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...

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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

Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links

Alex is gonna give a talk on the @unitary.foundation discord next wednesday (Oct 22) on formalizing QI in lean 👀

For a second I thought my partner (civil engineer) was doing Feynman diagrams

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Remember that workshop (werq.shop) that happened back in July on the future of error mitigation and correction? Well we wrote a report summarizing the highlights and takeaways so everyone who wasn't there can learn something! werq.shop/static/repor...

more formalized quantum information pls

In case you haven't already: there is one more week to fill the @unitary.foundation quantum OSS survey for anyone using or developing qc software unitary.foundation/posts/2025_q...

Gave some of these stickers I made to John Wright and the first thing he said was “Why did you make this?” lmao

Being off work for a week really makes me realize that 1 week is not nearly enough time to decompress from work-related stress or to shift out of work-like thinking patterns... 😔

Hanging out at the Georgetown steam plant science fair this weekend with my project about Hilbert’s Grand Hotel. Come through if you’re in Seattle!

I made a zine about quantum gates and distributed it at @unitary.foundation's unitaryCON this two weeks ago. check it out :) and lemme know what you think nates.place/static/ng01....

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first time hearing the term "AI-vegan". i like great essay about how, even as models progress, we will still have devs working in niches that LLMs won't touch (productively) due to the nature of not having training data on the topic. www.stephendiehl.com/posts/ai_for...

Stoked to be paying more open-source contributors. All contributions to mitiq (project I maintain) are eligible!

just noticed I've given 256 stars on github. I guess no more. Sorry folks.

wow the dopamine hit from seeing my name pop up in someones talk (even if just for a diagram) is huge

It's fun when academics write blog posts as papers: - dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (Why haven't more quantum algorithms been found?) - arxiv.org/abs/2412.18726 (Opinion: The simplest quantum computer) - arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... (Sundays in a Quantum Engineer's Life) any other good ones in quantum?

bruh... new level of annoying

can we agree that jobs =/= careers? if so, why do so many companies offer "careers"... a career is made of potentially many jobs, one of which the employer is offering.

If you'll be at IEEE QCE this year, come to the quantum software 2.1 workshop i'm co-organizing with Catalina Albornoz, Josh Izaac, @rossquantum.bsky.social @mharrigan52.bsky.social and Elaine Wong! sites.google.com/view/quantum...

neither satisfied nor satisfied

come listen to @csenrui.bsky.social talk about his recent work at tomorrows seminar on the UF discord. It's open to anyone to attend :)

I’m not at QEC25, but I’m still learning decoding things from @dabacon.tachyon.institute at the UW seminar