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FTQC at Pasqal
TIL about the atmospheric sponge effect 🧽
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California is free of all drought, dryness for first time in 25 years. Inside the remarkable turnaround
After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years
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rob pike
about 1 month ago
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Congrats Philippe! Exciting times ahead 😀
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about 1 month ago
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If you can smell meaning, you can turn in a latent space bloodhound sniffing for global minima 🐕
writetobrain.com/olfactory
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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
We decided to try to stimulate the olfactory bulb with focused ultrasound. As far as we know, no one seems to have done this kind of stimulation before - even in animals.
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
2 months ago
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Unclear to me what are the significance and practical consequences of
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08451
... The d* bound is not so large
4 months ago
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Deena Mousa
4 months ago
If benchmark performance translated to reality, radiologists should be the canary in the coal mine of AI job loss. Instead, radiology residency slots hit a record high in 2025.
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There are urban legends such as this one, that we know wrong from experience. Luckily there are great folks to debunk them, thanks
@deenamousa.com
www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...
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AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an all-time high.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-replacing-radiologists
4 months ago
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nate
4 months ago
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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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦
5 months ago
perhaps making topological qubits when you know you don't have Majorana?
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Bob Coecke
5 months ago
Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.
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It's amazing how jj is a pleasure to work with. 20 minutes ago I erased by mistake an _untracked_ file that I used to record progress while editing history on my local branch.
5 months ago
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In 30 minutes, Pascal Scholl and I will give technical details on FTQC and how we do it at Pasqal, with the plans on the coming years. See you there!
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7 months ago
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My great desk buddy
@francoismarie.bsky.social
published
arxiv.org/abs/2507.03678
earlier this week, introducing his efforts in collecting QEC experiments across all modalities into a single database at
github.com/francois-mar...
Check it out!
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Awesome Quantum Computing Experiments: Benchmarking Experimental Progress Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) demands simultaneous progress in physical qubit performance and quantum error correction (QEC). This work reviews and benchmarks experimental advanc...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03678
7 months ago
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It has been a hot day in Paris—currently 31°; and yet we are supposed to have hail! 🌨️ Friday evening picnic cancelled as the town closed all parks…
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Dulwich Quantum Computing
8 months ago
Forget the 10²⁵ years needed to simulate Google's Willow chip on world's fastest supercomputer. The most impressive number in quantum computing in this: It would take 3678 years for a quantum computing PhD student to earn the 103 million made by the IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi in his first 90 days.
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James Sanders
8 months ago
Maybe we shouldn't join an unproven technology like quantum computing with an unproven financial vehicle like SPACs. —me, 2021
www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...
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From the wallstreetbets community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the wallstreetbets community
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1l94eqq/ionq_ceo_just_sold_every_single_one_of_his_shares/
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My deer colleague Alex has brought to publication his book Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences! Available for free on the arXiv here:
arxiv.org/abs/2204.04198
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www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Modern applications of machine learning in quantum sciences
In this book, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the most recent advances in the application of machine learning methods in quantum sciences. We cover the use of deep learning and kernel metho...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04198
8 months ago
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Craig Gidney
8 months ago
This is a typical "making the hard part harder" paper. Making good qubits is *already* the hardest part. Replacing those qubits (2-level systems) with n-level systems isn't helping, it's hurting. But the increased difficulty is hard to quantify, whereas counting oscillators is easy, so here we are.
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On spot paper from
@riverlane.com
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arxiv.org/abs/2505.23567
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Scalable decoding protocols for fast transversal logic in the surface code
Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) approaches to quantum computing are promising due to their increased connectivity, long coherence times and apparent scalability. However, they have a significantly...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23567
8 months ago
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"Fault-tolerant? I prefer blunder-receptive."
