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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: Mathematics
Yes, dear Gray Lady, you certainly sound more sophisticated when you use the word "prime number" in your newspaper. But perhaps you might want to look up the actual meaning of the word before placing those words prominently beside...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:47 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Funny Ha Ha
Some confusing headlines:Quantum Theory's Release Date Now 'TBA' Quantum Theory Faces Delay Due to Quality Reasons Quantum Theory Delayed...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:01 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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: Funny Ha Ha
From the annals of high idiocy, I enjoyed this sequence of emails at BofA:"Unfortunately it's screw the shareholders!!" Charles K. Gifford wrote to a fellow director in an e-mail exchange that took place during the call. "No trail," Thomas May,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Funny Ha Ha
How did I miss this one from 2005? And how come no one told me to take off my tinfoil hat? Via @kmerritt, "On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study" by Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, Jason Taylor,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:41 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Okay this one from ScienceDaily made my day. No it made my week. The title is "Police Woman Fights Quantum Hacking And Cracking." Intriguing, no? Who is this mysterious police woman in quantum computing? I don't know many police offers...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Over at the optimizer's blog, quantum computing's younger clown discusses some pointers for giving funny talks. I can still vividly remember the joke I told in my very first scientific talk. I spent the summer of 1995 in Boston at...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:48 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
When I was a postdoc, I made it a habit to try to spend at least one week a year visiting Isaac Chuang's lab at MIT. There were many reason for this, including that Ike has been a collaborator of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:01 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Seattle
In the University of Washington's "The Daily" in the lost and found section:FOUND - PANDA head, appears to be a part of a missing suit. Recovered near 45th and Memorial. presumably stolen by ill-advised sorority girls during their week-long, drunken...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:45 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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