One of the coauthors on the paper which I claimed was shoddy has written a comment in the original post. Which merits more commenting! But why comment in the comment section when you can write a whole blog post replying!...
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Posted on May 1, 2008 11:56 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Okay, well apparently the paper arXiv:0804.3076 which I mentioned in the last post is being picked up by other bloggers (see here and here as well as here) as a legitimate criticism of quantum computing. So before anymore jump on...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 8:21 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Okay, quick, who can be the first to tell me what is drastically wrong with arXiv:0804.3076? (via rdv.) Winner gets a beer next time I see them. This is almost as fun as the game of trying to spot the...
Posted on April 29, 2008 5:58 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Postdoc in Italy, AQIS 2008 Call for Papers, the Register reports on QUEST, and the New Scientist morphs into the No Scientist....
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Posted on April 1, 2008 12:01 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Over at Emergent Chaos I found an article which throws down the gauntlet over quantum computers. And there isn't anything I cherish more than gauntlets thrown down! Note: I should preface this by saying that I don't consider myself a...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 7:34 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
This glib article from the Wired Blog Gadgets Lab discusses some of the "crazy" ideas for building computers. Among them, of course, are quantum computers, which means, of course that a quantum computing bastardization, can't be far from behind....
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Posted on November 15, 2007 12:41 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
In an article on stopping a large spectrum of light with metamaterials in The Telegraph (research which is very cool, but isn't available online, yet, as far as I can tell), I find some lines that would make the Optimizer...
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Posted on November 14, 2007 7:27 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. 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.)
