El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Wanna hear a talk by Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt? It's being lived-streamed here at 2pm PDT. Wanna see ME do the intro and talk a (very) little bit about geology on the moon?Same place. Wanna NOT see me do the intro? Start at about 2:05pm Also viewable after the livestream. I think.

An Afternoon with Harrison Schmitt

YouTube video by Caltech Astro

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Last night I dreamed I was using mashed bananas to model Internet congestion. Don't ask me how.

Don Quixote, after getting his ass kicked by a windmill

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

First train in the morning at 505am, and I have to change to a train where I am stuck standing, maybe all the way to the airport.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

It's only 25C and 74% humidity today. I feel like I need a jacket.

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

I'm in awe, and excited to see what other things we will learn from the AIs. There are a number of problems I've spent a long time thinking about, and maybe I will learn how to answer them soon. But -- what then?

I don't understand it yet. Maybe it'll take me an afternoon to check all the calculations, but what would still be missing is why this was an approach that would've made sense in the first place.

I spent many hours, days, nights, weekends in cafes, in my office, at home, trying to understand Ran Raz's classical parallel repetition theorem and whether I could prove a quantum version of it. This period of struggle was important for me.

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

AI-generated paper starter pack: include your prefered! Starting with a classic. AI-hallucinated references! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.07808

The perfect description of a library card .

Please read..... #BookSky

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

I could barely afford vibranium as it was

Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now

It is hard enough to be an international student in the US right now, but the administration is determined to make it even more difficult: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

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Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

I personally know these people, this is legit. A small org for continuing financial, organizational and legal support for making some of the independent quantum conferences run.

International Association for Quantum Information@iaqi.bsky.social · 6d ago

Let's have a community discussion about the impact of LLMs on quantum information research, and how to react to it as a research community! 👩‍🔬⚛️🤖 🏛️ Head over to the IAQI forum 👇 discuss.iaqi.org/t/quantum-in... 🦋 Please share widely!

Let's have a community discussion about the impact of LLMs on quantum information research, and how to react to it as a research community! 👩‍🔬⚛️🤖 🏛️ Head over to the IAQI forum 👇 discuss.iaqi.org/t/quantum-in... 🦋 Please share widely!

Quantum Information Processing research in the age of AI

Dear colleagues, Over the past weeks there have been more and more results in which AI models played a crucial role, not only in mathematics and theoretical computer science, but right at the heart o...

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Straight out of the camera

AI hallucination in arxiv.org/abs/2607.24968 I can confirm that this paper does not exist! I've never published in PRE! journals.aps.org/search/resul...

They are coming to drive your electricity prices through the roof, destroy your environment, pervert your politics, enrich billionaires, take your jobs, and make you pay for the privilege. What’s not to love? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo ago

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Frontier LLMs can now solve many quantum computing and theoretical computer science problems that I've personally spent weeks or months working on. How is everyone else dealing with the existential crisis that accompanies this reality?

Sadly, unless you pay $200 per month (230 EUR if you’re European 🙂), you’re no longer as competitive in quantum info theory (as I guess in any applied-math topic).

Utah has approved a 161 sq. km. Data center? Twice the size of Manhattan. 9 GW of gas-fired power, more than the whole state.

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance