The Return of The Glitter JoJo

A homeless fountain of Pop Culture trivia, and (depending on the weather) either endless effervescent confidence or an Edgar Allan Poe level of morosity.

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

"Sometimes it takes the most unlikely person to help you find Hope again.
And then you find it...
...and you just keep rising...
And after that?

You just...

... Keep looking up." 🐉🍀✨👀

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

@PhysInHistory 👀❓

Dirac...

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

@PhysInHistory 👀❓

Dirac...

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

A brief history of Quantum computers 👇

1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect and suggests that light consists of quantum particles or photons

1924: Max Born uses the term quantum mechanics for the first time

1925: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan formulate matrix mechanics, the first formulation of quantum mechanics

1925-1927: Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg develop the Copenhagen interpretation, one of the earliest and most common interpretations of quantum mechanics

1930: Paul Dirac publishes The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, a standard textbook on quantum theory

1935: Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen publish a paper highlighting the counterintuitive nature of quantum superposition and arguing that quantum mechanics is incomplete

1935: Erwin Schrödinger develops a thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive, and coins the term “quantum entanglement”

1944: John von Neumann publishes Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, a rigorous mathematical framework for quantum theory

1957: Hugh Everett proposes the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that every possible outcome of a quantum measurement actually occurs in a parallel universe

1961: Rolf Landauer shows that erasing a bit of information dissipates a minimum amount of energy, known as Landauer’s principle

1965: John Bell proves that quantum entanglement cannot be explained by any local hidden variable theory, known as Bell’s theorem

1973: Alexander Holevo proves that n qubits cannot carry more than n classical bits of information, known as Holevo’s theorem or Holevo’s bound

1980: Paul Benioff proposes a model of a quantum Turing machine, a theoretical device that can perform any computation using quantum mechanical principles

1981: Richard Feynman suggests that simulating quantum systems would require a new type of computer based on quantum mechanics

1982: David Deutsch generalizes Benioff’s model and proposes the concept of a universal quantum computer

1984: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard develop a protocol for quantum key distribution, which allows two parties to securely exchange cryptographic keys using quantum states

1985: David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa devise an algorithm that can solve a specific problem faster than any classical algorithm, known as the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

1991: Artur Ekert proposes another protocol for quantum key distribution based on quantum entanglement, known as the E91 protocol

1992: David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa extend their algorithm to handle multiple inputs, known as the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

1994: Peter Shor discovers an algorithm that can factor large numbers in polynomial time using a quantum computer, known as Shor’s algorithm

1996: Lov Grover invents an algorithm that can search an unsorted database in square root time using a quantum computer, known as Grover’s algorithm

1997: Isaac Chuang, Neil Gershenfeld, and Mark Kubinec demonstrate the first implementation of Shor’s algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques

2000: David DiVincenzo proposes five criteria for building a practical quantum computer, known as the DiVincenzo criteria

2001: IBM researchers implement Grover’s algorithm using NMR techniques and achieve a modest speedup over classical algorithms

2007: D-Wave Systems claims to have built the first commercial quantum computer, but its validity is disputed by many experts

2019: Google announces that it has achieved quantum supremacy by performing a calculation on a 53-qubit quantum processor that would take a classical supercomputer thousands of years to complete

2020: IBM demonstrates that its 65-qubit quantum processor can perform calculations beyond the reach of any classical computer

📷 An IBM QC photographed by James Estrin

[Igualdad LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 @IgualdadLGBT]

Hoy es 28 de junio es el día internacional del Orgullo LGBT. Por un mundo el que se pueda ser y amar en libertad y sin miedo

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

"Who said all bats... were men?"

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

*despite all adversity and advice to the contrary - keeps patiently waiting*

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

"30 years and you did not fail.
Earn back your name and walk right back in.
Show me your best.
Show me your worth.
Let Chaos and the whole world see."

*I nod*

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Lesbian rights are human rights.
Gay rights are human rights.
Bisexual rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.

Happy #Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

[LGBTQ Shrink @DrRonHolt]

San Francisco is celebrating PRIDE weekend with a 4.1 mile-long rainbow! Be proud!! Be you! 🏳️‍🌈

[Sun Tzu | Art of War ⚔️ @QuoteSunTzu]

“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

— Machiavelli

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

🚨: Scientists confirm that trees communicate through sound ─ And forests are constantly having conversations human cannot hear.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A computer model showing the Laniakea galaxy supercluster and our place within it. The red dot in the image represents not Earth or the Solar System, but the Milky Way.

Scientists have long sought to determine exactly where our galaxy is located in the Universe. In 2014, a research team compiled data on nearly 100,000 galaxies and mapped their locations and movements through space. For the first time, we saw that the Milky Way is part of a much larger system of galaxies—a supercluster that scientists named Laniakea.

This supercluster has an approximate diameter of 520 million light-years, and the Milky Way is situated far from its center, practically at its very edge.

On the opposite side of Laniakea from the Milky Way lies a gravitational anomaly known as the Great Attractor, toward which the majority of the supercluster's galaxies (including our own) are migrating.

🌙

[EU Justice @EU_Justice]

Celebrating freedom. Defending rights. 🏳️‍🌈

Today, people gathered in Budapest to celebrate Pride and stand up for equality.

The EU remains committed to protecting the rights of LGBTIQ+ people and advancing a Union of Equality for all.

@budapestpride

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A massive crowd gathered at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday during New York City's pride celebrations and belted out the tune "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." The monument commemorates the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, sparked by police raids at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

I have expanded my knowledge of higher education services, incentives, and programs!

Glitter also wants to pursue far more artistic and creative endeavors...

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[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

My sandwiches aren't a lie, either! 🥪✨👀

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

Everything bread, homemade guacamole, pastrami, mayonnaise and mustard, lettuce and tomato, with red and white seedless grapes.
Garlic crackers and guacamole on the side.

[The Return of The Glitter JoJo @A9FoldFiend]

Tuna salad sandwich with lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise and spicy brown mustard, on everything seasoned bread purchased at the grocery store down the street.
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