Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
This is lunacy. The Chinese scholars I know are among the hardest working, most selfless people I've ever encountered. They want to contribute to our intellectual endeavors, and they make our research teams better.
We taught a quantum computer to learn from its own mistakes-- without stopping.
Our RL framework repurposes QEC detection events as learning signals to stabilize the system.
Result: Improved Logical Error Rates for both Surface and Color codes on Willow!
see arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08493
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
Berg's got a good thread on Watson. Dude was a human, flawed as any. Science is not the singular work of one single flawed human. We'd never make progress if that was the case. 🧪
Only question we had - we called the method from 5a "cryoscope", following Rol's 2020 paper. For the method in 3a, it seemed novel, so we just called it "Helling's method" - any advice on what you call it in your lab, @andreasateth.bsky.social ?
I will admit, however, that I still do absolutely love the sound of the rain on the roofs. Almost makes up for the blocking of an astronomical/geophysical event.
It's a fantastic paper - one of my labmates went through it for a journal club, and quickly applied the techniques to our #fluxonium qubits. Within three days, we saw both IIR and FIR effects, and implemented predistortion with the #QICK.
ChunnyD
I swear, the only time California clear skies would have been appreciated is the day that we get clouds and rain 🥲 #AuroraBorealis #AtThisTime #InThisPartOfTheCountry #LocalizedEntirelyInYourKitchen
