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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 18/07/2026

I need to listen to some Rancid to recover from this youtu.be/664npiDuTI4?...

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Rancid - 'Red Hot Moon' (Music Video)

YouTube video by Rancid

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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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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 13/06/2026

"The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected."

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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

the technical paper is here quantum.scene7.com/is/content/q...

quantum.scene7.com

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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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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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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 12/11/2025

at least now each wired connection to the router will get it's own "dedicated 1 Gbit", but still, horrible planning 😅

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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

bigthink.com

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

They asked Wolfgang Pauli for help, who replied "This is indeed a calculation that is too difficult. For you." and proceeded to calculate everything which confirmed the theory. (as told by C. Rovelli in "Helgoland")

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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 background

igloo 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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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 13/10/2025

Rust has no GC and people say it's so safe so obviously you made the right decision 👌👏

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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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Filip W @filipw.strathweb.com · 03/10/2025

I first thought it was a subtle expression of disapproval 🤭

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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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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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