Son of Perdition. Quantum Computing And Concurrency dude @CtrQuantumTech & @VMware | Ex @Twitter Ex @BrownUniversity | CEO Vizion | Singer/Guitars @ Alakazam
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Sinan P. = NP retweeted
AI is creating new frontiers in professional bullying. Extraordinary.
New paper drop: Continuation of my talk at PLDI, my paper on showing how destructive interference can be avoided in classical simulation by creating race conditions, with minimal loss has been published in the IOP Quantum Science Technology journal
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Stanford re-discovered a light version of Matthias Felleisen's code walks
Talked to a Stanford prof last night who told me that AI has led to students all acing all the homeworks, never showing up to office hours, and then failing the final exams in-person.
So in response the department is changing the TA's purpose, by eliminating office hours and requiring students meet with TAs 1:1 and walking them through each coding assignment to demonstrate they actually understand what's going on in the code.
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters.
This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors.
Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/up…
ALT arXiv logo in white over a whiteboard with math symbols.
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity
Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission?
medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-a…
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
Scala Times Issue #625 - scalatimes.com/3dec4ac264 - powered by @eed3si9n @JOTBConf @lambda_world @Odersky @sake_92 @scaladays @sinanspd @ThatScalaGuy & others, thx!
3 cancelled flights... thank you for leaving me stranded in the most expensive city in the country @united without providing any accommodation
If a reviewer is claiming to be an expert on the subject, this needs to be verified somehow. What the hell am I supposed to say when they say they are an expert and then say something so wrong that, if I uttered those words, my diploma would get revoked?
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Half the Interference, Most of the Answer: Approximate Quantum Simulation via Path-Sum Pruning
Sinan Pehlivanoglu, Srinivasan Iyengar, Amr Sabry
arxiv.org/abs/2606.01922 [𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚗𝚝-𝚙𝚑]
💬Submitted to Physical Review X for consideration
ALT Classical simulation of quantum circuits is expensive for two distinct reasons. The obvious one is state-space size: an n-qubit system requires exponentially many amplitudes. The less obvious one is interference: useful output distributions emerge only after many computational histories have been coherently combined at common endpoints, and this aggregation step is itself a substantial source of cost. We introduce statistical interference sampling, a framework that makes this second bottleneck explicit by treating endpoint interference as a separately schedulable computation. Using the Chemical Abstract Machine (ChAM) as our model, weighted path contributions evolve as concurrent molecular species, and interference reactions combine contributions that share a common output state. A threshold rule terminates the process once an endpoint accumulates sufficient amplitude, discarding the remaining reactions. The method does not improve worst-case complexity and is not intended as a general
Big big congrats to Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard for winning the Turing Award. Their work has been crucial in establishing the foundations of Quantum Information. It gives me great joy that quantum computing is reaching these new heights!
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
there’s actually a fun backstory to this: the owner of this cat, a physicist, had written a paper using “we,” but the journal wouldn’t allow plural pronouns for a single author, so rather than retyping the whole manuscript (on a typewriter), he just added his cat as a co-author
Imagine if this dumbass feature was a thing during the Hacktober fest fiasco
We've moved our entire code review lifecycle onto Automations.
Cursor will approve and unblock changes that are low risk and automatically assign reviewers based on commit history for changes that are medium/high risk.
There is so much power in transforming historically static processes (*all* changes must be reviewed by X people) to dynamic ones (# of reviews scales with risk of the change).
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
Today my entire feed is about the C compiler built by claude. Different opinions. Endless threads. So many takes. But I doubt you will find anything better than comments in github.com/anthropics/claude…
Edit for @BBCWorld who was repeatedly showing this guy's false witness account when I could tell from a thousand miles away that he took the the streets just to be on camera. We are out there worried, trying to get info but have to watch this instead
Sinan P. = NP retweeted
If linear types would have been available in 1990 in a realistic programming language, game development today would be done in a functional programming language.
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I strive to maintain a positive, safe, and transparent environment within The Last of Us community. Unfortunately, not everyone shares these values. With that, let me introduce you to the single worst human being in The Last of Us community: Ashif Ridwan, a.k.a. bokehMaster, a.k.a. tloucollectortm
He has been obsessed with establishing himself as an authority on The Last of Us (at times, Playstation in general) when in reality he had nothing to offer the community. In pursuit of his goals, he stole knowledge, he stole money/monetary goods, he lied, he deceived, he cheated, he harassed. As we have discovered, 9 out of 10 things he says are lies to pad his own bottom line. Initially, I and others within PlayStation communities mistakenly trusted him due to these false representations and welcomed him. He fooled many of the Playstation staff and “sold” himself as a “big fan”. His cunning plan was long, complex. He stole knowledge to dress himself up and to make connections. He used those connections, glorified with lies and threats to grow his collection. Used his collection to market himself further and so on in a vicious cycle, subsequently leveraging his artificially inflated profile to further mislead community members. We have been collecting evidence on him for months and it is time to show everyone his true face 👇🧵 1/13
