Interesting new website from the New York Academy of Sciences: Scientists Without Borders:Scientists Without BordersSM aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world. The research community is already promoting areas such as...
Posted on May 14, 2008 6:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Over at Machine Learning (Theory), the Learner points to a Scientific American article on Science 2.0 which discusses various efforts in bringing scientists into the 21st century, and scientists reluctance to openly discuss their research in progress in public forums....
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Posted on April 22, 2008 10:43 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
For those interested in accessing the arXiv on your iPhone, here is a web based iPhone page:http://arxiv.mobi. Sweet! This has been on my list of things to do, and now I can cross it off without having to do it...
Posted on April 15, 2008 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Some of you know (and use) the website I created a year ago, Scirate.com, a place where arXiv papers can be voted for digg style and comments can be left on the papers. After a while of not tinkering much...
Posted on February 29, 2008 11:47 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A while ago a message from Kris Krogh appeared on Scirate.com about ariXiv:0712.3934 stating Kris' belief that the paper appeared under a pseudonym (the comment contains the contents of the link which was sent to the arxiv's administrator.) Today I...
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Posted on January 21, 2008 10:57 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Sam, after asking me for $100 dollars out of nowhere, points me to quantalk.org, a new slick website for, err, talking about quantum information. Seems to be a closed registration right now, so no talking by plebes is allowed, but...
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Posted on January 16, 2008 10:56 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I read all, and I mean all, of the science and math books in my local library (and nearly all of the Scientific American magazines as well.) Because this was before the...
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Posted on December 19, 2007 7:17 PM • 3 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.)
