Our immune system is amazing, but faces pandemics, cancer and aging. It's also wired to reject what we need to extend our healthspans & minds: organs, implants, new genes. It's time to radically augment it. We need to build an immune-computer interface (ICI). A manifesto🧵!
Having the most perfect airport experience: Zurich in the evening. Something soothing about the end-of-the-day atmosphere: quiet, all staff relaxed, tired, low energy, chatty
Hello Twitter Friends! It's been a while! A mix of having a baby and getting bored of seeing sponsored and uninteresting content drove me off the platform. But, I'd still like to use it to connect to cool peeps! So I take this chance to list my current interests:
☃️Is it easy to find local minima?☃️
When a physical system is cooled❄️, Nature doesn't always find the ground state but finds a local minimum
In https://t.co/7uhyPG35eJ, we prove that a machine that can cool things to local minima is a universal quantum computer (1/9)
The slogan "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" is condescending, and a plague to quantum science.
We understand quantum mechanics as well as—arguably, much better than—many other physical disciplines.
https://t.co/qSgLoHIZc5
Today, we are excited to share our findings of a ~700X reduction in the computational resource requirements for breaking Elliptic Curve Cryptography using a fault tolerant quantum computer. A great step forward from our hard-working applications team!
https://t.co/U3zPCWxLep
When I wrote the tweet, I thought "I'll bet it's less than 5 mins before someone explains in a condescending way about diffuse benefits, retraining etc - the standard kindergarten story about tech change & productivity
For my sins, no-one did. And then, after 5 mins, a flood
@michael_nielsen No matter how long I think about them, *helium balloons* are just mind-blowing. It's just so counterintuitive to think of air as dense!
Enjoying the recent @worksinprogress article by @Sam_Dumitriu on speeding up infrastructure. It made me look back to my time as designer of the UK’s roads programme, and our struggles to speed things up. 🧵 (1/19)