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What a Useless Day Feels Like
March 4, 2026
Lies I Tell Myself on Useless Days - Tom McCarthy A useless day sometimes feels like a car crash unfolding in slow motion. Some days I will just get nothing...
11 Industries for Ireland
January 18, 2026
If software giants continue to route money through Ireland, Ireland might never need another industry. Only the paranoid survive, however, and better for us...
An End of Year Note, 2025
December 17, 2025
Physics, investing, and startups. Books, marriage, and San Francisco. Happy Christmas. I have never enjoyed physics as much as I do now that I'm not a...
SOTA in Qubit Modalities
December 4, 2025
I wrote an overview of the current SOTA in qubit count, quality qubits, fidelity and gate times across the 5 main qubit modalities. In my view, neutral atoms...
Freeman Dyson
November 3, 2025
I recently stumbled across a wonderful interview with Freeman Dyson on Youtube, from an organization called Web of Stories. They have interviews with a...
Brief History of Quantum Computing Hype
October 24, 2025
October 2025. Few areas of physics research ever attract much public attention or funding. Quantum computing is one of the best-known and best funded areas...