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Earl Campbell
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Arch mage of quantumancy @ riverlane / Prof @ Sheffield uni / quantum error correction and algorithms / poster of posts / reader of sci-fi / player of games / father of daughters / cronic typer of typoes & requester of edit buttons
38 points to my daughter!

Congrats on a great word.
July 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Mama etna has calmed down in time for our flight home to be undisturbed.

Surreal to see videos of scary fast pyroclastic flows only a few days after we had a tour up there! (Check the news if you don’t know what I am talking about)
June 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Family holiday. At a loss to name this mythical creature, maybe it is the long forgotten mercentaur! It looks functional for neither sea nor land.
May 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When your marketing celebs get old and need name tags to be recognisable. LA highlights.
May 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Death by surface code!
May 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Jet lagged and adjusting
May 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Office slack chat …
May 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Business mode”

Going to economist quantum event in London. 1 day before look at website and surprised to see 1000+ expected attendees, with photos of previous events showing a high density of suits.

5 mins b4 leaving house recheck email and see “dress code: business attire”

Slight panic…
May 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thanks Alice & Bob for organising a wonderful week at Les Houches. In, particular Jeremie Guillluad.

It was a most lovely event, with great people and surroundings.

And a real balance between theory and experiment!

I have these mints as a souvenir, and my kids keep asking …
April 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Last morning in Les Houches
April 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Morning
April 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Me and the world quantum chess champion 2020 and 2021, now retired.
April 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Casey presents a magic state distillation experiment on Gemini, the latest device from Quera.

There have been papers before that do MSD on physical qubits, but I think this is the first MSD demo on d>=3 encoded qubits.
April 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
(Yesterday) Bela Bauer of MS talking about their progress. Less hyper than the recent PR as the roadmap slide doesn’t claim that the 8 qubit device is “done”.
April 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Morning
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Ted Yoder summarised the onslaught of qLDPC logic papers (for fixed architectures) from IBM (and others).

I’ve read most/some of these papers but had a few gaps remaining in my understanding before today …
April 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
First time at Les Houches, school of physics for a QEC workshop. Great talks and walks so far.
April 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Waldraff presenting “lattice surgery” with rep codes spilt from a surface code on a 17 qubit transmon chip similar to the infamous krinner et al setup.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A mishmash of slides from NQCC scalability conference, which I intended to post with commentary, but now have a backlog problem so here you go without context:
April 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Oxford! I will be talking Thursday at NQCC scalability conference for a 9am keynote and also here for the QCi3 hub meeting. Beautiful as ever. First time staying at Keble college.
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
To defeat the dreaded lurgy. Very surprising number of people ill today at work. Some massive superspreader event has occured.
February 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Editorial in news scientist special issue on QC.

Publish and show your workings!

For a technology with such potential, and so little wider understanding, companies should evidence their claims.

Topical the given other news today

This is a principle we follow at
@riverlaneltd.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM