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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: The Loony Bin Called Academia
Science is dynamic. Sometimes this means that science is wrong, sometimes it means that science is messy. Mostly it is very self-correcting, given the current state of knowledge. At any given time the body of science knows a lot, but...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
Items sharing a similar topic, meandered onto in the depths of a major outpouring of procrastination... The path less traveled by Andrea Schweitzer (via @mattleifer) on a different way to have a career as a scientist. And for a description...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 7:29 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory" - Emily Post(er) As a literature major physicist, one of the biggest...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 1:27 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
@EricRWeinstein is at it again in twitterland, this time on the subject of the funding of science. For an intriguing read about the glut of Ph.D.s versus science funding, he links to his (circa 1998?) article titled: "How and Why...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 9:35 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Via Asymptotia, an interview with Murray Gell-Mann (who just turned 80. Happy Birthday Murray!) I particularly like the comments at the end of the article:Battles of new ideas against conventional wisdom are common in science, aren't they? It's very interesting...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off The Deep End
Writing a blog is for me (1) amusing and (2) amusing. Can anyone take anything that I write on a blog seriously? Well sometimes people do. Many eons ago (okay, I lie, it was 2005), I wrote a post about...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 10:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
The "slow movement" is a vast beast: there's Slow Food, Slow Travel, Slow Money, and even, I kid you not, Slow Reading. These movements all begin with the premise that modern culture emphasizes ever increasing speed and convenience (cue the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:56 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science 2.0
The astro/physics blogosphere is all atwitter about papers the Nature embargo policy (See Julianne If a paper is submitted to nature does it still make a sound, the cat herder Hear a paper, see a paper, speak no paper, and...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Loony Bin Called Academia
One of the more interesting "problems" in Science 2.0 is the lack of commenting on online articles. In particular some journals now allow one to post comments about papers published in the journal. As this friendfeed conversation asks:Why people do...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:15 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
After watching Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk* it occurred to me to go back and look at my own scientific papers and try to assess them for how creative they were. Some things you should just never do, I guess,...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:31 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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