{"id":1213,"date":"2006-03-24T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2006-03-24T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T16:47:23","slug":"the-cosmic-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/03\/24\/the-cosmic-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Lloyd has a new book out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400040922\/sr=8-1\/qid=1143218358\/ref=pd_bbs_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Programming the Universe : A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>.  I just picked up a copy and flipped to this amusing anecdote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;When Shannon showed his new formula for information to the mathematician John von Neumann and asked him what the quantity he had just defined should be called, von Neumann is said to have replied &#8220;H.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Why H?&#8221; asked Shannon.<br \/>\n&#8220;Because that&#8217;s what Boltzmann called it,&#8221; said von Neumann&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That crazy von Neumann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Lloyd has a new book out Programming the Universe : A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos . I just picked up a copy and flipped to this amusing anecdote: &#8230;When Shannon showed his new formula for information to the mathematician John von Neumann and asked him what the quantity he had just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/03\/24\/the-cosmic-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cosmic Computer&#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":[20,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-physics","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\/1213","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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}