{"id":1323,"date":"2007-04-10T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/10\/shtetl-of-the-times\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:41:53","slug":"shtetl-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/10\/shtetl-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Shtetl of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forgot to link to Sunday’s New York Times<\/cite> article about D-Wave<\/a> and their controversial claim to have made a working quantum computer, which prominently features quotes from the world’s second funniest physics blogger:<\/p>\n

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Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fired the first shot. He wrote in his much-read blog, called “Shtetl-Optimized,” that Orion would be as useful at problem-solving as “a roast beef sandwich.” In an e-mail message to me, Dr. Aaronson denounced Orion as “hype.” He said that he could not “think of any interpretation under which” Dr. Rose was “telling the truth.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Weirdly, this is in the business section. Anyway, Scott has more on his blog<\/a>, if you want to know more about the whole sordid affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I forgot to link to Sunday’s New York Times article about D-Wave and their controversial claim to have made a working quantum computer, which prominently features quotes from the world’s second funniest physics blogger: Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fired the… Continue reading Shtetl of the Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}