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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Review on quantum algorithms for scientific computing just published in Reports on Progress in Physics (open access): doi.org/10.1088/1361... with many thanks to co-authors Rhonda Au Yeung, Bruno Camino, Omer Rathore

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Quantum algorithms for scientific computing - IOPscienceSearch

Quantum algorithms for scientific computing, R Au-Yeung, B Camino, O Rathore, V Kendon

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

On the last day of the strike we had our own school of computing picket line

Picketing staff posing for a picture with UCU signs (fund staff now, UCU official dispute, etc) in front of the Urban Sciences Building. Sign saying “School of Computing” is visible in the background.

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Out in force at the Newcastle Pickets today! Nick rocking the picket sign! 🪧❤️ @ucu.org.uk @quantumchancellor.bsky.social

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

New paper dance! Excellent work by @jbennett107.bsky.social at @iqoqi.bsky.social with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner, showing that the LHZ encoding works with quantum walks, i.e., diabatic driving.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Now over 2200 signatures and still rising.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business. oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

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Open Letter: Save Higher Education – A Call for Urgent Action Higher Education is in Crisis

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Not just a comprehensive review of metrics and benchmarking for quantum computing, the launch of a living resource including software for characterising and comparing quantum computing hardware. Led by Ivan Rungger @ NPL (UK National Physical Lab).

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Extremely proud to have played a part in creating this video game to learn about quantum computing store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/... uses full state space representation in an entirely visible way, worth checking out no matter your level of expertise

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Save 10% on Quantum Odyssey on Steam

Master Quantum Computing on the world’s most acclaimed simulator. No math or coding needed, but you WILL be exposed to it! Solve open-ended puzzles, learn through play, and compete online to pioneer n...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So I actually am from the same place as the small boulder the size of a small boulder, I drove by there every day going to school

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New paper in physical review research (published by @apsphysics.bsky.social) : doi.org/10.1103/Phys... using quantum annealing for load partitioning looking at a different angle to take advantage of quantum optimization. Unfortunately I don’t think any of my coauthors are on Bluesky (yet)

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Load balancing for high performance computing using quantum annealing

With the advent of exascale computing, effective load balancing in massively parallel software applications is critically important for leveraging the full potential of high-performance computing syst...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/12/2024

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured. Health care is a human right. We need Medicare for All.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I left the US for the UK over a decade ago and over the years I have had some very attractive offers to go back, healthcare is a big part of the reason why (of course I recognise that leaving isn’t a viable option for most people)

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’ve gotten a paper published in Quantum doi.org/10.22331/q-2... it always seemed like a neat journal and I’m glad I finally went for it, the review process was nice and we got some really good feedback which improved the work (co-authored with Jesse Berwald and Raouf Dridi)

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Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect

Jesse Berwald, Nicholas Chancellor, and Raouf Dridi, Quantum 8, 1532 (2024). It has previously been established that adiabatic quantum computation, operating based on a continuous Zeno effect due to d...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I feel sorry for everyone I know back home in the US, but I’m REALLY glad I immigrated to the U.K. it isn’t perfect by any means, but it is a much better place to be 20th my family (it is difficult to describe to someone without US experience how bad/weird US politics and media are)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/09/2024

I wish that places like the UK and Canada would stop trying to shove profit models into healthcare; the US system is really bad, actually!

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

New paper dance! Comparing quantum walk algorithms with QAOA, collaboration with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social Leonardo Novo, and 4 wonderful students: Lasse Gerblich, Tamanna Dasanjh, Horatio Wong and David Ross

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

It's Juneteenth. As one possible observation - especially for my fellow white Americans - I suggest reading this. gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

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Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States

Compulsory labor with little or no compensation should be unthinkable.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

You don’t call it a “hallucination” when a person just makes stuff up, seems fair to me to assign the same term you would for a person doing it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Idk if any of my followers are in North East England, but for anyone who might be, a quick reminder that today is election day for the regional mayor

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

This, as long as you can explain why a self citation is relevant than it is 100% justified

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

There is some fantastic art on this thread (or whatever a series of quote posts is called)

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 20/01/2024

picturing this sweet little guy choosing the fonts and a flattering photo, loading the paper in the printer, and then scampering about and posting these all around the neighborhood

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

A common stereotype is than Jan 6 was done by hicks or poor folks. People traveled there. Money was involved. It was rich people. The car dealership owners or real estate people. The landed gentry of the burbs. This is proven by the many, many arrest records.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

the internet, where irony goes to die

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/01/2024

These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2024

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

Iconic image of Mickey Mouse standing at the wheel of a steamboat.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/01/2024

As it is a new year, I have updated the subhead for my personal site, and also added a widget to vote.org, which will show up on every page of the site through election day. Because, you know. Kinda important, and it's never too early.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

A striking, informative short piece on the state, drivers, and impacts of global migration 🌎

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

If we collected what is actually owed, we could forgive student loans, invest more in infrastructure and green energy, protect social security and help Ukraine beat Russia. I call that multiple win-wins.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Anyway take this with you into the holiday season

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Samantha biobabbler @biobabbler.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Check out what I think is a liver bolete (Suillellus amygdalinus) I found walking today! Always a thrill to find a bolete, it's been SO uncommon in my life.🤩🥰🥳🌿🍄

A large (maybe 5 inches wide) golden topped mushroom has a pale grey, thick stalk, and a rusty orange porous under side. It is nestled in thick leaf litter.

Looking down at the top of a large yellowish mushroom. Same individual as the other photo.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The teenage twins of jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Physicists don't usually get the peace prize ... (link to BBC because that's where I read it just now) www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...

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Teenage children of jailed Narges Mohammadi accept her Nobel Peace Prize

In a speech smuggled from prison and read out by her twins, Narges Mohammadi denounces "tyrannical" Iran.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 07/12/2023

Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone. Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I’m back in the US visiting family, it’s cool that they have more roundabouts here now, but I wish someone would clue people in to the whole “signalling on and off roundabouts” thing, it just makes life much easier

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Cottoneaster has a nice, to scale fungus with it today 🌱🇳🇿 🪴 🌳✂️🌲

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

…because he doesn’t already have enough 🙃

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CCP-QC @ccp-qc.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

panel of last three speakers with James Geddes chairing Q&A session - perspectives on portability and incentives to use data infrastructure

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Laurhob @laurhob.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Lots of mushrooms out there today, even some purple ones! 🍄📸

Some whitish bracket mushrooms growing on a fallen tree

A purple mushroom (maybe amethyst deceiver) growing among moss and leaves

A mushroom with a slick yellow cal growing in an area with lots of dead leaves

Lots of little white and pink bracket mushrooms growing in a circle along the tree rings of this old stump turned on its side

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Fansen @fansen.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

#FungiFriends Cauliflower mushroom. Almost as big as a basket ball. Very edible, easy to spot, and hard to mistake.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

This is obviously bad, it points to a fairly sinister aspect of how casualisation (assuming the “non-faculty” role was fixed therm) can interfere with academic integrity by making a large portion of staff not “academics”

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