Ross Duncan

Minimising the number of edges in LC-equivalent graph states Hemant Sharma, Kenneth Goodenough, Johannes Borregaard, Filip Rozpędek, and Jonas Helsen, Quantum 10, 2001 (2026). Graph states are a powerful class of entangled states with numerous applications in...

Newly published in Quantum: Minimising the number of edges in LC-equivalent graph states by Hemant Sharma, Kenneth Goodenough, Johannes Borregaard, Filip Rozpędek, and Jonas Helsen doi.org/10.22331/q-2...

maybe anathem got it right, idk.

Very cool.

$ tail -1 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 www.washingtonpost.com

I am giving a talk about automatic formal verification of computer hardware using Harmonic's Aristotle system at the University of Cambridge at their CS department on Thursday 26 February 2026 at 2PM in room FW26. The talk is open to the public.
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

want to escape serfdom? time’s running out to start piping your entire workflow through a Clasp stack hosted on a Worgret instance and then sieving that output into LiBit bottles to get churned up into something Fluss can read and tokenize in the cloud with Nonk

Slow Horses is great, miles better than everything else on Apple TV. Also, each season is self contained (because based on a book) so there's no narrative rip off at the end, like pretty much much all other contemporary shows. Caveat given, Severance is good, Silo OK.

Our first ZX-calculus paper was written in 2007 in the Alborz mountains in Iran. Let's hope that the Iranian people can get what "they" want. (RIP Hassan)

www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.c...

I would be amazed if the Szilard point had not been passed at a national level decades ago, at least in the UK.

YouTube video by media.ccc.de 39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy

Not a lot of surprises for people following closely, but a pretty good summary of where AI-OS is in 2026.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent” These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…

I almost missed this from Scott Aaronson:

> Meanwhile, Quantinuum took a victory lap, boasting of their recent successes in a way that I considered basically justified.

scottaaronson.blog?p=9425

cc: @quantinuum.bsky.social

subscribe to 404 Media if you want to see a few people do the news half a year before corporate media reports it

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Interesting article, especially the part about big companies.

This is horrific. AI hallucinates references, Google Scholar swallows them, libraries adapt their records to Google Scholar as ground truth, and an inexistent paper becomes reality.

Enough of this finite initial segment nonsense. A number is even if there is no remainder when divided by 2. \Aleph_0 = 2 \Aleph_0, so by cardinality, there is an even number of naturals *and* an even number of integers. And even if there was one more, that would still be an even number!

Or "outwith"

If I were a journal editor I would do the prompt injection myself, in order to detect AI reviewers.

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

Just decline the peer review invitation.

What are you people even doing?

Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

Scientists should read this.
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

Definitely interested!

I'm not going to Q2B -- where can I see more? Is it open source?

Kathrin Spendier leads a multimillion-dollar quantum competition

In search of better work–life balance, @spendier.bsky.social gave up her job as a tenured physics professor and looked for jobs in industry. The transition required repackaging her skills. She now runs @xprize.org’s competition in quantum applications. #whatcanphysicistsdo

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?

My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.

medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

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Want to hear more about #quantinuum's Helios #quantum computer? There's a webinar. It's on Teams, Tuesday 11 December, twice!.
-- 3pm GMT / 9am MT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37fe2b...
-- 11pm GMT / 4pm MT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/35bd82...

Since the community here is very familiar with VQAs and their pitfalls, Here's my 2 cents on the the topic, would love to hear what everyone thinks too.
TLDR: "VQAs are doomed, and that's great news for QC"

1/ however long it's gonna take

YouTube video by Vacacion08 Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam -

RIP Jimmy Cliff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChr...

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...