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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.)
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I'm a sucker for any game which involves time travel. If only now I could go back in time and use my time more wisely than I did by playing that silly game....
Posted on May 15, 2008 4:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Bill Gates, in his transition from Mr. Big at Microsoft, to Mr. Big at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, has been going around to various college campuses and given a talk "Bill Unplugged." You can watch the video here...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 8:50 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Via Digg, an article on hilarious Google searches. Hmm, reminds me of one I discovered a while back. (Below may or may not be NSFW, depending on your level of puritanism. And it can certainly lead to clicking which is...
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Posted on April 23, 2008 9:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
We've seen these demos before, but Johnny Lee's TED talk still wows: Not only does it seem that interfaces are undergoing some radical redesigning right now, but also methods to take existing "cheap" products and leverage them into something which...
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Posted on April 19, 2008 9:00 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
I'm not sure what this is good for, and yet I found it amazingly responsive:...
Posted on April 9, 2008 3:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
One of the reasons I signed up to develop for the iPhone: Accelerometers are so cool. And I don't just say that because I'm a physicist....
Posted on April 7, 2008 6:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Previously, I had found a way to get a Mac running Firefox to not choke on recognizing pdfs correctly when downloaded from the arxiv.org. Commenter Dan has tracked down the reason for this and suggested another way to fix this...
Posted on April 4, 2008 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
As part of my switching to a Mac, I've started using Firefox (one reason being that I'm investigating using Zotero for grabbing bibliographic citations from the web.) However, an annoying problem I encounter was when using Firefox and downloading pdfs...
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Posted on March 31, 2008 10:18 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A list of observations I found in moving from a PC to a MAC....
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Posted on March 27, 2008 12:33 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
