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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
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 • 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 • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: GQI
March is ages away, but it is time to start planning for the APS March meeting, to be held in the beautiful rose city, Portland, Oregon (Note to skiers that Mt. Hood is just a short distance away :) )...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Okay this one from ScienceDaily made my day. No it made my week. The title is "Police Woman Fights Quantum Hacking And Cracking." Intriguing, no? Who is this mysterious police woman in quantum computing? I don't know many police offers...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
A new entry in the best title every contest, arXiv:0907.4152:Born Again Authors: Don N. Page Abstract: A simple proof is given that the probabilities of observations in a large universe are not given directly by Born's rule as the expectation...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 6:18 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
David Poulin sends me a job announcement for quantum information processing in the solid state at the University of Sherbrooke:Permanent position for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) on solid state quantum information processing University of Sherbrooke is seeking candidates...
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