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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Yep

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 6d

Quantum arXiv today.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 6d

The arXiv is having a great couple of days!

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Top arXiv papers

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 7d

My student Shreyas’ first paper!

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Quantum $f$-divergences and Their Local Behaviour: An Analysis via Relative Expansion Coefficients

Any reasonable measure of distinguishability of quantum states must satisfy a data processing inequality, that is, it must not increase under the action of a quantum channel. We can ask about the prop...

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Never forget how amazing it is that electrical circuits can behave quantum mechanically!

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10d

Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 10d

"So...what country will you flee to if you need to?" is becoming a frequent topic of discussion with colleagues in america.

Better late than never!

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11d

Physicists launch study of temporal paradox allowing people younger than you to have kids already

COPENHAGEN – An international coalition of scientists with expertise in quantum mechanics, wave theory and atomic structure have assembled at the Nils Bohr Institute and announced plans to tackle the ...

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 12d

Kitchener-Waterloo is popping

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Green and garbage bins coming from the region soon

Hundreds of thousands of new garbage and green bins are ready to be delivered across Waterloo Region over the next few months.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 13d

Put it on my headstone

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14d

Layers of snark!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14d

Oooooh! Good idea!

Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14d

My students say I'm a crackpot.

Apparently they haven't heard of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold to make an even more beautiful piece!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 14d

Theranos only raised $700 million with a peak valuation of $9 billion and never went public.

Proud to see multiple quantum companies exceeding these numbers with very similar business plans!

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15d

Harvard bends the knee.

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15d

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard University after months of negotiations and that the school will pay $500 million.

Trump says Harvard to pay $500 million in deal with administration

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard University after months of negotiations and that the school will pay $500 million.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15d

The whole damn place is out of order!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15d

You capture the experience so succinctly!

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15d

I tagged you in a post (about IBM’s new nonsense with vanguard) but now the tag is gone and so are you. Maybe someone reported that you’re not a real company (which is totally false).

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 16d

Meme about noise from quantum industry vs me.

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15d

Hey did you get kicked off LinkedIn???

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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 15d

May I suggest reserving judgement on whether there’s valuable science in there? There’s really no reason to think there is (and at a first glance there isn’t).

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