Theoretical Musings
Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
December 29, 2007
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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December 28, 2007
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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December 26, 2007
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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December 25, 2007
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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December 22, 2007
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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December 21, 2007
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
The title says enough already: Bacon Flowchart....
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December 19, 2007
Category: Technology
More from Johnny Chung Lee on hacking the wiimote system to produce a very cool multitouch display:...
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