Ben would be a great name for a dead guy

Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

But the real fun thing in my quantum class today is that all the students came in costume ... as me. They are the best.

this is the real reason why the mayans stopped counting in 2012

Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.

OMG, merely looking at the cover pic, you know you need to watch the Youtube version here

We also found energy eigenstates for a free particle and the infinite square well. The former are continuous, while the latter are discrete, which is a crucial lesson. QM doesn’t say that Nature is discrete, only that certain observables have a discrete spectrum.

I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it! (also, "good" is not an endorsement)

Intuitive video explaining how linear regression can be viewed in a probablisitic framework, including popular regularization choices www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...

This is not quantum-related but the parallels with quantum computing are uncanny: a company has declared that it has resurrected an extinct species from the last ice age, but all they actually did was change 14 genes of the grey wolf's DNA. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A beautiful story of abstract mathematics extending into physics and engineering and resulting in 33% more efficient lighting. Better algorithms were the key, as they usually are, speeding up calculations by 1000x. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/24/t...

The attitude we desperately need in Tech

👇 quite worthwhile to read the whole thread

In a new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693, led by Joseph Tindall and Antonio Mello at Flatiron CCQ, we simulate annealing of disordered quantum magnets 🧲 ⌛ and in many cases find better accuracy than recent results from D-Wave devices and leading classical methods (c.f. arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910).