8 months ago
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arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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Opinion: using both everyday,
github.com/jj-vcs/jj
had a more sizeable impact on my daily work than AI coding tools
@thorstenball.com
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8 months ago
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You may not like it, but this is what peak quantum computing looks like ✨
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
The Paris ecosystem is great and there are many opportunities to collaborate with world-class startups in quantum computing, including
@aliceandbob.bsky.social
@quandela.bsky.social
@pasqal.bsky.social
Application deadline: 15 June (2/2)
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Graeme Smith
10 months ago
Fantastic exposition of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
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@dominicdudley.bsky.social
why is this list “short”? The euro zone itself is 20 countries.
11 months ago
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Great paper on this important error channel that loss is for atomic platforms
arxiv.org/abs/2502.20558
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Leveraging Atom Loss Errors in Fault Tolerant Quantum Algorithms
Errors associated with qubit loss constitute an important source of noise in many quantum hardware systems, particularly in neutral atom quantum computers. We develop a theoretical framework to handle...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20558
11 months ago
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@phfaist.bsky.social
how’s the fish? 😄
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11 months ago
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Have you ever had to add DOIs by hand to your colleague’s legacy bibtex file? I have, so here is doizer!
github.com/lvignoli/doi...
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GitHub - lvignoli/doizer: Add missing DOIs to your bibtex files
Add missing DOIs to your bibtex files. Contribute to lvignoli/doizer development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/lvignoli/doizer
11 months ago
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You may not like it, but this is what peak Zig looks like
about 1 year ago
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Pedro Pascal speedrun
https://lvignoli.eu/posts/2025-01-14%20Pedro
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Pedro Pascal speedrun | Louis Vignoli
Louis Vignoli
https://lvignoli.eu/posts/2025-01-14%20Pedro/
about 1 year ago
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Zoltán Zimborás
about 1 year ago
To reach some consensus about the prospects of near-term (late nisq and early fault tolerant) quantum computing, we had a 3-day discussion event (“Quantum Now”) in Lapland with both optimists and pessimists. This continued at SeeQA 2024 in Oxford. See our conclusions here
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05694
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Myths around quantum computation before full fault tolerance: What no-go theorems rule out and what they don't
In this perspective article, we revisit and critically evaluate prevailing viewpoints on the capabilities and limitations of near-term quantum computing and its potential transition toward fully fault...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05694
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github.com/golang/go/is...
> Go is usable today. Perhaps no change is better than this change. Perhaps no change is better than any change.
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proposal: spec: reduce error handling boilerplate using ? · Issue #71203 · golang/go
Proposal Details Background As discussed in the introduction to an earlier, declined, proposal, Go programs have a lot of error checking code. In surveys error handling is listed as the biggest spe...
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71203
about 1 year ago
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Nice visualization to remind that, despite how small and insignificant PhD work may have felt sometimes, it is still a feat to dent the knowledge boundary.
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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/?_nospa=true
about 1 year ago
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Thorsten Ball
about 1 year ago
Okay, it can't just me be: 1. Listen to music on phone via bluetooth headphones 2. Call comes in, hear ringing *via bluetooth headphones* 3. Pick up 4. Headphones are not used for call, instead phone's mic & speaker 5. "Wait a second, can't hear you" Why?
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Oh this is great! Who said quantum computers had to work with qubits? Turns out it's possible to design a quantum algorithm for factoring that only requires 3 quantum oscillators and a single qubit! (1/4)
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Dulwich Quantum Computing
about 1 year ago
Great timeline of quantum supremacy claims and refutations by Tom Wong on X.
x.com/thomasgwong/...
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John Preskill
about 1 year ago
I created a transcript of my talk at the Q2B Conference: "Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine." You can read it here:
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at…
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/beyond-nisq-the-megaquop-machine/
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Very nice work from Strasbourg team on the effect of atom loss for QEC. Replacement of lost atoms may be impractical to perform at each cycle because of timescales, would be very happy to see their perspectives explored!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.07841
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Quantum Error Correction resilient against Atom Loss
We investigate quantum error correction protocols for neutral atoms quantum processors in the presence of atom loss. We complement the surface code with loss detection units (LDU) and analyze its perf...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07841
about 1 year ago
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