After grumbling for years in our substacks about uses and abuses of probability in machine learning, @beenwrekt.bsky.social and I decided it's finally time to put down some concrete ideas in a manifesto with a DOI. Here it is, give us your best feedback. (1/4)
I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️
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I can't tell if this is a setup for a joke or an actual question 😅
If actual Q: I think it's useful to stand up so that the audience knows who's directing questions and taking care of seminar proceedings.
Yes, but on an exam I wouldn't count that as a complete answer 😅
A mathematical statement involving operator inequalities and tensor products. Statement in LaTeX: Let $X,Y$ be operators on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. If $0\leq X \leq Y$, then $X^{\otimes n} \leq Y^{\otimes n}$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$.
A little task to get your brain going today: Prove the statement in the picture!
⬆️ /5 and ➡️ /6 😅
Of course, this doesn't excuse the (IMO) harsh and hardly useful review you received... don't be discouraged by it, and don't take it personally!
Having a non-expert in the topic (but still someone with reasonable overall scientific experience) deem a paper suitable for this conference can be a good sign, if that decision is made on sound scientific principles. /4
One could argue that having non-experts also review a paper is a feature, not a bug: In the end, TQC is supposed to cover all aspects of theoretical quantum information science. /3
But even when balancing the PC like that, it still doesn't mean that every paper will receive reviews from three experts in the topic (COIs and custom topic preferences given by PC members may be the reason behind that). /2
I'm sorry you had this bad experience with TQC reviews!
The PC chairs typically try to assemble a program committee whose topics of expertise roughly match the distribution of topics submitted to the conference (with data from previous years). /1
That both of these things are true gobsmacked me when I was a student:
* Modules are a special case of abelian groups because every module is just an abelian group with extra structure.
* Modules are a generalization of abelian groups because every abelian group is a Z-module.
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Representation theory is the way.
cover of nates gates volume 2. cover depicts a 4x4 matrix, a 3-torus, a 2 qubit gate, and a weyl chamber
a page about the weyl chamber.
U(4) appreciation club
a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :)))
nates.place/gates/
Was this decided by a joint steering committee?
In recent weeks (if not months?) I've been getting an extraordinary amount of review requests (for journals). I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing? Both at my career stage (late tenure-track) and more generally.
How is "intelligence" on the y-axis defined?
Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.
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...
I'm really proud to have contributed a tiny part to the amazing success of the open-access and not-for-profit journal Quantum, both as an author and as a member of the editorial board.
Celebrate with us Quantum's approaching 10 year anniversary in 2026 with the publication of the 2026th paper! Do you know which paper that is?
quantum-journal.org/2026-quantum...
It's official! The Theory of #Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography conference (TQC) 2028 will be held in Sydney, 🇦🇺 Australia, in August'28!
tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/ #TQC2028
(TQC 2027 will take place in Grenoble, France)
Congrats!!
It says in the text that "arXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization" for "long-term financial sustainability" (among other reasons).
Maybe it became too big to rely on support from institutions and the Simons Foundation?
🧪⚛️ Brief thoughts on the passing of Tony Leggett, an outstanding theoretical physicist with a lasting impact across multiple topics. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/03/rip-...
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Mail them to my home instead 🙏
Just in time for Quantum's 10th anniversary, our paper "Localizing multipartite entanglement with local and global measurements" with students Chris Vairogs and Sam Hermes has been published in Quantum 🥳 Huge congrats to Chris and Sam!
quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...
10 years after its founding, driven by the energy, enthusiasm, & dedication of the community @quantum-journal.bsky.social quietly published paper #2000 some days ago.
At least I think this is a big deal, big shout out to the founders & all authors, reviewers, editors, board members & contributors!