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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: Off The Deep End
A puppet commenter informs me that El Naschie is suing Nature. El Naschie, you may remember, was the journal editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals who was accused of not reviewing his own papers in the journal. To be expected,...
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Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Over the summer I started running a not so insignificant amount: 6 miles in the morning on the weekdays and 10 to 15 miles on the weekends (insert commenter telling me why this is wrong.) So, one or two or...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum
Oh man sometimes even I, a staunch Caltech grad, wish I could be at MIT. The MIT QIP seminar this next Monday looks...intriguing (Monday 10/26 at 4:00 in 36-428 silly MITers and their numbered buildings, so cold.): David Kaiser (MIT)...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:44 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum
The Dutch book argument of Bruno de Finetti is an argument which is supposed to justify subjective probabilities. What one does in this argument is gives probabilities an operational definition in terms of the amount one is willing to bet...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:44 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Bacon soap....
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Category: Funny Ha Ha
From the annals of high idiocy, I enjoyed this sequence of emails at BofA:"Unfortunately it's screw the shareholders!!" Charles K. Gifford wrote to a fellow director in an e-mail exchange that took place during the call. "No trail," Thomas May,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 4:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
You all scoff at me for subscribing to the RSS feed http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml but on Oct. 12 it told meNO AND NOR WILL IT IN 2012Aha! What will this do to the sales of 2012 end of world books? (Crap, yeah...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:13 PM • 5 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: Physics
As I discussed a few blog posts ago a serious hole in our apocalypse protection network was about to be compromised with the non-renewal of the website http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/. But it seems that Domenic has come to the rescue! See comment...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I have been riveted by yesterday's re-argument of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission before the United States Supreme Court. I mean who hasn't? At stake, as they say in media newspeak, is the entire state of campaign finance law...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:57 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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