Comments on: My New York Times essay on quantum computing http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871 The Blog of Scott Aaronson Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Explaining Quantum Computing – Blogroll Memory Hole Rescue | Wavewatching http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-49419 Explaining Quantum Computing – Blogroll Memory Hole Rescue | Wavewatching Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:08:56 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-49419 [...] than mine have been struggling with this conundrum.  For instance, a while back Scott Aaronson described his struggle to write a column for the New York Times that describes Quantum [...]

]]> By: /:set\AI http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-37665 /:set\AI Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:21:03 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-37665 Wolfram’s view of QM is not simply that it is wrong- but rather that QM is the result of a particular kind of mobile automaton that builds a causal network in which nodes are updated one-at-a-time so time and space are emergent and invariant of the computer’s operations- observers INSIDE this computation can observe ‘spooky action’ parallelism/ superposition/ entanglement/ etc since their universe is essentially frozen while updates are being applied- so QM is what a classical network built from recursion one-node-at-a-time looks like from the INSIDE- at least that is how I interpret Wolfram’s speculation- in this context a quantum computer [or quantum universe] is more powerful because it harnesses more of the bulk operations of large regions within causal network instead of being confined to using only the nodes on the ‘surface’ at the leading edge of the output

]]> By: rrtucci http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36355 rrtucci Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:47:26 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36355 The wittiest thing I’ve heard was said by the Irish Times:
“The God Particle May or May Not Exist”

]]> By: Scott http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36323 Scott Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:00:45 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36323 Masami #49:

    Hey, Scott, write something intelligent, witty, and totally revelatory about the the Higgs announcement. Right NOW.

Sorry for the delay! :-) See my comments on Lipton and Regan’s blog here.

]]> By: John Sidles http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36138 John Sidles Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:12:34 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36138 In other — very welcome — quantum news, The Quantum Pontiff has sprung to life with Aram Harrow’s live-blogging of QIP 2012. Plenty of outstanding results, admirably summarized. :)

]]> By: asdf http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36107 asdf Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:32:03 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36107 Oh boy, for those still looking to say snarky things about S. Wolfram, he’s now associated with this conference about the brain being more powerful than a Turing machine:

http://www.producao.ufrj.br/hai2012/index.html

I had thought that his cellular automata stuff was classical computation, so I don’t know his angle on this hypercomputer stuff, which is completely bogus as far as I can tell.

]]> By: Masami Aomame http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36103 Masami Aomame Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:17:31 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-36103 Hey, Scott, write something intelligent, witty, and totally revelatory about the the Higgs announcement. Right NOW.

]]> By: Aaron Sterling http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35991 Aaron Sterling Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:11:39 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35991 Off topic: this hit my feed, and I thought you might want to know about it. He seems to quote you fairly well, though he typos your last name.

http://theastronomist.fieldofscience.com/2011/12/first-quantum-computer.html

]]> By: aris http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35919 aris Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:06:18 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35919 Here’s the lecture as a formal paper.

http://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/faculty/fac-art/tononiconsciousness.pdf

]]> By: aris http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35917 aris Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:10:56 +0000 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=871#comment-35917 57:44+ … “… learning by exposure to a world which is even richer than we are.”

Would Emily Dickinson agree?

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