Miles S
@mstoud.bsky.social
Researcher at Flatiron Institute. Methods for solving high-dimensional problems, tensor networks, and the ITensor software.
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The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
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But the real fun thing in my quantum class today is that all the students came in costume ... as me. They are the best.
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
But the real fun thing in my quantum class today is that all the students came in costume ... as me. They are the best.
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this is the real reason why the mayans stopped counting in 2012
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this is the real reason why the mayans stopped counting in 2012
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Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
October 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
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OMG, merely looking at the cover pic, you know you need to watch the Youtube version here
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
OMG, merely looking at the cover pic, you know you need to watch the Youtube version here
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We also found energy eigenstates for a free particle and the infinite square well. The former are continuous, while the latter are discrete, which is a crucial lesson. QM doesn’t say that Nature is discrete, only that certain observables have a discrete spectrum.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We also found energy eigenstates for a free particle and the infinite square well. The former are continuous, while the latter are discrete, which is a crucial lesson. QM doesn’t say that Nature is discrete, only that certain observables have a discrete spectrum.
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I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it!
(also, "good" is not an endorsement)
(also, "good" is not an endorsement)
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it!
(also, "good" is not an endorsement)
(also, "good" is not an endorsement)
Intuitive video explaining how linear regression can be viewed in a probablisitic framework, including popular regularization choices
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...
May 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Intuitive video explaining how linear regression can be viewed in a probablisitic framework, including popular regularization choices
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7se...
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This is not quantum-related but the parallels with quantum computing are uncanny: a company has declared that it has resurrected an extinct species from the last ice age, but all they actually did was change 14 genes of the grey wolf's DNA. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have researchers really ‘de-extincted’ the dire wolf? No, but behind the hype was a genuine breakthrough | Helen Pilcher
The pups are cute – and great for PR – but they’re modified grey wolves. The real work is being done with their red cousins, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is not quantum-related but the parallels with quantum computing are uncanny: a company has declared that it has resurrected an extinct species from the last ice age, but all they actually did was change 14 genes of the grey wolf's DNA. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A beautiful story of abstract mathematics extending into physics and engineering and resulting in 33% more efficient lighting. Better algorithms were the key, as they usually are, speeding up calculations by 1000x. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/24/t...
These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills
These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A beautiful story of abstract mathematics extending into physics and engineering and resulting in 33% more efficient lighting. Better algorithms were the key, as they usually are, speeding up calculations by 1000x. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/24/t...
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The attitude we desperately need in Tech
March 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The attitude we desperately need in Tech
👇 quite worthwhile to read the whole thread
So I ask you: who is being served by the embargo system? It's not you, the reader, who will be greatly misinformed by much of this coverage. But D-Wave sure got a bunch of positive headlines, and I'm sure Science is pleased to see so much coverage.
March 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
👇 quite worthwhile to read the whole thread
In a new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693, led by Joseph Tindall and Antonio Mello at Flatiron CCQ, we simulate annealing of disordered quantum magnets 🧲 ⌛ and in many cases find better accuracy than recent results from D-Wave devices and leading classical methods (c.f. arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910).
Dynamics of disordered quantum systems with two- and three-dimensional tensor networks
Quantum spin glasses form a good testbed for studying the performance of various quantum annealing and optimization algorithms. In this work we show how two- and three-dimensional tensor networks can ...
arxiv.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In a new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2503.05693, led by Joseph Tindall and Antonio Mello at Flatiron CCQ, we simulate annealing of disordered quantum magnets 🧲 ⌛ and in many cases find better accuracy than recent results from D-Wave devices and leading classical methods (c.f. arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910).