Category Archives: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

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Posted on 5/8/2013 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Walk up to a physicist at a party (we could add a conditional about the amount of beer consumed by the physicist at this point, but that would be redundant, it is a party after all), and say to him or … Continue reading →

Posted in Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Physics, Quantum, The Loony Bin Called Academia | 4 Comments

Ig Nobels 2011

Posted on 9/29/2011 by sflammia

Yes, it’s that time of year again. The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held this evening at Harvard. My favorite is the winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Funny Ha Ha, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End | 5 Comments

TEDxCaltech Videos

Posted on 2/16/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Coming online now: http://tedxcaltech.com/. See the Optimizer pontificate about P versus NP (now who can verify the Feynman quote at the beginning?) and two prestigious professors goof around:

Posted in Caltech, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Physics, Quantum Computing | 1 Comment

TEDxCaltech Streaming Link

Posted on 1/14/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

TEDxCaltech streaming

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Consequence of the Concept of the Universe as a Computer

Posted on 12/21/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

The ACM’s Ubiquity has been running a symposium on the question What is Computation?. Amusingly they let a slacker like me take a shot at the question and my essay has now been posted: Computation and Fundamental Physics. As a … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer Science, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Physics, Quantum Computing | 4 Comments

Seth Lloyd at IQC

Posted on 12/20/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Some fun short clips of Seth Lloyd at the IQC. Love the first one. Disagree with the second one. The third is a great hope. Disagree strong with the fourth one (since I think the definition of a computer must … Continue reading →

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A Mathematical Definition of News?

Posted on 12/14/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Lately I’ve been thinking about the news. Mostly this involves me shouting obscenities at the radio or the internet for wasting my time with news items the depth of which couldn’t drown an ant and whose factual status makes fairy … Continue reading →

Posted in Brainstorming, Extralusionary Intelligence, Fragment, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Mathematics, Off The Deep End | 15 Comments

Quantum Shwantum

Posted on 12/2/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum
Posted in Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Quantum Computing | 2 Comments