Hi, I’m Michal Krompiec, a physical chemist / chemical physicist scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Quantum computing scientist & manager. Currently Project Director / Group Manager at Fujitsu. Interested in computing, physics & chemistry, history and politics. Opinions are mine and may not reflect the position of my employer.
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Hi, I’m Michal Krompiec, a physical chemist / chemical physicist scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Our pre-print on a surprising (and surprisingly simple) connection between oo-pCCD and UpCCD, and its application to singlet initial state preparation for QPE, with very shallow circuits and without variational optimization arxiv.org/abs/2508.21679 #QuantumComputing
Look, I love Bernie. But I can’t not enjoy Newsom trolling the 🍊💩. Anyway, I live in the UK so it doesn’t matter
Sure. He ain’t a saint. But he’s effective in rallying people against Trump better than most Dems and that’s what matters most.
If you care about protecting children from abuse, it is necessary that you understand who the actual child sexual predators are.
Fascinating “…theory that the brain uses rem sleep to “learn” the body”
Resident doctors are being exploited. They’re working 70 or 80 hours a week and trying to pay off student debts with totally inadequate salaries. The good news is that they are forming unions and fighting back. I stand with them.
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Looks like we are now live-broadcasting Reform events on mass deportation plans on major TV channels including the BBC. We've just published a study showing that this type of coverage moves public opinion in an extreme direction & normalises those ideas further: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Because LLMs without RAG (or something similar) are shameless bullshitters link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I loved Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris. Good to know it is highly regarded by experts, too.
It wasn’t the tea. They fought so many wars with England to teach them how to cook.
My favourite take on the topic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
They do tea, I buy my favourite teas at Damman Fréres in Paris. But it is a niche thing there, I admit.
Do not give him ideas!!
Same here - as a chemist I’m curious what it was.
Would arsenic green remain stable for so long?
Effing council
Have they barbecued the statistician or what?
There is a go fund me for Officer Rose www.gofundme.com/f/7xahr9-off...
Have you tried Guanfacine? I know it doesn’t work for everyone (and lowers your blood pressure) but it isn’t a controlled drug and might be more accessible
My comments with @hiltzikm.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Hello friends, new and old. Yesterday my Diddler on the Roof tweet got a lot of traction, so I up and turned it into a musical number. I hope you will watch it. It has started to go viral. youtu.be/JT9qiiFEUT0 (Song is on Spotify too)
Canvassing for the Bowtie Appreciation Party?
Great, a prof from @ucl.ac.uk is apparently engaging in what could be described as medical misinformation at the behest of RFK Jr.’s MAHA cult
OMG, who is that clown from UCL??
Brings back memories of the organic PV lab at Merck Chilworth, with @rapacalaj.bsky.social blasting this song regularly whilst doing his solar cell magic
It can’t possibly be. There’s no Irn-Bru
What if after nationalisation it is run by the same people who were supposed to control it (i.e. the OFWAT types) and nothing changes? Well, at least they will have less tools to extract money from it.
@nbcnews.com , why don’t you mention the wider context? Barbara Stone is the wife of Prof. Gershon Shafir (a prominent sociologist), not some unknown “71-year-old US citizen”. www.nbcnews.com/video/ice-ag... @dollemore.com @meidastouch.com
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Hmm, am I naive to think that in a first-past-the-post system this means splitting the vote on the libertarian/far-right side, i.e. disaster for GOP and a gift to Dems?
Strong North Korean vibes. Or Ceaucescu.
The abstract of this paper says that two-electron on-top densities computed with even large Gaussian basis sets are very inaccurate and that an explicitly correlated basis is needed pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... What does it tell us about MCPDFT?? #dft #compchem
Thank you. Amazing speech.
Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts 'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said How on earth has it come to this?
Like particulate matter, asbestos can’t be processed by a macrophage. What makes asbestos unusually harmful is the fiber’s rod-like shape. Often, the rod is too long for a macrophage to fully engulf, leading to the macrophage being impaled.
Because “objective truth” and “absolute morality” and “they will go to hell” and “they will corrupt others so they must be stopped/silenced/…” and similar excuses. This is a coherent set of beliefs, trying to poke holes with logic is pointless IMHO.
BlueScousers
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
His grandparents are immigrant Jews, arriving in early 20th century. 'I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.' www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Orbán’s anti ‘gender ideology’ hits science. And self destructs. telex.hu/english/2025...
He has already lied under oath during Senate hearings. There is no reason to let him speak. Read him his many lies and misdeeds and don’t let him escape accountability like he always has. More American children have died from measles under his tenure than have in more than the past 30 years combined
I remember using 25-30% bleach in the lab, to treat chemical waste. Nasty, dangerous stuff.
