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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
The APS March meeting is next week as 10000 physicists invade Portland, Oregon. I hope Powell's bookstore has stocked their science sections well! GQI, the topical group on quantum information, sponsors a good number of sessions at the meeting including...
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Category: Physics
Hm, today we seem to have a posting from beyond the grave, arXiv:1003.2133:Proof of the Ergodic Theorem and the H-Theorem in Quantum Mechanics Authors: John von Neumann Abstract: It is shown how to resolve the apparent contradiction between the macroscopic...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bacon
And here I thought I was the king (err Pontiff) of quantum Bacon, but no: follow @kenfagerdotcom on twitter who describes himself as "Inventor of Quantum Bacon and accomplished lover."...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Richard, a long while back (yes, I'm cleaning my inbox!), sent me some cartoons that were apparently floating around in the 70s when he did his BS in Chemistry that are quite amusing:...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:09 AM • 4 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 • 7 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 • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Two notes on chairs. Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of Mathematics replacing the esteemed Stephen Hawking. Green helped sparked the great optimism in string theory by discovering with John Schwarz the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism. Elsewhere, the Perimeter...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: iPhone
Update 10/13/09: corrected for ice cream flavor and location, thus merging two related universes. There is a story about Richard Feynman that while he was at Princeton MIT he had a hard time with dessert. Apparently they always served either...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:00 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Confession of a classical sinner....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:25 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum
Over at Asymptotia, Len Adleman (the A in RSA, founder of DNA computation (but not the A in DNA!), and a discoverer of the APR primality testing algorithm) has a guest post about the foundations of quantum theory. Len suggests,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:49 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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