Quantum Information Supremacy

Quantum Information Supremacy I’m thrilled that our paper entitled Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources, based on a collaboration between UT Austin and Quantinuum, is finally up on the arXiv. I’m equally thrilled that my coauthor and former PhD student William Kretschmer — who led the theory for this

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9138 · September 12, 2025

My review of Claudes new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name

My review of Claudes new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/claude-code-interpreter/#atom-entries · September 9, 2025

Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5 Python and Pyodide

Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5 Python and Pyodide

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/#atom-entries · September 9, 2025

YouTube views are down dont panic

YouTube views are down dont panic YouTube views are down (don’t panic) September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube’s been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic · September 7, 2025

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT aka Research Goblin is shockingly good at search

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT aka Research Goblin is shockingly good at search

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/#atom-entries · September 6, 2025

Hilbert space treating functions as vectors

Hilbert space treating functions as vectors

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/hilbert-space-treating-functions-as-vectors/ · September 6, 2025

For the record

For the record In response to my recent blog posts, which expressed views that are entirely boring and middle-of-the-road for Americans as a whole, American Jews, and Israelis (“yes, war to destroy Hamas is basically morally justified, even if there are innocent casualties, as the only possible way to a future of coexistence

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9130 · September 4, 2025

I bought the cheapest EV a used Nissan Leaf

I bought the cheapest EV a used Nissan Leaf I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf) I bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf in 2025, my first ’new’ car in 15 years. The above photo was taken by the dealership; apparently their social media team likes

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-bought-cheapest-ev-used-nissan-leaf · September 4, 2025

Deep Gratitude

Deep Gratitude In my last post, I wrote about all the hate mail I’ve received these past few days. I even shared a Der-Stürmer-like image of a bloodthirsty, hook-nosed Orthodox Jew that some troll emailed me, after he’d repeatedly promised to send me a “diagram” that would improve my understanding of the

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9108 · September 2, 2025

Staying sane on a zombie planet

Staying sane on a zombie planet Hardly for the first time in my life, this weekend I got floridly denounced every five minutes—on SneerClub, on the blog of Peter Woit, and in my own inbox. The charge this time was that I’m a genocidal Zionist who wants to kill all Palestinian children purely because of his

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9098 · August 31, 2025