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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: 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: 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...
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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
Category: Technology
I've not had a chance to play with a Kindle, but seen a lot of them in the coffee shops of Seattle (Amazon will soon be moving to a neighborhood very close to mine, in South Lake Union.) My first...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:47 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Over 9 months ago I decided to apply for teaching tenure track jobs. Then the economy took what can best be described as a massive, ill-aimed, swan dive. Thus creating an incredible amount of stress in my life. So what...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:14 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Can quantum computers efficiently compute factorials? BaconCamp? Day Took Er Silicon Valley Jrbs? I wonder how I'd do on a RQ test?...
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Category: Quantum Computing
The survey of abused words in quantum computing shows the word "exponential" as having an, um, exponential, lead over its competitors. My own personal choice for the most abused word was "scalable," a word that is, in my opinion, the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Wow, this is a very cool result:Researchers at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorkstown, NY have announced a breakthrough which they feel could revolutionize power consumption in computers. Today's computers are power hungry: a typical computer consumes hundreds...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:08 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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