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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: 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
Category: Science 2.0
A fellow quantum computing researcher of mine recently joined FriendFeed. Along with another researcher we got involved in a discussion about a paper concerning a certain recent claimed "disproof of Bell's theorem." (arXiv:0904.4259. What it means to "disprove a theorem"...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:16 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
DARPA, you know the people who invented the internet ("100 geniuses connected by a travel agent"), has a new director: The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the appointment of Regina E. Dugan as the 19th director of the Defense...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:51 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
NSF awards $400K in stimulus funding to study the impact of stimulus funding on science. Researchers at the University of Virginia get $199,951 to study the impact of stimulus funding on employment in science and engineering fields, while the University...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A letter...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:54 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Okay, well he didn't exactly say that, but he certainly is a smug son of a gun who asked a grade school question to a Nobel prize winner in physics, apparently expecting a "gotcha" moment (via TPM): Dudes even so...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:57 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Funny Ha Ha
I am always greatly amused by the display of frustration in which one threatens to leave a country if things don't change. During the end of the first term of Bush the Second, it was common in the United States...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:31 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A press release from Caltech about Steve Koonin, who was the boss of my bosses during a SURF project and was a student of my undergraduate advisor at Caltech (and also responsible for severe drops in GPAs for many of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
The NSF has put up a "recovery" page for the stimulus bill: http://www.nsf.gov/recovery. Interestingly it appears that there is an link to an rss feed for "weekly reports." These appear to be excel files of the spending done by the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
On Morning Edition this morning, there was a story about the annual Conservative Political Action Conference which contained a line which made me guffaw:Representative Paul Ryan: "[rant on spending in stimulus plan]...$400 million dollars to study sexually transmitted diseases!" [rant...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:06 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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