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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 05/10/2026

This point regarding AI-produced proofs is of course not new, but is beautifully put here. www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en... @quantamagazine.org

It’s as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what’s around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.

Instead you’re perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike and Ike made its appearance in 'Dark Matter' on AppleTV.

Picture of a TV screen. The overhead shot shows a man typing on a typewriter while Nielsen & Chuang sits at the bottom right corner of the table.

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I wonder if the show makers decided to add [redacted] because AppleTV is becoming the place for this type of fiction. Maybe they couldn't get any funding for a simple detective noir show.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sure, LLMs are cheaper than a trainee salary right now. This will be completely different when these companies have a monopoly and are baked into researcher's workflows.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

> Total compute: roughly 17 million metered subagent tokens, an estimated $700–900 of API spend at list prices. Quite the cost attached to this experiment.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Do you know by when the date for the workshop will be finalized?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Reading The Subtle Knife, and I was inclined to say the portrayal of scientists was unrealistic, but the part where they've discovered there are interdimensional travelers, that the universe is conscious, and the government is spying on them, and they're STILL talking grant funding is perfect.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

😫 It's the same for Chrome extensions.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Is it something along the lines of "apocali"?

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/03/2024

idk I did see this meme today which made me laugh so hard. lol

the cover of Dune with the title changed to "Paul is Bad" and the cover of the sequel with the title changed to "Ok, I guess I wasn't Clear"

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Some quantum info researchers are reluctant to learn about non-CPTP maps, but are ultimately left with no Chois.

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is one of the reasons why I have a Goodreads account. Would not have discovered Ursula K Le Guin without it.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

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kenbrownquantum.bsky.social @kenbrownquantum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A few quick notes: 1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.

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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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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Are the talks being recorded?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/10/2025

Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

In case you don't know, you can enable the option to always require alt text in 'Accessibility' settings. When this option is enabled, it doesn't let you post an image without the alt text.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

A group of scientists huddle excitedly around a monitor. One says:
"The program has detected a signal sent from another galaxy, but we need to upgrade to a paid version before we can reply."

The screen reads "Choose a plan To unlock replies: 1. Student 2. Basic 3. Pro 4. Expert "

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Rakhim Davletkali @rakhim.org · 25/09/2025

I wish we could develop common standards for - circuit operations - pulse data - circuit manipulation (incl. transpilation, routing, optimization) - calibration & calibration QUALITY data - measurement results, incl. raw and complex - wire serialization optimized for both job definitions and results

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Keenan Crane @keenancrane.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What's included in your rating scheme?

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Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Apparently September 5th is "cultivate with fold-transversal S" day: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05232 arxiv.org/abs/2502.017... arxiv.org/abs/2509.05212

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 01/09/2025

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I pushed myself to learn Git so that I could become active in quantum open source. I found Jo Bovy's textbook useful.

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Python code packaging for scientific software (Python code packaging for scientific software)

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Scientific American with a great analogy for comparing physical qubits and encoded topological qubits. www.scientificamerican.com/article/negl...

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Unlike ordinary qubits, which store information in the state of a single particle, topological qubits store it in the arrangement of several particles—which is a global property, not a local one, making them far more robust.

Take, for example, braided hair. The type and number of braids that a person has are global properties that remain the same regardless of how they shake their head. In contrast, the position of an individual hair strand is a local property that can shift with the slightest movement.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“What’s being undercut isn’t just NASA’s technical ability to carry out missions, although that would be bad enough. It is America’s—and the world’s—capacity to wonder, to believe, to know.“ www.wired.com/story/the-de...