Our new paper "High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass." Achieves 7-fold increased capacity thru a quantum optical analog of short term plasticity from neuroscience. Atoms (neurons) couple to motion and photons (synapses)!
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12202
New Year’s resolution: more personal coding projects this year. Just finished pretraining and instruction fine tuning my own GPT2 scale LLM from scratch in PyTorch. Was so much fun!
A nice starter pack of researchers in the @simonsfoundation.org Collaboration on the Global Brain
go.bsky.app/66dLpPs
Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time.
It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.