Well, it's official: i'm out of work after the federal govt stopped paying the bills :( going to work on some fun stuff for this month, then onto the job hunt. Looking to stay in the quantum software space, ideally.

Jerry Chow and Oliver Dial from IBM are hosting an AMA on reddit on thursday. go ask them hard questions www.reddit.com/user/ibm/com...

⏰ Final few hours to make an impact! Our Giving Tuesday campaign wraps at midnight ET, and we’re so close — $𝟯,𝟯𝟭𝟱 raised toward our $𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬 goal to fund a 2026 UF microgrant. Let’s finish strong! buff.ly/ETwX9zZ

thing is, you only get access to the NP-oracle while you sleep

happy UF was able to support his project, and love to see open source books!

there's only one reason we don't have fault tolerant quantum computers and it's because there aren't any CLI tools

I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Brian for a few years now as he went from first time contributor to a maintainer of mitiq. He’s a great person, fun to work with, and very dedicated to helping along the quantum ecosystem. He also had the biggest payout for the most recent release of mitiq.

I wish trying out different careers throughout your 20s/30s was normal. I like what I do but there’s always the thought that a different career might suit me better and how am I supposed to know