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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: 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: Funny Ha Ha
Amusing line from a New York Times article this morning:"Are you aware under what conditions I worked in 1996?" he said by telephone from Mexico. "It's only because of my lawsuit that you or anybody else can pick up a...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Extralusionary Intelligence
Like many an arrogant kid before me, when I graduate from high school in my podunk hometown (no, it wasn't marshy, and I say podunk with all the warm feelings of a idyllic childhood), I was filled with confidence that...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:49 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: Health
So I picked up Malcolm Gladwell's newest book Outliers: The Story of Success the other day, as I'm sure many of you will be doing on your next trip to the airport (where stands of Gladwell's hardcover book, marked down...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Ed Lazowska has penned an article over at the CCC blog about the state of computer science enrollments which is well worth reading....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neologista
A word I accidentally mumbled in class: "crudimentary." I think it means both rudimentary and crude. Anyway, I like it, and am going to try to start weaseling it into as many talks as I possibly can. Speaking of which,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:11 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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