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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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nate @loglog.wtf · 15/09/2026

props to martin roetteler for this

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nate @loglog.wtf · 10/08/2026

The trophies are so sick!

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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 · 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 · 28/05/2026

when Erik Demaine closes and issue i opened on github

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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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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 chamber

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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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nate @loglog.wtf · 26/01/2026

okay good job whoever named it "Bucket-brigade QRAM"

top text: MMMM
bottom text: BBQRAM

home simpson in the middle

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nate @loglog.wtf · 20/11/2025

thing is, you only get access to the NP-oracle while you sleep

sign for a hotel called "NP HOTEL" in seattle's japantown

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nate @loglog.wtf · 20/11/2025

I just wanna pipe it up

$hypothetical CLI call to a circuit compiler, QEM tool, QEC encoder and decoder. ucc -O3 program.qntm \ --backend=ibm:narnia \ --shots=4096 \ | mitiq --ddd \ | qencode "surface(d=7)" \ | qdecode "mwpm"$

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nate @loglog.wtf · 15/10/2025

For a second I thought my partner (civil engineer) was doing Feynman diagrams

Cross section of a road or some transportation related thing that looks like a feynman diagram

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nate @loglog.wtf · 09/10/2025

this is the notable sticker worthy element of the paper

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nate @loglog.wtf · 08/10/2025

never expected a computational complexity sticker to be so controversial either I have haters, or @henryyuen.bsky.social does

a fence post with lots of sticks on it, but with a MIP*=RE sticker scraped off

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nate @loglog.wtf · 25/09/2025

Gave some of these stickers I made to John Wright and the first thing he said was “Why did you make this?” lmao

Sticker that reads MIP*=RE with black text on rainbow background. Text in handwritten/childish handwriting

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nate @loglog.wtf · 20/09/2025

Hanging out at the Georgetown steam plant science fair this weekend with my project about Hilbert’s Grand Hotel. Come through if you’re in Seattle!

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nate @loglog.wtf · 17/09/2025

I made a zine about quantum gates and distributed it at @unitary.foundation's unitaryCON this two weeks ago. check it out :) and lemme know what you think nates.place/static/ng01....

cover of zine called nates gates created on a typewriter

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nate @loglog.wtf · 03/09/2025

Yooo same, that place is 🔥

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nate @loglog.wtf · 02/09/2025

just noticed I've given 256 stars on github. I guess no more. Sorry folks.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 01/09/2025

wow the dopamine hit from seeing my name pop up in someones talk (even if just for a diagram) is huge

picture of slide demonstrating the overall impact of quantum error mitigation and in particular the bias-variance tradeoff.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 25/08/2025

bruh... new level of annoying

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nate @loglog.wtf · 20/08/2025

yup! 10-4:30 all day. it's broken into 3 sections so if you can't make everything hopefully you can make a theme you enjoy most :)

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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/08/2025

neither satisfied nor satisfied

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nate @loglog.wtf · 13/08/2025

I’m not at QEC25, but I’m still learning decoding things from @dabacon.tachyon.institute at the UW seminar

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nate @loglog.wtf · 23/07/2025

We should start saying things are free as a k-module more often

Pic of a math textbook where a proposition closes with “in particular, V is free as a k-module”

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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/07/2025

WERQSHOP is a wrap! Glad to have had the opportunity to chair the event but damn that was a jump into the deep end in terms of event organizing. Thanks to all who helped organize and to those who came :))) <3

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nate @loglog.wtf · 11/07/2025

Never see slides this good at academic conferences

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nate @loglog.wtf · 11/07/2025

Had a lot of fun presenting at SciPy today about noise in quantum computers. High-level talk about noise, and how python plays a role in speedy development. Slides are available here nates.place/static/scipy..., but this is my favorite one.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 03/07/2025

I did my best to draw the true data which looks like this. it's surprising to me that there isn't an easier way to get the full download history of your package than to use google bigquery it's easy, but would've thought PyPI would have this all open somehow

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nate @loglog.wtf · 03/07/2025

mitiq hit 250k downloads! Even with all the hype around error correction it seems any other way to mitigate the impact of noise is still important for the time being. The next release (0.46.0) will come out soon! Keep your 👀 peeled. github.com/unitaryfound...

hand drawn plot of the number of downloads of mitiq over time. started early 2020 and hit 100k in mid 2023, and halfway through 2025 have hit 250k. potential futures go off to the right with lots of question marks

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nate @loglog.wtf · 02/07/2025

Nice talk yesterday from Mariia Mykhailova (recently moved to @psiquantum.bsky.social) on software best-practices in quantum to kick off the UW REU seminar. I liked Maria’s point that there is an elevated need to understand runtime ahead of running programs because feedback loops are so long

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nate @loglog.wtf · 02/07/2025

@craiggidney.bsky.social is it possible to make time go slower in the parametrized rotations?

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nate @loglog.wtf · 01/07/2025

my attempt *while understanding very little of the original paper*

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nate @loglog.wtf · 19/06/2025

I stay strapped ya never know when you need to visual aid to explain what a qubit is

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nate @loglog.wtf · 14/06/2025

Huge turnout in Seattle today

Mega ppl gathered in cal Anderson. So many signs

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nate @loglog.wtf · 12/06/2025

super fun to see who's contributing to @unitary.foundation's unitaryHACK this year. below is the GitHub contributions graph of a hacker who closed 7 bounties (currently tied for 🥇). Cool to see a big jump in contributions from the event.

github contribution graph showing a large uptick in contributions from this hacker starting the day of unitaryHACK beginning and following on through the event.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 05/06/2025

interesting talk from Sigurd Storgaard today on parallel repetition of non-local games and "gap-annihilation" (when classical and quantum winning probabilities converge upon running the game in parallel... at least i think) still confused as to what nonlocal game self testing is though

Sigurd gesturing at his slides in a classroom.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 13/05/2025

Great talk from Er-Cheng Tang on obfuscating quantum programs today at the UW CS theory seminar.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 05/05/2025

Crackpots are less fun in the GPT-era. You don't get the chance to wonder if someone is trolling or genuine, because chances are they didn't even come up with the ideas. i'll look forward to chakra based ai activation though...

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nate @loglog.wtf · 15/04/2025

i'd like to thank whoever decided snot was a good name for hadamard in qutip

3 qubit Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm in qutip where the hadamard gate is written "SNOT"

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nate @loglog.wtf · 08/04/2025

Wondering what kind of cool stuff is behind this door. (It’s locked,,, I checked)

Door with a sign on the wall next to it that reads “storage 4D”

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