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Theoretical Musings
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
Okay, I'm calling it. We have officially reached the top of the Bacon loving bubble. Why? The dress made of Bacon indicator has been tripped. This indicator has a 50 percent probability of beating the magic 8 ball in predicting...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Finance
Summer doesn't officially start here in Seattle until the fourth of July, but the summer vibe is definitely here. Which means no teaching, so it's all research all the time. But a man cannot live by his own research alone,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:54 AM • 5 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: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
So bing, Microsoft's latest search engine, is up and running the tech word is a twitter. I checked it out and...well. On google when you search for "pontiff" my blog comes up as hit number five, after a few silly...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:38 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Ah, the games people play:A 23-year-old Tacoma man and an 18-year-old Lakewood woman are suspected of throwing rocks from a railroad trestle onto at least 14 vehicles traveling southbound on Interstate 5 early Monday. ... Investigators told KOMO-TV that the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
This Intel ad cracks me up: Reminds me of the classic Onion: Stephen Jay Gould Speaks Out Against Science Paparazzi....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Storytime
The other day I ran into a good friend from Tlön, who told me the most fascinating story about his discovery of a new theory of games....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:09 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Some quotes, with some substitutions, denoted by [], for the actual words:"The famous physicist Max Planck was talking about the resistance of the human mind, even the bright human mind, to new ideas.... And he said science advances one funeral...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:39 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Is the Super Mario Bros. theme song the most covered song ever? Via hacklab.to: lazzor music! from hypatia on Vimeo....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 9:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Over 9 months ago I decided to apply for teaching tenure track jobs. Then the economy took what can best be described as a massive, ill-aimed, swan dive. Thus creating an incredible amount of stress in my life. So what...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:14 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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