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Miles S

@mstoud.bsky.social
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Researcher at Flatiron Institute. Methods for solving high-dimensional problems, tensor networks, and the ITensor software.

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
What was that famous Feynman quote again? "Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better... oh, wait a second... just ask Garnet Chan and he'll simulate it for you on a classical computer!"
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ben would be a great name for a dead guy
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
But the real fun thing in my quantum class today is that all the students came in costume ... as me. They are the best.
Students in Quantum Mechanics I at Johns Hopkins, all dressed in costume as their professor.
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Papyrus "It's Pronounced Puh-Pie-Rus Sem-Ee" Semi @papyrussemi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
this is the real reason why the mayans stopped counting in 2012
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
OMG, merely looking at the cover pic, you know you need to watch the Youtube version here
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The Cardboard Boxpocalypse and the State of the US Economy | Odd Lots
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We also found energy eigenstates for a free particle and the infinite square well. The former are continuous, while the latter are discrete, which is a crucial lesson. QM doesn’t say that Nature is discrete, only that certain observables have a discrete spectrum.
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Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it! (also, "good" is not an endorsement)
Alignment chart meme for the interpretations of quantum mechanics. LG: Bohmian, NG: everything else, CG: QBism, LN: Many Worlds, TN: Copenhagen, CN: Objective Collapse, LE: Superdeterminism, NE: Retrocausality, CE: Quantum Mysticism
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Miles S @mstoud.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Intuitive video explaining how linear regression can be viewed in a probablisitic framework, including popular regularization choices www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is not quantum-related but the parallels with quantum computing are uncanny: a company has declared that it has resurrected an extinct species from the last ice age, but all they actually did was change 14 genes of the grey wolf's DNA. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Have researchers really ‘de-extincted’ the dire wolf? No, but behind the hype was a genuine breakthrough | Helen Pilcher
The pups are cute – and great for PR – but they’re modified grey wolves. The real work is being done with their red cousins, says science writer Helen Pilcher
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Miles S @mstoud.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A beautiful story of abstract mathematics extending into physics and engineering and resulting in 33% more efficient lighting. Better algorithms were the key, as they usually are, speeding up calculations by 1000x. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/24/t...
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These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills
These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills on Simons Foundation
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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The attitude we desperately need in Tech
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Miles S @mstoud.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
👇 quite worthwhile to read the whole thread
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Miles S @mstoud.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In a new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693, led by Joseph Tindall and Antonio Mello at Flatiron CCQ, we simulate annealing of disordered quantum magnets 🧲 ⌛ and in many cases find better accuracy than recent results from D-Wave devices and leading classical methods (c.f. arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910).
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Dynamics of disordered quantum systems with two- and three-dimensional tensor networks
Quantum spin glasses form a good testbed for studying the performance of various quantum annealing and optimization algorithms. In this work we show how two- and three-dimensional tensor networks can ...
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