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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
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...
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Category: Quantum Basterdizations
From Pravda, some pretty serious funny: Quantum transition to transform mankind in 2012....
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Category: Quantum Computing
Quantum ghosts, dynamical decoupling, why a diamond is forever in quantum computing, transversal press, quantum phrases I can't grok, and quantum jumping....
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Category: Quantum Computing
Scott the optimizer asks a question on a wim: Come up with a catchy name for growth rates of the form 2^(n^&alpha) , 0I thought the answer was obvious: "probably in BQP." update: does html superscript not work in a...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Basterdizations
Over at Uncertain Principles, the uncertainty father has a couple of posts up about parallel universes the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory. Which reminded me of a rant I've been needing to write (sorry a bit of technical jargon to...
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Category: Off The Deep End
I'm in Halifax, Nova Scotia...eh. For some reason they have a parade at night in November with floats containing Santa and reindeer (obligatory crappy cell phone picture to follow): Yeah, what the hell? Interesting conference, I'm attending. I haven't been...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:07 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Basterdizations
A quantum physics spotting in....rugby? An article about rugby player Jonny Wilkinson:The experiment was conceived by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödin-ger to demonstrate a conundrum at the heart of quantum physics: that a sub-atomic particle exists in two states. However,...
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Category: Funny Ha Ha
From this Sunday's New York Times in an article entitled Wall Street, R.I.P.:In search of ever-higher returns -- and larger yachts, faster cars and pricier art collections for their top executives -- Wall Street firms bulked up their trading desks...
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Category: Quantum Computing
Summer school in November, Quantum crypto is to legit to quit, quantum Pagerank, and no prayer in quantum prayer....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:14 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Basterdizations
Sometimes you find one that is just so over the top that it brings a smile to your face. It starts out okay,The doughnut shaped universe spinning about a central axis of quantum singularity India Daily Technology Team May 26,...
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