Four hard problems January 29, 2008
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I was recently visiting MIT and presented the following problems, which are all hard (I think) and important. They are related to many fundamental issues in QC. Can anyone think of ways to make these questions more precise, or focus them down on easier subproblems?
I really like Ron Paul January 25, 2008
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I’m not an American citizen but if I were I’d vote for Ron. It’s so refreshing to hear someone with a specific point of view who is passionate about real issues. I don’t agree with everything he says but damn it’s nice to know where someone stands at least.
Demons Out!!! January 17, 2008
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Yet another cool way to torment yourself January 3, 2008
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The Quantum Pontiff has posted a cool probability question which is guaranteed to torment your brain. Here it is.
Harlan Ellison on Getting Paid January 2, 2008
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I was reading an anthology of Ramsey Campbell stories and in the prologue to “The Chimney”, which won a World Fantasy Award in 1978, he mentions that Harlan Ellison said that it was a stupid story and shouldn’t have won the award. Ellison is known for being “abrasive and argumentative”. Here is an interview with him on the subject of paying writers for their work.
Could GSP beat Travis Cross for an olympic spot? December 30, 2007
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After watching Georges St Pierre DOMINATE Matt Hughes and hearing that he thought about trying to make the Canadian Olympic wrestling team I’m wondering whether he might be able to beat Travis at 82kg. Travis already qualified the weight and won the trials so it’s basically moot at this point but still.
With any normal human with little competitive experience in wrestling I’d say not a chance, but GSP is some kind of superhuman freak. He took Hughes down four times??? On the other hand he would be giving up some weight to Travis, maybe 20 pounds… and Travis is a tough dude as I have firsthand experience from my days at SFU although he got real good a bit later than my time.
GSP could try at 74kg but then he’d have to beat Matt Gentry who is an NCAA champ, I’d have to go with Gentry at 74.
I don’t know, I’d love to see whether GSP could take Travis.
Sean Sherk is the King of Awesomeness December 28, 2007
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Gettin down with a trunk of funk. My favorite quote:
Most of the food I eat doesn’t taste good. I don’t eat for taste, I eat for performance.
Like I said, the King of Awesomeness. You WILL go and do stairs after you watch this.
First Google tech talk: Introducing Orion December 21, 2007
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Here is (part of) the first tech talk I gave at Google May 2007.
Google / D-Wave tech talk: Image matching with an AQC December 20, 2007
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Here is our latest tech talk.
Slides from talk at QEC07 December 18, 2007
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Mohammad gave a talk at QEC07 at USC December 17th. Here are the slides:
