AlaricS
@alaric-sanders.bsky.social
Settling under a thick doona at the beginning of the cold times—simply unrivalled. Shalim smiles upon me
October 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Settling under a thick doona at the beginning of the cold times—simply unrivalled. Shalim smiles upon me
Wishing the Victoria line a very unpleasant morning
Nothing but disrespect in my heart for that tunnel in particular
Nothing but disrespect in my heart for that tunnel in particular
July 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Wishing the Victoria line a very unpleasant morning
Nothing but disrespect in my heart for that tunnel in particular
Nothing but disrespect in my heart for that tunnel in particular
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So What Do We Know QC To Be Good For?
- Simulating quantum physics and chemistry
- Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC)
- Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover
- We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications!
(The world has been systemically lied to about this)
- Simulating quantum physics and chemistry
- Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC)
- Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover
- We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications!
(The world has been systemically lied to about this)
June 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
So What Do We Know QC To Be Good For?
- Simulating quantum physics and chemistry
- Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC)
- Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover
- We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications!
(The world has been systemically lied to about this)
- Simulating quantum physics and chemistry
- Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC)
- Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover
- We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications!
(The world has been systemically lied to about this)
I’m conflicted about using LLMs for solving programming problems. I think at this point it’s pretty hard to defend using it for creative things (writing, image gen etc.), but I have to wonder if Cursor et al. are really any worse (ethically or environmentally) than other big tech products
April 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m conflicted about using LLMs for solving programming problems. I think at this point it’s pretty hard to defend using it for creative things (writing, image gen etc.), but I have to wonder if Cursor et al. are really any worse (ethically or environmentally) than other big tech products
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Some exciting results to share! The MagLOV and related proteins from @andrewgyork.bsky.social and @mariaingaramo.bsky.social are quantum. We measured 4% optically detected magnetic resonance contrast in living bacterial cells at room temperature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
![A. Structure of AsLOV2 [PDB 2V1A] with mutations resutling in MagLOV~2 highlighted. For the first time, quantum sensing in living cells using a fluorescent protein-based sensor can be performed by driving spin transitions using radio-frequency (RF) fields in the presence of a static magnetic field. B. Simplified photocycle diagram in the case of a large external magnetic field.
C. Microscope image cropped to a single cell expressing MagLOV 2. Scalebar is 1 um.
D. For MFE measurements the magnetic field was modulated between 0 mT and 10 mT, here with a period 10 seconds. The intensity over time is integrated over pixels covering the single cell, with an exponential decay (due to photobleaching) removed.
E. A single cell expressing MagLOV 2 displaying an ODMR signal 4% contrast.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tludcv74nxumusfwzkmfcl5q/bafkreigmpmmy3xz6alxsxwwmsw4dxn7lkebjl4lqtcwvpiljdiubztlmqa@jpeg)
November 28, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Some exciting results to share! The MagLOV and related proteins from @andrewgyork.bsky.social and @mariaingaramo.bsky.social are quantum. We measured 4% optically detected magnetic resonance contrast in living bacterial cells at room temperature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Big things happening on maths arXiv -
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19826
If correct, this is a proof that this shape (proposed by Gerver in 1992) is the biggest sofa that can fit around the corner of a corridor
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19826
If correct, this is a proof that this shape (proposed by Gerver in 1992) is the biggest sofa that can fit around the corner of a corridor
January 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Big things happening on maths arXiv -
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19826
If correct, this is a proof that this shape (proposed by Gerver in 1992) is the biggest sofa that can fit around the corner of a corridor
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19826
If correct, this is a proof that this shape (proposed by Gerver in 1992) is the biggest sofa that can fit around the corner of a corridor