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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fun fact: a presidential order alone cannot change something like the name of the “Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary” sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fun fact: a presidential order alone cannot change something like the name of the “Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary” sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Experiencing Die Kaffeebohnenfehlkaufmorgenverzweiflung

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It only goes up from here, in terms of AI capabilities, and if you think about the rate of progress of the past couple of years, it is hard to imagine where we will stand in two more years.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It does not end there: more highly scited papers in quantum information saw AI play a major role, solving long-standing problems, like the ones about the two-copy distillability of Werner states, something I worked on in my academic past.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All the top papers on Scirate saw AI play some role, in some cases a major one. These screenshots are from the top 4 papers, in order. A major role played by AI in at least three of them.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Filed under “Correlation is not causation”

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How sudden&extreme is exponential growth, you ask? This is an equal-aspect plot of exp(x), with limits -1000 and 1000 for both the x and y axes. Fun fact: this graph was generated from the browser bar, by just asking for it

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

(SPOILER CONTINUES) . . . . . . … you are able to go back with the main ship. You don’t use them only when there is a second change of plans and you don’t actually go back with the main ship. I have not finished the book yet, but I imagine this is an issue with the book itself.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Watched “Project Hail Mary” I enjoyed it and I would recommend it. I have a few issues here and there. A big one (SPOILER ALERT): . . . . . . . . If you have redundant probe ships to send back messages to Earth to save humanity, you use them even if you think…

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

For John Preskill, #quantum computing is part of the "complexity frontier" within physics, comparable to the "short distance frontier" exemplified by particle physics and the "long distance frontier" that cosmologists and astronomers are exploring. #APSSummit26 ⚛️🧪

John Preskill standing on a conference stage in front of a slide reading "Frontiers of Physics" and containing information about the short distance, long distance and complexity frontiers. There's a sign-language interpreter visible off the stage to the right

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Chuck Norris didn’t die. He roundhouse kicked all of us to an alternative reality, so that he could enjoy some quiet me-time in the reality we previously shared. RIP

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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I'm thrilled that Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard have received the A. M. Turing Award for “their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing.” Congratulations! www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...

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Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! They are recognized for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing. awards.acm.org/turing @umontreal

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Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard for winning the 2026 Turing Award (akin to the Nobel Prize for Computer Science)! They invented quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. awards.acm.org/turing 🧪 ⚛️ 1/

awards.acm.org

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/03/2026

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have been named the winners of the A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in computing, for their work establishing the foundations of quantum information theory. The award comes with a $1 million prize. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The water was spilled, and it panicked: "Oh no, I am gonna dry!"

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The "original" Bitcoin Rainbow Price Chart would instead say that "Bitcoin is dead"

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"The NEW Bitcoin Rainbow2023 Chart" confidently suggests that now is the time to "BUY!" 👀

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Quickly telling someone you’ve liked something they’ve done (e.g. telling a writer you like their writing, or a researcher you like their research, or a teacher you like their teaching) has a phenomenally high effort-to-impact ratio.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I miss the good old times when the worst that happened was renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Tin Tin meme

“What a presidency it has been, huh?”
“This was just the 1st year, captain.”

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Immigration is the issue on which Trump had the best approval ratings but is currently dragging his polls down

Net approval of Trump on various issues, by Silver

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

How are things going one year after, you ask? They are in the clear. Meaning, in the ratings graph there is a white gap between the disapproval band and the approval band.

Approval (42.0%) and disapproval (55.1%) of Donald Trump, from Silver Bulletin

Net approval (-13.1%) of Donald Trump, from Silver Bulletin

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Physicists: we should counter the impression that quantum mechanics is weird and inaccessible to ordinary people; anybody with sufficient interest and ready to put in the effort can learn quantum mechanics Also physicists:

PRX Quantum social media post, saying

“A new Monte Carlo method computes stabilizer Rényi entropy and reveals nontrivial magic behavior at quantum criticality.”

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Quantum Info at UAB @giq-bcn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We are organizing a short course on Quantum Foundations at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona funded by Catalonia Quantum Academy (CQA). Few spaces left! Apply before 20 August, 2025.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It turns out that the solution to the Fermi paradox is stupid. Pardon, it’s “stupid”. Meaning, the so-called Great Filter is the plain stupidity that even relatively advanced civilizations, say, humanity as a whole, can still display. The solution was in front of us all this time.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Chuckling at this breakdown of the Vatican City resident population

Breakdown of the resident population of the Vatican City from Wiipedia

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

BREAKING An immigrant becomes the head of state of the Vatican. Again. But this time he is American.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The way Trump declares that there are National Security threats to invoke emergency powers for tariffs reminds me of one of the early South Park episodes, where hunters shout they are being attacked by protected animals, to shoot them unpunished.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

If you are saying that the Canadian election was rigged at whatever local level, be aware you sound like a child having a tantrum after dropping on the ground your fresh ice cream cone OTOH you would be entitled to complain against the old man in a blue suit that bumped into you

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Correlation does not imply causation but I am afraid of my own power

Recent Trump post:

Boeing should default China for not taking the beautifully finished planes that China committed to purchase. This is just a small example of what China has done to the USA, for years... And, by the way, Fentanyl continues to pour into our Country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our people, and it better stop, NOW!

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Trump’s appeal to Putin sounds very similar to me turning off a ringing Alexa alarm.

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I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP!
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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

There might or might not be a typo

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

There is a lesson here: if you Putin the effort, you can achieve a lot - like almost flipping the approval ratings - in a short time.

Nate Silver’s charts about the approval / disapproval ratings for Donald Trump

Nate Silver’s chart about the net approval rating for Donald Trump

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When was the last time Trump mentioned Fentanyl as rationale for tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico?

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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.eurosky.social · 14/03/2025

Wrote up a little tutorial + review on higher-order quantum operations. If you love quantum channels, you can think of these as linear maps that act on channels themselves in manner fully consistent with quantum theory! I hope it helps future students / researchers! 🤗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.09693

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Higher-Order Quantum Operations

An operational description of quantum phenomena concerns developing models that describe experimentally observed behaviour. $\textit{Higher-order quantum operations}\unicode{x2014}$quantum operations ...

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Correlation is not causation but…

Fox News headline:

BREAKING
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Vatican says Pope Francis has passed away the day after meeting VP Vance on
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There are many aspects of the COVID pandemic the US needs to learn from, not least given the >1 million deaths it suffered and the current threat of viruses like H5N1. But the misleading, politically-charged content at covid.gov is not a route to the constructive or evidence-based debate we need.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Happy World Quantum Day in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology! It does not get more quantum than this - unless you are Ant-Man. Then you can celebrate while in the Quantum Realm.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Agreed. It is an effect, but certainty it is not THE effect fully responsible for the trend with age.

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The article states that that is a factor alongside getting more conservative with age.

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matplotlib @matplotlib.org · 08/04/2025

Stare at it a bit!

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Marco Piani @marcopiani.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What some people do not seem to understand is that the U.S. under Trump has lost the trust of other countries and (further) damaged the status of leader of the Western World. It does not matter whether tariffs go / stay down. This is particularly true for Canada.

Isle in a Canadian grocery store, with many Canadian flag tags

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Perhaps the funniest bit was when the S&P popped by +1.2% for a couple of minutes, all the traders earned their "Fell for it again" awards... and then the country-by-country tariff slide came out.

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