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“Let me end this post with a request: I want all of my readers to visit the YouCut page, and propose that quantum computing and theoretical computer science research be completely eliminated. Here’s my own CAREER Award; go ahead and cite it by number as a particularly egregious example of government waste.
See, I’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. As we all know, it’s child’s play to make fun of theoretical computer science: its abstruseness, its obvious irrelevance to national goals–however infinitesimal the cost is compared to (say) corn subsidies or defense contracts for stuff the military doesn’t want, however gargantuan the payoffs have been in the past. So what are Eric Cantor and Adrian Smith waiting for? I dare them to do it!”
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The headline’s about as accurate as most of those touting successes…