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I love self-deprecating humor, but I'm not very good at it. Sometimes quantum, sometimes not.

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Joined January 2011
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Hace poco subí un cachito del adagio final de la Sonata para viola de Shostakovich, terminado poco antes de morir y que planteó como su despedida de la música y de la vida. Este otro cachito esconde un secreto que no fue desvelado hasta 30 años después de su estreno. Abro hilo:⬇️
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Estimada Presidenta @delPino y @CienciaGob, por qué el CSIC es una institución de segunda clase en la accesibilidad de talento extranjero? 1/
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Me niego a creer que este es el mundo que nos queda. Que se cancelen cosas desde el trailer. Que los que odian por deporte se salgan con la suya. RT si tú eres de los que aman, y no de los que odian.
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Quantum today has been shaped so remarkably by the existence of the visas that are affected by today’s news. There’s a wide gap between H1B and qualifying for O1 and they are typically how we have hired international talent in quantum. Proposals for solutions?
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Abhinav Kandala and David McKay @IBMResearch #IBMQ answered questions about how to do quantum computing with superconductors for #SummerSTAQ. Student questions included how do you benchmark qubits and what is the intuition behind DRAG?
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Hats off to new PSF Gold Sponsor IBM Q @qiskit! We appreciate your support of the Python community 💙 💛!
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Congratulations to everyone who took part in our #IBMQuantumChallenge. 1745 people in 4 days came together as a community to celebrate 4 years of quantum computing on the cloud. We maintained over a 1B circuits a day being run on our 18 quantum systems.
Let me tell you why it’s so rewarding to work with such an awesome community: When we designed the challenge, we thought 46 was the absolute best. Then someone came and destroyed that with 45!💥 #IBMQuantumChallenge
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We are very pleased to see @honeywell adopting #quantumvolume in addition to their integration to @qiskit arxiv.org/pdf/2003.01293.pdf
We are excited to announce @honeywell has built an integration in Qiskit for their trapped-ion quantum platform! Just pip install qiskit-honeywell-provider and contact them for access when their machines become available.
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Chopin born OTD No one greater.
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In 2010, I had good union health insurance. Obamacare was the law of the land. In November that yr my 1yo son was struck by a careless driver in a crosswalk. After two surgeries and a night in intensive care, he died.
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So… not attacca
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Igor Stravinsky sneaking a swig of whiskey.
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"...now that google has achieved quantum supremacy there's going to be a full quantum computer in 5 years, probably sooner. So really you really need to move you bitcoin to a quantum-secure cryptocurrency before then."
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I would like to nominate Joanne Cohn and Paul Ginsparg for a prize for their visionary work on open science and the arXiv. It has revolutionized how we disseminate and consume scientific research. RT if you agree. Maybe @APSphysics can give them the recognition they deserve?
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A history lesson for people who think that history doesn't matter: What's the big deal about railroad tracks? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way
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People often ask me: “What’s the difference between the Schrödinger picture and the Heisenberg picture?”, so I’ll just post the answer here. The left is the Heisenberg picture, and the right is the Schrödinger picture.
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Magician: Pick any number between 1 and 10, and I'll guess it Cantor: A real number? Magician: well, yea.. Cantor: You know what, let's put some money on this
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Everyone, had fun? #IBMQ party at #apsmarch Thank you @lizdurst and @suzie_mae for throwing this amazing #IBMQuantumArcade !
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Planned quantum supremacy experiment from @GoogleAI: run depth 12 circuit on 49-qubit 2D gmon array, estimated XEB fidelity of 1.6%, needs ~100k measurements to achieve supremacy with 5 sigma confidence (takes about a minute to run) #apsmarch – at Boston, MA
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I bet you didn't know this Pt.1: @AOC as a teenager won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on the effect of antioxidants In appreciation the International astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez @amjoyshow @SRuhle
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