Dulwich Quantum Computing
@dulwichquantum.bsky.social
Parody quantum computing startup from South London
https://dulwichquantum.github.io/
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Our starter pack of quantum PhD students is now full! (Unfortunately Bluesky caps it at 150.) We're happy to report that we have rescued at least 36 souls from X who joined Bluesky via our starter pack!
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What paper / song pairing would you recommend for this Christmas? Here's our choice:
"Random purification channel made simple"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.23451
with
"And he shall purify" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddy...
"Random purification channel made simple"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.23451
with
"And he shall purify" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddy...
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What paper / song pairing would you recommend for this Christmas? Here's our choice:
"Random purification channel made simple"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.23451
with
"And he shall purify" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddy...
"Random purification channel made simple"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.23451
with
"And he shall purify" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddy...
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
December 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
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Awful for academics but great news for Borges fans
This is horrific. AI hallucinates references, Google Scholar swallows them, libraries adapt their records to Google Scholar as ground truth, and an inexistent paper becomes reality.
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Awful for academics but great news for Borges fans
Who knew that one day scientists would consider moving to Germany to escape fascism!
14 two-year postdoc positions in Germany in a new "Early Career Rescue Fellowship" scheme.
14 two-year postdoc positions in Germany in a new "Early Career Rescue Fellowship" scheme.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Who knew that one day scientists would consider moving to Germany to escape fascism!
14 two-year postdoc positions in Germany in a new "Early Career Rescue Fellowship" scheme.
14 two-year postdoc positions in Germany in a new "Early Career Rescue Fellowship" scheme.
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The semester is finally over, so it's time for me to post the memes my students made for extra credit on their final (Physics 438b: Quantum Mechanics). As always, good memes are the result of my inspiring teaching, bad memes are the result of kids these days. Let's start it off!
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The semester is finally over, so it's time for me to post the memes my students made for extra credit on their final (Physics 438b: Quantum Mechanics). As always, good memes are the result of my inspiring teaching, bad memes are the result of kids these days. Let's start it off!
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And the results of the annual Quantum Physics 2 meme competition are in… 🥁 🪘🛢️🍗
in fifth place we have a meme that I secretly have a lot of sympathy for…
in fifth place we have a meme that I secretly have a lot of sympathy for…
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
And the results of the annual Quantum Physics 2 meme competition are in… 🥁 🪘🛢️🍗
in fifth place we have a meme that I secretly have a lot of sympathy for…
in fifth place we have a meme that I secretly have a lot of sympathy for…
Prof trying to hide from students.
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Prof trying to hide from students.
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Winners of the #FOCS2025 Cartoon Caption Contest:
- "This guy is about to blow up the polynomial hierarchy." [ Rachel Zhang ]
- "Not exactly what I meant by 'increase FOCS acceptance rate.'" [ @mahdi.ch ]
- "This guy is about to blow up the polynomial hierarchy." [ Rachel Zhang ]
- "Not exactly what I meant by 'increase FOCS acceptance rate.'" [ @mahdi.ch ]
The conference is starting in a few hours! We'll post here information about #FOCS2025 as it goes, including the blog posts attendees write about the talks and events.
And the "cartoon caption contest" (courtesy of Mary Wootters) has started, along with the offline scavenger hunt! Here's a teaser:
And the "cartoon caption contest" (courtesy of Mary Wootters) has started, along with the offline scavenger hunt! Here's a teaser:
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
When you need to look fresh for a 9am meeting.
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
When you need to look fresh for a 9am meeting.
When a joke turns into a billion dollar industry.
The term "qubit" was born out of a joke between Ben Schumacher and Bill Wootters!
@perimeterinstitute.ca
@perimeterinstitute.ca
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When a joke turns into a billion dollar industry.
Great initiative! But as a quantum computing startup Dulwich would never run other people's metrics. What if we don't come out at the top? It's safer to stick to our own metric, namely the largest number of qubits encoded in acorns stored in a wooden box!
I somehow missed when my own story came out... 🤦 but here's one that I've been trying to write a version of for a while.
Amidst the flood of claims from quantum labs right now, a few initiatives are trying to find transparent ways to chart progress. More here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪⚛️
Amidst the flood of claims from quantum labs right now, a few initiatives are trying to find transparent ways to chart progress. More here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪⚛️
Quantum computing ‘KPIs’ could distinguish true breakthroughs from spurious claims
Researchers are devising ways to make new machines face off, without the hype.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Great initiative! But as a quantum computing startup Dulwich would never run other people's metrics. What if we don't come out at the top? It's safer to stick to our own metric, namely the largest number of qubits encoded in acorns stored in a wooden box!
