Hamza Waseem
@quantumfoundations.bsky.social
Oxford Physics DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) | Disclaimer: All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
I had an incredible time at the 100-year celebrations of quantum physics organised by @iop.org at the @rigb.org, London. It was an honour to participate in a panel discussion on the future of quantum science and technology.
A brief mention of Quantum in Pictures attracted a lot of interest.
A brief mention of Quantum in Pictures attracted a lot of interest.
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
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Roger Penrose & Friends Appeal for Unique Archive
To digitise and restore the worlds largest collection of audio and visual recordings within the scientific community, spanning over 50 years
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September 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
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Happy to finally announce this long-overdue paper.
TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam.
More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam.
More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
April 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Happy to finally announce this long-overdue paper.
TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam.
More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam.
More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
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Genocide as property development
Just in: Donald Trump said the US, working with teams from 'all over the world', would 'slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth' www.ft.com/content/1b5c...
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Genocide as property development
I’m so delighted to have had the chance to speak to a group of Pakistani school students about quantum through pictures today. These 13- to 18-year-olds arranged this online talk themselves and actively engaged with the material, asking brilliant questions, all on a Sunday evening.
February 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m so delighted to have had the chance to speak to a group of Pakistani school students about quantum through pictures today. These 13- to 18-year-olds arranged this online talk themselves and actively engaged with the material, asking brilliant questions, all on a Sunday evening.
Yesterday, I delivered the first lecture of my career. It was an invited lecture for the graduate-level Quantum Information course taught by Artur Ekert at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
It was a super fun experience! Hopefully, the students also got something out of it.
It was a super fun experience! Hopefully, the students also got something out of it.
January 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yesterday, I delivered the first lecture of my career. It was an invited lecture for the graduate-level Quantum Information course taught by Artur Ekert at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
It was a super fun experience! Hopefully, the students also got something out of it.
It was a super fun experience! Hopefully, the students also got something out of it.
I defended my Physics PhD this week at the University of Oxford. What a great privilege it has been. Alhamdulillah!
Super grateful to Bob Coecke and Alexy Karenowska for supervising my doctoral work. Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College for the financial support.
Super grateful to Bob Coecke and Alexy Karenowska for supervising my doctoral work. Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College for the financial support.
December 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I defended my Physics PhD this week at the University of Oxford. What a great privilege it has been. Alhamdulillah!
Super grateful to Bob Coecke and Alexy Karenowska for supervising my doctoral work. Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College for the financial support.
Super grateful to Bob Coecke and Alexy Karenowska for supervising my doctoral work. Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College for the financial support.
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Oxford Union declares Israel an 'apartheid state responsible for genocide'
Union president denounces Israel's war on Gaza as a 'holocaust' at a fiery event where pro-Israel speaker was ejected for harassing Palestinian student
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November 30, 2024 at 2:54 AM
'The prestigious Oxford Union voted by an overwhelming majority that Israel is an "apartheid state responsible for genocide" at a fiery event in which the society's president denounced Israel's war on Gaza as a "holocaust".'
www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-...
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