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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: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
This blog has moved. The new location is http://dabacon.org/pontiff. So long and thanks for all the fish! Over the past three years I've had a good time blogging here at Scienceblogs. Though I rarely agree with much they say (haha,...
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Category: Science
I grew up in the small town of Yreka, CA ("Yreka Bakery" backwards is...) that sits just minutes south of the Oregon-California border on Interstate 5. Yreka, population a little over 7000 brave souls, is the county seat of Siskiyou...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:30 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Here's an interview with Daniel Lidar whose was the postdoc who first taught me quantum error correction (and more.) No, not that LIDAR! Note to all you job seekers, even in your darkest hours know that you have friends out...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:15 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Lest you think I'm not working:...
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Category: Seattle
Congrats to OneBusAway, winners of the 2010 WTIA Industry Achievement Award for "best use of technology in the government, nonprofit or education sector". OneBusAway was started by University of Washington students and provides real time access to transit information here...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:34 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
Scienceblogs and Serious Eats are teaming up this year for the 2010 Pi Day Bake-Off. I wonder if Mrs. Pontiff is up to defending her crown?...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Shameless self-promotion: an article I wrote with Wim van Dam, "Recent Progress on Quantum Algorithms" has appeared in the Communications of the ACM. Indeed if you have a copy of the magazine you can check out an artists rendition of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:11 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
If your work productivity is shaped by the type of pen you are currently using:...
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Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
The Shorty Awards have a category called "bacon." Your vote for @dabacon will, I promise, result in a great increase in your pork-based karma. And voting doesn't even clog your arteries!...
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Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
About that talk at UBC which I posted about on Sunday... Q: How'd the talk in Vancouver go Monday, Dave? D: The slides were awesome and the animations dazzling. Q: So the talk went well? D: Don't know. I didn't...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:58 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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