Reposted by nateTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄 51262115
nate @loglog.wtf · 17/09/2026Josh Izaac kicking off quantum software 2.6 workshop at IEEE QCE in room 718B 020
Reposted by nateKartik @k4rtik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tomorrow 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... #QuantumSoftwaresites.google.comQuantum Software 2.6 WorkshopQuantum Software 2.6: current challenges and headways in quantum software IEEE Quantum Week conference, Sept 17, 2026 Metro Toronto Convention Center Toronto, Ontario, Canada 052
Reposted by natejulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026the controversy thickens—now other openai results are being questioned 😈 mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom... 1416
Reposted by nateTimothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Kevin Buzzard's thoughts on Fermat's Last Theorem being autoformalized in Lean. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...xenaproject.wordpress.comFLT: Anthropic has beaten me to itI 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… 2387
nate @loglog.wtf · 25/08/2026there should be a complexity class for problems where LLM proofs are harder to verify than solve directly 261
Reposted by nateMargaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Letter (1962) from Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists in response to Mosley's demands that they debate publicly. 615473
Reposted by nateMark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Further 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 GPTslegacy.reverbnation.comAgainst the GPTs | Mark WildeAgainst the GPTs by Mark Wilde, Rock music from Ithaca, NY on ReverbNation 1131
nate @loglog.wtf · 12/08/2026Gotta 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. 020
nate @loglog.wtf · 09/08/2026Ty @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/ 120
Reposted by nateInternational Association for Quantum Information @iaqi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Let'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!discuss.iaqi.orgQuantum Information Processing research in the age of AIDear 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... 2157
Reposted by nateGreg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026While 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. 121299320
nate @loglog.wtf · 27/07/2026just me or is it surprising that there are still "basic" topology to be learned about fundamental spaces in quantum? arxiv.org/abs/2607.18105arxiv.orgTopology of the Set of Entangled StateWe 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,... 050
nate @loglog.wtf · 10/06/2026Open source and @unitary.foundation getting a few shout outs as leaders in benchmarking at deep tech week quantum panel 041
Reposted by nateDulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026For 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...news.microsoft.comIntroducing Majorana 2How Microsoft’s new quantum chip was made 1,000x more reliable with the help of Microsoft Discovery's agentic AI. 7302
Reposted by nateSteven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 02/06/2026This 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...nytimes.comAs A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution 45827
Reposted by natejenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026big computer is conspiring to take away the only thing i've ever actually liked: the computer 212965688
Reposted by nateShooti @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 515656
Reposted by nateanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖 9458131915
nate @loglog.wtf · 13/05/2026blowing my mind that these are two people who lived at the same time who both won nobel prizes in physics: Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Paul 3182
nate @loglog.wtf · 12/05/2026can 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? 120
nate @loglog.wtf · 05/05/2026wild that you can't install safari extensions without signing in to an apple account 100
nate @loglog.wtf · 19/04/2026while 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 120
Reposted by natefrancisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026claude shannon was serving here 311111
Reposted by nateError Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026We are living in exciting times. Starting today, the zoo will be completely redone by AI! errorcorrectionzoo.org/__41aierrorcorrectionzoo.orgAboutThe Error Correction Zoo collects and organizes error-correcting codes. 1105
nate @loglog.wtf · 26/03/2026After 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. 2131
nate @loglog.wtf · 25/03/2026a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :))) nates.place/gates/ 2166
nate @loglog.wtf · 25/03/2026not 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 140
nate @loglog.wtf · 23/03/2026when you're spending all your money on m̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶e mitiq aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantu...aws.amazon.comError mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq | Amazon Web ServicesTo 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... 010
nate @loglog.wtf · 23/03/2026shkspr.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?shkspr.mobiI'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... 161
nate @loglog.wtf · 19/03/2026Best paper name today: Bell inequalities for Smells scirate.com/arxiv/2603.1...scirate.comBell Inequalities for SmellsIn 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, ... 010
nate @loglog.wtf · 19/03/2026one of the good things about being an open-source maintainer is i get free human-mediated tokens on other peoples LLMs 010
nate @loglog.wtf · 18/03/2026ugh @github.com i think someone broke your markdown "insert next number in the list when user hits enter" feature 000
Reposted by nateRay Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 17/03/2026LLMs 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 513217