{"id":1504,"date":"2007-05-06T20:08:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2007-05-06T20:08:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T03:08:35","slug":"um-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/05\/06\/um-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-05\/nc-nja042707.php\">This<\/a> press release is a horrible bastardization of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/316\/5825\/723.abstract?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=quantum&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;sortspec=date&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\">this<\/a> cool Science article describing the coherent controlled coupling of flux based superconducting qubits near their optimal bias points.  Does everything interesting in quantum computing have to come along with an unreasonable press release?  Dude, somebody needs to become the universal vetter for these damn things.<br \/>\nGeordie incites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=236\">Scott<\/a>&#8216;s hypometer, but not nearly to the record setting levels of Orion times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This press release is a horrible bastardization of this cool Science article describing the coherent controlled coupling of flux based superconducting qubits near their optimal bias points. Does everything interesting in quantum computing have to come along with an unreasonable press release? Dude, somebody needs to become the universal vetter for these damn things. Geordie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/05\/06\/um-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Um, First?&#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-1504","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\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}