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Theoretical Musings
Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. 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.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
May 30, 2009
Category: Technology
Catch the wave. Long but worth watching:I suspect that collaboration will never be the same after the wave. Another observation is about gadgets and iphone apps. One beauty of iphone apps is how easy it is to write one. This...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2009
Category: Quantum
Recently I finally got a chance to read the new preprint arXiv:0905.2292 "A new physical principle: Information Causality" by M. Pawlowski, T. Paterek, D. Kaszlikowski, V. Scarani, A. Winter, and M. Zukowski. It's been a long time since I spent...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:43 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2009
Category: Caltech
Ditch day 2009 was May 27, 2009. A classic from the past. Our stack involved a multi-storied wooden puzzle and the strong chance we would be taped to a tree upside down....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy
It seems that astrometry has finally succeeded at detecting a planet. A star and its planets perform a complex dance as they move through space. In astrometry planet hunting one looks for a planet by looking for the "wobble" of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Recently I've been thinking it might be fun to set up some sort online weekly colloquia in quantum computing. Fun? Well, okay maybe that's not quite the right word. But it would be an interesting experiment. So I went out...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2009
Category: Games
Katamari Damacy is a very cool game, if for no other reason than it is a game in which "scale" changes. The basic idea is that you roll a ball around which picks up objects that aren't too big for...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Via his squidiness, a test on which pope you are. Me? Seek help now! You are a giddy combo of the weirder Popes, Stephen VI, Benedict XVI and St PeterBut we knew that already, no?...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:53 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Loony Bin Called Academia
One of the more interesting "problems" in Science 2.0 is the lack of commenting on online articles. In particular some journals now allow one to post comments about papers published in the journal. As this friendfeed conversation asks:Why people do...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:15 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Caltech
As an alumnus of the California Institute of Technology (thats "Caltech" not "CalTech" peoples!) and a member of the Caltech alumni association, I get a quarterly copy of Engineering and Science (E&S). In this month's issue there is a letter...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 7:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2009
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Ah, the games people play:A 23-year-old Tacoma man and an 18-year-old Lakewood woman are suspected of throwing rocks from a railroad trestle onto at least 14 vehicles traveling southbound on Interstate 5 early Monday. ... Investigators told KOMO-TV that the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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