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arXiview: A New iPhone App for the arXiv

Over 9 months ago I decided to apply for teaching tenure track jobs. Then the economy took what can best be described as a massive, ill-aimed, swan dive. Thus creating an incredible amount of stress in my life. So what does a CS/physics research professor do when he’s stress? The answer to that question is available on the iTunes app store today: arXiview. What better way to take out stress and at the same time learn objective C and write an iPhone app that at least one person (yourself) will use?
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Quantum Bacon Pontiff

Every wonder what “The Quantum Pontiff” looks like with a side of Bacon? Me neither. But now you can thanks to bacolicio.us: The Quantum Pontiff with a side of Bacon.
Simultaneous (at least in my reference frame) hat tip to Matt and Jacob.

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Ode to Self-Correcting Quantum Computers

With apologies to Radiohead’s “There, there”:

in pitch dark i go walking in your codespace.
broken errors trip me as i speak.
just ’cause you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
just ’cause you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
There’s always decoherence
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out
Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)
Steer away from these errors
We’d be a decohering disaster
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out
Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)
just ’cause you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
(there’s information on your shoulder)
(there’s information on your shoulder)
just ’cause you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
(there’s information on your shoulder)
(there’s information on your shoulder)
There there!
Why so green and incoherent?
and incoherent
and incoherent
heaven sent you to me
to me
to me
we are accidents
waiting waiting to be corrected.
we are accidents
waiting waiting to be corrected.