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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 17h

Is it just me that finds it weird how ingrained it is in science that research groups identify as "The PI's-last-name group" as if their research & research interests were entirely determined by the PI? To me this feels unnecessarily adhering to authority and fostering cults centered around PIs.

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 1d

Ich bin ja der Meinung, eine mit der Geschwindigkeit anwachsende "relativistische Masse" ist kein hilfreiches Modell, das ist nur nötig, wenn man darauf besteht, Impuls als eine scheinbare lineare Funktion "m" mal "v" der Geschwindigkeit und Masse anzuschreiben, was aber eben nur geht wenn m=m(v).

Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 1d

I am just going to leave this here quantum-journal.org/about/

Quantum

Quantum is an open-access peer-reviewed journal for quantum science and related fields. Quantum is non-profit and community-run: an effort by researchers and for researchers to make science more open ...

quantum-journal.org

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 14d

Wait till you hear about Quantum's embargo and pre-print policy!

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 16d

Few will recognize this as a quote from Al Cappuccino in "And Coffee for All"

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 16d

I'm a glass-half-full kinda guy

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 16d

Not sure what I would do without LinkedIn, where would I get my daily dose of people obnoxiously bragging, companies making hyped fantasy claims about imaginary quantum breakthroughs, and people congratulating each other on how long they have already not-yet quit their jobs

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 16d

So (oder so ähnlich) entstehen übrigens auch viele andere interessante Forschungsprojekte. Die besten Ideen kommen halt oft nicht am Schreibtisch... allerdings kommen zugegebenermaßen zu später Stunde bei der Weihnachtsfeier auch nicht NUR tolle Ideen

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Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social · 18d

Hier übrigens eine sehr gute Einordnung, was die "Antifa" ist - und was nicht

Von @nhoraczek.bsky.social

Blauland: Die „Antifa" verbieten – wer hat’s erfunden?

In den USA gilt „Antifa" seit kurzem als terroristische Organisation. Die FPÖ fordert seit Jahren, was US-Präsident Donald Trump nun umsetzt

www.falter.at

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 19d

Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9170

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 20d

You want to submit/have submitted your paper to Quantum and would like to speed the editorial process along? Suggest reviewers! You know the field and who has the expertise. But keep in mind who is likely to have time. Famous senior profs are not likely to reply to review requests.

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 27d

We understand why the effect occurs, the question we had was if we should and if so how we could take this effect into account via adapted masks

Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 27d

The actual story is unfortunately way less strange than what it initially sounds like: we were discussing measurement data that should ideally be arranged in a pattern of straight parallel lines, but the actual data came out banana-shaped, we were wondering if this could be amended by suitable masks

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 15

Wahrscheinlich denkt Fleischhacker, man hätte einen Antifa-Mitgliedsausweis gefunden bei der Person. Und Exxpress-Mann hält sich selbst vermutlich auch für politische Mitte ohne Vorurteile.

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 15

Do the four adjectives you used align with the four images? The first three suggest yes, but I dearly hope you did not taste the monkey

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 14

Mir ist genau dieser Gedanke auch immer wieder gekommen die letzten Jahre, aber was mir jetzt mehr auffällt: "Wie konnte es damals so weit kommen?" wurde viel thematisiert (zumindest in meiner Schulzeit), aber nicht: "Was hätte man (damals) dagegen tun können?"

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 9

Serious conclusion of yesterday's 1-hour research meeting: we might need anti-banana masks

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 9

Why is this on @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social?

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 4

I might know a QM textbook with QI content 😇

Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 4

Aren't they a Swiss company? They could just switch to German and use an unbounded number of compound nouns, so many exciting options, like MDPI's new flagship journal Katzenhaarluftfilteranalyse

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 2

I might have to reference this excellent blog post in my next QC class...

Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · Aug 31

Been awhile since I wrote a blog post.

Anyways... why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

algassert.com/post/2500

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

Craig Gidney's computer science blog

algassert.com

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Sep 2

He's not wrong

Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · Aug 30

I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it!

(also, "good" is not an endorsement)

Alignment chart meme for the interpretations of quantum mechanics. LG: Bohmian, NG: everything else, CG: QBism, LN: Many Worlds, TN: Copenhagen, CN: Objective Collapse, LE: Superdeterminism, NE: Retrocausality, CE: Quantum Mysticism

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Aug 26

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

ALT: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

media.tenor.com

Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Aug 20

Glad someone took the time to debunk the (obviously nonsensical) claim that Bell inequalities could be violated w/o entanglement. It is astonishing (to say the least) that this claim was made by experienced authors & that it passed peer review in the first place, does not reflect well on the journal

Bell Inequality Violations Without Entanglement? It's Just Postselection

Recently Wang et al. have reported a violation of a Bell inequality without entanglement [arXiv:2507.07756]. We show that their result is an artifact of postselection. It is well known that postselect...

arxiv.org

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · Aug 14

Posting scheint mir eher ein fadenscheiniges Argument dafür zu sein, dass der Autor eben keine inklusive Sprache verwenden will. Zwingt ihn ja niemand, und ich habe auch von Verwender*innen (schau schau, garnicht so schwer) inklusiver Sprache in der Hinsicht noch nie was von "Kulturkampf" gehört.

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