New standard: * bachelor's thesis = resolving a given conjecture using LLMs, * master's thesis = coming up with an interesting new conjecture, * PhD thesis = coming up with a useful definition. tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/p...
Dulwich Quantum Computing
@dulwichquantum.bsky.social
Parody quantum computing startup from South London https://dulwichquantum.github.io/
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.
Me controlling a qubit with EM pulses in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWr_...
Henry Legg @henrylegg.bsky.social compares Microsoft's Majorana 2 result to "Finding an image of Jesus in toast by looking through an entire bakery's worth of loaves. If you're looking into something which is essentially just random physics, eventually you will find the Jesus in your toast."
Henry Legg@henrylegg.bsky.social · last mo."In an interview, Legg compared the effort to finding an image of Jesus in toast by looking through an entire bakery's worth of loaves." I am today launching a quantum start up based on finding Jesus in your toast. We will deliver quantum toast supercomputer by 2028 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Me suffering from a heat wave while quantum computing offers a potential solution.
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Maris Ozols@marisozols.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe goal was to expose them to some of the quantum nonsense that's out there (thank you @dulwichquantum.bsky.social), help them understand the incentives of all the parties involved, and teach them critical thinking skills. I hope this will be helpful in their future careers!
I gave a lecture on quantum hype and quantum bullshit for our master's students this week. Afterwards they looked at Microsoft's Majorana 2 announcement and analyzed it from different sides: original press release, publication, media coverage and expert response, and then made their own conclusions.
Feel like they've almost gone out of their way to fill this video entirely with classical phenomena. Quantum fish anyone?
Dulwich Quantum Computing@dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 2mo agoGoogle: "Quantum is the language of nature" Me: Which volume of Weinberg's "Quantum Theory of Fields" should I read if I want to be able to talk to my plants?
Wait a second, Michio Kaku claims his publisher runs his books by a fact checker! Who was it?? Give me their name!!! I want to talk to that person!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1f... p.s. It would be so great if this claim itself did not fact check...
Google: "Quantum is the language of nature" Me: Which volume of Weinberg's "Quantum Theory of Fields" should I read if I want to be able to talk to my plants?
Quantum is the language of nature | Google Quantum AI
YouTube video by Google Quantum AI
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Quantum industry: We can solve climate change! Also quantum industry: But first we need to get some helium-3 from the moon! "The next quantum revolution may require a helium ‘gold rush’ on the moon" archive.ph/0P5ML
Earth’s next quantum revolution might depend on strip-mining the moon
The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to mine from the moon
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I think becoming a Dulwich Quantum Meme is a good way to cap off the PhD
Dulwich Quantum Computing@dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy mom: What have you been doing all these years? Me:
Most journals (including Nature and Science) require declaring AI use. How come there is no mention of AI, LLMs, "agents" or "Microsoft Discovery" anywhere in the paper while the official press release talks more about agentic AI contributions than majorana qubits? news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
Dulwich Quantum Computing@dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 2mo agoStrangely, the accompanying paper has zero mentions of AI or "agents". arxiv.org/abs/2606.03884
Hey @psiquantum.bsky.social, how does your timeline for going from zero qubits to solving climate change compares to Microsoft's?
For those who missed it, here's a quick summary of Microsoft Majorana 2 announcement: "Agentic AI, AI agent teams, AI agent, agentic AI, agentic AI, AI agents, AI-driven, agent, agentic AI, agentic AI, agentic AI, agents, agentic AI, AI, agentic AI, agentic AI..." news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
Introducing Majorana 2
How Microsoft’s new quantum chip was made 1,000x more reliable with the help of Microsoft Discovery's agentic AI.
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My mom: What have you been doing all these years? Me:
QuOI Theory@quoi-theory.at · 2mo agoCongratulations, Dr. Xuereb! 🔥🧊🖥️👹
blowing my mind that these are two people who lived at the same time who both won nobel prizes in physics: Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Paul
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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When your AI pitch fails so miserably the right response should have been to immediately pivot to quantum AI! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
But it comes on the back of this. 🤷♂️ An alarming amount of investment—public and private—is probably based on the misunderstanding that quantum computers solve problems in parallel.
Apparently there's a quasi-polynomial time classical algorithm for the unknot problem which was announced in a talk in 2021 and is summarized in this slide, but there's not actual writeup of it anywhere. www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/38304
Reviewers should also take more pride in their work! "I'm thrilled to announce that I just rejected several papers from a top conference! Those were some really solid papers, but I'm very proud that I managed to find some reasons to reject them anyway. I'm looking forward to your next submission!"
Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 3mo agoWe're going to revise and resubmit elsewhere, it'll be fine in the end (though it does feel I failed the students coauthors on this, maybe I miscalibrated, was too confident?). I'm only posting this because otherwise, all we ever see are the successes, the "proud of" and "thrilled to announce."
"See Figure 10 for details on the computation"
The day when AI can do quantum computing better than you will arrive sooner than you think! The best way to prepare for this is to start taking art classes already now so that when your salary is replaced by UBI you can easily switch to producing bad art full time.
