Nick Chancellor

New paper dance! With @jbennett107.bsky.social @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner
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I think the guy who wrote animal farm would disagree with you there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

We won!

Should probably tag in @newcastleucu.bsky.social

Picketing staff posing for a picture with UCU signs (fund staff now, UCU official dispute, etc) in front of the Urban Sciences Building. Sign saying “School of Computing” is visible in the background.

On the last day of the strike we had our own school of computing picket line

Out in force at the Newcastle Pickets today!

Nick rocking the picket sign! 🪧❤️
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@quantumchancellor.bsky.social

New paper dance!
Excellent work by @jbennett107.bsky.social at @iqoqi.bsky.social with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner, showing that the LHZ encoding works with quantum walks, i.e., diabatic driving.

Now over 2200 signatures and still rising.

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business.
oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

Not just a comprehensive review of metrics and benchmarking for quantum computing, the launch of a living resource including software for characterising and comparing quantum computing hardware.
Led by Ivan Rungger @ NPL (UK National Physical Lab).

A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software Quantum computers have the potential to provide an advantage over classical computers in a number of areas. Numerous metrics to benchmark the performance of quantum computers, ranging from their indiv...

I’m proud to have played a (small, I wrote the annealing bits) part in this comprehensive review on benchmarking and metrics for quantum computing arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

I do as well, this important we all need to.

So your grand plan is to mock people (including your own supporters) for having to pay more for food? You aren’t just some rando on here, tell us what you are going to do about it and then go do it.

Save 10% on Quantum Odyssey on Steam Master Quantum Computing on the world’s most acclaimed simulator. No math or coding needed, but you WILL be exposed to it! Solve open-ended puzzles, learn through play, and compete online to pioneer n...

Extremely proud to have played a part in creating this video game to learn about quantum computing store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/... uses full state space representation in an entirely visible way, worth checking out no matter your level of expertise

Next best thing to actually meeting the boulder itself I suppose

So I actually am from the same place as the small boulder the size of a small boulder, I drove by there every day going to school

New paper in physical review research (published by @apsphysics.bsky.social) : doi.org/10.1103/Phys... using quantum annealing for load partitioning looking at a different angle to take advantage of quantum optimization. Unfortunately I don’t think any of my coauthors are on Bluesky (yet)

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured.

Health care is a human right.

We need Medicare for All.

I left the US for the UK over a decade ago and over the years I have had some very attractive offers to go back, healthcare is a big part of the reason why (of course I recognise that leaving isn’t a viable option for most people)

Also wrote a non-technical blog post on what we did in the paper and why we did it: quantumcomputinginc.com/news/blogs/c...

Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect Jesse Berwald, Nicholas Chancellor, and Raouf Dridi, Quantum 8, 1532 (2024). It has previously been established that adiabatic quantum computation, operating based on a continuous Zeno effect due to d...

I’ve gotten a paper published in Quantum doi.org/10.22331/q-2... it always seemed like a neat journal and I’m glad I finally went for it, the review process was nice and we got some really good feedback which improved the work (co-authored with Jesse Berwald and Raouf Dridi)

With not 20th (autocorrect)

I feel sorry for everyone I know back home in the US, but I’m REALLY glad I immigrated to the U.K. it isn’t perfect by any means, but it is a much better place to be 20th my family (it is difficult to describe to someone without US experience how bad/weird US politics and media are)

I wish that places like the UK and Canada would stop trying to shove profit models into healthcare; the US system is really bad, actually!

New paper dance! Comparing quantum walk algorithms with QAOA, collaboration with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social Leonardo Novo, and 4 wonderful students: Lasse Gerblich, Tamanna Dasanjh, Horatio Wong and David Ross

Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States Compulsory labor with little or no compensation should be unthinkable.

It's Juneteenth. As one possible observation - especially for my fellow white Americans - I suggest reading this.

gift link

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...