Visiting the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech! Just in time because it was freeeezing in Seattle (ice on the windshield…which means snow in the hills soon!) Nov. 01, 2006 (Wednesday), 3pm When Physics and Computer Science Collide! Our world, at its very base, appears to be a cauldron of indeterminism. Not only does quantum theory [...]
From a friend, with a byline “why it’s nice to plot on a linear scale”: this NYTimes graphic (accompanying article here)
No arXiv support yet, but a cool firefox reference organizer tool to keep an eye on Zotero. Without arxiv support its pretty much useless to me right now, but playing around with it for other sites makes me think it would be extremely valuable.
Okay, so when we talk about classical systems, our description of the configuration of the different states is given by a probability. So I might say my bit is a mixture of 50% 0 and 50% 1. Now when we move to quantum theory we no longer have probabilities but instead have complex numbers. But [...]
Michel Nielsen passes along and email detailing the fact that the deadlines for QIP 2007, to be held in Brisbane, Australia, are fast approaching: QIP 2007 The tenth QIP (Quantum Information Processing) Workshop is to be held in Brisbane, Australia, from January 30 through February 3, 2007. QIP covers theoretical aspects of quantum information science, [...]
I grew up in a small town. Whenever I go home, one of the first things I do is turn to the Police Department report in the local newspaper. Why? To see if my friends have ended up in jail? Nope. For gems like this Possible dead male in wheelchair. Emergency personnel were dispatched. Officier [...]
Why visit this blog? For such stellar content as Talking Dogs.
Apparently I’m running for the public regulation commission in Albuquerque, NM (spotted by UNM quantum scientists eating at the delicious El Patio, those lucky bastards.) Free internet for everyone! So you can waste your time reading this blog, of course
Yoinked from the comments of my post laugh therapy, John Preskill weighs in with a wise remark: …But actually it is nice, for those of us who may have come to take the theory of quantum fault tolerance for granted, to be reminded of how truly remarkable and marvelous it is. This paper does not [...]
HowManyOfMe.com There are:10people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Update: As Greg points out the way this thing works is pretty dang silly. For me it gives me 108 with my name (10 if I use Dave, and 98 if I use David). Anecdotally this seems off. Why? Well I grew [...]
Tuesday I went to a cool talk by Sanjeev Arora on the multiplicative weight method and, because I should be working on a different calculation, I thought I’d write up a description of a basic version of this algorithm (Mmm…I love the smell of procrastination in the morning.) Suppose that there is a stock exchange [...]
Last week, after going to Innsbruck, I attended the QIPC Workshop in London. The workshop was held at the Royal Society of London and the theme was “Physicists and Computer Scientists Unite!” Scott Aaronson and I were asked to open up the workshop, and, because we are two entirely shameless people we decided that the [...]
