Category Archives: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

Quantum Article Parse Failure of the Pontiffical Kind

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Two observations from yesterdays New York Times article about quantum computing (Moving Toward Quantum Computers.) First, the drawing accompanying the article (here) is interesting to me.  I wonder where they got the idea for it and whether this idea involved … Continue reading →

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More Fun with the arXiv

Posted on 7/14/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Did you know that there is author known as 26 pages?  Or, meet author A.  Or D and B.  Do you think LaTeX is a first name or a last name?  Author Development Center, Japan, and 210 all appear in … Continue reading →

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Round We Go

Posted on 3/24/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Posted in Computer Science, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self. | 22 Comments

Painful Toy

Posted on 3/5/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Quantum Citation Survey

Posted on 3/4/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Steve Ballmer Talk at UW March 4, 2010

Posted on 3/4/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Posted in Computer Science, Computers, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Technology | 15 Comments

Huge Rube Goldberg

Posted on 3/4/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Today I Can’t Think of a Decent Blog Post Title

Posted on 12/3/2009 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

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Posted in Geology, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self. | 6 Comments