Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

For friends of #QuantumControl and #QuantumTechnologies: Out now in #PRXQuantum, our newest paper.

How do you combine feedback and gradient-based optimization of control strategies --- something that is very useful for optimizing quantum error correction and many other important tasks? "feedback GRAPE" is our answer:

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.030305

Work with Riccardo Porotti and Vittorio Peano.

@MPI_ScienceOfLight
@FAU
@katiuscia
@MunichQuantum

Biden Administration FDA APPROVES FIRST OVER THE COUNTER BIRTH CONTROL PILL

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hormonal-birth-control-fda-nonprescription-contraceptive-pill-rcna93958

Well well well hwaet have we here

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/purity-3

This dude has been publishing updates to his angelfire hosted game genie code website for 23 years…it’s amazing

https://www.angelfire.com/games2/codehut/

Last night’s shawarma/tabouli stuffed falaffles recipe is now up on Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/allcaps-cookbook-85985912

I expect you've all seen pictures of the Taylor series expansions of sin and cos. But how about the expansion of \(e^{it}\) for real \(t\), as a curve in the complex plane?. Here are the first few terms. \(n=5\) is funky, and at \(n=8\) we see the first reasonable approximation to the unit circle appearing. Well I think it's pretty.

Paint that scatters 98% of the light that hits it, thereby keeping indoor temperatures cooler. 😎

Paris should paint their zinc roofs with this paint.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/white-paint-climate-cooling.html?unlocked_article_code=-OdwMSOz6X0J2iENqwPc_pgxA3BFOyKSKZpZM3n8H2RZmYe4xaYken6ziFoKWcQVvYNHFVnEWm6Xz7_jsUJmcHEwFDcX3BlZ2ttdTZCu-GRr1q6ShYPqxlpR9DYboEWs2bl9rAcMziPJ20HzhpDyJZpkpQJJSV9pwO9CmCtD0voFX96DRz4u2WtCUG414TXOuRlGH9fZeYNjav6icyiD4GQ7xGoEhA7_Sgoh_1ZX2k_zKM28tBuRCw8gyNuynJ59hAFyVkA3wyqg843ub81igM31_BhXH4zkhxw1bHNm-8fwaKaduicpiltH6WS4lteuFvctXT8slTMHDug5iwL9M1lWpaMd&smid=url-share

I'm constantly amazed that so many people have so much time and energy to spend maintaining social media accounts on so many platforms. Not a judgement, just a personal observation. Because I've been asked a lot: I'm unlikely to join Bluesky or Threads or any of the newfangled Birdsite or MetaFaceGram clones.

For me, it's less about whether these platforms are useful or benign or hostile or worthy than it is about maintaining boundaries and limits on my overall social media use and consumption. And I'm okay w/ the trade-offs of potentially limiting my reach if it ultimately means I have both more free time and more balance/sanity in my life.

AQUA (my #quantumComputing and #quantumInternet research group) goes two for three on paper acceptances at this year's IEEE Quantum Week!

Accepted:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03758
and a second paper that isn't on the arXiv yet.

Firefox DevTools just got on the Fediverse: @FirefoxDevTools

Lawyers, some with business in front of the Supreme Court, venmoed unknown amounts of money to Clarence Thomas’s aide.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court

#security friends - what are your favourite resources for sharing with folks who aren’t currently working in tech but are “the person in the family who fixes computers” types and whom you think might be super well suited to security? Thinking entry level but directionally useful books, courses, newsletters, YouTube channels etc.

#PhysicsFactlet
Can shadows move faster than light?
Not really. There is nothing moving sideways, so nothing is moving faster than light (which, incidentally, mean you can't use shadows to communicate faster than light).
But the edges of the projection of the shadow can indeed appear to move arbitrarily fast.
#ITeachPhysics #Visualization #Physics #Optics

Today I've gone from nervous to simply being really excited to be done soon. I start my thesis defence in 20 minutes, see you on the other side!

A Regional Train passes a Railroad Crossing
between Flooded Fields, Nidderau-Eichen, Germany
image credit: Michael Probst

Don't talk about illegal things (abortion in certain places, DIY HRT, etc) on facebook messenger. Don't do it on whatsapp or via SMS or Instagram DMs or Twitter or Mastodon or Discord or whatever.

Use signal. Use a PIN on signal. Turn on auto-destruction of messages. If your data is not fully end-to-end encrypted, that data can and will be handed over to police and it will be used to prosecute you.

Did you know that the awesome @internetarchive has an app that lets you check if they need a copy of a book? It's so handy for sending things on to where they're needed for preservation and sharing. https://help.archive.org/help/donate-books-app-for-ios-and-android/

I'm pretty sure I've now scanned every one of the hundreds of books in my parents' house. More cool stuff coming your way, IA!

This issue is why I would never buy another traditional Android phone. The fact that three (or sometimes just two) years of OS updates are provided by the manufacturer, plus the fact that the bootloader is often locked, basically guarantees that even the best flagship devices of today will unnecessarily end up being trash within five years or so.

These devices are computers, and they should be treated like computers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-3-gets-seven-years-of-updates-besting-every-other-android-oem/

Math people, help me out with a conversation I had with my kid about the following:

If no context information is provided, would you say that the closed interval [0,1] is