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The latest edition of The Quantum Technician has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the quantum computing community in a single digest.

https://quantum.blaze.email/archive/the-quantum-technician-25-11-2025/

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The Quantum Technician 25-11-2025
Go and .NET cryptographic updates, tangled standards debates
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100+ Years Old Debate About Quantum Reality Settled With Experiment. Really?

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2025/12/100-years-old-debate-about-quantum.html

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100+ Years Old Debate About Quantum Reality Settled With Experiment. Really?
Summary: Quantum foundations debate, experimental tests, and interpretations discussed by Sabine Hossenfelder and collaborators
backreaction.blogspot.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Francis en Luciérnagas: Premio Nobel de Física 2025 al efecto túnel cuántico macroscópico

https://francis.naukas.com/2025/12/09/francis-en-luciernagas-premio-nobel-de-fisica-2025-al-efecto-tunel-cuantico-macroscopico/

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Francis en Luciérnagas: Premio Nobel de Física 2025 al efecto túnel cuántico macroscópico
Summary: Francis en Luciérnagas comenta el Premio Nobel 2025 por el efecto túnel cuántico macroscópico en superconductores y qubits
francis.naukas.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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100 Years of Quantum Physics: Rise of the Matrix (1925)

https://galileo-unbound.blog/2025/12/03/100-years-of-quantum-physics-rise-of-the-matrix-1925/

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100 Years of Quantum Physics: Rise of the Matrix (1925)
Summary: Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics origins, Bohr-Sommerfeld limits, and the Born–Jordan collaboration shaping quantum theory.
galileo-unbound.blog
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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On Randomness

https://www.seriousanimals.com/on-randomness/

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On Randomness
Summary: Explores whether quantum randomness is real or an interpretation, arguing for structured causality and critiquing ontological randomness.
www.seriousanimals.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Observational Entropy and Quantum Darwinism

https://www.symmetrybroken.com/observational-entropy-and-quantum-darwinism/

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Observational Entropy and Quantum Darwinism
Summary: Observational Entropy minimization links dynamical einselection to Quantum Darwinism, tested via Kwiat–Zeilinger interrogation optimization.
www.symmetrybroken.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-next-big-thing-in-tech-is-almost.html

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The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here
Summary: Tech's next big thing is nearly here, exploring AI, quantum tools, and emerging platforms with Sabine Hossenfelder's insights.
backreaction.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Theory and AI Alignment

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9333

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Theory and AI Alignment
Summary: Theoretical CS views on AI alignment, watermarking LLM outputs, backdoors, interpretability, and complexity theory insights.
scottaaronson.blog
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Sounds plausible

https://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2025/12/05/sounds-plausible/

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Sounds plausible
Summary: Zac Medico discusses Holonomic AI, HUFD, and machine learning in a Gentoo blog post about AI plausibility and evolving world-models.
blogs.gentoo.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins – IEEE Spectrum

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/run-ai-models-locally-a-new-laptop-era-begins-ieee-spectrum/

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Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins – IEEE Spectrum
Summary: Local AI training on laptops accelerates as NPUs and unified memory reshape PC design for AI workloads, per Quinta and IEEE Spectrum.
blog.quintarelli.it
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Technical Escape Velocity

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/03/Technical-Escape-Velocity/

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Technical Escape Velocity
Summary: Technical Escape Velocity: learning to program, AI-assisted learning, TEV concepts, and impact of coding agents on problem difficulty.
benjamincongdon.me
December 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Mihai Pătrașcu Best Paper Award: Guest post from Seth Pettie

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9364

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Mihai Pătrașcu Best Paper Award: Guest post from Seth Pettie
Summary: SOSA Best Paper Award renamed for Mihai Pătrașcu; Pettie discusses Mihai’s impact on data structures, geometry, and lower bounds.
scottaaronson.blog
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/

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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
Summary: Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI explore AI moats, compute dominance, and potential advertising strategies across GPUs, TPUs, and consumer platforms.
stratechery.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The latest edition of The Quantum Technician has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the quantum computing community in a single digest.

