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If there’s 22 g of coffee left in the bag, you could make two weak cups of pourover, or one powerful cup. This test determines whether you’re fit to join the Galactic Fleet.
May 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This morning my son told a joke that relied on him needing to fart as the punchline but the fart came out silent and he was so disappointed he had to go to his room alone.
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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C. P. Larson, E. Yelton, K. Dodge, K. Okubo, J. Batarekh, V. Iaia, N. A. Kurinsky, B. L. T. Plourde
Quasiparticle poisoning of superconducting qubits with active gamma irradiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07354
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.”

— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
February 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Call me a pessimist but a 1.3per cent chance of being wiped out by the asteroid in 7 years time does not sound that small at all www.bbc.com/news/article...
YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth
The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
www.bbc.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The problem ingredient identified was "undeclared milk," which poses a risk to those with severe sensitivities or allergies.
FDA upgrades recall of Lay's potato chips to most serious level
The problem ingredient identified was "undeclared milk," which poses a risk to those with severe sensitivities or allergies.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database.
#science

climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
Silencing Science Tracker | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
climate.law.columbia.edu
January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made
January 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.
Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal
Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!
January 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Recently, we saw a massive surge in sign-ups for #ProtonVPN originating from the U.S.

Usually, these sign-up spikes are due to countries with unstable governments facing internet censorship, so this was a real head-scratcher.

Turns out it's just porn. 🤷‍♂️
January 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers:
December 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Over the past year I played a supporting role on experiments showing we have a flexibility in how we do QEC on a planar chip. We do a color code (arxiv.org/abs/2412.14256), and three interesting variations of the surface code circuit (arxiv.org/abs/2412.14360), all below threshold.
December 20, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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If you're ever having a mysterious problem, for days, where batch jobs seem to run fine, but the output never gets written? — check whether you've exceeded your disk quota on the cluster. Just hypothetically, it could happen.
December 13, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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Reminded me of this
December 13, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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We are excited to share our latest research published this week in Physical Review Applied.

Congratulations to Konstantin and Ivan (@syracuseu.bsky.social) on this significant contribution to superconducting quantum circuit theory!

🔗 journals.aps.org/prapplied/ab...

#QuantumComputing #Quantum
December 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Take your budget, subtract monitors and other peripherals and then divide by 2. Spend that much on a killer GPU and then build up from there. Ryzen, RTX card, M.2 SSD. Some good suggestions in this thread.
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
This is perhaps the single worst idea for a cookie jar I've ever seen. Want those cookies on the bottom? Have fun carefully picking up the top two layers of glassware to access them!
December 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Getting started in design of superconducting #quantum circuits?

What are your favorite references? Here's a few to start:

A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits
https://buff.ly/4irOZ6Y

Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
https://buff.ly/4irqnv2

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A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits
The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of su
pubs.aip.org
December 7, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Causes death for children in the United States of America.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...
December 5, 2024 at 1:15 AM