{"id":1187,"date":"2006-02-09T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2006-02-09T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T00:55:50","slug":"2106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/02\/09\/2106\/","title":{"rendered":"2106&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in quantum information science try to be sensitive to not overhyping the field.  (Okay, so I get a little breathless sometimes!)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excal.on.ca\/?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1404&amp;Itemid=2\">This<\/a>, however, is pretty amusing.  I especially like<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut could you imagine not using a Quantum Computer to come up with the most efficient sequence of nanobots to administer the cure to cancer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quantum-nano-bio!<br \/>\nUpdate: Jon brings up in the comments the word &#8220;quantum leap.&#8221;  I have always found it amusing that in the Oxford English dictionary uses this example from 1977, as one of the early uses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNew Yorker 13 June 108\/2 The imperial Presidency did not begin with Richard Nixon although under him abuses of the office took a quantum leap.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course once you find this out, you are at the OED website and you can&#8217;t help finding words like &#8220;quaquadrate&#8221; which means a sixteenth power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in quantum information science try to be sensitive to not overhyping the field. (Okay, so I get a little breathless sometimes!) This, however, is pretty amusing. I especially like But could you imagine not using a Quantum Computer to come up with the most efficient sequence of nanobots to administer the cure to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/02\/09\/2106\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2106&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-funny-ha-ha","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}