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science / science - 2 months ago

Lessons in frustration

Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.& I was a master’s student in the Perimeter Scholars International program at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Perimeter trotted in world experts to lecture...

science / science - 3 months ago

Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill

Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awardi...

science / science - 4 months ago

Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost

You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from...

science / science - 4 months ago

Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine

On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. The video of the talk is here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for the 8...