{"id":5276,"date":"2010-12-17T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/17\/links-for-2010-12-17\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T08:12:14","slug":"links-for-2010-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/17\/links-for-2010-12-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-12-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=476\">Shtetl-Optimized \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb QCut<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Let me end this post with a request: I want all of my readers to&nbsp;visit the YouCut page, and propose that quantum computing and theoretical computer science research be completely eliminated. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s&nbsp;my own CAREER Award; go ahead and cite it by number as a particularly egregious example of government waste.<\/p>\n<p>See, I&#8217;m hungry for the honor (not to mention the free publicity) of seeing my own favorite research topics attacked on the floor of the House. &nbsp;As we all know, it&#8217;s&nbsp;child&#8217;s play&nbsp;to make fun of theoretical computer science: its abstruseness, its obvious irrelevance to national goals&#8211;however infinitesimal the cost is compared to (say) corn subsidies or defense contracts for stuff the military doesn&#8217;t want, however gargantuan the payoffs have been in the past. &nbsp;So what are Eric Cantor and Adrian Smith waiting for? &nbsp;I dare them to do it!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/funding\">funding<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/shtetl-optimized\">shtetl-optimized<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5714210\/\">String theory fails first major experimental test<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The headline&#8217;s about as accurate as most of those touting successes&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/io9\">io9<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shtetl-Optimized \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb QCut &#8220;Let me end this post with a request: I want all of my readers to&nbsp;visit the YouCut page, and propose that quantum computing and theoretical computer science research be completely eliminated. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s&nbsp;my own CAREER Award; go ahead and cite it by number as a particularly egregious example of government&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/17\/links-for-2010-12-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-12-17<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","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=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}