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Graeme Smith

@graemesmith.bsky.social
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Theorist in Waterloo. Quantum information, quantum computing, science, parenting. gsbsmith.ca

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Good name is better than silver and gold. And no money, no money, no money, no money, no money can buy good name." -- William Onyeabor www.youtube.com/watch?v=27nC...
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William Onyeabor – Good Name (Official Video)
YouTube video by Luaka Bop
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shame on @qipconference.bsky.social for using X/twitter. You give our community a bad name.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s move in day in Waterloo!
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[at recent group meeting] Me: there's one thing the AI can't do---generate the human spark of curiosity that drives us all. @lvanluijk.bsky.social: No, but it can kill it.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Casually wondering how one would test whether Mitch McConnell is brain dead.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/07/2026
"A.i." for education is for cheating. That's its primary use case. Anyone who's pushing for "A.i." in education is pushing for fraud.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wonder how else the cheaters are cheating tonight against belgium.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Cheating: the American way www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Trump lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium
The US striker was shown red in the team’s last-32 match, but the card and its suspension were thought to not be eligible for appeal.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Two years from today Dragonfly will be sitting atop a rocket at the cape. With any luck weather will be green, the go no go poll will be all go and we will be on our way to Titan.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
let me tell you, writing bullshit reports has gotten incredibly easy with AI
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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excellent cow photos here 👇
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In the AI future we will have neural networks installed directly in our brains!
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Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wonderful news! Congratulations to Gautam Kamath and his collaborators on their foundational research on robust estimation being recognized with the 2026 Gödel Prize, the top award in theoretical computer science.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Combinatorics must be pretty easy if some dumb AI can solve a major open problem in it
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AI boosters get so weird about people thinking AI sucks. If this tech is so miraculous, why do you care if some people don't like it? Good products that have the support of the world's largest companies don't need volunteer cheerleaders, their adoption is inevitable. Have faith in your slop gods.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And it’s not even that leisurely!!!
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Felice Kuan @felicekuan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What my husband sees when his ADHD wife barges in
Screenshot from the game Yakuza 6. A large red-bordered warning banner flashes over an ocean-diving level. The banner says: DANGER Delicious Octopus
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
LOL, I have a variety of feelings about this, but mostly glee. Note that in the preprint you'll find a link to a github with code by @kalramolak.bsky.social @avantikaag03.bsky.social @sungjai.bsky.social and Pulkit Sinha, the leaders of the project. I expect codex made heavy use of that.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/05/2026
sign o the times
sign reading

so much panic 
so little disco
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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
UIUC Canvas has been hacked, as have many more universities. The hackers clearly know that finals are ongoing to maximize damage with this.
Message showing that the UIUC Canvas space was hacked by some group called "Shinyhunters".
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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A little task to get your brain going today: Prove the statement in the picture!
A mathematical statement involving operator inequalities and tensor products.
Statement in LaTeX: 
Let $X,Y$ be operators on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. If $0\leq X \leq Y$, then $X^{\otimes n} \leq Y^{\otimes n}$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wow, Google jumps into neutral atoms with Adam Kaufman!! jila.colorado.edu/news-events/...
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Google Quantum AI Engages JILA Fellow Adam Kaufman to Lead New Neutral Atom Quantum Computing Effort | JILA - Exploring the Frontiers of Physics
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
OTD 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. He immediately pardoned 8,000 violent Nazis, many of whom were involved in the failed 1923 coup.
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ACM Education and Learning Center @acmeducation.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
April 9, join Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Co-Founder of the Quantum Internet Research Group) for the #ACMTechTalk "Toward a Quantum-Native Internet: From Architecture to Protocol Organization." Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Senior Scientist @ Argonne) will moderate. Register (free) to attend: bit.ly/4rIyhnn
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti and Rajkumar Kettimuthu
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wow, amazing!! www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...
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Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
writing your own code will soon be considered charmingly eccentric, like churning your own butter.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11/03/2026
so they're just making shit up
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/02/2026
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I’m “there’s too many teenagers over there to stop for lunch” old
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/02/2026
what the fuck this really seems like another case of them going after someone prominent to send a “nobody is safe” message and what’s actually going to happen is continuing to polarize everyone but the worst of the worst against them because how the fuck is this kid a threat to anything
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Heresy!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
all time photo editor performance
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Watching this Canada US gold medal hockey game reminds me a lot of watching Canada play the USSR in the 80’s
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/02/2026
Karen was told that she was “guilty by association”, and that she had broken the terms of her valid B2 tourist visa by helping her husband pack for the trip. “It just went from crazy to ridiculous. It felt like they just wanted an excuse to detain me.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Scientific conferences must not be held in the US until it is safe to travel there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
we haven’t even arrested a single billionaire and they arrested a whole prince. look at my country bro
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Is there anything better than to have to be somewhere for a meeting and then the meeting is cancelled and it turns out you don't have to go? I think not.
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 11/02/2026
Every now and then I see a post and think ‘oh no, you don’t do your thinking with those concepts do you? Those are posting concepts, not thinking concepts’ and I think this tracks a meaningful distinction.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/02/2026
French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
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French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
Prosecutors summon tech billionaire and company’s ex-CEO for questioning as part of expanded investigation * Europe live – latest updates Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime. “A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network. Continue reading...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
FYI @jila.colorado.edu
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🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊 @professorkiosk.wtf · 01/02/2026
whatever you do don’t ask their age
A book on a rack whose title is How to Date Buildings: An Easy Reference Guide.
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