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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄
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nate @loglog.wtf · 17/09/2026
Josh Izaac kicking off quantum software 2.6 workshop at IEEE QCE in room 718B
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Kartik @k4rtik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow at #IEEEQuantumWeek2026: Quantum Software 2.6! A full day of talks + discussion on current challenges and headways in quantum software. 📅 Sept. 17 ⏰ 10:00 AM–4:30 PM 📍 Room 718B, Metro Toronto Convention Centre Come join us! sites.google.com/view/quantum... #QuantumSoftware
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Quantum Software 2.6 Workshop
Quantum Software 2.6: current challenges and headways in quantum software IEEE Quantum Week conference, Sept 17, 2026 Metro Toronto Convention Center Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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nate @loglog.wtf · 15/09/2026
props to martin roetteler for this
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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the controversy thickens—now other openai results are being questioned 😈 mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom...
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kevin Buzzard's thoughts on Fermat's Last Theorem being autoformalized in Lean. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...
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FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…
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nate @loglog.wtf · 25/08/2026
there should be a complexity class for problems where LLM proofs are harder to verify than solve directly
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Letter (1962) from Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists in response to Mosley's demands that they debate publicly.
22 January 1962
Sir Oswald Mosley,
5, Lowndes Court,
Lowndes Square,
London, S.W.1.

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell
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Yuri Sulyma @yurisulyma.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
👏 arxiv.org/abs/2608.16066
Mathematicians are currently being instrumentalised in a large scale advertising campaign by AI companies competing for market monopoly. Public grant money is being paid to companies which then receive free advertising from us, often while showing little regard for our research priorities. More seriously, as part of this advertising campaign, some companies are pushing misinformation about the goals of mathematical research. This misinformation has the real potential to influence government funding decisions in a way that funnels money away from scientific goals, and towards private interests.
This advertising campaign has more serious collateral damage. Mathematics depends on a human research ecosystem which continually generates new problems and sustains the community capable of recognising and pursuing them. Human generated research problems are a scarce and essential part of this mathematical ecosystem. Conceptually incoherent and empirically unsupported rhetoric portraying mathematicians as replaceable threatens a pipeline of early career researchers already in precarious employment conditions. Damaging either undermines the infrastructure on which future mathematical progress depends.
While the author *does* want to be transparent about the use of computer assistance in the preparation of the current manuscript, he does not want to participate in this advertising campaign and contribute to this destruction of the commons. As such, the model and company name will remain absent from this manuscript, but are available upon request.
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Mark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Further thoughts on the GPT situation in the form of a song. Based on "Against the 70s" by Mike Watt. Audio: legacy.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so... Title: Against the GPTs
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Against the GPTs | Mark Wilde
Against the GPTs by Mark Wilde, Rock music from Ithaca, NY on ReverbNation
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nate @loglog.wtf · 12/08/2026
Gotta remember we are in the pre-enshittification era of LLMs. As AI companies search for profitability they will invariably stop passing surplus onto us users.
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nate @loglog.wtf · 09/08/2026
Ty @htmlenergy.bsky.social for giving me an excuse to make this tribute to the very sad 2026 mariners baseball team natestemen.github.io/ms-tribute/
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nate @loglog.wtf · 05/08/2026
"claude write this paper, but this time with giga-low overhead"
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nate @loglog.wtf · 30/07/2026
scirate should only show the number of scites from non-authors
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International Association for Quantum Information @iaqi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let's have a community discussion about the impact of LLMs on quantum information research, and how to react to it as a research community! 👩‍🔬⚛️🤖 🏛️ Head over to the IAQI forum 👇 discuss.iaqi.org/t/quantum-in... 🦋 Please share widely!
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Quantum Information Processing research in the age of AI
Dear colleagues, Over the past weeks there have been more and more results in which AI models played a crucial role, not only in mathematics and theoretical computer science, but right at the heart o...
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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nate @loglog.wtf · 28/07/2026
Tonamichel calling a clanker a student is depressing
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nate @loglog.wtf · 27/07/2026
just me or is it surprising that there are still "basic" topology to be learned about fundamental spaces in quantum? arxiv.org/abs/2607.18105
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Topology of the Set of Entangled State
We investigate the topology of the set $\mathsf E$ of entangled bipartite density operators acting on $\mathbb{C}^{n_1}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{n_2}$. We start by showing that $\mathsf E$ is path-connected,...
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nate @loglog.wtf · 23/07/2026
@unitary.foundation spotted 👀
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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/06/2026
i think we can stop the "XYZ is all you need" papers now
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nate @loglog.wtf · 17/06/2026
feel bad for teams with a person named Claude on them
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nate @loglog.wtf · 11/06/2026
this pattern is so silly. just put your damn artifacts online
screenshot from a paper that reads:

Data availability
The data from the experimental runs are available on request.
Code availability
The quantum circuits used in these experiments are available on
request.
