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

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

Tutorials begin at QEC2025 at @yaleqi.bsky.social. Here is an artistic rendition of some famous codes at the Google Quantum AI tutorial.

𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗤𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 brought 𝟲𝟬+ quantum researchers together to explore the future of error mitigation in the early fault-tolerant era. From QEM+QEC to real-world tools, one thing's clear: we’re still operating at the edge of failure. 🔗 Read the full blog here:https://buff.ly/7uSm3gv

I wrote an informal recap of the event on the UF blog: unitary.foundation/posts/2025_w... A more technical summary is in the works as well, so be on the lookout for that next month :)

I like toml but I'm too used to yaml and it's upsetting

@mlb.com why, when unsubscribing to your 438925 separate email newsletters do I have to get verified to be human by cloudflare? Adding another step that makes it that much more inconvenient. Really annoying dark pattern.

We should start saying things are free as a k-module more often

WERQSHOP is a wrap! Glad to have had the opportunity to chair the event but damn that was a jump into the deep end in terms of event organizing. Thanks to all who helped organize and to those who came :))) <3

Never see slides this good at academic conferences

Had a lot of fun presenting at SciPy today about noise in quantum computers. High-level talk about noise, and how python plays a role in speedy development. Slides are available here nates.place/static/scipy..., but this is my favorite one.

anyone in #seattle tryna co-organize an html.energy day?

@merriam-webster.com dictionary claims that `unassign` isn't a verb... Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unassign) new best friend

Ayyy dats me. I guess I should be making some slides

mitiq hit 250k downloads! Even with all the hype around error correction it seems any other way to mitigate the impact of noise is still important for the time being. The next release (0.46.0) will come out soon! Keep your 👀 peeled. github.com/unitaryfound...

Nice talk yesterday from Mariia Mykhailova (recently moved to @psiquantum.bsky.social) on software best-practices in quantum to kick off the UW REU seminar. I liked Maria’s point that there is an elevated need to understand runtime ahead of running programs because feedback loops are so long

@craiggidney.bsky.social is it possible to make time go slower in the parametrized rotations?

my attempt *while understanding very little of the original paper*

very surprised that the lectures in this QEC course by Gottesman and Yoshida all have <100 views www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...