Jake Arkinstall
jakearkinstall.bsky.social
Jake Arkinstall
@jakearkinstall.bsky.social
Software engineer at Quantinuum, working on quantum computer emulation tooling in Rust and Python. Ex fintech (C++). PhD in physics. Nix addict. Help, I'm stuck in a universe factory.
What in tarnation
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Next season of Bridgerton is going to be lit.
September 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hear me out though
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just one more domain bro it's a cool name bro you're gonna have a blog bro and actually post more than once a year bro I promise bro
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Went to see a one-man (and 10 ironing board) show called The Ironing Board Man tonight.

Man meets ironing board, they marry, man loses ironing board, man regains ironing board, they have kids, ironing board gets shot, man seeks revenge.

It was hilarious. Looked like a hell of an effort too.
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
How it's going.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. This thing has always sounded like a server room.
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Powys Castle - making the most of a surprisingly beautiful Sunday afternoon after a stormy Saturday.
September 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Cool story bro
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Got to be careful not to go too far with it or you can cause major disruptions to the magnetosphere.

Only joking, but it was nice to get this photo during May 2024's solar storms.
September 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ChatGPT on Quantum Error Correction, Eastin-Knill, and some challenges associated with scale.

I lol'd.
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
jj seminar sounds good to me.

Looking at the docs I'm getting a strong feeling of "wait how does this differ from just maintaining a scratch branch and doing surgery on a patch file from time to time" so I think I'm getting the wrong end of the stick entirely.

Related:
September 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
First gap in the clouds I've seen all day. An hour before sunset.

In unrelated news, I have just invented the cloud swatter. It's like a fly swatter but several orders of magnitude bigger. Yours for a low low price of £120Bn. Also has anyone got a hectare-scale 3d printer I could borrow?
September 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Always remember to provide adequate cooling for your CPU
September 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Updated it for you
September 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Same
August 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Last year was incredible for aurorae. I hope this year will be even better, because my kid was fascinated by it.

This was my favourite photo, which I called "I'm only transmitting on 100 watts, I swear".
February 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM