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
My review of Claudes new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5 Python and Pyodide
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
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT aka Research Goblin is shockingly good at search
Hilbert space treating functions as vectors
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
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
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
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