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Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even High-rate quantum error correcting (QEC) codes encode many logical qubits in a given number of physical qubits, making them promising candidates for quantum computation. Implementing high-rate codes a...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.22211
#quantum #qec #quantinuum

Missy Higgins - NYE (Official Audio) YouTube video by missyhiggins

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

Support Python With JetBrains Purchase PyCharm at 30% OFF, and have all the proceeds of your purchase donated to support Python.

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...

Github screenshot showing a 1780-line, 100kB App.tsx

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

Can you power your computer by typing? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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...

Proposals for experimentally realizing (mostly) quantum-autonomous gates Autonomous quantum machines (AQMs) execute tasks without requiring time-dependent external control. Motivations for AQMs include the restrictions imposed by classical control on quantum machines' cohe...

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

at least now each wired connection to the router will get it's own "dedicated 1 Gbit", but still, horrible planning 😅

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"

Newsweek headline stating that Azure is down in every region of the world

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-...

Mind the gaps: The fraught road to quantum advantage Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, yet substantial gaps separate today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices from tomorrow's fault-tolerant application-scale (FASQ) machines. We ident...

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 Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.

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

Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air Apple is "drastically" cutting production of the iPhone Air and shifting focus toward the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro models, Nikkei Asia...

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...

They asked Wolfgang Pauli for help, who replied "This is indeed a calculation that is too difficult. For you." and proceeded to calculate everything which confirmed the theory.

(as told by C. Rovelli in "Helgoland")

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.

view over a sea bay from a 15th floor. bridge in the background

igloo shaped pop up conference room in a large conference center

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

Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab This episode is a first for the show - a repeat of a previously posted...

🎙️ 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:

Rust has no GC and people say it's so safe so obviously you made the right decision 👌👏

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

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 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 electri...

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...

I first thought it was a subtle expression of disapproval 🤭

Giorgio Iemmolo, is learning possible without writing? AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.

"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

a close up of a man 's face with a white shirt on Alt: a close up of a sleeping Billie Joe Armstrong's face with a white shirt on

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