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I warned my students that learning Bell's theorem could be a mentally destabilising experience, but they didn't listen. Now who will be there to pick up the pieces?
Jonathan Oppenheim
@postquantum
Quantum mechanic with a lot of ontological baggage.
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We're hiring postdocs at UCL's new David Potter Institute for Quantum Information and Spacetime. Is spacetime quantum? We aim to find out. Apply by Dec 15 for full consideration. Please RT to help spread the word! ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…
www.ucl.ac.uk Opportunities | Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences As part of the launch of the Potter Institute, we will be recruiting postdocs and PhD students for 2027/28 and appointing at least three new academics over the next four years. Join us! This is great. I was disturbed watching kids get attention-mined by social media companies, so in March I vibe-coded YourTube.me to help parents and kids regain some control over what they watch. The code is here if you want to contribute: github.com/lejono/yourtub…
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.View quoted post on X
Since @newscientist has put postquantum gravity in the spotlight this week, I've pushed out part II of my status update on the theory along with replies (or agreements) to some criticisms coming from @carlorovelli, @quantum_geoff, and @IvetteFuentesGu superposer.substack.com/p/postquantum-…
superposer.substack.com Postquantum gravity: a status update (part II) I previously covered some recent progress on the postquantum theory of gravity, in this post I’ll cover its strengths and the challenges it faces, and also comment on some criticisms in this week’s... In this week’s issue: How strange quirks in space-time could give us a unified theory of reality
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We're hiring a Senior Operations Officer for the new David Potter Institute for Quantum Information and Spacetime @ucl in London! A varied role: seminars, visitors, launch events, workshops, website, and grant support. Please RT & spread the word! ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…