Thomas Bourke

Say hi if you spot me at #QuantumShowcase25 today in London!

Lastly, consider watching some of his films this week. My favorites include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, and All Is Lost.

Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.

Great piece in the WSJ

Ners, France ☀️ Enjoying some poolside reading despite the current heatwave.

go.bsky.app/75SvR2M - Who am I missing?

~got bored this afternoon, do forgive me. But on a serious note would love to know who I haven't discovered on here yet (or mistakenly omitted due to the sheer amount of people)

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Grant Sanderson's new video is a beautiful animation that I wish existed when I first heard about Grover's algorithm!

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Quantum Messages Cover City Distances Via Telco Lines Toshiba sent QKD keys more than 250 kilometers

>250km quantum key distribution! wow

spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-key-...

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

'What’s the problem? Well, pretty much everything. These aren’t species returned from extinction.'

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social's Dr Richard Grenyer argues that extinction is, for the time being, a symptom of our global economic system ⬇️

welp guess I gotta check this out

Lmao

Sorting out the confusion on quantum computing utility Understanding quantum computing's pace of progress is not an easy task. Recent months have complicated it with contradictory messages. CEOs like Jensen Huang (Nvidia) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) estima...

Fantastic post for understanding the technology readiness level (TRL) of quantum computing www.oezratty.net/wordpress/20...

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

P.S. Photo is a radar photo taken by the Sentinel-1C satellite of northern Chile.

Sunday afternoons ☀️

Visiting the Cavendish Laboratory ✨

a very important thread

Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems | Quanta Magazine It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks.

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks. @stephenornes.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-spee...

Spring growth

Male kingfisher down on Hackney Marshes this morning sat amongst new leaves in the warm sunshine.

I think he has a partner as he was interacting with a female just before this.

#LondonBirds #kingfisher #kingfisher #hackney #riverlea #ukbirds #birds #hackneymarshes

The physicists David Pérez-García (left) and Toby Cubitt designed a quantum material whose behavior can capture any calculation possible for a Turing machine. “It started as a joke. Then we started to cook up ideas,” Pérez-García said. buff.ly/SKLsRk0

Ten books to understand the world we're now in Trump’s second term is on track to be more damaging than his first.

New post just out

Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.

Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.

(This one is free to read)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Frosty canal walk

Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2 - Nature We report superconductivity, in a limited region of displacement field and density, in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2 with a maximum critical temperature of 426 mK, establishing that moiré flat-band superconductivity extends beyond graphene structures.

Nature research paper: Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2

https://go.nature.com/3PLNLGx

A single 1” tall splitgill mushroom grows off the end of a broken branch, upturned so it’s underside can be viewed against a brown forest background All photos by me

Here is a nice mushroom

Exclusion Principle xkcd.com/3027

One of my favourites from my Cessna flight over the river deltas in Iceland back in June.

#iceland #aerialphotography #nature #fujifilm