Goodbye Santa Fe. Tomorrow I head for the hills. Well actually I go around the hills at first and then over some hills and then over some more hills, and, well you get the picture. I will miss green chiles, the “speculation” section at Borders, crystals with magical magical powers, the high mountain air, the [...]
One of the most fascinating early endeavours in quantum information theory was the discovery that pure bipartite quantum entanglement is a quantifiable resource. Thus, for instance, one can take many copies of the standard currency for bipartite pure entanglement, the singlet state, and create many copies of any other non-maximally entangled bipartite pure state. Similarly [...]
I’m beginning the process of putting my powerpoint talks online in powerpoint and html format. The first one is up and can be accessed by clicking on the cute little talks tab above. Or by clicking here
Last weekend I went to a wedding in Redondo Beach for my friends Mel and West who I’ve known since my days back at Caltech. As you can guess, the maturity level of a group of Techers is very high: Here we see my friend Lon and I playing with our food. Note that I [...]
Back up and running. The reason for the downtime was not my being hacked (which I think was due to an insecurity in the WordPress version I was running and resulted in my index page being written over), but instead because I am transferring hosts in preparation for my move to Seattle. I found a [...]
I’ve been hacked! Upgrading and securing. Stay with me. Update: I’ll fix the style files tomorrow. Now I have to finish writing my talk for tomorrow.
At the end of next week, I’m driving from Santa Fe to Seattle. Today I googled a map of the trip. Ouch.
Doh! I too have been tying a granny knot instead of a reef knot. Update: For extra protection, check out Ian’s secure knot
Ever wanted a shrinking machine? Well my cousin Beth (who has way too much time on her hands) points me to this shrinking machine for sale on ebay. Personally I’ll wait for the de-bigulator.
In a clear demonstration that Scott Aaronson has spent to much time on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study, I find that last week he posted cs.cc/0504048: Oracles Are Subtle But Not Malicious Scott Aaronson Theoretical computer scientists have been debating the role of oracles since the 1970′s. This paper illustrates both that [...]
Next week I’m going to give a different kind of a seminar at the Santa Fe Institute. Here is the announcement: David Krakauer & Dave Bacon are delighted to host the first Speaker in our: “Possible Paths” seminar Series. In this series we ask speakers to imagine the state of a scientific field 1000 years [...]
In anticipation of my move to Seattle, I began the joyous task of packing. Here is a picture of some of my packed boxes. Know what’s in all of them? Books. Twenty six boxes of books. Plus probably another three or four boxes at work. I guess that’s what I get for being a literature [...]
