Well, my grades are all turned in, and so I’ve pretty much officially finished teaching my first class. On the final, I had an extra credit problem which was basically the GHZ problem. It was very interesting to see the different ways in which the students would come up with a contradiction for the impossibility of winning the GHZ game. My favorite was the student who wrote a spreadsheet for every single possible strategy and showed that none of those would win. This is such a computer science way to solve the problem: I love it! The students all did remarkably well on the final and I was very happy with their final scores (they may be more or less happy.) One of the students didn’t miss a point the entire term!
\nThis week I’m preparing my lectures for a summer school in Italy. Again it will be a course for graduate students in computer science. Pretty soon Dirac notation will be standard in computer science departments \ud83d\ude09 Here is my favorite quote about Dirac notation:<\/p>\n
\nMathematicians tend to despise Dirac notation, because it can prevent them from making important distinctions, but physicists love it, because they are always forgetting such distinctions exist and the notation liberates them from having to remember.–David Mermin\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, my grades are all turned in, and so I’ve pretty much officially finished teaching my first class. On the final, I had an extra credit problem which was basically the GHZ problem. It was very interesting to see the different ways in which the students would come up with a contradiction for the impossibility … <\/p>\n