{"id":1736,"date":"2007-11-29T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:30:05","slug":"god-is-a-weak-coin-flipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/29\/god-is-a-weak-coin-flipper\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is a Weak Coin Flipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funniest abstracts to a paper on the arxiv in many moons appeared yesterday, authored by <a href=\"http:\/\/lightlike.com\/~carlosm\/\">Carlos Mochon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0711.4114\">arXiv:0711.4114<\/a><br \/>\nTitle: Quantum weak coin flipping with arbitrarily small bias<br \/>\nAuthors: Carlos Mochon<br \/>\n&#8220;God does not play dice. He flips coins instead.&#8221; And though for some reason He has denied us quantum bit commitment. And though for some reason he has even denied us strong coin flipping. He has, in His infinite mercy, granted us quantum weak coin flipping so that we too may flip coins. Instructions for the flipping of coins are contained herein. But be warned! Only those who have mastered Kitaev&#8217;s formalism relating coin flipping and operator monotone functions may succeed. For those foolhardy enough to even try, a complete tutorial is included.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe paper is also excellent and well worth reading!  Note that some people will consider this abstract and paper <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html\">scientific<\/a> fraud.  Me, personally, I think that making science for Grown-Ups only is exactly the best way to stiffle scientific progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the funniest abstracts to a paper on the arxiv in many moons appeared yesterday, authored by Carlos Mochon: arXiv:0711.4114 Title: Quantum weak coin flipping with arbitrarily small bias Authors: Carlos Mochon &#8220;God does not play dice. He flips coins instead.&#8221; And though for some reason He has denied us quantum bit commitment. And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/29\/god-is-a-weak-coin-flipper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Is a Weak Coin Flipper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-title-ever","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}