Marco Piani
@marcopiani.bsky.social
Physicist by training, silly by choice. Views my own.
All the top papers on Scirate saw AI play some role, in some cases a major one. These screenshots are from the top 4 papers, in order. A major role played by AI in at least three of them.
How sudden&extreme is exponential growth, you ask? This is an equal-aspect plot of exp(x), with limits -1000 and 1000 for both the x and y axes. Fun fact: this graph was generated from the browser bar, by just asking for it
Watched “Project Hail Mary” I enjoyed it and I would recommend it. I have a few issues here and there. A big one (SPOILER ALERT): . . . . . . . . If you have redundant probe ships to send back messages to Earth to save humanity, you use them even if you think…
For John Preskill, #quantum computing is part of the "complexity frontier" within physics, comparable to the "short distance frontier" exemplified by particle physics and the "long distance frontier" that cosmologists and astronomers are exploring. #APSSummit26 ⚛️🧪
Chuck Norris didn’t die. He roundhouse kicked all of us to an alternative reality, so that he could enjoy some quiet me-time in the reality we previously shared. RIP
I'm thrilled that Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard have received the A. M. Turing Award for “their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing.” Congratulations! www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...
Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.
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Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! They are recognized for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing. awards.acm.org/turing @umontreal
Congratulations to Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard for winning the 2026 Turing Award (akin to the Nobel Prize for Computer Science)! They invented quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. awards.acm.org/turing 🧪 ⚛️ 1/
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Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have been named the winners of the A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in computing, for their work establishing the foundations of quantum information theory. The award comes with a $1 million prize. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...
The water was spilled, and it panicked: "Oh no, I am gonna dry!"
"The NEW Bitcoin Rainbow2023 Chart" confidently suggests that now is the time to "BUY!" 👀
Quickly telling someone you’ve liked something they’ve done (e.g. telling a writer you like their writing, or a researcher you like their research, or a teacher you like their teaching) has a phenomenally high effort-to-impact ratio.
I miss the good old times when the worst that happened was renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Immigration is the issue on which Trump had the best approval ratings but is currently dragging his polls down
How are things going one year after, you ask? They are in the clear. Meaning, in the ratings graph there is a white gap between the disapproval band and the approval band.
Physicists: we should counter the impression that quantum mechanics is weird and inaccessible to ordinary people; anybody with sufficient interest and ready to put in the effort can learn quantum mechanics Also physicists:
We are organizing a short course on Quantum Foundations at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona funded by Catalonia Quantum Academy (CQA). Few spaces left! Apply before 20 August, 2025.
"I can hear his French-Canadian accent in my memory, but not without hearing him smile at the ends of most sentences." A blog post for Ray Laflamme. @quantumiqc.bsky.social @perimeterinstitute.ca @majidy.bsky.social quantumfrontiers.com/2025/07/27/l...
Little ray of sunshine
A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you shouldn’t trust every common saying; some heroes impress you more, the better you know them. Ray Laf…
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It turns out that the solution to the Fermi paradox is stupid. Pardon, it’s “stupid”. Meaning, the so-called Great Filter is the plain stupidity that even relatively advanced civilizations, say, humanity as a whole, can still display. The solution was in front of us all this time.
Chuckling at this breakdown of the Vatican City resident population
BREAKING An immigrant becomes the head of state of the Vatican. Again. But this time he is American.
The way Trump declares that there are National Security threats to invoke emergency powers for tariffs reminds me of one of the early South Park episodes, where hunters shout they are being attacked by protected animals, to shoot them unpunished.
Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside US reut.rs/3GRsD0k
If you are saying that the Canadian election was rigged at whatever local level, be aware you sound like a child having a tantrum after dropping on the ground your fresh ice cream cone OTOH you would be entitled to complain against the old man in a blue suit that bumped into you
Trump’s appeal to Putin sounds very similar to me turning off a ringing Alexa alarm.
There is a lesson here: if you Putin the effort, you can achieve a lot - like almost flipping the approval ratings - in a short time.
When was the last time Trump mentioned Fentanyl as rationale for tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico?