It’s not often that I get to write a post with a title like this, but right now there are two opportunities worth mentioning. Firstly, if you are a student looking for a Ph.D. position in foundations then Caslav Brukner has one available in Vienna. The advert is attached below.
Secondly, the application [...]
According to Wired, one of id Quantique’s quantum cryptography systems will be used to transmit votes securely from voting machines in Geneva in the upcoming national election. This is certainly good PR for quantum crypto, especially given the security issues surrounding the use of automated voting machines. Maybe I’m missing something though, because I thought [...]
I think I might have mentioned before that von Neumann is a bit of a hero of mine. I transferred my affections from Feynman as soon as I was old enough to realize how much exaggeration must be involved in the “Surely you’re joking” stories. Sure, von Neumann may have made a mistake about hidden [...]
A popular article about my fqxi project has just appeared on the fqxi community page. Download it here.
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