Between two property flips, Fowler giving some thoughts to QEC. He is still hooked! arxiv.org/abs/2603.28852

The forward-looking Oratomic time-efficient architecture claims to "potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈102,000." This is based on stitching together several gadgets and plausibly assuming they can work together on an atom platform.

Recently Scott Aaronson was suggesting that progresses on RSA number factoring should maybe kept reasonably private for sensitivity reasons scottaaronson.blog?p=9564

Having been logged off unexpectedly, I was surprised and thrilled to discover that @odpomery.bsky.social did the Bluesky login screen illustration, only to find out few hours later he actually did two! Such a treat to see an artist you cherish pop up at a place you value 😃 Thank you Owen!

After years of projects and actions led by core teams at MPQ and IRIF, Université Paris Cité is now scaling up with its own Quantum Initiative, bringing together its labs. Expanding research, training & innovate on across quantum technologies, from local to European levels. 🌐 quantum.u-pariscite.fr

Keep thinking about arxiv.org/abs/2505.13587

After the CEA in France and Jülich in Germany, this is the 3rd QPU installed and operational in a European HPC center! Huge congrats to all my involved colleagues at @pasqal-quantum.bsky.social!

Indépendance stratégique quantique 🐓🇫🇷

TIL about the atmospheric sponge effect 🧽 www.latimes.com/california/s...

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.

Congrats Philippe! Exciting times ahead 😀

If you can smell meaning, you can turn in a latent space bloodhound sniffing for global minima 🐕 writetobrain.com/olfactory

Unclear to me what are the significance and practical consequences of arxiv.org/abs/2510.08451 ... The d* bound is not so large

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.

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...

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....

perhaps making topological qubits when you know you don't have Majorana?

Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.

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.

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!

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!

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…

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.

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...

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. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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.

On spot paper from @riverlane.com. arxiv.org/abs/2505.23567

"Fault-tolerant? I prefer blunder-receptive."

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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

You may not like it, but this is what peak quantum computing looks like ✨

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)

Fantastic exposition of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

@dominicdudley.bsky.social why is this list “short”? The euro zone itself is 20 countries.

Great paper on this important error channel that loss is for atomic platforms arxiv.org/abs/2502.20558

@phfaist.bsky.social how’s the fish? 😄

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...

You may not like it, but this is what peak Zig looks like

Pedro Pascal speedrun https://lvignoli.eu/posts/2025-01-14%20Pedro

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

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.

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.

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?

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)

Great timeline of quantum supremacy claims and refutations by Tom Wong on X. x.com/thomasgwong/...

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...

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