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Quantiki @quantiki.bsky.social · 4d

PhD position on quantum computing at at ETH Zurich, advised by Dominik Hangleiter and co-advised by Renato Renner

www.quantiki.org/position/phd...

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 4d

stop killer quantum
fuck quantum
for the people
for the lake
for autonomy

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations!

Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · 22d

I don't know, but your question made me think of this Goethe quote:

"Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden, man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken." - "Everything sensible has already been thought of; one just has to try to think it again."

Are new ideas better than old ones?

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · 23d

Isn't the point of the figure more that there is no guarantee that post quantum protocols cannot be broken by either algorithmic discoveries or progress in hardware development?
Perhaps the inclination of the blue line segments is exaggerated, but the important point is that they are not horizontal.

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · 28d

Sounds like the papers are writing themselves on time then!

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Henrik Wilming @arrr.de · Sep 4

🥳I am very happy to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant that I will use to start my own group and explore the large-scale entanglement properties of complex quantum systems.

This would not have been possible without my fantastic collaborators and supervisors. A big "thank you" to all of you! 🙏

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Aug 14

This gets even worse when translating between languages with a dictionary 👀

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

... and teleport him to the dark side of the moon!

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Aug 7

I did not expect to learn the difference between eudaimonia and eudaemonia, when I decided to participate in the www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti... challenge today 😅

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemo...

Eudaimonia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Harvey Lederman @harveylederman.bsky.social · Aug 5

I wrote about automation and the meaning of life, as a guest post on Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized. (1/5)

scottaaronson.blog?p=9030

ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman

Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …

scottaaronson.blog

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Looks like a rather deceptive advance to me.

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kenbrownquantum.bsky.social @kenbrownquantum.bsky.social · Jul 27

#Quantum #QIP2025
The team @qip2025.bsky.social has uploaded the QIPv2025 talks

www.youtube.com/@QIP2025

Enjoy rewatching your favorites!

QIP2025

www.youtube.com

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ich bin auch dafür Veröffentlichungen wieder auf Deutsch zu schreiben 🤓

(I'm also in favor of going back to German for writing papers 🤓)

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Andreea Lefterovici @andreealefterovici.bsky.social · Jul 18

Are you a student or early-career researcher in quantum computing or quantum information? Then the following is for you.

We're organising a focused, community-driven conference at Leibniz Universität Hannover, hosted by Prof. Robert Raussendorf.

🗓️ Save the date: August 27–29, 2025

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John Watrous @johnwatrous.bsky.social · Jul 16

After 3 1/2 years of work my course on quantum computing is finally finished — the "Director's Cut" of Understanding Quantum Information and Computation is now available.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11536

Understanding Quantum Information and Computation

This is a course on the theory of quantum computing. It consists of 16 lessons, each with a video and written component, covering the basics of quantum information, quantum algorithms (including query...

arxiv.org

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Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) @eu-qia.bsky.social · Jun 16

🕵️ Want to blow the whistle without risking your safety?

Today, true anonymity online doesn’t exist. But in the future, #QuantumInternet could make it possible.

🎥 Learn how Quantum Whistleblowing works in episode 2 of #EverydayQuantum.

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Jun 14

Correct!

Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · Jun 10

But are there worse things to do there other than prepare slides? 🏖️

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · May 29

If there are currently 19856025 bitcoin and around 8.2 billion people in the world, would that imply that around 0,00242 ₿ is a fair amount of bitcoin?

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · May 21

If it's the latter, one of the worst things you can do is tell some people about the results and then ask them not to share them on social media. Unless, of course, your reason for doing so is to generate hype for results that don't actually exist yet, and you don't want anyone else to work on them?

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · May 21

I am a bit confused by this: Imagine you have some new results. Either you want to present them to others and have people talk about them, or you don’t yet want people to know about them. 1/2

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · May 17

I first read ptsd and was getting worried.

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Henrik Wilming @arrr.de · May 14

There is now an official announcement: The TIB has archived the current status of the arXiv:

blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/p...

Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog

Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, na...

blog.tib.eu

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · May 15

Thank you 🤗

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