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Error correction is a key component of tomorrow’s large-scale quantum computers. Today we’re excited to report the experimental demonstration of a color code system that provides an advantageous alternative to the well studied surface code. Check it out →goo.gle/4ljZwli

Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

(1/2) At a chaotic @PaloAltoUnified (K-12!) board meeting, the Director of Curriculum and Instruction dismissed a board member's concerns about feeling unsafe. If this is the leadership model, how can the district truly support its students?

Yesterday's joint oversight hearing by the Assembly Education and Higher Education committees had a lopsided set of invitees, and was political theater designed to blame and shame the University of California for upholding the official state-adopted standards for math education, with an agenda filled with inaccuracies and flat out lies. Details of the agenda weren't even posted until 1-2 hours before the actual hearing, seemingly to keep the public from knowing and participating. Fortunately, the ploy failed. @UofCalifornia leadership came with good answers, and Prof. Brian Conrad of Stanford and myself found out about the hearing and helped changed the tone during public comment. @AsmMuratsuchi then said exactly the right thing in his closing remarks afterward, visibly deeply contemplative after the public comment he had just heard: "I do want to acknowledge the importance of making sure that we are meeting necessary standards of academic rigor, and that we're not just establishing courses just for the sake of graduating students". 👏🏾👏🏾 Correct! Thank you Committee Chair Muratsuchi for those important words. Full hearing: youtu.be/D81SW2EKlOk?si… UC official testimony: youtu.be/D81SW2EKlOk?si… My public comment: youtu.be/D81SW2EKlOk?si… (the printed packet I referenced is uploaded here: drive.google.com/file/d/18jk5HZ…) Brian Conrad's public comment: youtu.be/D81SW2EKlOk?si… Assemblymember Muratsuchi's closing remarks: youtu.be/D81SW2EKlOk?si…

The most salient aspect of Convex Optimization in the Age of LLMs is LLMs can solve all the problem sets. argmin.net/p/cheating-at-…

As Apple Intelligence is rolling out to our beta users today, we are proud to present a technical report on our Foundation Language Models that power these features on devices and cloud: machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple…. 🧵