{"id":11903,"date":"2018-08-22T02:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2018-08-22T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:17:40","slug":"un-renunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2018\/08\/22\/un-renunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-renunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can pontiffs un-retire (un-renunciate)?\u00a0 I mean, I <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4895\">retired<\/a> from being a pontiff way before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papal_renunciation\">it was cool<\/a>.\u00a0 But now the sweet siren call of trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2018\/07\/announcing-cirq-open-source-framework.html\">figure out<\/a> whether there is really a there there for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices has called me back.\u00a0 \u00a0I think it may be time to start doing a little bit of quantum pontificating again.\u00a0 My goal, as always, will be to bring down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/\">intellectual rigor<\/a>\u00a0among quantum computing blogs.\u00a0 And to show you pictures of my dog Imma, of course.<br \/>\nCue bad joke about unitary dynamics and quantum recurrences in 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, &#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can pontiffs un-retire (un-renunciate)?\u00a0 I mean, I retired from being a pontiff way before it was cool.\u00a0 But now the sweet siren call of trying to figure out whether there is really a there there for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices has called me back.\u00a0 \u00a0I think it may be time to start doing a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2018\/08\/22\/un-renunciation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Un-renunciation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","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=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}