I will admit, however, that I still do absolutely love the sound of the rain on the roofs. Almost makes up for the blocking of an astronomical/geophysical event.

Maybe the annealers actually reached that goal, and the universe just sped up?? #UniverseGate

all gas, no brakes!! #QuantumComputing #RL

It's such an incredible movie! I was lucky to see it on the big screen during a film festival - definitely worth it for the cinematography!

Only question we had - we called the method from 5a "cryoscope", following Rol's 2020 paper. For the method in 3a, it seemed novel, so we just called it "Helling's method" - any advice on what you call it in your lab, @andreasateth.bsky.social ?

(I do realize that I have also just redefined the trope "#moonshot" in a very roundabout way!)

Is it meaningful to do so? Will there actually be precious material on other planets? Will we actually find alien life out there? We're really not sure right now. But folks are enthusiastic about the prospect of it, and it's worth the effort.

But the main reason for building a rocket isn't to get to work faster, or even to go to a different continent. We are building a rocket to reach places that no kind of automobile would ever be able to get to.

There are different kinds of classical computers - you can have a sedan for every day use, but there's also supercomputers that are F1 racecars; able to go much much faster. Right now, some of those supercars are faster than our rockets, especially since our rockets tend to explode!

It vibes pretty well with the phrase "double-mythological hydra-chimeras" - maybe we should just redefine genomes -> gnomes? I like the idea of tiny lil gnomes in me, building proteins!

Would you have any advice on how/what to plan for? I get the increasing sense that things are just about to crumble in an awful way, but I don't know what to do to prepare for that possibility (financially, community-wise, workwise, etc)

Here's the full preprint.

Feel free to write me if you want any additional analyses in the final version!

arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

1997 checking in here - even though wide swaths of the Internet were developed before i logged in the very first time, I have been seeing the same trends, and classic internet communities seem to have mostly disintegrated these days. Everything is more uniform, panicked.

did you get a legal release form to copy it over??? Otherwise you might have just created a wormhole allowing the Musk to permeate through...