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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: Read You Tweed
This interview with Cormac McCarthy by the Wall Street Journal is well worth reading (Coincidentally(?) I just started rereading the Border Trilogy.) This amused me[CM:] Instead, I get up and have a cup of coffee and wander around and read...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
This morning Mrs. Pontiff read me a review out of the New York Times for the film "A Serious Man." The opening paragraph of the review gives you an idea why she thought it might be relevant to me:Did you...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:57 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
I wrote a paper with David DiVincenzo once. Now he is in the title of a YouTube video. Some things you can never predict. Part of me wants to say very loudly OMG. The other part of me watched the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:26 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Movies
"Jumper" is a new movie about a man (okay, Hayden Christensen, aka Anakin Skywalker) who can teleport himself anywhere just by thinking about it. Quantum teleportation is a procedure where quantum information can be transported using entanglement and a few...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:30 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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