Andrea Olivo
@oliversium.bsky.social
Quantum info physicist, currently @psiquantum.bsky.social
I love this from openSSH. These things take years to transition.
OpenSSH added a "your session isn't secure against store-now-decrypt-later quantum attacks" warning: www.openssh.org/pq.html
I love it. Waiting until the problem is manifest is a great way to have waited too long. Fix shit now.
I love it. Waiting until the problem is manifest is a great way to have waited too long. Fix shit now.
OpenSSH: Post-Quantum Cryptography
OpenSSH post quantum cryptography
www.openssh.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I love this from openSSH. These things take years to transition.
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
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Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 98 SE
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 98 SE
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Randomly remembered this science textbook for Christian homeschooling.
April 28, 2023 at 10:40 PM
Randomly remembered this science textbook for Christian homeschooling.
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Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
80-90's cyberpunk literature is turning out to be incredibly foreshadowing. "Non-serious" my ass lol
Interesting bit in the recent bio of Jensen Huang. Almost uniquely among tech CEOs he didn't grow up reading scifi, and has little to no interest in it. This seems to shape his view of AI as non-dangerous, because he sees the doomsday scenarios as science fiction, which he considers non-serious.
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
80-90's cyberpunk literature is turning out to be incredibly foreshadowing. "Non-serious" my ass lol
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I am currently looking for a PhD student who would like to work on position-based cryptography. Details can be found here: andreasbluhm.eu/wp-content/u...
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
andreasbluhm.eu
June 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I am currently looking for a PhD student who would like to work on position-based cryptography. Details can be found here: andreasbluhm.eu/wp-content/u...
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
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Terry Rudolph @psiquantum.bsky.social is writing about ‘blocklets’! I got a sneak preview of these from Daniel Litinski and they are very cool.
www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...
www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...
Blocklets — PsiQuantum
Read more here. PsiQuantum presents a new, practical approach to fault tolerant quantum computing. The new approach, one particularly suitable for the high connectivity of photonic quantum computer...
www.psiquantum.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Terry Rudolph @psiquantum.bsky.social is writing about ‘blocklets’! I got a sneak preview of these from Daniel Litinski and they are very cool.
www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...
www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
AI depersonalizes labor in order to efficiently centralize wealth from regular people to corporations. It's not the first technology to do this, but this time it's scarily fast and extremely pervasive. We're not going to be okay in the short term. (1/4)
May 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
AI depersonalizes labor in order to efficiently centralize wealth from regular people to corporations. It's not the first technology to do this, but this time it's scarily fast and extremely pervasive. We're not going to be okay in the short term. (1/4)
I feel powerful.
Wordle 1,431 2/6
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May 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I feel powerful.
Wordle 1,431 2/6
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,431 2/6
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Let’s play around with cosmic distances shall we? Because I don’t think the human brain can actually understand it. But I’m gonna use rice, and say 1 grain = 10,000 miles (~16,000 km).
That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)
That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)
January 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Let’s play around with cosmic distances shall we? Because I don’t think the human brain can actually understand it. But I’m gonna use rice, and say 1 grain = 10,000 miles (~16,000 km).
That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)
That means the circumference of Earth is just under two and a half grains. These contain all our lives 🧪🔭 (1/n)
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I am fairly pleased with this table that I cobbled together for a guest lecture next week on the different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb in World War II, and creating an example of ways in which they can be compared to each other in an overarching way.
January 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I am fairly pleased with this table that I cobbled together for a guest lecture next week on the different narratives about the use of the atomic bomb in World War II, and creating an example of ways in which they can be compared to each other in an overarching way.
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I take a little break from being on a break to congratulate Xanadu on this nice bit of progress on photonic quantum computing! 👏
I'm also really proud to see my PhD student, Carlos Lopetegui who has been consulting with Xanadu for ages, on the author list! 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also really proud to see my PhD student, Carlos Lopetegui who has been consulting with Xanadu for ages, on the author list! 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer - Nature
A proof-of-principle study reports a complete photonic quantum computer architecture that can, once appropriate component performance is achieved, deliver a universal and fault-tolerant quantum comput...
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I take a little break from being on a break to congratulate Xanadu on this nice bit of progress on photonic quantum computing! 👏
I'm also really proud to see my PhD student, Carlos Lopetegui who has been consulting with Xanadu for ages, on the author list! 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm also really proud to see my PhD student, Carlos Lopetegui who has been consulting with Xanadu for ages, on the author list! 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I worry people are not reckoning with what AI can and can't do well. I post about it occasionally, and there are always people who insist that it's just scraping and regurgitating, or even that there's an actual human writing the responses.
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I worry people are not reckoning with what AI can and can't do well. I post about it occasionally, and there are always people who insist that it's just scraping and regurgitating, or even that there's an actual human writing the responses.
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Francesco Arzani, Robert I. Booth, Ulysse Chabaud
Can effective descriptions of bosonic systems be considered complete?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13857
Can effective descriptions of bosonic systems be considered complete?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13857
January 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Francesco Arzani, Robert I. Booth, Ulysse Chabaud
Can effective descriptions of bosonic systems be considered complete?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13857
Can effective descriptions of bosonic systems be considered complete?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13857