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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: Science
The Nobel in Chemistry for 2009 has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." And because I am (or was, or am, or..whatever) a physicist, I...
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Category: Funny Ha Ha
How did I miss this one from 2005? And how come no one told me to take off my tinfoil hat? Via @kmerritt, "On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study" by Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, Jason Taylor,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:41 PM • 5 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 :) )...
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Category: Seattle
Chris Mooney, former Scienceblogger and provocateur extraordinaire, will be in Seattle this Thursday talking about the book he co-authored with Sheril Kirshenbaum, "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future." Details:Thursday, August 6 7:00 PM University Bookstore 4326 University Way...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy
Two notes from Caltech of interest:Michael L. Roukes' group at Caltech has produced a NEMS (nanoelectromechanical system) device which can (almost) measure the mass of a single molecule (as opposed to the many tens of thousands (is this the correct...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientific Publishing
A friend sent me a link to Detextify2:What is this? Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in symbols-a4.pdf that you just can't memorize. Detexify is an attempt to simplify this search....
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Category: Science 2.0
Via @mattleiffer, viXra.org:In part viXra.org is a parody of arXiv.org to highlight Cornell University's unacceptable censorship policy. It is also an experiment to see what kind of scientific work is being excluded by the arXiv. But most of all it...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:38 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Microsoft Research's Project Tuva website is up. Project Tuva is a collection of seven searchable Feynman lectures aimed at a popular audience (with extras coming online in the future.) The rights to these lectures were obtained by Bill Gates after...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:57 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Over at the optimizer's blog, quantum computing's younger clown discusses some pointers for giving funny talks. I can still vividly remember the joke I told in my very first scientific talk. I spent the summer of 1995 in Boston at...
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Category: Physics
The arXiv is a game changer for how large portions of physics (and increasingly other fields) are done. Paul Ginsparg won a MacArthur award for his vision and stewardship of the arXiv (something other institutions might want to note when...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:01 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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