Lev S Bishop
@levbishop.com
Quantum factotum @ IBM.
https://arxiv.org/a/bishop_l_1.html | https://research.ibm.com/people/lev-bishop | https://github.com/levbishop
https://arxiv.org/a/bishop_l_1.html | https://research.ibm.com/people/lev-bishop | https://github.com/levbishop
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We now go live to Isaac Chotiner as he reaches out to Elon Musk offering an interview to clear up this whole Joyce Carol Oates "doesn't read" thing.
three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words " come on take the bait "
Alt: Three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words "Come on, take the bait "
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We now go live to Isaac Chotiner as he reaches out to Elon Musk offering an interview to clear up this whole Joyce Carol Oates "doesn't read" thing.
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60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
www.techdirt.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
They’re speedrunning me in the quote reposts. Some kid just rta’d 13 frames off the tas then dumped parmesan on his head.
They're remastering me in the quote reposts, my aesthetics aren't representative of the original artistic intent and the gameplay is slightly off.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
They’re speedrunning me in the quote reposts. Some kid just rta’d 13 frames off the tas then dumped parmesan on his head.
$hopping (1994)
Natural born killers (1994)
Suspiria (1977)
Blade runner (1982)
Natural born killers (1994)
Suspiria (1977)
Blade runner (1982)
Best movie soundtrack?
For me, "Boogie Nights"
You?
For me, "Boogie Nights"
You?
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
$hopping (1994)
Natural born killers (1994)
Suspiria (1977)
Blade runner (1982)
Natural born killers (1994)
Suspiria (1977)
Blade runner (1982)
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
Now, in the broader context of my adolescent development within the socio-spatial milieu of West Philadelphia—an urban environment where my recreational energies were overwhelmingly invested in basketball, often proximate to my immediate educational facility, and where the quotidian rhythms of play
If our copyeditors ever let a sentence like this through I would ask what I'd done to hurt them.
in case you think we are exaggerating, behold The Sentence
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Now, in the broader context of my adolescent development within the socio-spatial milieu of West Philadelphia—an urban environment where my recreational energies were overwhelmingly invested in basketball, often proximate to my immediate educational facility, and where the quotidian rhythms of play
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the ability of mainline US punditocracy to combine amorality and self-importance is really quite something.
September 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
the ability of mainline US punditocracy to combine amorality and self-importance is really quite something.
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Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
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**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
August 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
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Just an idea, but why not leave people alone and keep your busybody curtain-twitching bollocks to your own living room.
July 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Just an idea, but why not leave people alone and keep your busybody curtain-twitching bollocks to your own living room.
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the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever
July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever
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Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms.
Hope you find it interesting!
www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
Hope you find it interesting!
www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
Trump’s Trade Threats: Why Isn't This Working? | ExplainTrade
KAMEHAME… huh?
www.explaintrade.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms.
Hope you find it interesting!
www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
Hope you find it interesting!
www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
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the U.S. political press is incapable of dealing with this moment with any seriousness.
What an obscenely terrible headline.
I can assure the legacy media that Democrats are not looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed, arrested or indicted.
The handcuffs are a symbol of authoritarianism, injustice, intimidation, and government abuse. Nothing more.
I can assure the legacy media that Democrats are not looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed, arrested or indicted.
The handcuffs are a symbol of authoritarianism, injustice, intimidation, and government abuse. Nothing more.
June 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the U.S. political press is incapable of dealing with this moment with any seriousness.
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if you're a reporter and you've convinced yourself that your job is to make the audience mad at you, you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness maybe 1 percent of the time and a smug twat serving up reheated bilge the other 99 percent.
June 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
if you're a reporter and you've convinced yourself that your job is to make the audience mad at you, you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness maybe 1 percent of the time and a smug twat serving up reheated bilge the other 99 percent.
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Lee: Yo! over here!
Shiveley: don't
Shiveley: don't call the v o i d over here
Lee: yo the bro is HOT
Lee: hey v o i d you come here often
V O I D: [screaming eldritch gibberish]
Lee: [blood streaming from eyes & ears] cool cool cool
Lee: so what's your pronouns
Shiveley: don't
Shiveley: don't call the v o i d over here
Lee: yo the bro is HOT
Lee: hey v o i d you come here often
V O I D: [screaming eldritch gibberish]
Lee: [blood streaming from eyes & ears] cool cool cool
Lee: so what's your pronouns
June 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Lee: Yo! over here!
Shiveley: don't
Shiveley: don't call the v o i d over here
Lee: yo the bro is HOT
Lee: hey v o i d you come here often
V O I D: [screaming eldritch gibberish]
Lee: [blood streaming from eyes & ears] cool cool cool
Lee: so what's your pronouns
Shiveley: don't
Shiveley: don't call the v o i d over here
Lee: yo the bro is HOT
Lee: hey v o i d you come here often
V O I D: [screaming eldritch gibberish]
Lee: [blood streaming from eyes & ears] cool cool cool
Lee: so what's your pronouns
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.
Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
The sudden withdrawal of big corporate sponsors from Pride events is an opportunity, not a crisis.
theintercept.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.
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New-ish paper: Optimal and efficient two-qubit gate synthesis for heterogeneous instruction sets. arxiv.org/abs/2505.00543 (Sorry, forgot to hype this earlier)
The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).
The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).
Two-Qubit Gate Synthesis via Linear Programming for Heterogeneous Instruction Sets
We present GULPS (Global Unitary Linear Programming Synthesis), a segmented Cartan trajectory method that compiles arbitrary two-qubit unitaries into native gate sets by decomposing the synthesis prob...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New-ish paper: Optimal and efficient two-qubit gate synthesis for heterogeneous instruction sets. arxiv.org/abs/2505.00543 (Sorry, forgot to hype this earlier)
The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).
The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).
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Really, like… the concept of expertise is lib coded at this point. The 2025 American conservative view of knowledge appears to be that there are instinctual polymath common sense All Things Knowers and egghead specialists who pretend to know things but can easily be surpassed by Donald, Elon, etc.
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Really, like… the concept of expertise is lib coded at this point. The 2025 American conservative view of knowledge appears to be that there are instinctual polymath common sense All Things Knowers and egghead specialists who pretend to know things but can easily be surpassed by Donald, Elon, etc.
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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
I still like my suggested solution for user verification better github.com/bluesky-soci... more granular and scalable. Feels more in the spirit of everything else atproto
April 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I still like my suggested solution for user verification better github.com/bluesky-soci... more granular and scalable. Feels more in the spirit of everything else atproto
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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
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I don't understand why the judges in all the cases against DOGE's actions at various agencies don't put Musk and Kliger and everyone else under oath, demand they produce an org chart, employment agreements, etc etc. It's completely opaque and the judiciary is sleepwalking around the critical Qs.
April 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don't understand why the judges in all the cases against DOGE's actions at various agencies don't put Musk and Kliger and everyone else under oath, demand they produce an org chart, employment agreements, etc etc. It's completely opaque and the judiciary is sleepwalking around the critical Qs.
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pretty much everything that has come out about Elon Musk makes Walter Isaacson look like a really shitty biographer.
April 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
pretty much everything that has come out about Elon Musk makes Walter Isaacson look like a really shitty biographer.