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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.
October 29, 2009
Category: Education
Over at Life as a Physicist, the Physicist for Life gets on a well deserved soap box and laments certain comments concerning articles about a recent College Board study: Trends in College Pricing 2009. The gist of the Physicist for...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:46 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2009
Category: Quantum Computing
Michael Green's appointment to replace Stephen Hawking as the Lucasian chair, has, quite predictably, brought back into the spotlight the ever simmering STRING WARS!!!OMG!!!STRINGTHEORYRLZ!!. Okay, maybe not the spotlight, per se, but I did find the article about Green in...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:27 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 24, 2009
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Spotted on the pick your own religion chart. Also: Bacon Jam!...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 23, 2009
Category: Science 2.0
Via the arXiv api newsgroup comes the rumor that soon, perhaps, the arXiv will be available for full download sometime in the future:or a full copy of (or particular subsets of) PDF for arXiv papers, we are in the process...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:04 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum
Oh man sometimes even I, a staunch Caltech grad, wish I could be at MIT. The MIT QIP seminar this next Monday looks...intriguing (Monday 10/26 at 4:00 in 36-428 silly MITers and their numbered buildings, so cold.): David Kaiser (MIT)...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:44 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 21, 2009
Category: Quantum
The Dutch book argument of Bruno de Finetti is an argument which is supposed to justify subjective probabilities. What one does in this argument is gives probabilities an operational definition in terms of the amount one is willing to bet...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:44 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 20, 2009
Category: Quantum Computing
Two notes on chairs. Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of Mathematics replacing the esteemed Stephen Hawking. Green helped sparked the great optimism in string theory by discovering with John Schwarz the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism. Elsewhere, the Perimeter...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Bacon soap....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:41 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 19, 2009
Category: Wine
The grapes have been picked upand the fermenting has (hopefully!) begun. This year I'm trying two types of grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:37 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 15, 2009
Category: Quantum Computing
The deadline for submissions to QIP 2010 is next week, October 22. Website here...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 9:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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