Follow-up from Aaronson: scottaaronson.blog?p=9665
"I’m not sure how much it will actually help, as once other groups know that a smaller circuit exists, it might be only a short time until they’re able to find it as well."
« I have found the most wonderful proof deciding the Collatz conjecture, unfortunately the 300-character post limit is to small to fit the hash »
Between two property flips, Fowler giving some thoughts to QEC.
He is still hooked!
arxiv.org/abs/2603.28852
The forward-looking Oratomic time-efficient architecture claims to "potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈102,000." This is based on stitching together several gadgets and plausibly assuming they can work together on an atom platform.
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I have yet to read it in details, but as I get it Appendix A outlines how to give a proof that « I know how to break dlog with this many qubit hours » without disclosing the actual technique. Now everyone can keep there little recipes while making substantiated warning claims.
But now with paper like quantumai.google/static/site-..., seems we can have the best of both worlds.
As rightfully pointed out, this is not the common practices of the crypto communities. But one could argue there is commercial value in hiding their estimated distance to « Q-day and implementation details.
Recently Scott Aaronson was suggesting that progresses on RSA number factoring should maybe kept reasonably private for sensitivity reasons
scottaaronson.blog?p=9564
Having been logged off unexpectedly, I was surprised and thrilled to discover that @odpomery.bsky.social did the Bluesky login screen illustration, only to find out few hours later he actually did two!
Such a treat to see an artist you cherish pop up at a place you value 😃
Thank you Owen!
Woaw 💖
After years of projects and actions led by core teams at MPQ and IRIF, Université Paris Cité is now scaling up with its own Quantum Initiative, bringing together its labs.
Expanding research, training & innovate on across quantum technologies, from local to European levels.
🌐 quantum.u-pariscite.fr
Keep thinking about arxiv.org/abs/2505.13587
I am genuinely impressed that we can now build these machines, ship them and make them operate in the HPC constrained environment reliably. Part of the company structured itself precisely for this, but I am still amazed.
After the CEA in France and Jülich in Germany, this is the 3rd QPU installed and operational in a European HPC center!
Huge congrats to all my involved colleagues at @pasqal-quantum.bsky.social!
Indépendance stratégique quantique 🐓🇫🇷
Yes, or arxiv.org/abs/2509.18294 which is a follow up .
Both refer to "early fault-tolerant" concept in their abstract, but I concur that "partially" is more appropriate!
But I don’t think there is a well-defined, shared meaning. It’s a bit of a tote bag right now.
For example, rely on non-FT circuitry and post-select on it.
This is done in the STAR architecture papers to perform small Z angle rotations in surface codes by “direct” non-FT initialization of magic states, through local rotations on the support of the logical operator.
Another possible meaning is you work with encoded qubits, but you are allowed to cut corners and rely on non-scalable techniques tailored to your workload, made available by the smallish circuits and the low code distances.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Congrats Philippe! Exciting times ahead 😀
If you can smell meaning, you can turn in a latent space bloodhound sniffing for global minima 🐕
writetobrain.com/olfactory
Yeah, states get close through a noisy Clifford circuit, what else to expect?
And after all an encoded qubit is like a qubit. Logical memory error rate will converges to 0.5, just slower.
Unclear to me what are the significance and practical consequences of arxiv.org/abs/2510.08451 ...
The d* bound is not so large
If benchmark performance translated to reality, radiologists should be the canary in the coal mine of AI job loss.
Instead, radiology residency slots hit a record high in 2025.
Similar to me is: paper consumption kept growing when digital word processors appeared, as they eased the production of documents. Only recently local stagnation was observed, that we can attribute to the overall digitization of processes.
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