http://dabacon.org/pontiff Theoretical Musings Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:24:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is not the blog you are looking for. Or, well as of Nov 5, 2007 it is not the blog you are looking for. That's right, the Quantum Pontiff is moving. Because change is good, life is short, and bad puns are a good reason for ... http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1664 0711.0047: "Tunable quantum interference: How to make morning, noon, and afternoon states" by Holger F. Hofmann, Takafumi Ono. We can blame Jonathan Dowling? http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1663 While we quantum informationistas have not achieved teleportation, apparently the job market now allows for such a transform: TeleportMyJob.com (I wonder where they get their high quality Bell Pairs.) http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1662 The arxiv has added an API. Funny I was just complaining about the lack of an API. http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1661 From an article in the Seattle Times on a local UW student competing in the 2007 TopCoder Collegiate Championship: TopCoder is a private company that makes money by selling some of the finished code and matching employers with contestants. The competition is also sponsored by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, Deutsche Bank ... http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1660 The list of contributed talks for QIP 2008 is now available: Invited talks Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University Andris Ambainis, University of Waterloo and University of Latvia Avraham Ben-Aroya, Tel-Aviv university Patrick Hayden, McGill University Oded Regev, Tel-Aviv University Ben Reichardt, California Institute of Technology Renato Renner, Cambridge Falk Unger, CWI, Amsterdam Michael ... http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1659 Comet Holmes went from seventeenth magnitude to 2.8 magnitude on October 24th. Okay Seattle time to clear up your skies so I can get a view of the sucker. http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1658 Am I the only one who thinks Richard Armitage (watch the whole thing at your own sanity's sake) [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XdwBR44aeBs[/youtube] sounds just like General 'Buck' Turgidson from "Dr. Strangeloveor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb": [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgyjlqhiTV8[/youtube] ? "Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!" http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1657 Three strikes... Dear Dr. Bacon, We regret the delay in obtaining a review on your manuscript. The paper has been sent to three referees who have not provided reports. We are now sending to a fourth referee asking that he/she expedite review. As soon as we have additional information, we will advise and thank ... http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1656 NSF loses power. No, not politcal power silly: electrical power! Speaking of which, this is what writing a grant proposal looks like to me: http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1654