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While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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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#ResistanceRoots Ida Rhodes was born on this day in 1900 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. She was a mathematician, computer programmer and lecturer who was instrumental in early computer development in the U.S. She was also a fierce advocate for the disabled, often at great personal sacrifice. /1

Computer science pioneer Ida Rhodes. She was a passionate champion for the inclusion of disabled individuals in the emerging computer science field. She recognized that intellectual capacity and logic were completely detached from sight, hearing and physical mobility. She saw computer technology as the ultimate equalizer, allowing blind, deaf and physically disabled individuals to out-earn and out-program their peers if given the proper training.

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

while i was in amsterdam for 3 months i managed to run the length of 430 streets. not bad given i have roughly the same number of completed streets in seattle and i've been running here for 4 years

a map of amsterdam with GPS tracks of all the runs i did

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.

Mitiq 1.0 GitHub release with a mitiq sticker in the foreground