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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.
November 30, 2009
Category: Quantum Computing
Stuff to read while you wait around for finals and the Christmas holidays: Via alea one of the odder invocations of NP-completeness: Rowing and the Same-Sum Problem Have Their MomentsAn update on the status of US science funding for the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:58 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2009
Category: Quantum Computing
The list of talks accepted at QIP 2010 is now online. As a member of the PC I can tell you that there were way more good papers than available speaking slots and made some of the final decisions hard...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:08 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2009
Category: Physics
Some notes for quantum computing people: IARPA will be hosting a Proposers' Day Conference for the Quantum Computer Science (QCS) Program on December 17, 2009 in anticipation of the release of a new solicitation in support of the program. Details...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:26 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2009
Category: Off The Deep End
@EricRWeinstein is at it again in twitterland, this time on the subject of the funding of science. For an intriguing read about the glut of Ph.D.s versus science funding, he links to his (circa 1998?) article titled: "How and Why...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 9:35 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bacon
One must wait until the end of the video, and no, that is not me:...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2009
Category: Funny Ha Ha
Too often in life I am sending out a check to some charitable organization, or to resubscribe to Bacon magazine, and I think "damn this would be a lot better with Bacon." And now via the honest one, I find...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:35 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2009
Category: Storytime
Last Friday I went to at talk by Brian David Johnson from Intel. That sentence sounds like any other that an academic could write--always with the going to seminars we acahacks are. That is until you hear that Brian David...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:04 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2009
Category: Funny Ha Ha
Friday the 13th is, apparently, a day of must read articles. This time it's Steven Pinker's review of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. Readers who have taken linear algebra will be amused:He provides misleading definitions of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:22 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Read You Tweed
This interview with Cormac McCarthy by the Wall Street Journal is well worth reading (Coincidentally(?) I just started rereading the Border Trilogy.) This amused me[CM:] Instead, I get up and have a cup of coffee and wander around and read...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:46 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
Last month a local restaurant group, Chow foods---among whose restaurants is one of our favorite Sunday breakfast spots, The Five Spot---ran a contest/charity event: "Chow Dow." The game: guess the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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