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Necker Cube

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Scott writes: '[Update: Commenters point out to me that buried in Nature‘s review materials is the following striking passage: “The editorial team wishes to point out that the results in this manuscript do not represent evidence for the presence of Majorana zero modes in the reported devices. The work is published for introducing a device architecture that might enable fusion experiments using future Majorana zero modes.” So, the situation is that Microsoft is unambiguously claiming to have created a topological qubit, and they just published a relevant paper in Nature, but their claim to have created a topological qubit has not yet been accepted by Nature‘s peer review.]'

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Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits

Feb 19, 2025

Hear from the Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, engineered from an entirely new material that has the potential to scale to millions of qubits on a single chip.  Find out what is possible... 

Chapters: 

0:00 - Introducing Majorana 1 

1:26 - Why does quantum computing matter?

 2:47 - Qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing 

5:05 - Understanding the topological state 

7:00 - How the Majorana 1 chip works 

9:10 - How quantum and classical computing work together 

10:13 - The Quantum Age

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The End.

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AveryCanadianFilm: Recent interview with two of the main characters

Interviewer: How are you two?

Oak: We're packing.

Interviewer: Going on vacation?

Willow: Don't tell him anything!

Oak: No.

Willow: He doesn't have adequate security clearance. Our lips are sealed!

Interviewer: Going to Australia?

Oak: Are you psychic?

Willow: He can see the Australia travel guide book on the table.

Oak: Oh, we're relocating.

Interviewer: What do your parents think about this?

Willow: {sighs} We haven't told them yet.

Interviewer: You're only 12 years old, how are you going to do this?

Willow: That's classified!

Oak: {smiles} We have a plan.

Willow: When Hypatia was 12 years old, she was already a famous mathematician.

Oak: That's right, we know what we're doing, don't worry.

Interviewer: Who is Hypatia, a friend of yours?

Willow: {frowns and rolls her eyes at the Interviewer}

Oak: This interview is over.

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Feb. 20, 2025

Europe doubles down on Ukraine war w/ Jeffrey Sachs

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Feb 15, 2025

Trump To Force Ukraine Peace on Europe - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

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If you think the US Sibly chart still substantially represents that nation, then interpretations of these 2025 transits to that chart are obvious.

One side should move as fast as possible to get as much done before the end of the year as possible and the other side should stall as much as possible.

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AveryCanadianFilm: Geopolitics

Please remember, AveryCanadianFilm, though loosely, very loosely based on some real people, things, events etc., is a fictional film! I've been asked to say something about the astrological correlates of these extraordinary times and events, in the context of the script (and everything on this blog is related to the script). So, I began to write something amusing, but decided against it because these are very serious times and people have very strong opinions and feelings about what is happening.

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Arctic Region

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AveryCanadianFilm: Tall White Aliens and the Arctic

Setting: Samuel H. Lawson is chilling in snowy, cold, and windy Alberta, when, that's right, two tall white aliens show up!

TWA1: Hey!

TWA2: Hey! How ya doing?

Samuel H. Lawson: What are you two doing here?

TWA1: Just checking in.

TWA2: Loving this wintry weather?

Samuel H. Lawson: I grew up in Ottawa, a little winter doesn't bother me.

TWA1: Why are you staring at map of the arctic?

TWA2: {laughs} Planning an arctic vacation?

Samuel H. Lawson: As a matter of fact, I'd like to visit the arctic.

TWA1: Whilst you still don't need a visa.

TWA2: {laughs}

Samuel H. Lawson: What do you mean? Plenty of the arctic is in Canada.

TWA1: We just flew over the North Pole.

Samuel H. Lawson: So?

TWA2: If the US takes Canada and Greenland.

TWA1: And, the Russian Federation takes Norway.

TWA2: Then the US and the Russian Federation control the arctic.

TWA1: And that severely reduces the risk of war.

Samuel H. Lawson: Why do you care?

TWA1: The US has one half, the Russian Federation has the other half.

TWA2: {Smiles} Very symmetrical.

TWA1: We like it.

Samuel H. Lawson: Have you guys been watching FOX news?

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Di Beppe Vancouver. :-)

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Glitch

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Twenty-two years ago in Indian Wells, a 16-year-old Venus Williams, still ranked only 211th in the world, was reeling from a brutal loss to Lindsay Davenport when she was asked about the impact she had already left on young black women in tennis. “I think that I’ve had a good effect,” she said. “Generally, you don’t see too many black people playing tennis, not on the tour, not anywhere you go really. It’s mostly because tennis is kind of an expensive sport at times … I think I’ve really helped bring it. If they see me on TV [they say]: ‘Who is this? This is Venus? She plays tennis? I’ve never seen a [black] girl playing tennis.’”

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from: Serena Williams@serenawilliams twitter

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