Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak @QuantumQelly Twitter profile

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

1 year

Out today on arxiv!! Myself, @jmlepstein , Daniel Crow, @GSrilekha_ et. al. explore Subspace Correction, similar to error correction, in the context of constrained problems. #quantum #QuantumComputing #arxiv #scirate #optimization

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

I decided to become a physicist when I was 12 because I thought string theory was stupid

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@slimeguyethan

8 months

share a piece of lore about yourself

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Major announcement everyone: Releasing an infinite qubit quantum computer. The first of its kind: - hand powered & biodegradable - take it anywhere in your pocket! - intuitive design & functionality - the perfect learning tool for uni students 》》Pre-order yours today

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Condensed matter physics has the absolute best drama and you can't convince me otherwise

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

For whoever needs to hear this, the level of exaggeration and lying that is 'acceptable' in the Quantum industry is not normal.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

When I was a small student I emailed Ed Witten and asked him what I should do and he actually responded and he suggested condensed matter theory, and that's how he became my great-great-grand advisor (a fact I found out like 8 minutes ago lol)

Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

I decided to become a physicist when I was 12 because I thought string theory was stupid

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

I asked myself if the name-calling in this tweet by a tenured professor is really necessary, and then remembered that unwarranted hostility and bullying toward younger people having fun with science by senior members of the academy is central to scientific culture.. 1/2

Condensed Matter Theory Center

@condensed_the

1 year

Perhaps this was an OVEREACH as we know nothing about livestreaming or twitch We have now been assured by several 12-year olds that livestreaming could satisfy the slow/incremental/detailed/frustrating/boring criteria, we still worry about nasty chemicals compromising the fun

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Emailed an old advisor of mine, well known SC theorist, to ask his opinion on the situation and he hasn't read any of the papers related to #LK99 nor does he seem interested lol. Which is probably the correct response, in contrast to the blue check fueled twitter frenzy

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Another year, another workshop. Another hat color! Not long until I own thr full set!! @KITP_UCSB

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Welcome to a new era of Quantum Qomputation: Introducing the #QENCIL Accepting media inquiries in DMs. Press release and details soon. #quantum #quantumcomputing

Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Major announcement everyone: Releasing an infinite qubit quantum computer. The first of its kind: - hand powered & biodegradable - take it anywhere in your pocket! - intuitive design & functionality - the perfect learning tool for uni students 》》Pre-order yours today

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Here is a live demonstration of it 'accepting quantum logic gates addressing n registers and returning the correct distribution on the Deutsch-Jozsea algorithm!! Truly remarkable stuff. Perform n-qubit computations on the bus to class! All this for $29.99 (*)!!

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

I'll never not stand up and draw attention to a bully who is behaving abusively towards members of the community. Sorry.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

imma be so personally mad if there is an SC phase protected by doping disorder because I was laughed out of a faculty office in gradschool for the suggestion lol

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

the feminine urge to shut down a conversation when the other person pronounces it "qwiskit"

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Baby book man turning out to be an insufferable jerk whilst dying on the hill that a raspberry pi running qiskit-on-rails is by definition a quantum computer was not on my 2024 bingo card lol.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

lmao look at the error bars tho 🤪 and they drew arbitrary lines between the data points rather than comparison to a model? are you kidding me???

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

The real quantum computers are the friends we've made along the way

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@AustenLamacraft Guys the 'BAND' is 'FLAT' which can ONLY MEAN that the nobel prize is imminent and world is about to CHANGE FOREVER Here are 5 markets to invest in RIGHT NOW 🧵

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@AustenLamacraft This has been just so awful lol. Is this how AI researchers feel?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Officially giving a talk at IEEE Quantum Week

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@IEEEQuantum @QZeitgeist FYI this is unconfirmed and most condensed matter physicists are skeptical. I would remove this

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Officially speaking on a panel at IEEE Quantum Week

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

In all seriousness, there are different levels of care that companies need to take for defining the capabilities and descriptions of a product. I take this very seriously. The big issue here is the information asymmetry between the intended consumer and the company ..

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Every CM theorist ever

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Does anyone have a set of good references for rapidly getting up-to-speed with the field of QML?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

I found a quote applicable to this situation from a book written by ... *checks notes*.... hmmm

Matthew Broome

@phuecn

8 months

@csferrie @ericcavalcanti 😂 I honestly don’t know where to start. You know what we’re all going on about, and you’re refusing to engage in an honest discussion about it. You know, and we know, the quokka system is not a QC. But you’ve convinced yourself that definitions don’t matter anymore?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

(1/n) One thing I've always been bad at in academics is marketing and advertising my research works to the community. I know a lot of this comes down to inherited clout from co-authors, but curious if anyone has suggestions for improving in this area. I try to tie in with ...

