Graeme Smith

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...

Never forget how amazing it is that electrical circuits can behave quantum mechanically!

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Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.

"So...what country will you flee to if you need to?" is becoming a frequent topic of discussion with colleagues in america.

Better late than never!

Physicists launch study of temporal paradox allowing people younger than you to have kids already COPENHAGEN – An international coalition of scientists with expertise in quantum mechanics, wave theory and atomic structure have assembled at the Nils Bohr Institute and announced plans to tackle the ...

Physicists launch study of temporal paradox allowing people younger than you to have kids already

Green and garbage bins coming from the region soon Hundreds of thousands of new garbage and green bins are ready to be delivered across Waterloo Region over the next few months.

Kitchener-Waterloo is popping

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Put it on my headstone

Oooooh! Good idea!

My students say I'm a crackpot.

Apparently they haven't heard of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold to make an even more beautiful piece!

Theranos only raised $700 million with a peak valuation of $9 billion and never went public.

Proud to see multiple quantum companies exceeding these numbers with very similar business plans!

Harvard bends the knee.

The whole damn place is out of order!

You capture the experience so succinctly!

I tagged you in a post (about IBM’s new nonsense with vanguard) but now the tag is gone and so are you. Maybe someone reported that you’re not a real company (which is totally false).

Meme about noise from quantum industry vs me.

Hey did you get kicked off LinkedIn???

May I suggest reserving judgement on whether there’s valuable science in there? There’s really no reason to think there is (and at a first glance there isn’t).

okay maybe AI isn't all bad

Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson.
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tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches? James Madison expected more from the other "departments," as he referred to them. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

It is always key to remember that none of this would be possible without the Supreme Court and congressional leadership acceding to virtually all that Trump wants, as I have written. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Popper: “make bold testable hypotheses…. Be ready to discard them if refuted”
HSBC/IBM: “The PR department needs us to make something… anything”

HSBC demonstrates world’s first-known quantum-enabled algorithmic trading with IBM | HSBC News HSBC announces the world’s first-known empirical evidence of the potential value of quantum computers for solving real-world problems in algorithmic bond trading.

Bullshit

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HSBC unleashes yet another “qombie”: a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isn’t Today, I got email after email asking me to comment on a new paper from HSBC—yes, the bank—together with IBM. The paper claims to use a quantum computer to get a 34% advantage in predic…

Aaronson captures the essence of typical "quantum applications" research.

"If it seems like I’m being harsh, it’s because to my mind, the entire concept of this sort of study is fatally flawed from the beginning, optimized for generating headlines rather than knowledge."

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Canada Post workers have walked off the job, set up picket lines across the country Canada Post workers have walked off the job. Picket lines have been set up at offices in various parts of the country, including B.C.

In all honesty I thought they’d been on strike for weeks already.

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No Quantum Advantage in Decoded Quantum Interferometry for MaxCut Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) is a framework for approximating special kinds of discrete optimization problems that relies on problem structure in a way that sets it apart from other classical ...

Another one bites the dust…

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Industry-compatible silicon spin-qubit unit cells exceeding 99% fidelity - Nature Two-qubit operations exceeding 99% fidelity have been demonstrated by silicon devices made with standard semiconductor tooling in a 300-mm foundry environment.

Seems cool.

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Quantum Computing Specialist Job Description Quantum Computing Specialist Derby - Hybrid (3 days a week on-site) 37 hours per week Rolls-Royce has an exciting opportunity for 2 Quantum Computing Specialists to join the Future Tec...

work on the rolls royce of quantum computers

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folks, it’s finally time t

A battery necklace and CD antennae. Photograph: Shobha, Italy, Contrasto / Focus/World Press Photo

This is how the first wearable quantum computer will look like.