iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got some new state of the art hardware at IQC!

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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 · 11/12/2025

Careful while leaving IQC at @uwaterloo.ca today. It’s icy out there!!!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I hope the driver bought this fancy car by selling one of those apes.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My students say I'm a crackpot. Apparently they haven't heard of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold to make an even more beautiful piece!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The whole damn place is out of order!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Inspired by this latest American own-goal:

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Critical infrastructure maintenance at IQC.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Barren plateaus: not a nail in the coffin, just a flesh wound.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Zoe Holmes @qzoeholmes.bsky.social telling Waterloo about barren plateaus and classical simulability. Thanks for braving the snow!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Mark Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social telling us about “Machina ex Quanta” and the rise of the quantum Boltzmann machines.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Tuesday group meeting is ON! Please remember to dress in layers and wear a toque.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wow this is very close to @caltech.edu. Are you all okay???? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Important lessons at the university of Waterloo

Kid writing skibidi toilet on a white board

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

cf, this picture of @johnasmolin.bsky.social in 2009. He was about the same age as I am in the picture above.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My favorite professional headshot, right before my first haircut after Covid hit.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

When I was 13, my uncle handed this book to me and said, "You think you're so smart? Why don't you learn about someone who is *really* smart?" It opened a new world for me---it showed you could study the world using math, wonder what time was, and it mentioned something called the universe.

Cover of an old paperback called "The Universe and Dr Einstein".

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Important message from my mom’s bulletin board

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Unable to do meaningful quantum computation because of low fidelities? You’re gate limited.

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