Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 18/07/2026today 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 130
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 15/07/2026this 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 100
Reposted by Filip WEthan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The 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 #aibigthink.comThe big reason Einstein would never have used AIMany think that intelligence can be outsourced to AI. Einstein wouldn't have used it. If he had, he never would have become Einstein. 1188
Reposted by Filip WRoss Duncan @rossquantum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026My first Nature paper! I had very little to do with it :-) www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity - NatureA 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 ... 1131
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 13/06/2026wow "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...anthropic.comStatement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5The 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. 131
Reposted by Filip WError Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Big 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/2606.11484arxiv.orgHandbook of Error-Correcting CodesBarcode 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... 0227
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 10/06/2026booted 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 010
Reposted by Filip WAndreas Wallraff @andreasateth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Check 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 ...nytimes.comA Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random 2142
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 02/06/2026Microsoft 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...news.microsoft.comIntroducing Majorana 2How Microsoft’s new quantum chip was made 1,000x more reliable with the help of Microsoft Discovery's agentic AI. 130
Reposted by Filip WAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Absolutely incredible Nutella ad. 803937976
Reposted by Filip WVictor 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/2603.28627arxiv.org 093
Reposted by Filip WMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/03/2026haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social) 4551180
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 24/03/2026Google'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...blog.googleBuilding superconducting and neutral atom quantum computersAn overview of Google Quantum AI’s work on superconducting and neutral atom quantum computers. 010
Reposted by Filip WSteve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The 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...jobs.chronicle.comChief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit. 07552
Reposted by Filip WRoss Duncan @rossquantum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026arxiv.org/abs/2602.22211 #quantum #qec #quantinuumarxiv.orgComputing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-evenHigh-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... 1214
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 31/12/2025There can only be one song today! 🇦🇺 youtu.be/QKMpXFNbNfE?...youtu.beMissy Higgins - NYE (Official Audio)YouTube video by missyhiggins 010
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 16/12/2025what?! 😅 "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.comratsplaydoom.comRats Play Doom 020
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 08/12/2025nice! 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...lp.jetbrains.comSupport Python With JetBrainsPurchase PyCharm at 30% OFF, and have all the proceeds of your purchase donated to support Python. 020
Reposted by Filip WRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/12/2025Can you power your computer by typing? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...youtube.comCan you power your computer by typing?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 221032118
Reposted by Filip WNicole Yunger Halpern @nicoleyh11.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Toward 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.socialarxiv.orgProposals for experimentally realizing (mostly) quantum-autonomous gatesAutonomous 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... 042
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 12/11/2025upgraded 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 😣 130
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 03/11/2025Elon: "I know absolutely nothing about this, so here's my expert opinion" 050
Reposted by Filip WJoe Finney @thejoefin.com · 26/10/2025Super 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-...strathweb.comLLM and SLM collaboration using the Minions pattern (with Phi-4-mini and Azure OpenAI) | Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue. 001
Reposted by Filip WJohn Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025When 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/2510.19928arxiv.orgMind the gaps: The fraught road to quantum advantageQuantum 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... 1769
Reposted by Filip WEthan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 23/10/20255 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 #physicsbigthink.com5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matterDark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know. 67618
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 22/10/2025this 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...macrumors.comReport: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone AirApple is "drastically" cutting production of the iPhone Air and shifting focus toward the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro models, Nikkei Asia... 030
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 22/10/2025When 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. 110
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 15/10/2025Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅 020
Reposted by Filip WThe 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:share.transistor.fmNobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and QolabThis episode is a first for the show - a repeat of a previously posted... 052
Reposted by Filip WMicah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2025my 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 311411144
Reposted by Filip WRobert Garisto @robertgaristo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Chills 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...journals.aps.orgEnergy-Level Quantization in the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson JunctionWe 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... 021
Reposted by Filip WBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 07/10/2025it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years 27521
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 07/10/2025so 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...nobelprize.orgNobel Prize in Physics 2025The 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... 050
Reposted by Filip WETH 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?ethz.chGiorgio 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. 12013
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 01/10/2025a terminal command that I had to run today that feels surprisingly adequate on so many levels sudo killall zeitgeist 020
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 01/10/2025it's October 1, quick, someone wake Billie Joe Armstrong up!media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with a white shirt onAlt: a close up of a sleeping Billie Joe Armstrong's face with a white shirt on 011
Reposted by Filip WOptica Publishing Group @opg.optica.org · 26/09/2025Via #OPG_OpticaQ: Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer opg.optica.org/opticaq/full... #QuantumInformation #IntegratedPhotonics 033
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 29/09/2025 - the target was five 9s uptime! - but 89.9999 is still five 9s 020
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 25/09/2025is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩 110
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 23/09/2025new blog post: Introducing (Maybe) LibOQS.NET - a post quantum cryptography library for .NET 🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr... 000
Reposted by Filip WJames 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…” 5604
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...nature.comRedox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - NatureA 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... 010
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 10/09/2025today 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...github.comGitHub - filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnetContribute to filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnet development by creating an account on GitHub. 192
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 27/08/2025I 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! 010
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 11/08/2025oh 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/...theverge.comGitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationGitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team 111
Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 21/07/2025after many years (decades) of using macOS only today I learnt that you can create tabs in Finder 🙈 120