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by da-bacon 9y ago
Very excited to see this because it is a big step in a community (quantum computing/info) taking control back of the peer review process from for-profit (and to a smaller degree non-profit society-based) journals. The challenge will b
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by da-bacon 9y ago
Murray Gell-Mann has some not so positive views about Feynman https://youtu.be/rnMsgxIIQEE
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by da-bacon 10y ago
Google has been experimenting with it in chrome https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-p... though it is just an experiment in Canary.
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by da-bacon 10y ago
In my experience, this view is very prevalent, especially in physics departments. Once you hit the job market it is one of the questions you'll have to answer during interviews, so be prepared! I do agree that there is steady progres
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by da-bacon 10y ago
Here is the essay he wrote about his realization that he coined the term: "Could Feynman have said this?" www.gnm.cl/emenendez/uploads/Cursos/callate-y-calcula.pdf Also highly recommend his Boojums.
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by da-bacon 10y ago
Definitely. It's actually one of those stories that I wouldn't be surprised if it inspires some new ideas for those who try to do serious research on time travel (or the polite way to say time travel among physicists: closed time
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by da-bacon 11y ago
I wrote the first version of Scirate exactly because the number of papers I had to eyeball each day was so high. Now that I've left academia I find it even more useful (so huge thanks to those who rewrote it from scratch)! If you are
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by da-bacon 11y ago
Eq. 16. As a grad student in quantum computing we used to have a game where we would race to see who could be the first one to spot the flaw in a paper that claimed an efficient quantum polynomial time algorithm for NP-complete problems. My
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by da-bacon 12y ago
.co is now supported and the full list of supported TLDs is here https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6010092?hl=en
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by da-bacon 12y ago
Cris Moore and coworkers found a bunch of these http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/gallery.html Including this awesome 28-mass one http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/cubic28.loop.gif
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Hippocratic Oath for Scientists(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by da-bacon 12y ago|0 comments
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by da-bacon 12y ago
2d versus 1d Turing machine apparently. Here is the paper claiming universality: http://www.dim.uchile.cl/~anmoreir/oficial/langton_dam.pdf
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by da-bacon 12y ago
You've discovered how to tell if you are in a physics department or a computer science department :)
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by da-bacon 12y ago
I'm not sure "non-Abelian braiding statistics" is the only known robust architecture for QC. Topological qubits are, after all, just systems whose natural states are quantum error correcting codes. Those who chose to pursue
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Moto X easter egg: "Windy Day" Immersive short(wired.co.uk)
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by da-bacon 13y ago
I wrote one of these! It was fun and cathartic, as you can imagine. But, because it's complicated, and because I wanted to play around with d3.js, instead of a long diatribe, I built a model of my brain to explain why I left: http:&
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by da-bacon 13y ago
A response concerning the claim that Borges was not political: http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/borges-politics-and-the-pos...
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by da-bacon 13y ago
Also see the follow up with responses from Judea Pearl: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/guest-post-judea-pearl-on-...
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Introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines(blog.echen.me)
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by da-bacon 14y ago
Typing programs in from the magazine taught me how to debug before I ever learned to program.
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Tipsy: Being a Tutorial on the Ways of Flask(chriszf.github.com)
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by da-bacon 14y ago
For a contrary opinion about the book see http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ (yes I've read the book and mostly agree with that review)
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by da-bacon 14y ago
Popper's great. Your reference to Feynman, however, reminded me of this classic qip: “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” ― Richard P. Feynman
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by da-bacon 14y ago
A nice list. The only area I'd add is statistics. Eventually the theory's got to be tested, and understanding the methods experimentalists use is very useful in navigating that world.
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by da-bacon 14y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1319 for the pre print version of this pay walled publically funded research.
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by da-bacon 14y ago
Other uses: Quantum simulations. Sampling from solutions to linear equations. Shit we haven't discovered yet (you be shocked at how little research there is in quantum computing looking for new algorithms)
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by da-bacon 14y ago
Sorry, but no this is not a quantum computer leap. It's a cute paper but woefully far from a complete solution. Some problems 1) the procedure appears to require 100 percent detection of photons (there is no analysis of this in the paper).
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by da-bacon 15y ago
Much more interesting than the existence of this "spy center" are the claims of a major breakthrough in crypto: "According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in it
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by da-bacon 15y ago
Making it work at room temperature is probably a greater long term issue. As the temperature goes up the system has a higher probability of accessing states that will make it not function properly (i.e. your logic gates become probabilisti
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by da-bacon 15y ago
Interesting to see United Airlines on the largest profits and the largest losses. Is this an artifact of their bankruptcy?

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