There can only be one song today! 🇦🇺 youtu.be/QKMpXFNbNfE?...

what?! 😅 "We built a complete VR setup from scratch to let rats play DOOM. (...) The rats successfully learned to navigate the virtual environment and trigger the shooting mechanism. " 🔗 ratsplaydoom.com

nice! worth sharing.. Until December 12, you can buy an individual annual subscription for PyCharm Pro at 30% OFF, and have the full cost of your purchase donated to the Python Software Foundation. lp.jetbrains.com/support-pyth...

they should not let me anywhere near React 🤦‍♂️😅🤷‍♂️

Can you power your computer by typing? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...

Toward autonomous quantum computation. (If you're an experimentalist who'd like to try out any of these proposals, let me know!) arxiv.org/abs/2510.07372 @umdscience.bsky.social

upgraded my home connection to 10Gbit fiber Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣

Elon: "I know absolutely nothing about this, so here's my expert opinion"

and how is your day going? 😣

Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results! www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...

When and how will quantum computing broadly benefit humanity? Despite exhilarating recent progress, we still don’t know. Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928

5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter. These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!) bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics

this should have been a new Mini! I am still clinging on to 12 Mini and I refuse to buy a new one until they release a new Mini 🫩 Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air 🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...

When Werner Heisenberg came up with his original "observable" idea for quantum mechanics, he turned to Max Born and Pascual Jordan to help advance the ideas further, but they couldn't manage to apply the theory to the electron in hydrogen atom.

Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab. Have a listen:

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago: "We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years

so great to see this - so deserved! 👏👏🎉 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

"If we leave writing to AI chatbots, we won't just lose a craft and the skills. Because writing is more than that. Writing is thinking", argues Giorgio Iemmolo, Director of the Language Centre at ETH and the University of Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-... What is your opinion?

a terminal command that I had to run today that feels surprisingly adequate on so many levels sudo killall zeitgeist

it's October 1, quick, someone wake Billie Joe Armstrong up!

Via #OPG_OpticaQ: Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer opg.optica.org/opticaq/full... #QuantumInformation #IntegratedPhotonics

 - the target was five 9s uptime!  - but 89.9999 is still five 9s

is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩

new blog post: Introducing (Maybe) LibOQS.NET - a post quantum cryptography library for .NET 🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...

“We only have a few minutes left so please keep your questions brief.” “Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”

👀 🤔 "(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’" Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

today I released LibOQS.NET, a .NET wrapper for liboqs (Open Quantum Safe), bringing plug-and-play support for post quantum cryptography for .NET developers. Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64) 💻 github.com/filipw/maybe... 📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...

I have not checked it in a few months (last I remember it did not work), but what a nice surprise today - I found out that there are now Windows ARM native versions of both PyTorch and numpy! very cool!

oh wow this is quite a big deal Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation" 🔗 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

after many years (decades) of using macOS only today I learnt that you can create tabs in Finder 🙈

After 3 1/2 years of work my course on quantum computing is finally finished — the "Director's Cut" of Understanding Quantum Information and Computation is now available. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11536

suddenly my home Internet went down and of course there is no way it's DNS. oh wait it's DNS

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era: Quantum Co-design with Andrew Houck. Have a listen:

On July 17-18 a small symposium "Dreams of Quantum" will be held in honor of David DiVincenzo's work and retirement at RWTH Aachen. The event can be attended via Zoom by all. Information about the program of speakers & the Zoom link can be found at www.quantuminfo.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~bmmwed

FC Bayern playing full pitch gegenpressing in the 90th minute, while being 10:0 up on an amateur side, is a mockery of sportsmanship

Chris Fuchs, speaking on Helgoland: an interpretation of quantum mechanics is worthwhile if "the interpretation gives you motivation to ask new questions."

Quantum tunnelling may be common at the tiniest scales, but no one had ever observed the phenomenon in fluorine - the element was simply thought to be too heavy. Now, this accepted wisdom has been upended in new experiments that observe fluorine tunnelling www.chemistryworld.com/news/fluorin...

ah Father's Day! Got some lovely cards 😅

found this Riemann jinn on Reddit 😂

it's really great to have Windows arm64 agents available freely in Github Actions, but it's quite confusing that the default version of Python installed in those images is amd64

Excited to announce Notepad.exe 1.0! A notepad that takes your code for a spin. #Swift #iOSDev Check it out at notepadexe.com, open to all!

This research introduces a method to translate (without training) text embeddings between models This may have significant implications, including the potential to extract sensitive information from embedding vectors alone 📝 Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540

NDC Oslo is such a cool event! 🇳🇴 Great work everyone @ndcconferences.com I first came here in 2014 and it's been my favourite conference ever since!

what a way to open the column (latest Down Goes Brown) 😩 "It’s the middle of May, which means the Toronto Maple Leafs have lost." 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/636...

"Erasure Minesweeper: exploring hybrid-erasure surface code architectures for efficient quantum error correction" arxiv.org/abs/2505.00066