{"id":2131,"date":"2008-11-15T20:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2008-11-15T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:07:48","slug":"halifax-off-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/11\/15\/halifax-off-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Off A Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Halifax, Nova Scotia&#8230;eh.  For some reason they have a parade at night in November with floats containing Santa and reindeer (obligatory crappy cell phone picture to follow):<br \/>\nYeah, what the hell?<br \/>\nInteresting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cifar.ca\/mtgs\/meetings.nsf\/pages\/nanonov13-16-08\">conference<\/a>, I&#8217;m attending.  I haven&#8217;t been at a conference in ages where disagreed with so many of the talks!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor example, I learned that many many people have got it all wrong and <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0206144\">quantum error isn&#8217;t possible<\/a> because we haven&#8217;t thought about the role of phase errors properly (sadly I didn&#8217;t get to hear about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/404.php\">twin paradox<\/a>.)  I also learned form an older, well established researcher, that quantum computing is all bullshit because none of the quantum mechanics books he looked at mentioned the word entanglement.  This was a new argument for me: proof by &#8220;it&#8217;s not in my books!&#8221;  There was also &#8220;argument by von Neuman,&#8221; &#8220;argument by radar,&#8221; &#8220;argument by Bohm-de Broglie,&#8221; (an aristocratic communist argument?) and &#8220;argument by appeal to a dead person.&#8221;  Woot!<br \/>\nBut it wasn&#8217;t all crazy wacky, so I am enjoying myself in my curmudgeonly way, and am happy that the organizers invited me to speak (even if I made a big boo boo in two of my slides, doh.)  Plus now I can say I&#8217;ve actually set foot in the Atlantic time zone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Halifax, Nova Scotia&#8230;eh. For some reason they have a parade at night in November with floats containing Santa and reindeer (obligatory crappy cell phone picture to follow): Yeah, what the hell? Interesting conference, I&#8217;m attending. I haven&#8217;t been at a conference in ages where disagreed with so many of the talks!<\/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":[50,64,65,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-quantum-basterdizations","category-quantum-computing","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}