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Agreed.

Quantum Processes, Systems, & Information by Benjamin Schumacher and Michael Westmoreland is another good treatment along those lines.

Clanki is a great name.

I’ve had a lot of success using AI to generate memorable images to show alongside vocabulary cards.

FWIW, I have had great success asking AI coding tools to generate/edit tikz code. As with all AI coding, it helps to steer the agent to structure the code sensibly, etc. But frontier models seem to know how to write tikz.

Parallel Lives: A Local-Realistic Interpretation of “Nonlocal” Boxes by Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robic.

Abstract: We carry out a thought experiment in an imaginary world. Our world is both local and realistic, yet it violates a Bell inequality more than does quantum theory. This serves to debunk the myth that equates local realism with local hidden variables in the simplest possible manner. Along the way, we reinterpret the celebrated 1935 argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, and come to the conclusion that they were right in their questioning the completeness of the Copenhagen version of quantum theory, provided one believes in a local-realistic universe. Throughout our journey, we strive to explain our views from first principles, without expecting mathematical sophistication nor specialized prior knowledge from the reader.

I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc.

Probably the coolest part has been automating the optomechanical equipment and optimizing physical experiments with Bayesian optimization. Similar to hyperparameter tuning in ML, but with lasers.

Also, Thorlabs sells some really fun toys.

Recorded 10 February 2026. Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics" at IPAM's AI for Science Kickoff.

I appreciate the ability to rapidly capture a note/thought/todo without friction and context switching.

I solved this problem with a twilio sms number. When I send a text to it, the content gets prepended to my obsidian todo.md file. This was easy to arrange with a few lines of Python glue.

iOS makes it easy to text or share to sms from almost any context.

He just discussed this on Robinson’s podcast, in conversation with Tim Maudlin.