Jedrzej Burkat

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Jedrzej Burkat

@jedburkat

PhD student in quantum computing at Cambridge, part-time research scientist at Quantinuum

St John’s College Katılım Ocak 2020
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
@LucaAmb @littmath A typo does not constitute academic dishonesty; claiming LLM outputs you haven’t bothered to check as your own does. From my experience, the latter is much easier to spot and avoid :-)
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Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb·
@jedburkat @littmath So any typo or grammatical error means that a paper is garbage. Because by definition nobady could leave something like that in. I do not think you understand how human beings work
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Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb·
I am quite convinced that, under these arxive guidelines, every single major PI in the field will be banned within a few years
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
@LucaAmb @littmath Yes, when you read something you usually do it line-by-line and pay attention. How do you read papers?
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Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb·
@jedburkat @littmath No, not just reas. Read it carefully line by line, even the trivial parts, with 100% attention. If your supervisor did that, you would honestly not be needed in the project whatsoever. You guys live in fantasy land
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
@LucaAmb @littmath If my supervisor didn’t bother to read a work we co-authored I would take that as a negligence. So if you can’t read so many papers, then maybe don’t put your name on them?
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Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb·
@littmath Let's see. Consider a PI with 10 students publishing 15 papers a year... statistics in not on your side...
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
@JosephPConlon Great piece and I fully agree. On a different point regarding admissions - what are your thoughts on the discontinuing of the PAT in favour of the online, multiple-choice ESAT?
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Joseph Conlon
Joseph Conlon@JosephPConlon·
If you want to read me on Oxbridge undergraduate admissions, responding against a policy paper arguing that decisions should be taken by departments not colleges. (link in reply)
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
having seen the sheer effort from the chemistry team that went into organising this, I can say this is an excellent opportunity to learn from people who know their stuff *really* well. consider applying!
Quantinuum@QuantinuumQC

Introducing the InQuanto Summer School for Quantum Computational Chemists! We’re pleased to announce dates for the inaugural InQuanto Summer School, taking place this September in Cambridge, UK -- September 14th - 18th, and registration is now open: quantinuum.com/inquanto-summe…

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Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·
I love this particular quote, Keynes on Newton not as a scientist, but as "the last of the magicians". It bears a lot of thinking about - what was Newton really doing, what was his self-concept, what distinguishes science from magic - a question easy to dismis, but rewarding to think hard about
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

Keynes acquired Newton's private papers and was shocked at what he found. @michael_nielsen reads the key passage in the essay Keynes published afterwards: "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago." And as Michael jokes, what are these great scientists actually doing? Writing down squiggles on a page based on observations and these mysterious cosmic connections, then using it to accomplish miracles. Launching rockets, creating atomic bombs. "That's exactly what magicians do." Keynes was shocked to find that Newton's alchemy and theology used the same methods as his physics: "There was extreme method in his madness. All his unpublished works on esoteric and theological matters are marked by careful learning, accurate method and extreme sobriety of statement. They are just as sane as the Principia, if their whole matter and purpose were not magical. They were nearly all composed during the same twenty-five years of his mathematical studies."

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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
Fun historical fact: there's one Cambridge and two Oxford colleges - Harris Manchester, Homerton and Regent's Park - which sort of did the opposite. Each was founded in London and successively relocated to Oxbridge in 1889, 1894 and 1927!
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Oliver Lewis@policy_uk

Oxbridge / LSE / Imperial should be forced to have regional campuses in deprived regions. In France, this is what their elite universities are forced to do - in order to bring high quality research and education to forgotten communities… why not in Britain?

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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
@peterrhague the round trip time for light from where they are is like 2 seconds. great excuse but let's be honest, they just didn't want to talk to him
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
I feel like I need to explain how the speed of light works for those making a huge amount out of “awkward silences” from the Artemis crew. You think professional astronauts are going to publicly try to shame POTUS like they are some kind of B*sky user? Risk political support?
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
Imagine for a second that you have a new paper. You got some cool results, and it’s now your job to convince others they’re important. And it’s come out on the same day Oratomic proves Shor’s algo only needs 10k qubits, and Google proves that crypto is cooked. Pretty funny right?
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Quantіan
Quantіan@quantian1·
I have discovered a beautiful proof of the impossibility of building a useful quantum computer, but tragically the implications have instantly turned me into a physics crank of the highest order. I will become the weirdo sending unsolicited emails to grad students shortly.
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nuclear suicide vest enthusiast
@LimYenKheng the only problem with local compiling is collaborators and the having different computers in office home and travel laptop, are there any local tex with cloud support and does the collaboration works, I use texmaker and it's easy to use too
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
I'm not suggesting this is the right way to see things. But it is the thought process that a sizeable portion of a large & successful cohort of graduates will adopt, based on their experience with student loans. Sizeable enough to shape the politics of the country in the future.
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Jedrzej Burkat@jedburkat·
This will create drastic changes to how a generation of graduates sees their role in society. Without support from the state, student fees will have become an investment *they* made into *themselves* - knowing this, 20 years later, what obligation will they feel to give back?
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