https://quantum.blaze.email/archive/the-quantum-technician-25-11-2025/

#quantum #quantumcomputing
The Quantum Technician 25-11-2025
Go and .NET cryptographic updates, tangled standards debates
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December 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Welcome to the Slopverse

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/ai-multiverse/685067/?utm_source=feed

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Welcome to the Slopverse
Summary: Generative AI, multiverses, and the truth problem: how LLMs create plausible but fictional worlds that erode trust
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December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Machine Learning Engineer 🤖 #363 - Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX-2, Major Supply Chain Attacks, The State of MLOps 2025 Survey 🔥, Raschka on Buildin...

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/clgdkag7vq1e4pl4shei/entries/i3lsdydwhp6btefwsbp8.html

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The Machine Learning Engineer 🤖 #363 - Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX-2, Major Supply Chain Attacks, The State of MLOps 2025 Survey 🔥, Raschka on Building an LLM, 2025 Advent of Code + more 🚀
Summary: Production MLOps survey insights, Black Forest Labs FLUX-2, major supply chain security, Raschka on building an LLM, Advent of Code 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Links list - 2025-11-28

https://andreabergia.com/blog/2025/11/links-list-2025-11-28/

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Links list - 2025-11-28
Summary: Notes on Rust in Android, eBPF monitoring, agent development guides, and Go garbage collection optimizations.
andreabergia.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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BazelCon 2025 recap

https://jmmv.dev/2025/11/bazelcon-2025-recap.html

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BazelCon 2025 recap
Summary: BazelCon 2025 recap covers Bazel, BEP, bzlmod, remote execution, Skycache, AXL tasks, PROJECT.scl, and IDE tooling with speakers from Google, EngFlow, and Snowflake.
jmmv.dev
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Quoting Qwen3-VL Technical Report

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/27/qwen3-vl-technical-report/#atom-everything

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Quoting Qwen3-VL Technical Report
Summary: Quoting Qwen3-VL: long-context video QA evaluation and YaRN-based extension achieving near-perfect accuracy
simonwillison.net
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-guide-to-nvidia/

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Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
Summary: Premium analysis of NVIDIA's GPU monopoly, data-center costs, CUDA, Mellanox, and AI infrastructure economics.
www.wheresyoured.at
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Nvidia Graphics Cards work on Pi 5 and Rockchip

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nvidia-graphics-cards-work-on-pi-5-and-rockchip

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Nvidia Graphics Cards work on Pi 5 and Rockchip
Summary: Jeff Geerling discusses Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi 5 and RK3588, patching open-source kernel modules with mariobalanica and testing Vulkan/CUDA through llama.cpp benchmarks.
www.jeffgeerling.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html

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Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond
Summary: Predictions on loneliness-companion robots, Renaissance developers, quantum-safe security, and defense-tech-driven civilian innovations, with AI in the human loop shaping learning, care, and security.
www.allthingsdistributed.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The latest edition of The Quantum Technician has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the quantum computing community in a single digest.

https://quantum.blaze.email/archive/the-quantum-technician-25-11-2025/

#quantum #quantumcomputing
The Quantum Technician 25-11-2025
Go and .NET cryptographic updates, tangled standards debates
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November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html

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NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
Summary: Dissent over IETF adoption of ML-KEM in TLS, with procedural criticisms, NSA influence, and hybrid PQ considerations.
blog.cr.yp.to
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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NSA and IETF, part 2

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-corruption.html

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NSA and IETF, part 2
Summary: NSA and IETF push for weakened cryptography, corruption in TLS adoption, and counterarguments toward hybrid security strategies.
blog.cr.yp.to
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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NSA and IETF, part 3

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html

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NSA and IETF, part 3
Summary: Critique of IETF processes around ML-KEM adoption in TLS, discussing consensus, dissent censorship, and post-quantum hybrid vs non-hybrid design choices.
blog.cr.yp.to
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM