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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: Technology
Over at Daily Speculations, Alan Corwin writes about database programming jobs that will never return. The gist of Alan's piece is that the tools for databases are basically so turn-key and so easy that those who were trained to build...
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Category: Computer Science
My first real visceral realization of the non-commutative nature of driving a car was the first time I tried to parallel park and attempted to pull front end first into the space....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Computer Science & Engineering department's Paul Allen Center. As you can tell from that first sentence UW and Microsoft have long had very...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:18 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
The Singularity University is crazy. I like crazy. If I were a grad student with copious time on my hands (trust me, in comparison, you have copious time, dear GradStudent) I'd apply to attend the Singularity University summer school:SU's Graduate...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
A while back I posted a short, hopefully jocular, note about the machine learning algorithm for catching card counters at blackjack. Here is a more substantial article about the system. I wonder if systems like these will find use outside...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:43 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:04 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
I Am Poor, the $0.99 iPhone app:The mac & cheese, Ramen noodles, and tuna is my artistic rendition of what poor college students eat with their limited funds. The icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch always reminds you (and...
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Category: Technology
Catch the wave. Long but worth watching:I suspect that collaboration will never be the same after the wave. Another observation is about gadgets and iphone apps. One beauty of iphone apps is how easy it is to write one. This...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Games
Katamari Damacy is a very cool game, if for no other reason than it is a game in which "scale" changes. The basic idea is that you roll a ball around which picks up objects that aren't too big for...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Seattle
Over at TechFlash there is an article about some words Ed Lazowska, professor extraordinaire here in the computer science & engineering department at UW, had for the Seattle tech scene (see also xconomy):"It seems to me that the issue with...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:25 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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