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De Took Er DataBs Jrbs!

Category: Technology

Over at Daily Speculations, Alan Corwin writes about database programming jobs that will never return. The gist of Alan's piece is that the tools for databases are basically so turn-key and so easy that those who were trained to build...

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Theory Matters Vision Nuggets

Category: Computer Science

One result of a workshop held in 2008 that "broad research themes within theoretical computer science...that have potential for a major impact in the future, and distill these research directions into compelling "nuggets" that can quickly convey their importance to...

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Who Needs Aircars When the Future Looks Like This?

Category: Computer Science

My first real visceral realization of the non-commutative nature of driving a car was the first time I tried to parallel park and attempted to pull front end first into the space....

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A Real Turing Machine

Category: Computer Science

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Round We Go

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

Lest you think I'm not working:...

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Steve Ballmer Talk at UW March 4, 2010

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Computer Science & Engineering department's Paul Allen Center. As you can tell from that first sentence UW and Microsoft have long had very...

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Posters For Some, Minature American Flags for Others

Category: Quantum Computing

"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory" - Emily Post(er) As a literature major physicist, one of the biggest...

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QIP Talks That Have arXiv Papers

Category: Quantum Computing

QIP 2010 talks and associated papers if I could find them (amazing how almost all papers for this conference are available, for free, online at one location....also interesting how papers seem to cluster in the 10-12 months of the listings...

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On the Turing Away

Category: Computer Science

"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve." - E. P. WignerOur universe, or at least our understanding of the...

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Rowers, Funding, Metropolis, and Equilibria

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...

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