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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: Quantum Computing
A correspondent writes to me about a recent article in the APS News describingThe Top Ten Physics Stories of 2008 and notes a very troubling sentence:Diamond Detectors Work on the molecular structure of carbon continues to show great promise for...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 7:47 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Part three in my continuing pedantic slow-as-molasses walk through Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. List of posts here: introduction, ch 1, ch 2. SPOILER ALERT: Dude, I can't talk about the book without giving away what the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:54 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
Moving on to Chapter 1 in my ongoing pedantic plodding through Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success. See here for what this is all about. Note that I really am doing this as I read the book (I'm reading...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:35 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nitpicker's Paradiso
Researchers Dispute Notion That America Lacks Scientists and Engineers in the Chronicle of Higher Education is a fine example of how thinking that scientific or engineering degree's are like technical training degrees will lead you to say all sorts of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:34 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nitpicker's Paradiso
Paul Davies essay in the New York Times on "Taking Science on Faith" is sure to raise some hackles from the science community. Me, I'd just like to point out how silly some of Davies arguments specifics are. Yes, its...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:30 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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