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
What is the point of extrapolating this to 2060? There will be a gazillion policy changes by then. Btw I’m also a millennial
Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.
The dangerous decline of child vaccination in England. Such a worrying trend at several levels.
Ouch. OK, I’ll do my homework next time before posting
But the rate is flat, not progressive. Why should it be so?
I recently heard a high-profile pundit argue that the Trump movement cannot be Fascistic as -its supporters don't wear uniforms; -Trump dislikes foreign wars; -he hasn't tried to amend the Constitution. It's a dangerously complacent view, that misses the sheer gravity of the current situation. 🧵
Thanks for the explanation. I stand corrected
Why should it be lower than PAYE?
Tax The Rich! We need wealth tax, inheritance tax, higher capital gains and dividend taxes.
I know it's late, but there's still time to leverage some synergies.
Laugh as much as you want, but they are leading in nearly all polls. It’s not my area of expertise, but I just doubt that laughing them off will stop them from winning the next elections.
On the contrary, the system could have been used to keep the out. Tactical voting. Tactical voting. TACTICAL VOTING!
by popular demand, excerpts from this article posted in a thread below it
Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Polish: if an aunt had a mustache, she would have been an uncle. A more modern version: if a wardrobe had a rope [attached to it], it would have been an elevator
Isn’t it basically what Feyerabend preached? It is scary that his craziest ideas from “Against method” seem to be coming to fruition
Southern Marsh Orchids, Fulbourn Fen near Cambridge
Tax The Rich!
If you ever want to own a home or any other assets, we need to tax the rich more.
drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maois...
Trumpism is Maoism drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maois...
8 and (especially) 1 exist in Polish, too
They should rebrand to The Dickensian Times, then
"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.
Fair enough - Trump’s regime is a threat and US can’t be relied upon anymore. But how quickly can an alternative to NATO be built, given the degree of dependence on US infrastructure? As things stand, NATO has been the only thing that kept e.g. Eastern Europe (incl. my native Poland) relatively safe
Very well, but what about his proposal to quit NATO? I find it quite unacceptable
Remember when Obama joked about it, saying that he hails from the O’Bamas
Great. Now scrap disability benefits cuts
We haven’t (yet). And if Nawrocki wins the presidency, we will likely slide back
Horrifying. Are we going back in time, to 1980s or something?
OK. Now reverse the disability benefit cuts!
Indeed!
I think Sikorski would appeal more to conservative voters, who will be very hard for Trzaskowski to woo.
destroying the fabric of civic society for generations
The Communist party’s propaganda included painting politics and politicians (other than faithful apparatchiks) in negative light, and vilifying or outright banning any grassroots organizations. Add to this well-justified distrust in public institutions, police and military and you get a recipe for
Between WW1 and WW2, after a few years of a fledgling democracy, we had a semi-authoritarian regime, with military officers in government and a range of xenophobic policies. The main opposition, National Democracy, was a far right, openly antisemitic party. We do have a strong right-wing tradition..
Nah, religious right has always been strong in Poland and was one of the key fractions in Solidarity. And a populist religious right party ruled for 8 years, until December 2023. Libertarian right used to be on the fringe but has been rising steadily in the last few years.
Sandy and Sandy Balls
Kraken is nice. Have you tried Dark Matter rum? It takes the concept of spiced rum one step further :)
Sounds as silly as that MAGA rant I saw the other day, that Starmer is a radical leftie
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has announced on X that he is withdrawing consent for the Russian consulate in Krakow, following a year-long investigation that revealed Russian secret services were behind a massive fire that nearly destroyed a Warsaw shopping center in May 2024.
The dose makes the poison. This was already clear to Paracelsus in the first half of the 16th century.
Both? It will happen and the “deal” is not a deal
In the US?
Surely, it has a well-stocked bar, so I guess he won’t object
He’s normalising far-right’s talking points. Disgusting! What’s the strategy here? Ostensibly, this did NOT work in the local elections. What is this, a technocratic party of power, with no actual values?
Amazing result
Not ban, just tax. Heavily.
There is no US trade deal. I repeat: there is no US trade deal. Starmer and Trump have jumped the gun. A lot. All that has been agreed is the broad parameters of where the discussions on a trade deal should focus. Proof? Just follow the link! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...
This is incorrect and insulting, as well as being disgraceful kissing-up to his own boss. Nice work, JB. So this is who you are. Good to know.
„[bio]ethanol used to produce beer” - WTAF???
Can you please point me to some evidence on this?
Is there a realistic prospect of them actually stopping the cuts to PIP?
A bull is just a specialized type of meme.
My latest AI rock opera, ANTICHRIST, is going viral. Come join the fun. youtu.be/_mYDpsg1FaM