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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jun 30

I think the guy who wrote animal farm would disagree with you there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

George Orwell - Wikipedia

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jun 28

We won!

UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Jun 27

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Mar 29

Should probably tag in @newcastleucu.bsky.social

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Mar 28

On the last day of the strike we had our own school of computing picket line

Picketing staff posing for a picture with UCU signs (fund staff now, UCU official dispute, etc) in front of the Urban Sciences Building. Sign saying “School of Computing” is visible in the background.

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · Mar 4

Out in force at the Newcastle Pickets today!

Nick rocking the picket sign! 🪧❤️
@ucu.org.uk
@quantumchancellor.bsky.social

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · Feb 26

New paper dance!
Excellent work by @jbennett107.bsky.social at @iqoqi.bsky.social with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner, showing that the LHZ encoding works with quantum walks, i.e., diabatic driving.

arxiv quant-ph @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · Feb 26

Jemma Bennett, Nicholas Chancellor, Viv Kendon, Wolfgang Lechner
Improving success probability in the LHZ parity embedding by computing with quantum walks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18324

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 15

Now over 2200 signatures and still rising.

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 14

Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 11

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Feb 10

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business.
oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · Feb 11

Not just a comprehensive review of metrics and benchmarking for quantum computing, the launch of a living resource including software for characterising and comparing quantum computing hardware.
Led by Ivan Rungger @ NPL (UK National Physical Lab).

arxiv quant-ph @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · Feb 11

Deep Lall, Abhishek Agarwal, Weixi Zhang, Lachlan Lindoy, Tobias Lindstr\"om, Stephanie Webster, Simon Hall, Nicholas Chancellor, ...
A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Feb 11

I’m proud to have played a (small, I wrote the annealing bits) part in this comprehensive review on benchmarking and metrics for quantum computing arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software

Quantum computers have the potential to provide an advantage over classical computers in a number of areas. Numerous metrics to benchmark the performance of quantum computers, ranging from their indiv...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Feb 9

I do as well, this important we all need to.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Feb 2

So your grand plan is to mock people (including your own supporters) for having to pay more for food? You aren’t just some rando on here, tell us what you are going to do about it and then go do it.

Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 31

Extremely proud to have played a part in creating this video game to learn about quantum computing store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/... uses full state space representation in an entirely visible way, worth checking out no matter your level of expertise

Save 10% on Quantum Odyssey on Steam

Master Quantum Computing on the world’s most acclaimed simulator. No math or coding needed, but you WILL be exposed to it! Solve open-ended puzzles, learn through play, and compete online to pioneer n...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 28

Next best thing to actually meeting the boulder itself I suppose

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 27

So I actually am from the same place as the small boulder the size of a small boulder, I drove by there every day going to school

Mr. Red @mr-red.bsky.social · Jan 27

Happy “Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder” Day to all those who celebrate.

Screen shot of a tweet from this day in 2020 by the San Miguel sheriff department about there being a large boulder the size of a small boulder in the middle of the road.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 20

New paper in physical review research (published by @apsphysics.bsky.social) : doi.org/10.1103/Phys... using quantum annealing for load partitioning looking at a different angle to take advantage of quantum optimization. Unfortunately I don’t think any of my coauthors are on Bluesky (yet)

Load balancing for high performance computing using quantum annealing

With the advent of exascale computing, effective load balancing in massively parallel software applications is critically important for leveraging the full potential of high-performance computing syst...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 14

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

Vladimir Neskovic Kesma @kesma.wtf · Jan 14

Musk spreading lies again with comparisons out of context.
Fuel density and moisture is different in Texas. There is much more dry fuel present in California forests. There is also more effective fuel management because of the different topography in Texas.

Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Jan 14

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

Vladimir Neskovic Kesma @kesma.wtf · Jan 14

Musk spreading lies again with comparisons out of context.
Fuel density and moisture is different in Texas. There is much more dry fuel present in California forests. There is also more effective fuel management because of the different topography in Texas.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Dec 5

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Dec 5

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured.

Health care is a human right.

We need Medicare for All.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Dec 6

I left the US for the UK over a decade ago and over the years I have had some very attractive offers to go back, healthcare is a big part of the reason why (of course I recognise that leaving isn’t a viable option for most people)

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Dec 5

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured.

Health care is a human right.

We need Medicare for All.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Nov 20

Also wrote a non-technical blog post on what we did in the paper and why we did it: quantumcomputinginc.com/news/blogs/c...

Can quantum loss aid computing? - Quantum Computing Inc

This blog is a less-technical summary of our team’s recent publication in Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect.

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Nov 20

I’ve gotten a paper published in Quantum doi.org/10.22331/q-2... it always seemed like a neat journal and I’m glad I finally went for it, the review process was nice and we got some really good feedback which improved the work (co-authored with Jesse Berwald and Raouf Dridi)

Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect

Jesse Berwald, Nicholas Chancellor, and Raouf Dridi, Quantum 8, 1532 (2024). It has previously been established that adiabatic quantum computation, operating based on a continuous Zeno effect due to d...

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Nick Chancellor @quantumchancellor.bsky.social · Nov 6

With not 20th (autocorrect)

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