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Jake Arkinstall

@jakearkinstall.bsky.social

Software engineer at Quantinuum, working on quantum computer emulation tooling in Rust and Python. Ex fintech (C++). PhD in physics. Nix addict. Help, I'm stuck in a universe factory.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What in tarnation

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Next season of Bridgerton is going to be lit.

The cast of Bridgerton alongside their friendly neighbourhood spidergentleman

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Hear me out though

Closed loop? No. The unknot? No. The it's knot? Yes!

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Just one more domain bro it's a cool name bro you're gonna have a blog bro and actually post more than once a year bro I promise bro

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Went to see a one-man (and 10 ironing board) show called The Ironing Board Man tonight. Man meets ironing board, they marry, man loses ironing board, man regains ironing board, they have kids, ironing board gets shot, man seeks revenge. It was hilarious. Looked like a hell of an effort too.

The co-stars, including guest stars ironing board Margret Thatcher, ironing board Geri Halliwell, ironing board Donald Trump, and General Starch.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How it's going. I don't know why I didn't think of this before. This thing has always sounded like a server room.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Powys Castle - making the most of a surprisingly beautiful Sunday afternoon after a stormy Saturday.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Cool story bro

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Got to be careful not to go too far with it or you can cause major disruptions to the magnetosphere. Only joking, but it was nice to get this photo during May 2024's solar storms.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

ChatGPT on Quantum Error Correction, Eastin-Knill, and some challenges associated with scale. I lol'd.

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

jj seminar sounds good to me. Looking at the docs I'm getting a strong feeling of "wait how does this differ from just maintaining a scratch branch and doing surgery on a patch file from time to time" so I think I'm getting the wrong end of the stick entirely. Related:

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

First gap in the clouds I've seen all day. An hour before sunset. In unrelated news, I have just invented the cloud swatter. It's like a fly swatter but several orders of magnitude bigger. Yours for a low low price of £120Bn. Also has anyone got a hectare-scale 3d printer I could borrow?

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Always remember to provide adequate cooling for your CPU

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Updated it for you

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Same

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Jake Arkinstall @jakearkinstall.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Last year was incredible for aurorae. I hope this year will be even better, because my kid was fascinated by it. This was my favourite photo, which I called "I'm only transmitting on 100 watts, I swear".

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