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Filip W

@filipw.strathweb.com
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Software architect, quantum computing nomad, open source contributor, Microsoft MVP. Works in R&D in the medical industry. Interested in quantum foundations.
 Author of “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” (Springer).

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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 18/07/2026
today I heard some music from a singer named "Ikkimel", who apparently is quite popular among kids over here, and I finally understand how our parents must have felt about Rancid and Wu-Tang Clan
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 15/07/2026
this Argentina team is like a Phoenix - you just can't kill it off you think you did and here they are again - what an amazing team to watch
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The big reason Einstein would never have used AI The point of school is to grow your mind; the point of science is to discover truths about reality. We know that Einstein never would've used AI. Here are the dangers if you do. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #einstein #ai
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The big reason Einstein would never have used AI
Many think that intelligence can be outsourced to AI. Einstein wouldn't have used it. If he had, he never would have become Einstein.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 15/07/2026
15th year as Microsoft MVP. phew I suddenly feel old!
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Ross Duncan @rossquantum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My first Nature paper! I had very little to do with it :-) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity - Nature
A new quantum computer, Quantinuum Helios, which is a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor built on the QCCD architecture, demonstrates performance well beyond classical capabilities and provides a ...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 13/06/2026
wow "The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees" 🔗 www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Big update: the EC Zoo is now a handbook. It spans codes, sphere packings, lattices, designs, groups, and phases of matter. Extensively checked, but not perfect—feedback very welcome: arxiv.org/abs/2606.11484
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Handbook of Error-Correcting Codes
Barcode scans, clear phone calls, reliable data storage, satellite communication, and large-scale quantum computation are all made possible by error correction. We present a handbook version of The Er...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 10/06/2026
booted my Windows PC for the first time in months and after about an hour of churning various Windows updates it has spent the last hour on this - not particularly reassuring - state
Windows update error - Something didnt go as planned
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Andreas Wallraff @andreasateth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Check out this hot off the press article in the @nytimes.com on our work on #perfect #randomness : www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/s... The work was done at Department of Physics, the #Quantum Center @ethz-qc.bsky.social , and @ethz.ch #Zürich ...
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A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 02/06/2026
Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, its next-generation topological quantum chip with the plan to achieve a scalable quantum computer by 2029 warning: the phrase "agentic AI" is used 19(!) times in the article 🔗 news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
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Introducing Majorana 2
How Microsoft’s new quantum chip was made 1,000x more reliable with the help of Microsoft Discovery's agentic AI.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.
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Victor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"our most time-efficient architectures can potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈ 26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈ 102,000 qubits" arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28627
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social)
Cartoon from @twonks on instagram: shows George Jetson vacuuming while Rosie the robot maid paints a canvas
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 24/03/2026
Google's expansion into neutral atoms feels like a strategic shift. Neutral atoms offer the spatial scaling and connectivity needed for error correction blog.google/innovation-a...
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Building superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers
An overview of Google Quantum AI’s work on superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers.
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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know! @dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
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Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678
arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.
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Ross Duncan @rossquantum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2602.22211 #quantum #qec #quantinuum
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Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even
High-rate quantum error correcting (QEC) codes encode many logical qubits in a given number of physical qubits, making them promising candidates for quantum computation. Implementing high-rate codes a...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 31/12/2025
There can only be one song today! 🇦🇺 youtu.be/QKMpXFNbNfE?...
youtu.be
Missy Higgins - NYE (Official Audio)
YouTube video by missyhiggins
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 16/12/2025
what?! 😅 "We built a complete VR setup from scratch to let rats play DOOM. (...) The rats successfully learned to navigate the virtual environment and trigger the shooting mechanism. " 🔗 ratsplaydoom.com
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Rats Play Doom
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 08/12/2025
nice! worth sharing.. Until December 12, you can buy an individual annual subscription for PyCharm Pro at 30% OFF, and have the full cost of your purchase donated to the Python Software Foundation. lp.jetbrains.com/support-pyth...
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Support Python With JetBrains
Purchase PyCharm at 30% OFF, and have all the proceeds of your purchase donated to support Python.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 03/12/2025
they should not let me anywhere near React 🤦‍♂️😅🤷‍♂️
Github screenshot showing a 1780-line, 100kB App.tsx
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/12/2025
Can you power your computer by typing? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...
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Can you power your computer by typing?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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Nicole Yunger Halpern @nicoleyh11.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Toward autonomous quantum computation. (If you're an experimentalist who'd like to try out any of these proposals, let me know!) arxiv.org/abs/2510.07372 @umdscience.bsky.social
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Proposals for experimentally realizing (mostly) quantum-autonomous gates
Autonomous quantum machines (AQMs) execute tasks without requiring time-dependent external control. Motivations for AQMs include the restrictions imposed by classical control on quantum machines' cohe...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 12/11/2025
