Dr. ‹ʟᴇx|ᴍᴇᴇᴘ› @quantumlex.bsky.social
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Theoretical Physics and other science. Quantum mechanic. He/Him/His. #firstgen If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for? @quantumlex.bsky.social
Joined May 2012
🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
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North Carolina, are you ready to rally in Raleigh with @KamalaHarris? 📣 RSVP at https://t.co/8MG3qNkIFw 🇺🇸
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“We will call it Raleigh-Durham International Airport.” Named for the city of Raleigh-Durham, sir? “It’s actually two different cities.” And which one will the airport be in? “Morrisville.”
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Here's why our beautiful 🐸 paper is not about 🐸s and not about embryogenesis---a 🧵 https://t.co/WS0XS2alhZ
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Despite decades of reports of weak magnetic field effects in biology across the tree of life and on a broad range of cell types, the evidence to date remains met with skepticism. To remedy this, we...
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If you've ever thought "I bet being a professor at a small liberal arts college is a sweet gig," and you happen to have a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics, well, it's your lucky year. We're hiring a tenure-track professor:
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We have postdoc positions open! Opportunity to work with excellent students/postdocs in my group and to collaborate with the Barnes, Mayhall (@nick_mayhall), Khatri (@SumeetKhatri6) groups + external collaborators! Apply here:
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Get on it!!!
Hey everyone! We've got a donor who agreed to match all funds raised by the end of tonight up to $5K. So for every donation to this link, I'll tweet one (1) fall farming fact. https://t.co/TOdeGKHHzo
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3 years ago, my dream job was cancelled. Emily's Wonder Lab helped inspire the next generation of scientists. I pitched dozens of science experiments for more seasons, but they weren't interested. What do you do when your dream is cancelled? You pivot. I turned the
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Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Quantum Information and Control ! Center-wide postdocs collaborate broadly through the newly launched Quantum New Mexico Institute, a partnership of @UNM , @SandiaLabs and @LosAlamosNatLab Apply here
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As we continue our unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene, the nation is beginning to understand that impacted areas have been the target of a relentless vortex of disinformation, dialed up by bad actors and platforms like X. 🧵
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -George Orwell, 1984
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Devastated to hear of the death yesterday of quantum physicist Dr. Barbara Jones, longtime researcher at IBM, a dear friend of mine for over 40 years.
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The leading edge of a cell videoed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology
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Do you work on variational quantum algorithms or quantum machine learning? If so, please check our latest article: https://t.co/1RwVoZxh8e Here, we ask: Are barren plateau-free models classically simulable? Should we rethink variational QC as a whole? LONG 🧵 below 1/n
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I'm also sharing the full text of the cease-and-desist letter here because I think people should see exactly what Dias sent to his graduate students to keep them silent.
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🚨So yeah... turns out we can understand all sources of barren plateaus (BPs) with one single framework! 🥳 See Martin's thread for a detailed discussion on our results, and see my thread 🧵 below for some story time about how we got to this point.
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