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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 11/08/2026

Finally back in Edinburgh for Fringe. Saw shitfaced Shakespeare. Quite fun. The premise is that one of the classically trained actors in the play is indeed shitfaced and the others must adapt the play to their whims whilst trying to stay serious. We somehow ended up with a puppet father in Hamlet.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 04/07/2026

Coseners was great, I missed cheese and british irony. Selling quantum to a room full of classical internet & communications architects went down quite well

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 27/06/2026

Such a pleasure to have participated at NUS’s HACKAMONTH this June! Beyond grateful to my co-hackers and the staff at Singapore’s Center of Quantum Tech, for an incredible month & wonderful collaborations! One of the papers written during this time is already out, but keep an eye out for more :)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 27/06/2026

I visited the first museum on the afterlife. Can now claim I have been to hell and back 😉

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 20/06/2026

Some pictures of the orchid garden at the Singaporean botanical garden

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 16/06/2026

Yesterday I gave a short intro to Distributed Quantum Computing at the Center of Quantum tech in Singapore! You can check out my (20 min long) dry run here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrb...

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/06/2026

In case you doubt why would distribution be useful for compute: ~ from arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05799

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 05/06/2026

Having a great time in sunny Singapore during the first week of CQT’s HACKMONTH

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 02/06/2026

I’ll be at the Center of Quantum Tech in the National University if Singapore t’ill late June. Reach out if you’re around!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/05/2026

Little pic enjoying the distillery tasting at the Isle of Skye

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 25/05/2026

Lovely ride to the Isle of Skye today for the QI spring school

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 08/05/2026

I made it to the Nova 111 student list this year! The list recognises the top 111 students contributing to maths, physics and data analysis in the country

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 19/04/2026

Using my train ride to have a laugh about the dichotomy of recent comments on my posts … praise and hate! I must be doing something right

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 15/04/2026

I think the paper overlords are starting to take the piss with my PhD

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 10/04/2026

Edinburgh quantum science festival was a fun volunteering experience! Kids just wanted to know how fast thing were (priorities!)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 30/03/2026

Crazy LinkedIn occurrence of the day... I hope no one in the field feels compelled to pay for recognition of their “influence”. Especially not in a gendered setting

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 26/03/2026

Copilot will use your code for model training starting next month unless you opt out 👇 If you’re a student on the free plan, consider whether you want to disable this before April 24th

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 13/03/2026

Some nice art I saw at the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Cibeles,Madrid) last month

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/03/2026

Please avoid contributing to my projects with fully AI generated PRs that you don't even read through

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/01/2026

Perhaps early to say, but this might be my best read of the year. A thrilling walk through how textiles shaped and continue to shape the world. From Ancient Greek arithmetic to the first computer, textiles have truly woven our society 😉

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 16/01/2026

The joy of seeing a KaHypar python package update after 3 years!!!!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 05/01/2026

2025 was a good coding year! My first open source library came out. Can’t wait to beat my own record this year!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 20/12/2025

Finished my internship with Quantinuum yesterday. It was awesome & I am so thankful for the opportunity to contribute to such an incredible team! Omw back home for the holidays but will be back to distributed quantum computing research in 2026. Until then, happy holidays! 🎄

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12/12/2025

Point to self: don't ask Claude to psychoanalyze you based on previous conversations

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 21/11/2025

A couple of months of progress. I may have relaxed my all quantum theme (some stickers are just too good to ignore)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 13/11/2025

Slowly appreciating the aesthetics of my data

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 07/11/2025

Shiny quantum hardware today at the UK National Showcase.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 02/11/2025

Welcomed winter with a big bonfire and a celtic Samhuinn festival. Don’t forget your vitamin D this season!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 11/10/2025

Although the translation is slightly rough at the start, this book made me publicly cry so 9/10. Would recommend as a quick one sit read

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/10/2025

First external contribution and +80% of issues completed to reach v1 for the HDH library! 🎉 More details about the project can be found: grageragarces.github.io/HDH/

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/10/2025

To anyone I ever hiked with: ~ video found and shared by @thomasbourke1.bsky.social

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 20/09/2025

I’ve always taken my laptop sticker game incredibly seriously. And for the first time, it looks like I’m on my way to a fully quantum laptop. No one on the train will have any doubt about the industry I work in. Sticker donations are always welcome

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12/09/2025

By far, the best food award at a conference I’ve ever attended goes to these cheese boards across SIGCOMM. Perfection 🧀

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 10/09/2025

Awkward poster pictures have arrived. Do find me at poster 35 at SIGCOMM tomorrow!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 08/09/2025

Had a great time this morning at the QuNet workshop at SIGCOMM! Loads of cool work on quantum network locality, control, memories, and network implementations. The big takeaway: metroscale q networks are gradually becoming a reality, but unsurprisingly the quantum internet is a while ahead

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 07/09/2025

IWQC ✅ see you at SIGCOMM next 🛫 Thank you to the organisers for such a great workshop on quantum compilation! I learned a lot and had the pleasure of presenting my early PhD work! I’ll leave you with some fancy looking slides:

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 03/09/2025

I’m visiting Helsinki for IWQC later this week, and I’ve got to share that, without any doubt, today I had the best potato of my life.

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