upgraded my home connection to 10Gbit fiber Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 03/11/2025
Elon: "I know absolutely nothing about this, so here's my expert opinion"
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 29/10/2025
and how is your day going? 😣
Newsweek headline stating that Azure is down in every region of the world
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Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 26/10/2025
Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results! www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
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LLM and SLM collaboration using the Minions pattern (with Phi-4-mini and Azure OpenAI) | Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue.
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When and how will quantum computing broadly benefit humanity? Despite exhilarating recent progress, we still don’t know. Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928
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Mind the gaps: The fraught road to quantum advantage
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, yet substantial gaps separate today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices from tomorrow's fault-tolerant application-scale (FASQ) machines. We ident...
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter. These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!) bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics
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5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 22/10/2025
this should have been a new Mini! I am still clinging on to 12 Mini and I refuse to buy a new one until they release a new Mini 🫩 Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air 🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...
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Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
Apple is "drastically" cutting production of the iPhone Air and shifting focus toward the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro models, Nikkei Asia...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 22/10/2025
When Werner Heisenberg came up with his original "observable" idea for quantum mechanics, he turned to Max Born and Pascual Jordan to help advance the ideas further, but they couldn't manage to apply the theory to the electron in hydrogen atom.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 15/10/2025
Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅
view over a sea bay from a 15th floor. bridge in the backgroundigloo shaped pop up conference room in a large conference center
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The New Quantum Era @newquantumera.com · 13/10/2025
🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab. Have a listen:
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Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab
This episode is a first for the show - a repeat of a previously posted...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2025
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
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Robert Garisto @robertgaristo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago: "We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Energy-Level Quantization in the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction
We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state. The position of...
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 07/10/2025
so great to see this - so deserved! 👏👏🎉 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 electric circuit." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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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...
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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 02/10/2025
"If we leave writing to AI chatbots, we won't just lose a craft and the skills. Because writing is more than that. Writing is thinking", argues Giorgio Iemmolo, Director of the Language Centre at ETH and the University of Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-... What is your opinion?
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Giorgio Iemmolo, is learning possible without writing?
AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 01/10/2025
a terminal command that I had to run today that feels surprisingly adequate on so many levels sudo killall zeitgeist
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 01/10/2025
it's October 1, quick, someone wake Billie Joe Armstrong up!
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a close up of a man 's face with a white shirt on
Alt: a close up of a sleeping Billie Joe Armstrong's face with a white shirt on
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Optica Publishing Group @opg.optica.org · 26/09/2025
Via #OPG_OpticaQ: Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer opg.optica.org/opticaq/full... #QuantumInformation #IntegratedPhotonics
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 29/09/2025
 - the target was five 9s uptime!  - but 89.9999 is still five 9s
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 25/09/2025
is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩
a Jupyter Notebook cell [14] showing a successful execution checkmark in 31.9s
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 23/09/2025
new blog post: Introducing (Maybe) LibOQS.NET - a post quantum cryptography library for .NET 🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“We only have a few minutes left so please keep your questions brief.” “Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”
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Safely Endangered @safelyendangered.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 10/09/2025
👀 🤔 "(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’" Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - Nature
A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and or...
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 10/09/2025
today I released LibOQS.NET, a .NET wrapper for liboqs (Open Quantum Safe), bringing plug-and-play support for post quantum cryptography for .NET developers. Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64) 💻 github.com/filipw/maybe... 📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...
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GitHub - filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnet
Contribute to filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnet development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 27/08/2025
I have not checked it in a few months (last I remember it did not work), but what a nice surprise today - I found out that there are now Windows ARM native versions of both PyTorch and numpy! very cool!
Screenshot from VS Code showing a simple program testing pytorch and numpy on windows on arm.

The output in the right hand terminal says:
(.venv) PS C:\code\torch-test> python .\test.py        
PyTorch version: 2.8.0+cpu
NumPy version: 2.3.2
PyTorch is running on Arm: ARM64
PyTorch matrix multiplication result:
 tensor([[-0.1796,  0.2026, -0.0628],
        [-0.2784, -0.1886,  1.5292],
        [-0.8776,  0.9176,  2.0678]])
PyTorch test successful.
NumPy matrix multiplication result:
 [[ 0.90663809  0.8926634  -1.37397956]
 [-0.66759187  0.14342166  1.32512642]
 [ 0.79819151  1.96484695 -1.32987308]]
NumPy test successful.
PyTorch and NumPy matrix multiplication results match.
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 11/08/2025
oh wow this is quite a big deal Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation" 🔗 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 21/07/2025
after many years (decades) of using macOS only today I learnt that you can create tabs in Finder 🙈
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