New system: 1. A week before QIP deadline the program committee publishes the titles of all accepted papers. 2. Everyone prompts LLMs for a week to produce these papers. 3. For each title, the best paper gets accepted (decided by an LLM). 4. This week's QIP is over and another QIP happens next week.
Alex Bredariol Grilo
@abgrilo.bsky.social
Researcher at LIP6 (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) working on quantum complexity theory and quantum cryptography. he/him 🏳️🌈🇧🇷
I'm actually more shocked that sharks are older than Saturn's rings
One thing I only just realised is that sharks are old enough - not just marginally but by millions of years - to have eaten trilobites. This is somehow more odd feeling than the fact they pre-date Saturn's rings.
One thing I only just realised is that sharks are old enough - not just marginally but by millions of years - to have eaten trilobites. This is somehow more odd feeling than the fact they pre-date Saturn's rings.
tenez j'ai fait un schéma pour expliquer un truc à un collègue à propos de l'économie de l'attention et je me dis ça peut servir :
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Ce n'était certainement pas un petit feu de forêt de rien du tout qui allait pousser Hortense et René dans les bras de ces dangereux escrolos d’ultragauche... Ma première BD, les fables bucoliques autogérées, est sortie ! 🦊 A retrouver dans votre librairie indé préférée (lien de commande en bio)
Un lecteur @lemonde.fr signalait en commentaire que mettre "-ai" à la fin d'une recherche Google désactivait les résumés AI. Testé ce matin, ça fonctionne. Merci, cher lecteur !
The list of accepted papers at #FOCS2026 is out! sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_Acc...
FOCS 2026 – Accepted Papers
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I should be focusing on lecture but I'm busy being mad that the empty set is disjoint from itself
It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2026! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year. Blog post: kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/t... Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qcn... Results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...
Use of ‘House of Quantum’ and ‘Quantum Delta NL’ infringes Quantum trademark (via Passle)
Quantum is a real estate specialist that develops and manages real estate projects and provides asset management services. Quantum carries out these act...
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La droite française trouve Chikirou géniale ! Ne vous y trompez pas. Ils comprennent très bien l'intérêt de la candidature de Chikirou. L'intérêt pour leur camp bien évidemment. Svp, ne jouez pas les idiots utiles !
A Paris, la droite adore Chikirou avant le second tour des municipales. Même refrain des éditorialistes du Figaro et de Valeurs Actuelles, Yves Thréard et Victor Eyraud, qui encensent la candidate LFI après le débat sur BFM. En souvenir de ses premiers amours sarkozystes, peut-être?
Mme Dati a reçu le soutien de Reconquête, du Rassemblement national et maintient un candidat raciste sur sa liste. Elle est, indubitablement, la candidate de la fachosphère. Dimanche, une seule liste peut la battre et une seule. Pas une voix ne doit manquer.
We are very happy to share that Grenoble will host TQC, one of the most important quantum computing conferences, in 2027! Excited to welcome the community in the heart of the Alpes! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/
FOCS 2026 will be held in New York City Nov 8 - 11! CFP is up (link below). Submit your best work in theoretical computer science by April 1, 5pm ET.
Absolutely love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... Kudos to the Norwegian Consumer Council for their efforts to fight enshittification! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl... Read their report here: storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/0...
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Come see me speak about the new era of simplex method theory. Wednesday!
And... we are back on 🎉! The first talk of the season will be delivered by Sophie Huiberts (CNRS, @sophie.huiberts.me), on ⏰ March 4 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): "Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book" RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/aD621bCwswjB...
N'importe quoi. Tout le monde le sait bien que ce sont les fusions des universités qui nous font monter dans le ranking.
“Chinese universities’ climbing in global rankings is real. It’s not a ‘mystery bounce’ but the result of 3 decades of sustained, targeted investment,” Sustained, targeted investment .. an innovative intervention! An approach for the U.K. to consider?! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
📚 Jai déjà lu des thèses de doctorat en neuropsychologie et des méta analyses dans le train. 👶 Nombre de fois où un enfant m'a gêné : 0 🚅 Nombre de fois où des adultes étaient pénibles à parler au téléphone ou regarder des vidéos sans casque : plein
Si vous cherchez à réduire vos dépendances numériques aux US, je vous invite à jeter un œil sur le site European Alternatives qui recense des services européens dans pas mal de catégories (mails, messageries, VPN, cloud etc.) ⤵️ european-alternatives.eu/categories
Service categories | European Alternatives
List of all categories on European Alternatives
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ICALP 2026 CFP is out. This year it’ll be at Royal Holloway (London area), July 7–10, 2026. Abstract registration: Feb 3 Paper deadline: Feb 6 Details: icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk/icalp/
ICALP
The 53rd EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) will take place between 7–10 July, 2026.
icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk
Reminder: Two weeks left to apply for the Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Theoretical Computer Science at Cambridge. Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Details and application portal: cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...
cst.cam.ac.uk
Department of Physics at UIUC is looking for an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Quantum Information Science, including, but not limited to, quantum error correction, quantum optics, quantum algorithms, and AMO physics. Application deadline: Dec 1 illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Grainger Engineering: Assistant Professor in Theoretical QIS - Department of Physics
Duties & Responsibilities
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The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast. We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.
Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...
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The word ‘head’ is etymologically related to ‘chef’, the head of a kitchen. And to ‘chief’, the head of a group. These are also related to ‘cape’, a headland, and ‘per capita’, literally “by heads” – and yes, to Spanish ‘cabeza’ too. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about this word family: