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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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| | | | | Happy Hanukkah! I'm returning to Austin from a Bay Area trip that included the annual Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference. This year, for the first time, I opened the conference, with a talk on "The Future of Quantum Supremacy Experiments," rather than closing it with my usual ask-me-anything session. The biggest talk at Q2B this... | |
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| | | | | At least eight people---journalists, colleagues, blog readers---have now asked my opinion of a recent paper by Ross Anderson and Robert Brady, entitled "Why quantum computing is hard and quantum cryptography is not provably secure." Where to begin? Based on a "soliton" model---which seems to be almost a local-hidden-variable model, though not quite---the paper advances the... | |
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dominiccummings.com
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| | | This blog considers two recent papers on the dynamics of scientific research: one in Nature and one by the brilliant physicist, Michael Nielsen, and the brilliant founder of Stripe, Patrick Collison, who is a very unusual CEO.These findings are very important to the question: how can we make economies more productive and what is the... | ||
