Abraham Asfaw

@abrahamasfaw.bsky.social

Quantum experimentalist and educator, ex Google Quantum, ex IBM Quantum, PhD Princeton Views my own. I talk about #quantumcomputing, #immigration, and the occasional #dog #pup #labradorretriever story abrahamasfaw.com

1/5 When I was a little kid first starting to use computers (with very little internet access), the computers were interesting but v boring in retrospect. One of the gems was a 5 or 6 CD program called Encarta encyclopedia that contained basically "everything" about the world.

On the other platform, immigration is the hot topic. On this one, my feed looks like a mix of "in a promising new research avenue, quantum computers will be used to test the quantumness of consciousness" and "the new samsung galaxy will be quantum"

My experience with overleaf: it lets you compile even when there are blatant errors in your tex. That's risky because on a day like today, if you try to compile locally it won't work. When the collaborative features are not needed, I don't see the point of using it compared with a local installation

Movie I'm watching now, cast talking about a new special fighter jet. Pilot: "I know a little bit about this. It's quantum processin', right?" Tech guy: "Yeah, it's the first tested application. Ten terabits a second." And then they just move on...