Graeme Smith
@graemesmith.bsky.social
Theorist in Waterloo. Quantum information, quantum computing, science, parenting. https://gsbsmith.ca
Imagine there was an industry based on nothing at all!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Imagine there was an industry based on nothing at all!
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University of Waterloo
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November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Andrei Sakharov Prize of the Amerian Physical Society goes to Yoel Fink at MIT "For defending the academic freedom and human rights of scientists working in the U.S."
www.aps.org/funding-reco...
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Andrei Sakharov Prize
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.
www.aps.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Andrei Sakharov Prize of the Amerian Physical Society goes to Yoel Fink at MIT "For defending the academic freedom and human rights of scientists working in the U.S."
www.aps.org/funding-reco...
www.aps.org/funding-reco...
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
You could also work with Debbie Leung, Richard Cleve, David Gosset, Luke Schaefer, Ashwin Nayak, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Mike Mosca, Christine Muschik or some combination of us if you do theory.
If you are interested in doing a postdoc with me, please apply to the IQC postdoctoral fellowship here: iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
University of Waterloo
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You could also work with Debbie Leung, Richard Cleve, David Gosset, Luke Schaefer, Ashwin Nayak, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Mike Mosca, Christine Muschik or some combination of us if you do theory.
If you are interested in doing a postdoc with me, please apply to the IQC postdoctoral fellowship here: iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
University of Waterloo
Attn: Institute for Quantum Computing - SlideRoom
Apply to University of Waterloo
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iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Humans are pretty ingenious and will absolutely figure out the identities of every single one of these goons who broke the law and violated individual rights and they will all be held accountable in the court of law.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Humans are pretty ingenious and will absolutely figure out the identities of every single one of these goons who broke the law and violated individual rights and they will all be held accountable in the court of law.
he should look into his quantum options
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
he should look into his quantum options
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Reposting with alt
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposting with alt
I hope the driver bought this fancy car by selling one of those apes.
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I hope the driver bought this fancy car by selling one of those apes.
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So much of fantasy and science fiction (obviously not all) is a warning against arrogance, hate and prejudice, against wealthy elites who accumulate wealth and power at all costs and how they pervert society and destroy lives.
And yet technofascists like Musk are intent on misreading these works
And yet technofascists like Musk are intent on misreading these works
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So much of fantasy and science fiction (obviously not all) is a warning against arrogance, hate and prejudice, against wealthy elites who accumulate wealth and power at all costs and how they pervert society and destroy lives.
And yet technofascists like Musk are intent on misreading these works
And yet technofascists like Musk are intent on misreading these works
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Let me try to answer this...
To be a scientist means to assume that there is more good than evil in the world, for why would you dedicate your life to inventing tools that will surely end up in bad people's hands as well? 🧵
To be a scientist means to assume that there is more good than evil in the world, for why would you dedicate your life to inventing tools that will surely end up in bad people's hands as well? 🧵
why's that?
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Let me try to answer this...
To be a scientist means to assume that there is more good than evil in the world, for why would you dedicate your life to inventing tools that will surely end up in bad people's hands as well? 🧵
To be a scientist means to assume that there is more good than evil in the world, for why would you dedicate your life to inventing tools that will surely end up in bad people's hands as well? 🧵
it's not a positive thing for the field that quantum computing has captured Elon Musk's attention.
October 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
it's not a positive thing for the field that quantum computing has captured Elon Musk's attention.
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The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
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is that a serious question
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.
www.wired.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
is that a serious question
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Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Quantum arXiv today.
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Quantum arXiv today.
Never forget how amazing it is that electrical circuits can behave quantum mechanically!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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 12:06 PM
Never forget how amazing it is that electrical circuits can behave quantum mechanically!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.
"So...what country will you flee to if you need to?" is becoming a frequent topic of discussion with colleagues in america.
Better late than never!
Better late than never!
October 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"So...what country will you flee to if you need to?" is becoming a frequent topic of discussion with colleagues in america.
Better late than never!
Better late than never!