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Will you heed my warnings NOW?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1497+ words) Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don't believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name "Aaronson." But then continue scrolling to see 144 other inductees, including…...
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (280+ words) For those of you who haven't seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by using high-rate codes,…...
Quantum computing: too much to handle!
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (1493+ words) Tomorrow I'm headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose participants need to write one blog post per day or get kicked out. I'll be there to share my "wisdom" as a distinguished elder blogger (note that Shtetl-Optimized is…...