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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.

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Spotted on the pick your own religion chart. Also: Bacon Jam!...

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Posted Without Comment, But With a Bad Smell

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Bacon soap....

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Machine Learning Ruins Blackjack

Category: Computer Science

Blackjack, or 21, is a game that many enjoy wasting their money playing at casinos. For those who don't like to waste their money, or at least want to waste it more slowly than others, card counting is a time...

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Confession...

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Confession of a classical sinner....

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Weinstein v. Krugman v. Orzel (Mathematical Elegance Death Match)

Category: Extralusionary Intelligence

Over at the most uncertain blog, he of uncertain principles (aka Chad) takes up a challenge posed by @EricRWeinstein on twitter concerning Paul Krugman's recent article on why economists got the economic crisis so wrong. Since I know even less...

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Live Worldwide Monopoly Game

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

Tomorrow, September 9, 2009 is apparently the date for a worldwide game of monopoly: Monopoly City StreetsWelcome to Monopoly City Streets. You versus the world in the biggest live game of MONOPOLY in history! On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world...

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Puzzle for the Day

Category: Computer Science

How do you build a computer out of fire? (Motivated by the observation that if you take three pieces of string and tie them together at a single point, you can make an OR gate. If we denote the presence...

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Helmet Heads Hijacked?

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,...

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Want to Decrease Your Productivity?

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Civilization for the iPhone. EOM....

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Humor as a Guide to Research

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...

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