{"id":1515,"date":"2007-05-11T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2007-05-11T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T23:58:22","slug":"friday-rant-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/05\/11\/friday-rant-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Rant Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">Roseblog<\/a>, Geordie gets on a high horse and tells us quantum theorists what we haven&#8217;t read enough because we haven&#8217;t read papers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/284\/5415\/779.abstract?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=aeppli&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\">this<\/a>.  Which, I guess makes me not a quantum theorist!  No, people like me, we never read outside of our narrow focus or try to learn as much about a field we work in as possible.  We&#8217;ve never heard of this Aeppli guy either&#8230;.what even Scott Aaronson, the quantum theorist of theorists, <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1007352.1007378\"><del datetime=\"2007-05-12T22:44:22+00:00\">sites<\/del> cites<\/a> his work?  That&#8217;s just impossible!<br \/>\n<del datetime=\"2007-05-14T03:08:38+00:00\">Oh, and by the way, the paper sited shows a speedup of a factor of thirty with their &#8220;quantum annealing&#8221; strategy over their &#8220;classical annealing&#8221; strategy.<\/del>  See substantial comments below by Bill Kaminsky for why the above sentence is wrong.<br \/>\nAnd yes, I&#8217;m grumpy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Roseblog, Geordie gets on a high horse and tells us quantum theorists what we haven&#8217;t read enough because we haven&#8217;t read papers like this. Which, I guess makes me not a quantum theorist! No, people like me, we never read outside of our narrow focus or try to learn as much about a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/05\/11\/friday-rant-blogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Rant Blogging&#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-1515","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\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}