For better or worse, my conception of what a thesis should be was influence by Dave Bacon, quantum computing’s elder clown, who entitled the first chapter of his own 451-page behemoth “Philosonomicon.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Isn’t it great to be in a field where at age 29 you can be considered “elder”? In fact I was just looking at the schedule for the upcoming QIP conference at MIT and was a bit taken back by the youthfulness of the invited speaker list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Scott Aaronson’s upcoming thesis: For better or worse, my conception of what a thesis should be was influence by Dave Bacon, quantum computing’s elder clown, who entitled the first chapter of his own 451-page behemoth “Philosonomicon.” Isn’t it great to be in a field where at age 29 you can be considered “elder”? In … <\/p>\n
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