{"id":1218,"date":"2006-04-02T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2006-04-02T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:37:32","slug":"1218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/04\/02\/1218\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Right With a Little Bit of Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth&#8217;s Lloyd&#8217;s book,  <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\" \/> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/02\/books\/review\/02powell.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">reviewed<\/a> in the New York Times.  Okay, so for my blood presure, I just should not be allowed to read passages like this<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOrdinary desktop computers are a flawed model of the physical world, Lloyd argues, because they handle everything as clear &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; commands, while the universe operates according to the rules of quantum physics, which inherently produce fuzzy results. But Lloyd happens to be one of the world&#8217;s experts in a new kind of computing device, called a quantum computer, which can produce similarly vague answers like &#8220;mostly yes but also a little bit no.&#8221; &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahhhhhhh!  Yeah, I should avoid those passages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth&#8217;s Lloyd&#8217;s book, Programming the Universe : A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos has been reviewed in the New York Times. Okay, so for my blood presure, I just should not be allowed to read passages like this Ordinary desktop computers are a flawed model of the physical world, Lloyd argues, because they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/04\/02\/1218\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mostly Right With a Little Bit of Wrong&#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":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","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\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}