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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.
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...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:18 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computers
Rod Van Meter is in search of some summer reading:I'm feeling the need to recharge my store of ideas, and I have the nagging feeling that my lack of currency in a bunch of fields is causing me to miss...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Shor's algorithm is an algorithm for quantum computers which allows for efficiently factoring of numbers. This in turn allows Shor's algorithm to break the RSA public key cryptosystem. Further variations on Shor's algorithm break a plethora of other public key...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:37 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computers
Running a process to fix the utf-8 support on scirate.com using the unix "screen" command I got the following crash: Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...Doh!...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:29 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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