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Does anyone know of any quantum algorithms to sample classical distributions?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

The last week really exemplifies why moderated spaces are important. When one person with a lot of public visibility goes off the edge and starts behaving abusively, there needs to be moderation to keep things in bounds. The power differential between the public figure and the

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

really need my simulations to finish so I can stop reading twitter

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024 ! Appreciating all the women in my life who have helped bring me to where I am today

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

5 months

In other news I'm officially mid career because reviewer B induced massive eye roll rather than impostor syndrome

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms | Quanta Magazine

In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual atoms are having a breakout moment.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

11 months

No, "high fidelity quantum error correction" was not "achieved" by any marginally technical interpretation of those words.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

(*) Exclusions apply. Disclaimer: Due to international export laws and regulations governing quantum technology, this produc is available exclusively to consumers in specific countries. Before purchasing, please verify that your country is among those authorized for export.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

not an endorsement of the twitch stream as I don't know the details (though I think that it's fun, who doesn't like a good show). I'd hope that the streamer, owning equipment do to high temperature direct reactions,and ability to order chemicals, can read MSDS

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

we are so back

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

@csferrie You've directly and personally insulted multiple of my colleagues on this platform for honest questions right after your product announcement -- from a position of power as a university professor and author of popsci books. You are not a victim here.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

We have such a long way to go. This post is referring to the lack of women in physics, responding to a well researched thread by a woman physicist. Troll or not, this account is followed by a bunch of high profile physicists and companies, claims to have partnerships with QCs

feynman-solutions

@feynmansol

2 years

@YvonneYGao Maybe they don't want to go into physics.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

please stop running qaoa on atomic/ionic devices you are hurting me

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@quantum_graeme I had a similar experience.. as a first year grad student🫠

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

given that this is a company/start-up and not a research institution, probably desperate for funding and pushed something out

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

At the point of paper writing where I have thought about the thing so much I keep wondering if the thing is actually incredibly trivial and not worth publishing. Yay!

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

The thing I look forward to the most about the end of the quantum hype cycle (impossible) is eventually being able to express mostly-cynical but not absolutely-hopeless views freely, without peppering on 80 layers of nuance to ANTIHYPE what I'm saying so I'm not shunned

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

6 months

Embracing the fact that I hate publishing journal articles and giving talks has made my life so much better.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

@jmlepstein Brian Greene essentially rage baited me to do physics by alleging the universe has precisely 11 dimensions over a rendition of bach cello suite #1 .

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

@jmlepstein As a consequence there are poorly written rants scattered thru the now fossilized web 1.0 neopets & gaiaonline forums from 12 y.o. me about how stupid and arbitrary the number 11 is so the theory can't be right and that I would study physics and come up with something better 😂

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@boundstate ^^^ PSA: the way CMTC could have phrased their message rather than calling everyone that disagrees with them 12-year-olds. Notice how Evan is not insulting people for the content they enjoy but is directly taking issue with the final possibly negative outcome measuredly

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

where my head is on my lunch break right now

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

I have two blue place codes for people on quantum twitter who don't have yet

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Only taking replies from people who know what these are

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Yesterday I had a fantastic team building hike with members of the @ColdQuanta Quantum Applications Team, in sunny Santa Barbara! We reflected on our excellent experience attending the @KITP_UCSB conference, "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems: Advances and Applications"

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Fwiw. I stand by my previous post. The baby book guy is behaving like a jerk and wrote wildly abusive & insulting messages to a bunch of people, including young scientists in vulnerable demographics.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

@Liv_Lanes Scaling of our Tactile™️ qubits, composed of 99% graphite is only limited by the user's imagination!

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Update: got call back from coast guard. Fuel exchange with out engine. They are manualling siphoning fuel between engines and we are moving at 9kts.. things are OK for now

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

9 months

@AnnaGHughes Stoner's criterion

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Even if they try to turn it around and claim I'm the bully! -- sigh --

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Ego sabotages execution

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Recently got into gamedev as a hobby and it's 80% refactoring <class> into more abstract <class> until you have a 20 level hierarchy to handle unequiping a sword sprite, and 20% fooling oneself into believing you can make your own assets but you'll buy this

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@quantum_graeme @EricAspling I was able to also synthesize a sample but I am only seeing imperfect levitation

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Quantum error correction is a daunting topic to get started in. Last week at the KITP, @victorvalbert did an amazing job not only breaking down the fundamentals of qec codes, but also connecting them in pedagogical sequence. I highly recommend giving his overview talk a watch!

Victor V. Albert

@victorvalbert

2 years

Talk video:

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

I feel this in my bones

Junkai Zeng

@jaykay_z

1 year

I feel that physics papers are getting unbearably long these years, making both reading and writing a big headache. Where did the sweet old days go when good theory papers were only four pages?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

My new algorithm seems be be working! Excited to write my first paper in QC!

