{"id":2358,"date":"2009-06-30T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2009-06-30T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:54:56","slug":"summer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/06\/30\/summer-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer doesn&#8217;t officially start here in Seattle until the fourth of July, but the summer vibe is definitely here.  Which means no teaching, so it&#8217;s all research all the time.  But a man cannot live by his own research alone, which leads me to the vast brain dump that is the internet.<br \/>\nThings found&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Innsbruck group has a new paper out on a very cool way to shuffle ions in a trap: arXiv:0906.5335<\/li>\n<li>The info processor points to a review of <a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/fat-tails-and-cubic-law-of-returns.html\">power laws in finance\/economics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/onehonestman.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/28\/the-swap-spread-mambo\/\">the one honest man<\/a> a strangely mesmerizing history of yield curve spreads:\n<\/li>\n<li>It looks like a group has finally gotten to the threshold for the NetFlix prize.  I&#8217;ll admit it.  I downloaded the data sets and spent a good day goofing around.  My first algorithms were&#8230;.not so good \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Lots of news about the recent work out of the Yale group on a two qubit superconducting device.  Nature article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v460\/n7252\/pdf\/nature08121.pdf\">here<\/a>.  The NSF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115089&amp;govDel=USNSF_51\">PR title<\/a> reads &#8220;Scientists Create First Working Model of a Two-Qubit Electronic Quantum Processor.&#8221;  Which is a reasonable title, due to the word electronic.  DailyTech turns this into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Researchers+Claim+First+Real+Quantum+Processor\/article15544.htm\">&#8220;Researchers Claim First &#8216;Real&#8217; Quantum Processor&#8221;<\/a> which is a bit of a stretch, and I&#8217;m guessing not what the authors wanted to convey.  While chattahbox <a href=\"http:\/\/chattahbox.com\/science\/2009\/06\/29\/yale-researchers-create-first-ever-two-qubit-quantum-processor\/\">&#8220;Yale Researchers Create First Ever, Two-Qubit Quantum Processor&#8221;<\/a> which would receive some strong debate from quite a few other experimental efforts in quantum computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer doesn&#8217;t officially start here in Seattle until the fourth of July, but the summer vibe is definitely here. Which means no teaching, so it&#8217;s all research all the time. But a man cannot live by his own research alone, which leads me to the vast brain dump that is the internet. Things found&#8230;<\/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":[34,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time","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\/2358","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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}