Poor authors who post serious papers today

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Very happy that this project has been able to on-ramp some folks into the quantum industry as well as it has. Many contributors made their first quantum software contribution to mitiq.

Mitiq 1.0 GitHub release with a mitiq sticker in the foreground

After nearly 6 years of consistent releases, mitiq has its first major release. I’m very happy to have shepherded this project for the time that I have, but this release is a culmination of over 90 people working together to make quantum computers suck a bit less.

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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.

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a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :)))

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not sure if i've been spending too much time around @marisozols.bsky.social, but i'm increasingly convinced rep theory is the way to understand ideas through quantum

one, but despite my best efforts I haven't been able to find a method to asymptotically beat a Given's rotations decomposition.

anyway, i'm just throwing stuff at the wall to see if anything sticks.

yeah exactly the matrices i'm working with form a subset (not group) of O(n), they're in the improper part of the group (det = -1), and are specified by 2n integers satisfying some inequalities. all this leads me to believe i should be able to find some decomp that's more efficient than a naive n^2

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i understand "parameter optimal" means dim(SU(n)), but just curious if you thought about compiling real operations specifically.

cool paper (and nice diagrams!). any ideas how this could potentially be applied to compiling orthogonal gates?

i ran flagsynth on a family of ortho matrices I have and indeed it seems to do better than qiskit, but i'm still getting n^2 scaling even though the matrices are determined by n params

Error mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq | Amazon Web Services To get the most out of today’s noisy quantum computers, quantum computational experiments commonly utilize quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques. These methods include discarding known noisy resul...

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if i don't vibe code hard enough am i going to get left behind or am i going to just skip out on the early days of a rapidly evolving tech that will be fine to learn later if it has real value?

Bell Inequalities for Smells In this work, we study a particular class of Bell inequalities involving only direct equality-comparisons of outcomes. This arises naturally when outcomes are difficult to characterize. For instance, ...

Best paper name today: Bell inequalities for Smells

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what's the vibe of the audience? pushback? acceptance? sadness?

one of the good things about being an open-source maintainer is i get free human-mediated tokens on other peoples LLMs

so when you want to save something for later reading you don't leave it open to rot in a tab for months??

ugh @github.com i think someone broke your markdown "insert next number in the list when user hits enter" feature

LLMs train on the things humans choose to write about (tending toward the anomalous and extraordinary), not the things humans largely think and experience (tending toward prosaic/banal). Noted

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also i should add that claude one-shotted this which i was very impressed by as i did not know about the public api.

obviously MLB has my email since i've been to MLB games, but it's always good to exercise your privacy :)

to get MLB games on your calendar you either go through google or give your email to MLB (both ew). That said, MLB has a public API which has the schedule info.

if you can run a python script then this script will create an ics file you can upload to your cal client

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wondering what an xz attack would look like on mathlib.

even if it wasn't to infect other computers, but just to get a proof across the line exploiting something in the LEAN compiler.

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