Category: Mathematics
Miguel Pais points to an interesting behavior of Mathematica, where he plots the function which is the square of the square root of x. Now, if the domain of x is taken to be complex numbers, Mathematica's behavior seems to...
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Category: Society
You know you're in rural America when... Reminds me of one of my favorite bumper sticker ideas of a few years ago (less true today): "Buy American: Do Meth!"...
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Category: Physics
TGFT inspires the blues:...
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Category: Quantum
What do you call a quantum computer built in the shape of a cubic lattice and containing 450000 qubits?...
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Category: Skiing
Well I finally made it to the ski slopes. Hopefully my late start to this year's ski season will just mean that I push harder to get up to the slopes. Here is a picture taken from the base of...
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Category: Quantum
Merry Christmas! I don't think this explanation for Santa delivering presents using quantum theory works. But it does bring up the question of whether Santa could get a quadratric speedup using quantum gift delivery?...
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Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Ernesto points me to Bacon Zen, a collection of savory bacon links. But really? Bacon chocolate chip cookies?...
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Category: Quantum Computing
Superexchange in optical lattices, factoring 15 in a linear optics quantum computer, quantum plagarism peaceful resolution, silicon and gallium arsinide quantum computers, and quantum mumbo jumbo in support of the ideas popularly known as God....
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Category: Technology
More from Johnny Chung Lee on hacking the wiimote system to produce a very cool multitouch display:...
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