Bids from anywhere are welcome. And the last Europe QEC was a long time ago, so that bodes well for a strong European bid.

But after this year, I've done my turn of QEC organising/steering, and so someone else in Cambridge (not me) will have to bid.

I also posted this on X and for the first time got more reposted here than on X! I try not to use X but this seemed too important to limit to the bluesky bubble, but maybe X is actually the smaller bubble now.

I was expecting "expert prediction" to be a third-party authority, and found that framing to be weird.

I remember seeing project outlines in 2005-2008 saying things like, we will have a fault-tolerant million qubit device in 3 years. If anything, roadmaps have gotten better (more accurate/realistic) since then.

His star role in “the divincenzo code” including incredible evil scientist dance moves

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Jet lagged and adjusting

I highly recommend this paper.

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There are also a bunch of other tricks in there like optimization of electron orbital basis to minimize a crucial parameter Lambda, also clearly a smart thing to do. Of course, the devil is in the details, and the work is brilliantly executed.

What is the main contribution of Gunther et al?  They explore the more LCU based approach (leaving behind diamond norms) while also using a “best of both worlds” approach.   This is clearly the right thing to do and was a combination that I never got to exploring.