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polariton.bsky.social
Reader at University of St Andrews. Physics, polaritons, light-matter interactions. Views my own.
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ChatGPT’s response to my grant rejection frustration: “allow yourself space to feel the disappointment properly. You don’t need to move straight to silver linings. This is part of the emotional cost of doing high-risk, high-reward research—and it’s ok to feel knocked by it.” pretty good I thought.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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I highly recommend listening to Sean Carrol’s @seanmcarroll.bsky.social podcast with Francoise Collet on deep learning and intelligence if you’d like to understand why LLM has nothing to do with intelligence, and why it never reach AGI. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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We have the stable genius’s formula: max(trade deficit / total export / 2, 10) www.theverge.com/news/642620/...

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Should we give Google another 21 years to add the option of “sort by number of citations” in Google Scholar?

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I had made Microsoft Quantum aware of issues before publication of this latest Nature paper (which uses it tune up their devices). Since they seem to not care, I have make these issues public. In short: The topological gap protocol and all claims based on it are flawed. arxiv.org/abs/2502.19560

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