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nate @loglog.wtf · 10/06/2026
Open source and @unitary.foundation getting a few shout outs as leaders in benchmarking at deep tech week quantum panel
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nate @loglog.wtf · 09/06/2026
pretty pls come to our workshop
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
For those who missed it, here's a quick summary of Microsoft Majorana 2 announcement: "Agentic AI, AI agent teams, AI agent, agentic AI, agentic AI, AI agents, AI-driven, agent, agentic AI, agentic AI, agentic AI, agents, agentic AI, AI, agentic AI, agentic AI..." 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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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 02/06/2026
This terrific article by Siobhan Roberts could help elevate the public discussion of AI in mathematics. The interview about the Leiden Declaration is especially helpful. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/s...
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As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
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nate @loglog.wtf · 28/05/2026
when Erik Demaine closes and issue i opened on github
mind blown meme
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
big computer is conspiring to take away the only thing i've ever actually liked: the computer
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 18/05/2026
Eric Schmidt deserved the boos
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
#ResistanceRoots Ida Rhodes was born on this day in 1900 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. She was a mathematician, computer programmer and lecturer who was instrumental in early computer development in the U.S. She was also a fierce advocate for the disabled, often at great personal sacrifice. /1
Computer science pioneer Ida Rhodes. She was a passionate champion for the inclusion of disabled individuals in the emerging computer science field. She recognized that intellectual capacity and logic were completely detached from sight, hearing and physical mobility. She saw computer technology as the ultimate equalizer, allowing blind, deaf and physically disabled individuals to out-earn and out-program their peers if given the proper training.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
@arxiv
 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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Thomas G. Dietterich
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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nate @loglog.wtf · 13/05/2026
blowing my mind that these are two people who lived at the same time who both won nobel prizes in physics: Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Paul
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nate @loglog.wtf · 12/05/2026
can someone help me understand why this paper is going crazy on scirate? an awesome theory result, or a practical breakthrough or both or something else?
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nate @loglog.wtf · 11/05/2026
cirq-rentals.com but no cirq
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nate @loglog.wtf · 05/05/2026
wild that you can't install safari extensions without signing in to an apple account
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nate @loglog.wtf · 05/05/2026
Me after barely passing onboarding quizzes
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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/04/2026
while i was in amsterdam for 3 months i managed to run the length of 430 streets. not bad given i have roughly the same number of completed streets in seattle and i've been running here for 4 years
a map of amsterdam with GPS tracks of all the runs i did
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nate @loglog.wtf · 06/04/2026
It aint even apr 1 and we’re introducing the “felinity”??
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
claude shannon was serving here
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nate @loglog.wtf · 01/04/2026
Poor authors who post serious papers today
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Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We are living in exciting times. Starting today, the zoo will be completely redone by AI! errorcorrectionzoo.org/__41ai
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About
The Error Correction Zoo collects and organizes error-correcting codes.
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nate @loglog.wtf · 26/03/2026
After nearly 6 years of consistent releases, mitiq has its first major release. I’m very happy to have shepherded this project for the time that I have, but this release is a culmination of over 90 people working together to make quantum computers suck a bit less.
Mitiq 1.0 GitHub release with a mitiq sticker in the foreground
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nate @loglog.wtf · 25/03/2026
a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :))) nates.place/gates/
cover of nates gates volume 2. cover depicts a 4x4 matrix, a 3-torus, a 2 qubit gate, and a weyl chambera page about the weyl chamber.U(4) appreciation club
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nate @loglog.wtf · 25/03/2026
not sure if i've been spending too much time around @marisozols.bsky.social, but i'm increasingly convinced rep theory is the way to understand ideas through quantum
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nate @loglog.wtf · 23/03/2026
when you're spending all your money on m̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶e mitiq aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantu...
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Error mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq | Amazon Web Services
To get the most out of today’s noisy quantum computers, quantum computational experiments commonly utilize quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques. These methods include discarding known noisy resul...
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nate @loglog.wtf · 23/03/2026
shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03... if i don't vibe code hard enough am i going to get left behind or am i going to just skip out on the early days of a rapidly evolving tech that will be fine to learn later if it has real value?
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I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use...
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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/03/2026
Best paper name today: Bell inequalities for Smells scirate.com/arxiv/2603.1...
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Bell Inequalities for Smells
In this work, we study a particular class of Bell inequalities involving only direct equality-comparisons of outcomes. This arises naturally when outcomes are difficult to characterize. For instance, ...
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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/03/2026
one of the good things about being an open-source maintainer is i get free human-mediated tokens on other peoples LLMs
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nate @loglog.wtf · 18/03/2026
ugh @github.com i think someone broke your markdown "insert next number in the list when user hits enter" feature
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
LLMs train on the things humans choose to write about (tending toward the anomalous and extraordinary), not the things humans largely think and experience (tending toward prosaic/banal). Noted
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