Brandon Rodenburg, PhD @punk_physicist@qoto.org

Kochen-Specker on Rev. Mod.Phys. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.94.045007

After releasing separate “Pillars of Creation” images captured with the near-infrared and mid-infrared cameras, the JWST team also released this spectacular merged image.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/12/Pillars_of_Creation_NIRCam_and_MIRI_composite_image

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), A. M. Koekemoer (STScI); CC BY 4.0

These photos sent back by @NASA_Orion are marvelous.

A camera carried by the craft is looking back at the Moon and Earth as the mission reaches its maximum distance of about 270k miles.

There's no one on board, but this is the furthest a spacecraft meant for humans has travelled from Earth.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52529813962/

When running a quantum algorithm, not all qubits will have gates being applied to them at all times. Algorithms might even have qubits being idle 99% of the time.

In this paper they look at how to fix this. Given surface code blocks arranged in 2D, but with rare non-local connections between blocks, the idling time can be reduced dramatically.

As for exactly how, that will take more careful reading of this detailed paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15465
#qec #quantum

The Closest view of Jupiter ever taken!
NASA / SPACE X

A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.

Credit: NASA/SDO
#sun #nasa #space #astronomy

Two MastCam-Z shots from the Mars Perseverance Rover taken yesterday on Sol 625. They are part of a multispectral observation of the outcrops.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

#Mars #Mars2020 #Space #Science #Astrodon

On the track of interesting aspects to have in long papers to facilitate reading. One thing I will have in my PhD and it might be helpful for very long arXiv documents is the backflow from references to the main text where they were cited.

This might be achieved by using backref=page in the hyperref packedge. Example:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue,linkcolor=blue,backref=page]{hyperref}

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype

QEC has gone beyond break even! Logical error rate of the encoded information is for the first time higher than a bare reference rate. Paper by Vlad Sivak and collaborators @Yale_QI https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09116

Measurement-based #quantum computing is underrated in the quantum computing community

A guide to Mastodon (for the folks like me who never became very familiar with Twitter)

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/blob/main/README.md

Holla #Quantum Mastodon, here is a CSV file of 118 people on Mastodon that has something to do with #QuantumComputing.

At the moment, it does not look like it is possible to make your own list (Lists are important here, btw) using this CSV file, but you could follow the people here from settings.

Sorry if I've missed someone and will try to keep this updated.

Hope you find this useful :)

File Link: https://cutt.ly/6MnBTJ3