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Theoretical Musings
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: Storytime
Last Friday I went to at talk by Brian David Johnson from Intel. That sentence sounds like any other that an academic could write--always with the going to seminars we acahacks are. That is until you hear that Brian David...
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Category: Storytime
The other day I ran into a good friend from Tlön, who told me the most fascinating story about his discovery of a new theory of games....
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Category: Storytime
The man on the lift chair at Stephen's Pass asks me my occupation. Professor, I tell him, at the University of Washington. Oh, he offers, My daughter is a fourth generation Husky. I was in the class of 1972. Or,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:47 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
(With apologies to Jorge Luis Borges.) The universe, which others call the cellular automata, is composed of an indefinite (and perhaps infinite) number of square rooms, each room having four doors (in what we can, for lack of a better...
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