Filip W
@filipw.strathweb.com
Software architect, quantum computing nomad, open source contributor, Microsoft MVP.
Works in R&D in the medical industry.
Interested in quantum foundations.
Author of “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” (Springer).
Works in R&D in the medical industry.
Interested in quantum foundations.
Author of “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” (Springer).
upgraded my home connection to 10Gbit fiber
Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣
Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
upgraded my home connection to 10Gbit fiber
Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣
Only to realize that none of my devices, including the newly set up mesh network ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") and the new Mac ("why pay extra for 10Gbit support?") do not support it 😣
Elon: "I know absolutely nothing about this, so here's my expert opinion"
I’ve always thought the problem with quantum computers is that they don’t cost nearly enough money (ideally, at least a million dollars per kg!), and should experience heavy vibrations and crushing G-forces after being calibrated. ⚛️🧪
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Elon: "I know absolutely nothing about this, so here's my expert opinion"
and how is your day going? 😣
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
and how is your day going? 😣
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Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results!
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
LLM and SLM collaboration using the Minions pattern (with Phi-4-mini and Azure OpenAI) | Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue.
www.strathweb.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results!
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
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When and how will quantum computing broadly benefit humanity? Despite exhilarating recent progress, we still don’t know. Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928
Mind the gaps: The fraught road to quantum advantage
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, yet substantial gaps separate today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices from tomorrow's fault-tolerant application-scale (FASQ) machines. We ident...
arxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
When and how will quantum computing broadly benefit humanity? Despite exhilarating recent progress, we still don’t know. Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928
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5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter
There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter.
These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!)
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics
There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter.
These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!)
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics
5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.
bigthink.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter
There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter.
These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!)
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics
There are always people promoting their own (shoddy) "alternative" ideas to dark matter.
These five undeniable truths box those alternatives into a corner they can't escape from. (Yes, that one too!)
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics
this should have been a new Mini! I am still clinging on to 12 Mini and I refuse to buy a new one until they release a new Mini
Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...
Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...
Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
Apple is "drastically" cutting production of the iPhone Air and shifting focus toward the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro models, Nikkei Asia...
www.macrumors.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this should have been a new Mini! I am still clinging on to 12 Mini and I refuse to buy a new one until they release a new Mini
Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...
Report: 'Virtually No Demand' for iPhone Air
🔗 www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/r...
When Werner Heisenberg came up with his original "observable" idea for quantum mechanics, he turned to Max Born and Pascual Jordan to help advance the ideas further, but they couldn't manage to apply the theory to the electron in hydrogen atom.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When Werner Heisenberg came up with his original "observable" idea for quantum mechanics, he turned to Max Born and Pascual Jordan to help advance the ideas further, but they couldn't manage to apply the theory to the electron in hydrogen atom.
Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅
Reposted by Filip W
🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab. Have a listen:
Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab
This episode is a first for the show - a repeat of a previously posted...
share.transistor.fm
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Nobel Laureate John Martinis Discusses Superconducting Qubits and Qolab. Have a listen:
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my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
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Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago:
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Energy-Level Quantization in the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction
We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state. The position of...
journals.aps.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago:
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years
so great to see this - so deserved! 👏👏🎉
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...
www.nobelprize.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
so great to see this - so deserved! 👏👏🎉
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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"If we leave writing to AI chatbots, we won't just lose a craft and the skills. Because writing is more than that. Writing is thinking", argues Giorgio Iemmolo, Director of the Language Centre at ETH and the University of Zurich.
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
What is your opinion?
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
What is your opinion?
Giorgio Iemmolo, is learning possible without writing?
AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.
ethz.ch
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"If we leave writing to AI chatbots, we won't just lose a craft and the skills. Because writing is more than that. Writing is thinking", argues Giorgio Iemmolo, Director of the Language Centre at ETH and the University of Zurich.
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
What is your opinion?
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
What is your opinion?
a terminal command that I had to run today that feels surprisingly adequate on so many levels
sudo killall zeitgeist
sudo killall zeitgeist
October 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
a terminal command that I had to run today that feels surprisingly adequate on so many levels
sudo killall zeitgeist
sudo killall zeitgeist
it's October 1, quick, someone wake Billie Joe Armstrong up!
a close up of a man 's face with a white shirt on
Alt: a close up of a sleeping Billie Joe Armstrong's face with a white shirt on
media.tenor.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
it's October 1, quick, someone wake Billie Joe Armstrong up!
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Via #OPG_OpticaQ: Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer opg.optica.org/opticaq/full... #QuantumInformation #IntegratedPhotonics
September 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Via #OPG_OpticaQ: Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer opg.optica.org/opticaq/full... #QuantumInformation #IntegratedPhotonics
- the target was five 9s uptime!
- but 89.9999 is still five 9s
- but 89.9999 is still five 9s
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
- the target was five 9s uptime!
- but 89.9999 is still five 9s
- but 89.9999 is still five 9s
is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩
![a Jupyter Notebook cell [14] showing a successful execution checkmark in 31.9s](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zmd6rdgnvuzlio6lrdvl4mfe/bafkreie6dhwbox3jhm6i7qu5khl7ng4yb4norbbmnukn5zc3j57wm2n77y@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩
new blog post: Introducing (Maybe) LibOQS.NET - a post quantum cryptography library for .NET
🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...
🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
new blog post: Introducing (Maybe) LibOQS.NET - a post quantum cryptography library for .NET
🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...
🔗 strathweb.com/2025/09/intr...
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“We only have a few minutes left so please keep your questions brief.”
“Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”
“Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“We only have a few minutes left so please keep your questions brief.”
“Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”
“Thank you for your talk, before I ask my convoluted question and get to the point, please allow me to tell you my name, title, position, rank and academic biography…”
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👀 🤔
"(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’"
Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’"
Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - Nature
A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and or...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
👀 🤔
"(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’"
Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"(...) the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’"
Hurowitz, J.A. et al. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
today I released LibOQS.NET, a .NET wrapper for liboqs (Open Quantum Safe), bringing plug-and-play support for post quantum cryptography for .NET developers.
Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64)
💻 github.com/filipw/maybe...
📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...
Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64)
💻 github.com/filipw/maybe...
📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...
GitHub - filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnet
Contribute to filipw/maybe-liboqs-dotnet development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
today I released LibOQS.NET, a .NET wrapper for liboqs (Open Quantum Safe), bringing plug-and-play support for post quantum cryptography for .NET developers.
Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64)
💻 github.com/filipw/maybe...
📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...
Excellent performance and support for Windows, Linux and MacOS (including arm64)
💻 github.com/filipw/maybe...
📦 www.nuget.org/packages?q=l...