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María Gragera Garcés

@grageragarces.github.io

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Building distributed quantum systems Grad student in quantum @Uni of Edinburgh Quantum, Food and Books Intern in Quantinuum’s compiler team Previously: IBM Q & Cisco R&D Also find me in : https://linktr.ee/grageragarces

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Jun 23

go.bsky.app/75SvR2M - Who am I missing?

~got bored this afternoon, do forgive me. But on a serious note would love to know who I haven't discovered on here yet (or mistakenly omitted due to the sheer amount of people)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12h

Fall arrives in Cambridge

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12h

Although the translation is slightly rough at the start, this book made me publicly cry so 9/10. Would recommend as a quick one sit read

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 2d

First external contribution and +80% of issues completed to reach v1 for the HDH library! 🎉

More details about the project can be found: grageragarces.github.io/HDH/

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 2d

To anyone I ever hiked with:

~ video found and shared by @thomasbourke1.bsky.social

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 4d

Well it did go to quantum!

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 5d

Unlikely prediction: we’re getting quantum again but the theoreticians this time - Shor, Deustch, Bennett

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 11d

Small mistakes

Reposted by María Gragera Garcés

rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 12d

This rating scale is worth having in your back pocket.

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 12d

I don't have a pitchbot... but I do have a handy rating scale for science communication mishaps that was in no way inspired by another recently developed scale for interstellar objects

The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters

Science miscommunication is dangerous. But how dangerous?

www.reviewertoo.com

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12d

Congrats Marc !

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 19d

Bose noise cancelling 700. +3 years of multi-hour daily use & they are still like new. The Bose brand is quite reliable, the noise cancelling is very solid, & they are relatively water resistant (having survived an entire year in Edinburgh so far). The battery life still lasts a few days. 10/10

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 21d

I’ve always taken my laptop sticker game incredibly seriously.
And for the first time, it looks like I’m on my way to a fully quantum laptop. No one on the train will have any doubt about the industry I work in.
Sticker donations are always welcome

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29d

…and some even better company

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29d

By far, the best food award at a conference I’ve ever attended goes to these cheese boards across SIGCOMM. Perfection 🧀

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 10

Hahaha the grind never stops 😉 although this summer has been particularly intense… will be going on vacation back home after this

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 9

Awkward poster pictures have arrived. Do find me at poster 35 at SIGCOMM tomorrow!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 8

Had a great time this morning at the QuNet workshop at SIGCOMM!
Loads of cool work on quantum network locality, control, memories, and network implementations.
The big takeaway: metroscale q networks are gradually becoming a reality, but unsurprisingly the quantum internet is a while ahead

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 7

IWQC ✅ see you at SIGCOMM next 🛫

Thank you to the organisers for such a great workshop on quantum compilation! I learned a lot and had the pleasure of presenting my early PhD work!

I’ll leave you with some fancy looking slides:

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 3

That’s crazy! It is amazing. Will see them there then ;)

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Sep 3

I’m visiting Helsinki for IWQC later this week, and I’ve got to share that, without any doubt, today I had the best potato of my life.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 12

Oh my god someone cited work I've done! I've officially received my first citation!!!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 8

Will add it to my reading list! Thank you @efgalvao.bsky.social !

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 8

As a note much of the book is fictitious (the authors takes artistic liberties with autobiographies as the book progresses)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 8

Highly recommend Un verdor terrible (When We Cease to Understand the World) to those interested in the origins of scientific discoveries and/or mad scientists.
I often need a break after outstanding books (just read The Handmaid’s Tale), cause I struggle to fill the void, but this was an exception

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 7

When we cease to understand the world

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · Aug 5

I wonder when we’ll stop calling quantum computers “real devices.” It reads like we’re still surprised they actually work. I get that people mean “not a simulator,” but wouldn’t it make more sense to flag simulated runs instead?

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