Iftach Yakar
@quantumyakar.bsky.social
Quantum computing + information | Computer science | postgraduate @ HUJI
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Sometimes I just add “eigen” in front of a word and hope for the best.
Fixing up a meal… 😀
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Fixing up a meal… 😀
Turns out you can customize the spinner verbs in Claude Code.
So here we are:
So here we are:
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Turns out you can customize the spinner verbs in Claude Code.
So here we are:
So here we are:
I need you guys to send me videos from the QIP rump session.
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I need you guys to send me videos from the QIP rump session.
Amazing talk by @johnwatrous.bsky.social on education and the lessons he leans along the way.
January 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Amazing talk by @johnwatrous.bsky.social on education and the lessons he leans along the way.
Quarks?
This isn’t the APS March meeting.
In QIP we eat qubits.
Shameful.
This isn’t the APS March meeting.
In QIP we eat qubits.
Shameful.
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Quarks?
This isn’t the APS March meeting.
In QIP we eat qubits.
Shameful.
This isn’t the APS March meeting.
In QIP we eat qubits.
Shameful.
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Joe Slote on parallelization.
First time i’m seeing the term parallelomania; googling it gives some surprising results, though.
First time i’m seeing the term parallelomania; googling it gives some surprising results, though.
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Joe Slote on parallelization.
First time i’m seeing the term parallelomania; googling it gives some surprising results, though.
First time i’m seeing the term parallelomania; googling it gives some surprising results, though.
Kicking off day 2 with Sergio Boxio on Quantmly Verifyable Quantum Advantage
January 27, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Kicking off day 2 with Sergio Boxio on Quantmly Verifyable Quantum Advantage
Hurt my leg while playing basketball with my kid. Won’t stop me from coming to QIP though.
See you soon 🥶
See you soon 🥶
January 26, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Hurt my leg while playing basketball with my kid. Won’t stop me from coming to QIP though.
See you soon 🥶
See you soon 🥶
It’s good that QIP2026 is in Riga, so we can finally experimentally demonstrate coherent superconducting qubits at room temperature. 🥶
January 21, 2026 at 10:46 AM
It’s good that QIP2026 is in Riga, so we can finally experimentally demonstrate coherent superconducting qubits at room temperature. 🥶
Fresh tiny tomatoes from my garden 🤩
January 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Fresh tiny tomatoes from my garden 🤩
“No quantum symbols if you don’t finish your numerals!”, I told my 4yo daughter.
January 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM
“No quantum symbols if you don’t finish your numerals!”, I told my 4yo daughter.
Nice twilight earlier tonight from my backyard.
January 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Nice twilight earlier tonight from my backyard.
Trying to program the Lego robot to draw a heart shape for my daughter’s 4th B-day.
Harder that it sounds 😅
Harder that it sounds 😅
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Trying to program the Lego robot to draw a heart shape for my daughter’s 4th B-day.
Harder that it sounds 😅
Harder that it sounds 😅
Shrödinger, after his thought experiment
a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field with the words whats in the box behind him
Alt: Brad Pitt in a suit and tie is standing in a field shouting "what's in the box" behind him (from the movie Seven)
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Shrödinger, after his thought experiment
3 years ago I made a hit tweet on the other site.
December 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
3 years ago I made a hit tweet on the other site.
Bought 2 cappuccinos, guy at the counter “the one marked with an ‘x’ is the regular one”.
Me: dude, just write which is which, I won’t remember the 1-bit encoding in 5 minutes.
Me: dude, just write which is which, I won’t remember the 1-bit encoding in 5 minutes.
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bought 2 cappuccinos, guy at the counter “the one marked with an ‘x’ is the regular one”.
Me: dude, just write which is which, I won’t remember the 1-bit encoding in 5 minutes.
Me: dude, just write which is which, I won’t remember the 1-bit encoding in 5 minutes.
Probably me if I were to work at Nasa.
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Probably me if I were to work at Nasa.
People take for granted the fact that mangos are so delicious, but most don’t know that every logical mango is made out of many physical mangos.
October 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
People take for granted the fact that mangos are so delicious, but most don’t know that every logical mango is made out of many physical mangos.
When you transverse a graph and forget to update the ‘visited’ list.
Remember Zapata? The company that started out quantum, then pivoted to AI, and then went bankrupt. Guess what...
zapataquantum.com
zapataquantum.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When you transverse a graph and forget to update the ‘visited’ list.
*son asks me to text mommy asking when she is coming back*
me: ok, I'll let you know if she answers. go to sleep now.
son: will you let me know if she doesn't answer?
me: but... it's the halting problem.
son: ?
me: never mind, son. go to sleep.
me: ok, I'll let you know if she answers. go to sleep now.
son: will you let me know if she doesn't answer?
me: but... it's the halting problem.
son: ?
me: never mind, son. go to sleep.
October 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
*son asks me to text mommy asking when she is coming back*
me: ok, I'll let you know if she answers. go to sleep now.
son: will you let me know if she doesn't answer?
me: but... it's the halting problem.
son: ?
me: never mind, son. go to sleep.
me: ok, I'll let you know if she answers. go to sleep now.
son: will you let me know if she doesn't answer?
me: but... it's the halting problem.
son: ?
me: never mind, son. go to sleep.
Excited to share my first paper (w/ Michael Ben-Or)!
Quantum repeater protocols must decide when to perform entanglement-distillation - but should that decision be local or global?
We find that global policies can make or break secure communication. 🔑
1/8
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06737
Quantum repeater protocols must decide when to perform entanglement-distillation - but should that decision be local or global?
We find that global policies can make or break secure communication. 🔑
1/8
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06737
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Excited to share my first paper (w/ Michael Ben-Or)!
Quantum repeater protocols must decide when to perform entanglement-distillation - but should that decision be local or global?
We find that global policies can make or break secure communication. 🔑
1/8
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06737
Quantum repeater protocols must decide when to perform entanglement-distillation - but should that decision be local or global?
We find that global policies can make or break secure communication. 🔑
1/8
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06737
“I know it sounds woo” 🤣
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“I know it sounds woo” 🤣
Just published a Stim implementation of the [[16,4,4]] Tesseract code - the one used in Microsoft+Quantinnum's QECC experiment last year.
Simulation can be used to quickly benchmark the code under various parameters.
Contributions are welcome.
github.com/DeDuckProjec...
Simulation can be used to quickly benchmark the code under various parameters.
Contributions are welcome.
github.com/DeDuckProjec...
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Just published a Stim implementation of the [[16,4,4]] Tesseract code - the one used in Microsoft+Quantinnum's QECC experiment last year.
Simulation can be used to quickly benchmark the code under various parameters.
Contributions are welcome.
github.com/DeDuckProjec...
Simulation can be used to quickly benchmark the code under various parameters.
Contributions are welcome.
github.com/DeDuckProjec...