Felix Thomsen

🧊🤓 @IcebergQuantum

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

Really happy to release Pinnacle 1.1.

New results across spin qubits, neutral atoms, trapped ions and superconducting qubits.

https://t.co/o17BIrtYKF

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@diraqQC @nvidia more in the announcement: https://t.co/VZ78CYZjwF

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

Work with @diraqQC and @nvidia: we've validated that Pinnacle’s logical performance advantage holds up under the constraints of silicon spin-qubit hardware, and compiled logical circuits all the way down to physical operations using CUDA-Q Logical.

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

https://t.co/5uVH3Ca09R

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

New research we're excited about: Lifted surgery

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@clarejtbirch @MWCvitkovic surely

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@Muzhou_Ma super impressive! congrats :)

[Alex Townsend-Teague @the_grass_beige]

More of a lurker than a tweeter til now, but I agree with others who've said now is a good time to openly discuss feelings about AI in (quantum computing) research. So: would like to officially declare myself in camp 2 -- excited about the coming years!

[Fernando Borretti @zetalyrae]

I got my first consulting testimonial 😼😸

[clare ❤️‍🔥 @clarejtbirch]

For a while I have been trying to figure out how to articulate this idea that we need to be better people and care more. By "we", I mean technologists. We are again having this conversation, so it seems like a good time to get it out of my head.

I find that many who take technology as a practice---an approach to life, work, anything---are of better character than those in the industry. The virtues of the hacker are, well, virtuous: they espouse a way of living that is good for the individual and good for the collective.

But technology-the-industry is dominated by ideologies of outcomes. We think it needs must, because that is the only way you get the kind of extreme growth and scale that modern technology-the-industry demands: by doing it at all costs. The ends justify the means. In a competitive environment like technology-the-industry, such an approach will inevitably lead to the means rotting.

Rot shows as a lack of integrity. We tolerate low integrity on a lot of scales in technology-the-industry and technology-the-culture. In the technology social set, duplicity is quite accepted, though certainly not ubiquitous. In technology startups, it is entirely normal to set fake targets, lie to investors, and sell visions that are, quite simply, not real. I am optimistic that this now seems to be falling apart.

Why does this matter? Because technology is the most important industry in the world. It is how we bring the future closer. It is the dominant force in the modern western economy. It is a significant political power base. It is both the culture and the counter-culture.

As Stewart Brand once wrote, "we are as gods and we might as well get good at it."

How do we get good at it? I think it starts by seeing that there can be virtuous winners in tech and that virtue both takes and imparts strength.

The greatest leaders have powerful virtues to match their great faults. Many of our most prominent current technology leaders have significant virtues: long-term thinking, generosity, mistrust of authority, anti-credentialism, incredible willpower and resilience. These are not soft qualities! In the fullness of time, virtue persists because vice is expensive, even if vice is the faster to start.

In the fullness of time, we can be our better selves.

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@PeteShadbolt @IcebergQuantum 🙏

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@zetalyrae Appreciate you Fernando!

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

@clarejtbirch thanks Clare!

[Larry Cohen @QuantumLarry]

turns out you can break RSA with just 100k physical qubits...

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

Today we’re releasing Pinnacle, our first fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture.

It shows that order-of-magnitude reductions in the cost of fault tolerance are possible, with meaningful implications for timelines to useful quantum computing.

We’ve also raised a $6m Seed round.

[Iceberg Quantum @IcebergQuantum]

https://t.co/EZTrrLwWs9

[Larry Cohen @QuantumLarry]

@dallairedemers @nick_farina @Cat_States

[Paul Webster @WebsterQuantum]

Excited to have been part of this project @IcebergQuantum helping to make useful quantum computers a reality as soon as possible! Check out our blog to learn more: https://t.co/CvpnUaZrEG

[Felix Thomsen @flexithomsen]

New and better gadgets for gates on LDPC codes:

[Larry Cohen @QuantumLarry]

excited to share some new work on modular and efficient surgery for quantum ldpc codes. check out the blog post.

https://t.co/vyjXAlHd7Z

[Larry Cohen @QuantumLarry]

building our first quantum computer @IcebergQuantum