{"id":444,"date":"2007-05-04T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/interesting-blog\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:44:46","slug":"interesting-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/interesting-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/\">Scott Aaronson<\/a>'s lecture serious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/\">Quantum Computing since Democritus<\/a> is brilliant - fascinating and hilarious. If I had been taught by this guy at university I might still be in academia. A quote:<br \/>\n<i>Oracles were apparently first studied by Turing, in his 1938 PhD thesis. Obviously, anyone who could write a whole thesis about these fictitious entities would have to be an extremely pure theorist, someone who wouldn't be caught dead doing anything relevant. This was certainly true in Turing's case -- indeed he spent the years after his PhD, from 1939 to 1943, studying certain abstruse symmetry transformations on a 26-letter alphabet.<\/i><br \/>\nThe sheer range of material just stunning too, and there are lots of in-jokes for those with a passing familiarity with the subjects covered. Plus really smart people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ucdavis.edu\/~greg\/\">Greg Kuperberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bitconjurer.org\/\">Bram Cohen<\/a> read his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>. (And he uses the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\">hosting provider<\/a> as me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson's lecture serious Quantum Computing since Democritus is brilliant - fascinating and hilarious. If I had been taught by this guy at university I might still be in academia. A quote: Oracles were apparently first studied by Turing, in his 1938 PhD thesis. Obviously, anyone who could write a whole thesis about these fictitious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}