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Dabacon

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About Dabacon

Former quantum pseudo-professor turned software engineer.

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    Comment #2672901

    Is it me or is it odd that it bottomed out at 0.0123456?

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    Comment #2672761

    Those are the most cited from the Physical Review journals: http://bit.ly/jMN0SP Interesting because they have such high citation counts in part because they hit a nice spot releva…

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    Comment #2593867

    Still alive and kicking. There are also a few other quantum cryptograph companies around including http://www.idquantique.com/ and http://www.quintessencelabs.com/

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    Comment #2593859

    The worldwide community of quantum computing researchers is probably around a couple thousand. p.s. your namesake is one of them http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Cross_A/0/1/0/…

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    Comment #2593854

    The D-wave machine is different from a general purpose quantum computer which is why it can have many more qubits than the more traditional approach that you are most like to have …

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    Comment #2425275

    So to me it seems that the people building tools for collaborative science need to start with a system whose sole goal is to produce papers :) How to do this is a fun problem.

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    Comment #2393140

    "Mark wrote a paper about this ten years later, after physicists had published thousands of bogus papers using bogus statistics." Agreed, but to be fair a lot of non-physicists wer…

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    Comment #2323112

    e^(τi)-1=0. This is obviously better since it not only contains the fundamental constants e, tau, and the beautiful numbers 0 and 1, it also includes a minus sign, emphasizing the …

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    Comment #2062293

    The result, IIRC, is that all of QIP can be done in three rounds, whereas if the same held in the classical world the polynomial hierarchy would collapse (which is considered about…

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    Comment #2062125

    No. It means that for the complexity class of interactive proofs quantum and classical are the same (when you ignore the number of rounds involved.) This doesn't tell us anything a…