BREAKING: Henry Legg @henrylegg.bsky.social WILL get a talk at the APS meeting next week! Presumably on Monday, before Microsoft's Tuesday talk. Let everyone know and please be there!

More to follow.

"For validation purposes of everything we're saying, [we need to be] in the presence of experts. [...] The criterion for being an expert is that you have connected to this call. That's the criterion. [...] We need 100 experts because that's what Microsoft used in their press releases." Sergey Frolov

There is a particular method of deception that Chetan Nayak's version of Station Q uses. While you are focusing on the Q claim in front of you that looks fishy, they overwhelm you with a new one.

Let's call it the 'fake it till you fake it' technique.

Here is how it goes... 🧵

In 2023 Microsoft Quantum put a comment on our paper.

Their claim was based on a single figure. We requested the data for this figure... no response.

Eventually we got the data through PRL.

We ran the code as described: Fig. 1 in MSFT's comment was demonstrably false.

A BlueSky 🧵.

For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits.

The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is EMBARGOED until you had your morning coffee

MICROSOFT IS THE LARGEST FRAUD IN QUANTUM COMPUTING

The company escalates its unreliable physics claims to the “qubit” level

I presume we all just ignore Nature themselves saying this does not constitute evidence of Majoranas?

I guess they could have said this a bit more prominently than the Peer Review file... But hey when has Microsoft ever overclaimed?

Started watching The Last of Us show last week and listening to the official podcast. It’s fascinating to see and hear about the changes have been made to the show due to the difference of the medium from the original game.

SALE! A PhD in your pocket for just $20/month.

I am pretty sure I am the no.2 fan of Christina Aguilera on Spotify, 2nd only to my wife, because our older daughter is obsessed with Mulan. She can only fall asleep with selected Mulan soundtracks. She would wake up if a non-Mulan song plays, when we forget to play the playlist in a loop 😅

Just received an email says that I can get the diploma of the Spanish language exam I took in FEBRUARY. This is top speed.

I took another exam earlier, with only MCQs, which was purely marked by machines. The results came out two months later.

All I can say is, Spain is different. 🤷‍♂️

Going directly from 0 to 1 million doesn’t sound a good plan for making anything. But quantum is different, so why not?

Tencent strikes again! Abyss Allowed East, LMAO youtu.be/5IPmpZFdNP4?...

Is the sky bluer on this side?