{"id":1458,"date":"2007-03-09T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T01:09:19","slug":"skepticismcheck-axesummm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/03\/09\/skepticismcheck-axesummm\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepticism&#8230;.Check.  Axes&#8230;.Ummm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bah (posted without long line of four letter words I would really like to print but am forced, by my good nature and good upbringing, to avoid printing on this family friendly blog.):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Businesses aren&#8217;t too fascinated about the details of quantum mechanics, but academics have their own axes to grind. I can assure you that our VCs look at us a lot closer than the government looks at the academics who win research grants,&#8221; Martin said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to D-wave.  We aren&#8217;t skeptical that you built a device.  We are skeptical that your path forward will ever work (some more skpetical than others&#8230;me I&#8217;m an optimist!) and we are even more skeptical of your statements trying to sell quantum devices by advertising unsubstantiated computational power.  I also know VCs who looked closely at your company and said something very similar to what those lazy no good bum academics are saying.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bah (posted without long line of four letter words I would really like to print but am forced, by my good nature and good upbringing, to avoid printing on this family friendly blog.): &#8220;Businesses aren&#8217;t too fascinated about the details of quantum mechanics, but academics have their own axes to grind. I can assure you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/03\/09\/skepticismcheck-axesummm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skepticism&#8230;.Check.  Axes&#8230;.Ummm&#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":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","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\/1458","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=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}