"Our study demonstrates that [probabilistic] computers, implementing state-of-the-art replica-based Monte Carlo algorithms, can achieve a comparable, and in some cases more favorable, performance scaling on the same 3D spin glass problems."
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"Our study demonstrates that [probabilistic] computers, implementing state-of-the-art replica-based Monte Carlo algorithms, can achieve a comparable, and in some cases more favorable, performance scaling on the same 3D spin glass problems."
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Since I might have to declare this account in my next ESTA application when I go to a conference in the US, let me preemptively say that I feel nothing but admiration towards the glorious leader and great father of all Americans, Donald J. Trump! Most humble of all men who have walked this Earth...
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Since I might have to declare this account in my next ESTA application when I go to a conference in the US, let me preemptively say that I feel nothing but admiration towards the glorious leader and great father of all Americans, Donald J. Trump! Most humble of all men who have walked this Earth...
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I just received a paper for a Springer journal that was obviously LLM-generated, complete with non-existent theorems, missing proofs, and hallucinated references. The journal has double-blind review. You see the problem? Stone thrown, hand hidden. No one to name-shame.
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Sergey Frolov (@spinespresso.bsky.social) explains the disconnect between science and PR in quantum computing. The whole talk is worth a watch (it's on reproducibility issues in experimental condensed matter physics, including the infamous majorana zero modes).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t0...
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Sergey Frolov (@spinespresso.bsky.social) explains the disconnect between science and PR in quantum computing. The whole talk is worth a watch (it's on reproducibility issues in experimental condensed matter physics, including the infamous majorana zero modes).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t0...
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"A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We are on a brink of an unprecedented revolution in science that will change forever how science is done and what it means to be a scientist! Instead of having to do all our writing, reading and thinking ourselves, we will now be able to spend all our time on debunking wrong AI-generated papers!
OpenAI leadership are promoting a paper in Physics Letters B where GPT-5 proposed the main idea — possibly the first peer-reviewed paper where an LLM generated the core contribution. One small problem: GPT-5's idea tests the wrong thing. My technical comment: scirate.com/arxiv/2512.0... 1/
![As part of a broader effort to demonstrate AI’s po-
tential in scientific research [1], OpenAI executives have
pointed to a recently published paper by Hsu [2] as evi-
dence that AI can contribute original ideas to physics [3,
4]. Hsu credits GPT-5 with proposing the core idea of the
paper de novo, possibly the first published physics article
where the main idea came from an LLM, and discusses
the methodology in a companion piece [5]. We examine
whether GPT-5’s criterion is correct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uknpj5mh4cfutreceecdbv7x/bafkreia3jerjfcqdui45n4upaqci5u5r6st7o7pqmdzahhjtidtostpooq@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We are on a brink of an unprecedented revolution in science that will change forever how science is done and what it means to be a scientist! Instead of having to do all our writing, reading and thinking ourselves, we will now be able to spend all our time on debunking wrong AI-generated papers!
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so whats the next insane bubble, "quantum"?
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
so whats the next insane bubble, "quantum"?
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We are in the era of Science Slop! (and it's exciting): open.substack.com/pub/superpos...
We are in the era of Science Slop
(and it's exciting)
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We are in the era of Science Slop! (and it's exciting): open.substack.com/pub/superpos...
We've all been there during our undergrad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store
Store employee found masked bandit sleeping off a bender after invading booze store and tippling a tad too much
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We've all been there during our undergrad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Me attending a workshop in Paris.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Me attending a workshop in Paris.
Bold prediction: the current AI boom will be net negative for science simply because many scientists won't be able to afford to buy new computers.
"Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025."
www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-...
"Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025."
www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-...
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.
www.xda-developers.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Bold prediction: the current AI boom will be net negative for science simply because many scientists won't be able to afford to buy new computers.
"Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025."
www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-...
"Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025."
www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-...
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Since the community here is very familiar with VQAs and their pitfalls, Here's my 2 cents on the the topic, would love to hear what everyone thinks too.
TLDR: "VQAs are doomed, and that's great news for QC"
1/ however long it's gonna take
TLDR: "VQAs are doomed, and that's great news for QC"
1/ however long it's gonna take
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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This is how you do research in a group of 3 these days:
* person 1: provides a high level idea
* person 2: does calculation on the board
* person 3: checks vibes with ChatGPT
* person 1: provides a high level idea
* person 2: does calculation on the board
* person 3: checks vibes with ChatGPT
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is how you do research in a group of 3 these days:
* person 1: provides a high level idea
* person 2: does calculation on the board
* person 3: checks vibes with ChatGPT
* person 1: provides a high level idea
* person 2: does calculation on the board
* person 3: checks vibes with ChatGPT