{"id":3717,"date":"2010-01-11T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2010-01-11T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:30:17","slug":"in-praise-of-junk-or-wheres-my-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/01\/11\/in-praise-of-junk-or-wheres-my-quantum-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Junk &#8211; Or Where&#039;s My Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. &#8211; <em>Thomas Edison<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a theorist who was in the second generation of quantum computing graduate students (the first generation of graduate students arose following Shor&#8217;s 1994 invention: prior generations of graduate students are negative generations a.k.a. bloody brave pioneers) one of the most fru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. &#8211; Thomas Edison As a theorist who was in the second generation of quantum computing graduate students (the first generation of graduate students arose following Shor&#8217;s 1994 invention: prior generations of graduate students are negative generations a.k.a. bloody brave pioneers) one of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/01\/11\/in-praise-of-junk-or-wheres-my-quantum-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Praise of Junk &#8211; Or Where&#039;s My Quantum Computer&#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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}