Made it on reddit 👊

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Today in my quantum information theory course we took a break from the maths to have some fun debating the measurement problem🕺

The final votes are below 👇

I was quite pleased to see strong agreement that the
➡️ measurement problem is a problem for physicists ⬅️

Please also appreciate Marco Cerezo 's beautifully designed new icon for a quantum computer.

(I say this as someone who also standardly has random pictures of fridges in their slides)

🚨Today I am very happy to announce our review of the Barren Plateau (BP) literature in variational quantum computing. 🎆

We hope that this work will be useful for those who want to catch up with the recent developments on BPs!

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2405.00781

See 🧵below

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Anyone know how to fix this?

Reckon it's probably something to do with Ricard's long Catalan name.

Join us next Tuesday, April 30 for the QSE Quantum Seminar with pizzas: 'Low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing using cat qubits' by Jérémie Guillaud of Alice & Bob.
🗓️ April 30
⏰12-13h15
📍CE 1 100
🍕🍕🥤🥤

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R.I.P. Daniel Dennett 1942-2024

'There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.'

—Daniel Dennett, 1995

Not quite. I spent a third of my talk discussing caveats and opportunities. And stressed no one has a crystal ball.

The black knight is still fighting…

Join us for the next QSE Quantum Seminar in one week on April 11 with Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez for his talk 'Language Models for the Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems'

🗓️ Thursday April 11
⏰ 12:00-13:30
📍MA A3 30
🍕🥤

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They for some reason rejected my proposed title of: « Damn I forgot I recorded this »

But if you're interested in seeing me struggle not to swear, ramble about how I went from annoying my physics teacher to where I am now and generally make a bit of a tit of myself... then👇👀

➡️ Reminder to submit to the QTML special issue ⬅️

We've pushed the deadline back to April 11th so as not to overlap with the Easter break 🐥

Did you know that some of our QSE Quantum Seminars are recorded? Visit our seminar webpage and watch the ones you missed!

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