Dr. Thomas G McConkey

A superconducting quantum chip with six qubits (crosses), each of them coupled to its readout resonator. Image credit: Valentino Seferai / University of Glasgow

A £1.5m EPSRC grant will enable researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social to develop energy-efficient superconductors, helping accelerate advances in quantum technologies.

Read more about the Super-CT project, led by @weides.bsky.social, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

No, that's Clojure. Cloture is what you get when you confront your high-school bully and they apologize for how they treated you.

It is why I still use the older term "horse and sparrow", better carries the real view the advocates for it actually hold.

A Million Qubits Within Reach as Microsoft Redefines Quantum Computing Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum chip introduces a breakthrough Topological Core, enabling stable and scalable qubits. By leveraging topoconductors, this innovation paves the way for million-qubit machi...

The recent quantum computing announcement out of Microsoft, although it is rather contentious with some experts questioning the results - scitechdaily.com/a-million-qu...

Note: potential appearance of bias

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook or Twitter. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses and use cash. The purpose of today’s economic blackout is to send a clear message: We have the power.

#EconomicBlackout

Check out our newest quantum manuscript on Experimentally Informed Decoding of Stabilizer Codes Based on Syndrome Correlations (arxiv.org/abs/2502.17722) which appeared on the arXiv server today.

YouTube video by Half as Interesting Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed

When infrastructure is crumbling, just kick the can down the road (also it is always Robert Moses' fault).

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Two hours flew by!
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social #podcast #thedownside

same methods, different era

Characterization of Nanostructural Imperfections in Superconducting Quantum Circuits Decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits, caused by loss mechanisms like material imperfections and two-level system (TLS) defects, remains a major obstacle to improving the performance of quan...

A new paper from Oxford looking at TLS loss in superconducting qubits.
#quantum

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

I would highly doubt any of the reports about Deepseek for now. It is clearly operating under CCP direction, given how many topics it gives nonresponses to.

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Sometimes the Youtube algorithm *doesn't* send you down shitty alt-right rabbit holes, but gifts you with gems like - youtu.be/asu1JrsFkxc?...

Only 8k subscribers is a travesty!
@nicole-byer.bsky.social @vornietom.bsky.social
#podcast