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:: Artless dodger from the neutral-atom ghetto :: Currently inspecting bosonic error-correcting codes and continuous-variable quantum computing

Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2019
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Optimal packing of 10 squares into a square. "Hmmm that's kind of unexpected."
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Correction: this is the densest known for 11 squares in a square. It may not be optimal -- open question.
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i.e. God of the gaps
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The toilet on space station MIR was a work of art
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One of the best parts is the wood. The metaphor, sending a paleolithic material into space.
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Soyuz: pure utility
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A special, very personal holiday: The day this year's citations exceeds last year's. It may not even happen this year. But if it does, enjoy.
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Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two.
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Quick! Name 5 cities in China and 5 in India
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"Moose" is what Americans call the largest species of deer (A. alces), whereas most Europeans refer to the same animal using some variation of the word "elk" Another species of deer (C. canadensis), which Americans call "elk," Europeans call "wapiti" (derived from Shawnee/Cree)
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To "table" an issue in American English means to remove it from current discussion. In Australian English, it means the opposite: to bring the issue forward for immediate consideration.
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My safe word is "Meissner effect"
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If the Korean team has nailed it, that's one less thing for your quantum computer to do (...is useful for)
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The next 20 years will be dominated by materials science
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Some Encoding that I Used to Know @BenJamesBrown #YITP_QEC
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*Choose your fighter* #YITP_QEC – at Kyoto-fu, Japan
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Missing this bad boy rn
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I co-author <10 articles a year, and I am senior author on 2 to 3. My team is small, loyal, and under no pressure to publish. Every now and then I have to remind my peers that this is a sustainable career strategy: qantarot.substack.com/p/10-p…
I know I publish too many papers. But some of my colleagues publish 100 papers a year: e.g. scholar.google.com/citations… and there are assistant professors who publish >50. Seems widespread (nature.com/articles/d41586-0…) Is this a good development? How do people even do that?
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Get your black-market Bell pairs here! @drpeterrohde
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