Super excited to share that this work by myself and Nathan Fitzpatrick has been selected for a talk at QCTiP 2026! See you in Oxford! 🥳

https://t.co/ijb6HKzaeH

I'm not suggesting this is the right way to see things. But it is the thought process that a sizeable portion of a large & successful cohort of graduates will adopt, based on their experience with student loans. Sizeable enough to shape the politics of the country in the future.

So then, once you're well into your career & successful, why should you stay in the UK, or take a lower-paying public sector job? Why shouldn't you use legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes? Why should you support subsidies for other social groups, when none were given to you?

If the understanding is that student finance is a transaction & that there was no subsidy, then the conclusion is that after you paid it off, you owe the lender nothing (much like a bank).

This will create drastic changes to how a generation of graduates sees their role in society. Without support from the state, student fees will have become an investment *they* made into *themselves* - knowing this, 20 years later, what obligation will they feel to give back?

As a former IT rep for Oxford PhysSoc and a proud member of the Oxford Flat Earth Society, I'm just glad David Deutsch didn't cancel me

@WKCosmo But newtonian mechanics cannot correctly predict the observed orbit of Mercury. That’s a direct falsification. Yes, it reproduces relativistic mechanics in the limits of low velocity & mass, but the fact it makes other predictions contradicted by experiment make it false overall

Another sweeping declaration based on an arxiv preprint, brought to you by the guy who spearheaded the LK-99 hype

There will be a proper announcement later, but in the meantime you can read our paper - "The Quantum Paldus Transform: Efficient Circuits with Applications" - right here:

Big paper out today with Nathan Fitzpatrick at Quantinuum on quantum computational chemistry! This has been the subject of almost two years of hard work, and I'm thrilled that it's finally out on arxiv :)

See, big man, politics is harder than you thought.

Polish friends — today is the last day to register for the second round of presidential elections, and the last day to change your polling station if you’ve already registered! If you haven’t registered, you have about 2 hours left to do so!

My new @WIRED piece about arXiv: either 1) the most important website you've never heard of or 2) the platform your entire field depends on Also had the pleasure of hanging out with its creator, Paul Ginsparg—the Forrest Gump of the Internet age

It is impossible to square the steelmanned view of the new US foreign policy (a deliberate nasty shock to wake Europe up), with this sort of domineering hostility to the most pro-American country of any size in Europe, which already spends 4-5% of GDP on defence.

🔴 SANCTIONED: Georgian Dream representatives and police chiefs responsible for the brutal crackdown on media and protestors in Georgia. The UK stands with the Georgian people and their right to exercise their fundamental freedoms.

another reason why you should do this: if overleaf goes down for an entire day, you can still work on writing your paper

The standoff between Georgian police and protesters is escalating. Authorities deploy coordinated enforcement groups, while protesters use fireworks, smoke, and barricades to counter police. Violence is rising by the hour, with protester numbers steadily growing.

I had the pleasure of internally reviewing this paper by my Quantinuum supervisor Nathan Fitzpatrick + our collaborators at MIT and NC state. It has some brilliant ideas, so go read it!