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5 Years!

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Five years ago I (it’s me Dave Bacon former supposed pseudo-professor and one time quantum pontiff) jumped off the academic ship, swam to shore, and put on a new set of clothes as a software developer for Google. Can it … Continue reading →

Posted in Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self., Where's Dabacon? | 3 Comments

Hazards of “Shut up and calculate”

Posted on March 26, 2016 by chb

Three quantum physicists show why no interpretation is the worst.

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What If Papers Had APIs?

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

API is an abbreviation that stands for “Application Program Interface.” Roughly speaking an API is a specification of a software component in terms of the operations one can perform with that component. For example, a common kind of an API … Continue reading →

Posted in Extralusionary Intelligence, Science 2.0, The Loony Bin Called Academia | 13 Comments

QIP 2015 Talks Available

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Talks from QIP 2015 are now available on this YouTube channel. Great to see! I’m still amazed by the wondrous technology that allows me to watch talks given on the other side of the world, at my own leisure, on … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 business meeting

Posted on February 20, 2015 by aram

A QIP 2015 epilogue: our notes from the business meeting. See also this post by Kaushik Seshadreesan. Business Meeting Report local organizing committee report Finance: $193,545 – $191,467 = $2,478 profit! registration income: $185,340 refunds, about $3,000 external sponsorships: $30,450, … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 zombie-blogging, Day 5

Posted on February 16, 2015 by aram

Today’s highlight: an algorithm running in time , also known as “polynomial time” or “efficient”. Joseph Fitzsimons and Thomas Vidick. A multiprover interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem(Plenary Talk) abstract arXiv:1409.0260 Thomas begins by reminding everyone about what … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 dead-blogging, Day 4

Posted on February 3, 2015 by sflammia

Warning for typical QIP attendees — This first talk may have some implications for the real world 🙂 Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti, Alexander S. Holevo, R. Garcia-Patron and N. J. Cerf. Majorization and entropy at the output of bosonic Gaussian … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 “live”-blogging, Day 3

Posted on January 24, 2015 by sflammia

We promise we’ll finish posting these soon! Day 3 was only a half day of talks with a free afternoon, and the rainy weather of the first two days finally subsided just in time. Jean-Pierre Tillich Decoding Quantum LDPC Codes … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 live-blogging, Day 2

Posted on January 17, 2015 by sflammia

From the team that brought you “QIP 2015 Day 1 liveblogging“, here is the exciting sequel. Will they build a quantum computer? Will any complexity classes collapse? Will any results depend on the validity of the Extended Riemann Hypothesis? Read … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 Return of the Live-blogging, Day 1

Posted on January 13, 2015 by aram

Jan 14 update at the end. The three Pontiffs are reunited at QIP 2015 and, having forgotten how painful liveblogging was in the past, are doing it again. This time we will aim for some slightly more selective comments. In … Continue reading →

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