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Ode to Self-Correcting Quantum Computers

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your TimeQuantum Computing
Posted on: February 20, 2009 4:36 PM, by Dave Bacon

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With apologies to Radiohead's "There, there":

in pitch dark i go walking in your codespace.
broken errors trip me as i speak.
just 'cause you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
just 'cause you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

There's always decoherence
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)
Steer away from these errors
We'd be a decohering disaster
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)
just 'cause you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
(there's information on your shoulder)
(there's information on your shoulder)
just 'cause you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
(there's information on your shoulder)
(there's information on your shoulder)
There there!

Why so green and incoherent?
and incoherent
and incoherent

heaven sent you to me
to me
to me

we are accidents
waiting waiting to be corrected.

we are accidents
waiting waiting to be corrected.


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Haha...hilarious!!

Posted by: arvind | February 22, 2009 9:53 PM

2

Staircase Descending a Nude
by
Jonathan Vos Post

Naked as the stairway to heaven falls down
Marcel Duchamp leaves retinal art behind
stripped of his academic crown
crushed by his superconscious mind

Staircase and nude are intertwined
in 1913 at the Armory Show
zero over zero: undefined
discrete transform of turbulent flow

Like the swirling stars of Vincent Van Gogh
superposed facets of breast and rump
quantum dynamics from head to toe
the heart is a centrifugal pump

Castle in the air, memory trace,
turning point: intergalactic space

0945-1010
1 Sep 2008

copyright (c) 2008 by Emerald City Publishing

Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | February 23, 2009 1:13 PM

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