Hamza Waseem

Oxford Physics DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) | All opinions my own

[Hamza Waseem @quantum_physics]

My DPhil thesis is finally available online and can be accessed here:
https://t.co/55Fj7jd82N

If any of the key phrases -- string diagrams, process philosophy, quantum foundations, quantum computing, constructor theory, spin-wave computing, wave-based computation, quantum natural language processing -- excite you, there may be something for you in the thesis.

[Hamza Waseem @quantum_physics]

@shumayyyl Popper: science is the man!

[Dan Hind @danhind]

We've tried running universities as if they are businesses and it hasn't worked. It seems quite urgent that they are restored as self-governing scholarly communities. But there's an issue about what that looks like. Individual scholars tend to be preoccupied with teaching ...

[Jacob Bard-Rosenberg @Prolapsarian]

THREAD: The collapse of higher education in the UK is misunderstood by almost everyone involved. We are told it is because of volatile international student markets. The truth is more to do with real estate and capital investment. Here is what is going on: in places like the US

[Ananyo Bhattacharya @Ananyo]

My comment: @GoogleDeepMind +other AI firms needs to take communicating its mathematical and scientific feats seriously. Not enough to get a few select mathematicians on board. The way you portray this stuff is causing real damage to the public image of science and mathematics.

[Apoorva Panidapu @apoorvapanidapu]

Earlier this month I volunteered at Stanford’s Future of Math symposium, and ever since, I've been puzzling through what it now means to pursue mathematics as a student in the age of AI. I wrote an essay to make sense of it all: https://t.co/cYyUDqSady

[Mark Collard @profmarkcollard]

Yet more remarkable/depressing news from the University of Nottingham. This might be the management's maddest decision to date. How are faculty members, postdocs, and grad students supposed to do cutting-edge research without ready access to recent journal articles? Talk about a false economy.

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

The University of Nottingham is threatening to gut one of the UK’s best physics and astronomy departments by placing 56 out of 71 staff at risk of redundancy

If you oppose these disastrous cuts please consider signing this open letter

https://t.co/HQiXkI7wW0

[Hamza Waseem @quantum_physics]

My PhD thesis is now available on arXiv: https://t.co/SRfp5a6wWE

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

THREAD: Funding agencies, AI, and even scientists themselves favor tried-and-tested research avenues over exploring new ideas, to the detriment of progress.

Full piece by @gmusser → https://t.co/eaa3OGGpOf

Featuring: Carl Bergstrom, @big_data_kane and @dashunwang

[Steven Dickman 🇺🇦 @cbtadvisors]

“A mathematical proof in a journal is not just a certificate of truth. At its best, it is an explanation – a compact story that shows why something is true, what ideas matter, and how the result connects to others. Euclid’s proofs are still read 2,000 years later not because we doubt the theorems, but because we value the understanding of them. If the future of mathematics is about accumulating machine-checkable certificates, something precious may be lost.”

[Lloyd Strickland @Dr_L_Strickland]

Publication day.
The complete 3‑volume Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers is now out from @OUPAcademic. The volumes contain hundreds of texts, the majority in English for the first time, and some never published before in any form.
For anyone interested in early modern philosophy.

[Manki Kim @Renet29304]

Ironically, being out of academia may allow me to be more ambitious in choosing research topics

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

With all due respect to the great Geoff Hinton, this only demonstrates his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of mathematics.
No, mathematics isn't a closed system. When people invented numbers, when Descartes built a bridge connecting algebra and geometry, when Grothendieck came up with étale cohomology, they **created** fundamentally new thinking categories that rewired our collective ability to see and intuit the world.

[Superconformal Hassaan @Hassaan_PHY]

I co-authored an essay with Abdul Afzal (@quantum_abdul) for an upcoming book by the Conjecture Institute (@ConjectureInst). This article is about Effective Field Theories and the idea of Scientific Realism. Check out their upcoming book ✌️
#physics #scicomm

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

To all academics on this platform, please consider reading and signing (if you agree) this letter

Protect Academic Life in Iran:

https://t.co/VC1yYM3By1

[Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall]

2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.

They’ll appear in a new 3-volume ed. of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), ed. by Lloyd Stricklandand published by Oxford University Press. https://t.co/mAvt4qL1DV

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Eric Gilliam @eric_is_weird]

@dwarkesh_sp I’m sure somebody has pointed this out somewhere. But this, more or less, exactly matches Feynman’s feelings on the IAS

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Terence Tao spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study - no teaching, no random events of committees, just unlimited time to think. But after a few months, he ran out of ideas.

Terence thinks that mathematicians and scientists need a certain level of randomness and inefficiency to come up with new ideas.