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

need to describe the product using the mean language and expectations of the public. I feel very strongly about this as someone who ran and developed undergraduate labs for thousands of students at an R1. The power imbalance/information is incredible and

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Paper idea: hype as a quantum resource

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

7 months

@subhanusaxena It's a fun topic to study and hard to earn a career in, but ultimately closer to a math program than physics. Same goes for some parts of Condensed Matter theory

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

In Seattle! For the first time ever actually. It's green. And watery.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

9 months

Dreaming of a world where my talk actually gets placed in a session even marginally related to the topic of my research 🥰

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@AlessandroStru4 @CDBrownII The "bigger list" is *checks notes* .. being fired from CERN for being a sexist biggot. Life must be hard for you

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

My grandma identifies as Taino and having the day off for #IndigenousPeoplesDay is the perfect excuse to deep dive into lost culture, get angry, and look for ways to integrate the past with present.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

9 months

~ Four years ago I bought a Costco pack of toothpaste during pandemic prep. Today I started the last tube 🫡

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Sitting in a CMT talk right now for the first time in a while. The toxicity level of some of the audience is 🤯. No wonder me and all of my colleagues were severely depressed and self-loathing in gradschool

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Flying back from a team/company meeting right now and reflecting. I think I get to work with -- and learn from -- some of the coolest people in this industry and I couldn't ask for more 😊

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

explain what the device is. They may also trust the company because of the PR record of associated academics and partners. They have minimal defenses against an ad that clearly states that the device is a "30 qubit quantum computer", implying that is it something that they ..

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

i couldn't sleep last night because i simulated a circuit but forgot to add the noise model and didn't realize until after i reformatted my paper for Science

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Really incredible looking results. Congrats!

Robbie King

@robbieking1000

8 months

Posted today, our paper contains a surprising twist. The complex conjugate of a quantum state can provide exponential advantages in learning. The learning task we look at is motivated from bosonic physics. Check it out: With @JarrodMcclean and Kianna Wan.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

(by definition)

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

If this leaves you questioning what algorithms *should* run on cold atoms (a fantastic blue-sky research question), come stop by my ieee talk to see some brand-new techniques being developed at Atom. Or wait for my poorly written conference stub to hit arxiv

Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@QuantumManuel Even then if I was determined to do a variational algorithm using a parameterized circuit I'd do some VQE with a local ansatz on a SC device. I really mean it no QAOA on atomic devices you will be waiting O(days) for small optimization problems

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

based on this atrocity alone, i can tell you that this is not it

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

(ad absurdum --- QED)

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

5 months

Yall need to chill out with the aggression in reviewer comments

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@boundstate The reason I left is the reason I can't look away 😩

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@toomanyspectra quantum computing is good pay and mostly chaotic neutral

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@QuantumQelly

2 years

@toomanyspectra

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@nick_farina Atom Computing is still hiring

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

also the video looks like a diamagnet hovering in a strong field, not quantum locking

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

literally what

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Physics mysteries. Conference Coffee: too hot to drink for 45 minutes after pouring Hot Bath: cold 214us after entering

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

I figured out that I'm in The Bad Place because as of recent I need to do 2FA --> forgot password --> forgot username?? --> forgot password --> text me a code! --> 2FA --> 2FA for password manager --> suspicious login 2FA again --> ?? on literally ever site I go to, every time

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

Opening up this thread as a place to complain about March Meeting to take the edge off of my own personal FOMO 👇

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

I just asked. Apparently I'm allowed to DM it to anyone so feel free to reach out if you're interested! Also, see below for public presentation

Mazzi

@ThisisTheMazzi

1 year

@QuantumQelly Would they allow you to at least DM it?

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

The intended consumer for this product is high-schoolers. The median high-schooler nor their parents, or even their educators are capable of negotiating the finer details of DiVincenzo's criteria. They likely do not have access to professionals in the quantum space to clearly ..

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@cosmicfibretion @Liv_Lanes Same?? OK so physics must be causing it right??

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

Co-founder and chief trad dad

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@Scatter_Cushion @MegaDarren I think that spots physically result from mechanical Turing patterning so developmental biologists/biophysicists might have some points to add, too!

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

1 year

@quantum_graeme OTOH I've seen way worse use cases/job posts lol. At least they have their hands in ab initio chemistry, graph theory, optimization and distribution sampling (phylogenetic trees/sequencing problems), all things which have seemed ~somewhat~ nisq plausible at some point in time

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

it cannot be taken lightly.

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

2 years

@quantum_graeme I haven't seen this in industry yet, or ever felt like my position has been contingent on doing things outside of my comfort zone morally. I've seen postdocs fired for wanting to not publish questionable data. Like all things, depends on your specific team/company etc. 🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

tell you). However, the industrial, scientific, and venture communities are filled with SMEs that can delineate the finer points of a press release and ask the right questions. That is not the same for the education and student community. An entirely separate set of standards

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Dr. Kelly Ann Pawlak

@QuantumQelly

8 months

Check out my virtual #marchmeeting talk on Quantum Subspace Correction! I was on the tail end of a migraine when recording so please ignore accidental misuse of words, weird facial expressions, and the occasional jump cut when my brain stalled out 😂

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