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good piece from Rafael Behr on Starmer & migration
"The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work"
Starmer once again demonstrating an absence of leadership skills i.m.o.
#LabourParty #KeirStarmer #UKPol

Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Lucas Daguerre, Robin Blume-Kohout, Natalie C. Brown, David Hayes, Isaac H. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14169

Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Preparation of high-fidelity logical magic states has remained as a necessary but daunting step towards building a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. One approach is to fault-tolerantly prepare a magic state in one code and then switch to another, a method known as code switching. We experimentally demonstrate this protocol on an ion-trap quantum processor, yielding a logical magic state encoded in an error-correcting code with state-of-the-art logical fidelity. Our experiment is base…

The 'The Perfection Trap' session by Tim Schmolka scheduled for 9:30 am on Stage Palais Atelier, has been cancelled. Please feel free to join one of the other great talks instead. You can find the schedule here: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/schedule/.

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I spent years in that particular trap: 'I don't understand how to fix this. I definitely can't do a good job. So why bother trying?' https://www.overcomeco…

I like how this new mall near my home closed one of it main halls/corridors to put shops.
They were like: " Those halls make people transit way to efficiently, lets close them off, put shops and trap more people inside the mall."

Experimental search for electric dipole moments of light radioactive nuclei
Chavdar Dutsov, Timothy Hume, Maxim Pospelov, Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13588

Experimental search for electric dipole moments of light radioactive nuclei
We discuss a search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of a light beta-radioactive ion using a compact ion trap by adapting the "frozen-spin" method. The measurement will be done on ions stripped of their valence electrons, thereby bypassing the significant Schiff screening that hinders the application of successful contemporary EDM searches using heavy neutral atoms and molecules to light nuclei. We identified $^8$Li as the most promising candidate for a proof-of-concept EDM search and we es…

Trump’s Version of Federalism Is a Perverse Death Trap | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/196331/trump-federalism-ice-marines-hurricanes

- Suppose you don't want to catch a mouse but just want to break someone's finger. Is there something you can use for that?
- Yes! An ordinary mouse trap, the kind you break a mouse's neck with, can also be used to break someone's finger! Thanks for asking.

Engineering Cryogenic FETs: Addressing SCEs and Impact of Interface Traps Down to 2 K Temperature
Nilesh Pandey, Dipanjan Basu, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Leonard F. Register, Sanjay K. Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09356

Engineering Cryogenic FETs: Addressing SCEs and Impact of Interface Traps Down to 2 K Temperature
This paper presents a comprehensive design and benchmarking of cryogenic bulk-FET using a calibrated TCAD model integrating 2-D electrostatics and interface trap effects across temperatures from T = 2 K to 300 K. For a 28-nm node FET, transport appears predominately ballistic at T = 2 K, shifting toward quasi-ballistic transport with increasing temperature. Short-channel effects (SCEs) dominate cryogenic benefits at Lg = 25 nm for T < 25 K, as evidenced by a modest improvement in the minimum su…

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The Temper Trap:
🎵 Sweet Disposition
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https://essmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-temper-trap-sweet-disposition-essm-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jUkHIMc7UaJQuzWe5Iop2