It may be cold in Riga during #QIP2026, but the fascism on display in the US is way more chilling.

Queen - A Kind of Magic (Official Video Remastered) YouTube video by Queen Official

Experimental Demonstration of Logical Magic State Distillation arxiv.org/abs/2412.15165

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youtu.be/0p_1QSUsbsM?...

Same thing that happens when you look at those stereoscopic images and you out of nowhere squint in *just* the right way and go from looking at random colours and shapes to a fully-realized three-dimensional sculpture

Forget the 10²⁵ years needed to simulate Google's Willow chip on world's fastest supercomputer. The most impressive number in quantum computing in this:

It would take 3678 years for a quantum computing PhD student to earn the 103 million made by the IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi in his first 90 days.

That's just CSIDH

incredible artwork at ProTeCS:

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Hope returns

"...instead of further sensations, breakthroughs and groundbreaking experiments, quantum research currently needs something completely different: a good dose of realism. Uncontrolled hype helps no one, especially not research, which cannot live up to these unrealistic expectations."

As if "What does it feel like to entangle with something?" wasn't literally the question that led Hugh Everett to his Many-Worlds Interpretation.

(Implication: It's unobservable. Almost-but-not-quite by definition.)

Yep! In-app each of my notes has a simple publish/unpublish switch at the top:

Hans Heum - Hans Heum Blog\quad • \quadMedia\quad • \quadResearch\quad • \quadTeaching\quad • \quadEducation\quad • \quadArt HH.jpg Hello, and welcome! I am a post-doc in cryptology at the Department of Mathematical Scie…

Obsidian is amazing for this—my webpage, which looks innocent enough at a glance, is actually a doorway into *all* of my (non-private) notes; a graph of 2000+ nodes fully traversable from the landing page: hans.heum.me

(Yes, I too was inspired by Andy.)

That's a good way to put it. I think science communicators would do well to emphasise that the estimates are based on *today's* computers. (Of course we don't know exactly when Moore's Law will reach the top of the S-curve; might be soon.)

ok this *has* to be a joke

Turn the notes into a ZK textbook