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by whitewhim 11y ago
I think it is kind of important to point out that there isn't much that was shown in the video, that is different from a traditional low-temperature lab (although I am not an expert). The only differences appear to be the compact casin
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by whitewhim 11y ago
I don't specifically target my posture, but I do take a holistic view to health and fitness. I realize that I've taken a career path that will have me sitting 6-8 hours a day for the rest of my life. Therefore I focus on getting a
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by whitewhim 11y ago
"We have a reasonable certainty that QM is possible", sorry I meant to say QC(Quantum Computing)
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by whitewhim 11y ago
Bohmiian mechanics is a non-local hidden variable theory of Quantum Mechanics. Any result from traditional QM should hold with Bohmian Mechanics, including the ability to perform quantum computations. We have a reasonable certainty that QM
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by whitewhim 11y ago
There is this http://www.quantumplayground.net/#/home and it is done in webGL. Although it doesn't use the Bloch sphere.
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by whitewhim 11y ago
24k/year grad student. Of course the pays not great, but I get to learn and work on some cutting edge stuff and eventually get a degree out of it. Also while I can end up working long hours, I generally choose when they are and can tak
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by whitewhim 11y ago
While all of these are required, none of the besides linear algebra are needed in great detail. I think someone who is Studying mathematics should be able to handle it.
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by whitewhim 11y ago
Of course this is a story filled mostly with anecdotes, but as a Canadian I would like to believe that generally we are a "nice" people as a whole and take pride in it. However, I would not say we are necessarily passive like the
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by whitewhim 11y ago
I am involved in the field, and I can say that it is quite an interesting result. Of course it doesn't mean we will have affordable quantum computer soon, or even in the near future but it is a legitimate result.
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by whitewhim 11y ago
Putting a qubit in a coherent state really isn't a technical challenge anymore. The challenge these days is getting it to stay in a coherent state (ie. avoid decoherence) long enough to be able to perform gates on the qubit and perform
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by whitewhim 11y ago
When you are an expert in an academic field, you typically have spent many, many years reading about the problems in the field and the main ways to attack them. The same authors, will typically pop up again and again. Through conferences an
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by whitewhim 11y ago
Looking at the sample, I agree with you. Condensed ≠ easy to understand. Honestly, a lot of the graduate texts I deal with look easier to understand. In my opinion, every single concept should be introduced with physical analogies if one wi
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by whitewhim 11y ago
One thing that we have begun using, to simplify some quantum computational analysis are Graphical tensor networks as presented in this http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6950 paper. Hasn't caught much traction yet, but it
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by whitewhim 12y ago
for grad school, or undergrad? Either way congrats! I've spoken with a lot of the CS students and they're super bright.
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by whitewhim 12y ago
I also notice calming and de-stressing effects from working out as well. I work long hours normally but I would still much rather go to the gym and workout then go home and lie on the couch, as I'd go insane at the lab if I didn't
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by whitewhim 12y ago
I do agree that the extra attention can be unwanted and negative sometimes. For example, I've worked out the whole time I've dated my girlfriend of around ~5 years. However, at the start we were in high school and I was super lean
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by whitewhim 12y ago
That is true now although it is quite hard to get in. I'm at UW for grad school (not cs) and I don't think I could of gotten into UW with my high school marks for CS or engineering.
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by whitewhim 12y ago
It is very cool to see the Quantum Valley Investments fund here. I'm joining the Cory group in the fall and can't wait to get started.
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by whitewhim 13y ago
I'm only 22 and I clicked hoping for better shaving cream tech. Even though I'm not a hairy person shaving is such a pain.
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by whitewhim 13y ago
This is one of my biggest fears as a physics student graduating in two months time. I love to learn and from my previous summers work I love to research. I've gotten into one of the top schools to research my dream subject. Despite all
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by whitewhim 13y ago
I had the exact same reaction :)
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by whitewhim 13y ago
This is really cool, it kind of reminds me of the lifeline in who wants to be a millionare "ask the audience". It would be really cool to see a startup where all the decisions were made with such a format although its understandab
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by whitewhim 13y ago
So true, graduating this year and our classes have no more than 20 students. Last year one of my fourth year courses had 4 students for the exam. Get tons of one on one time although we pay on average more than other universities in Canada
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by whitewhim 13y ago
LinAlg 2 coming up in two days. Its a fun course!
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by whitewhim 13y ago
I've been thinking about putting together an "easy" to follow lesson on computing the fermi surface of metals in either Mathematica or python as a learning experience over the winter break. I'm by no means an expert but
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by whitewhim 13y ago
I've had to have them replace my OCZ Vertex 2 three times.
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by whitewhim 13y ago
This just makes me stop and think for a second how connected we really are. Blows my mind.
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by whitewhim 13y ago
Along the same vein whenever I'm doing my physics homework I like to take the sample code whether it's R, Matlab,c etc. And convert it to python/numpy/scipy. I find I get a much deeper understanding that way and working
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by whitewhim 13y ago
I used to deal with periodic weeks of insomnia. As a stifle I really could not afford to spend a whole week without sleeping more than 5 hours as I would be basically non functional after a couple days. I began supplementing a single 5mg do
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by whitewhim 13y ago
We're thinking about putting together a team from Halifax. Hopefully worth the drive!

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