{"id":1502,"date":"2013-08-13T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2016-12-10T04:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:47:01","slug":"twitl-optimized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Twitl-Optimized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I experiment with &#8220;tweeting&#8221;: writing &lt;=140-character announcements, but posting them to my blog.\u00a0 Like sending lolcat videos by mail<\/p>\n<p>Last week at QCrypt in Waterloo: <a href=\"http:\/\/2013.qcrypt.net\">http:\/\/2013.qcrypt.net<\/a> This week at CQIQC in Toronto: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kfexzv6\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kfexzv6<\/a> Back with Lily in between<\/p>\n<p>While we debate D-Wave, ID Quantique et al. quietly sold ~100 quantum crypto devices. Alas, market will remain small unless RSA compromised<\/p>\n<p>One speaker explained how a photon detector works by showing this YouTube video: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k8x4btx\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k8x4btx<\/a> Couldn&#8217;t have done better<\/p>\n<p>Luca Trevisan asks me to spread the word about a conference for LGBTs in technology: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outforundergrad.org\/technology\">www.outforundergrad.org\/technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Pinker stands up for the Enlightenment in The New Republic: &#8220;Science Is Not Your Enemy&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/l26ppaf\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/l26ppaf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think Pinker was exaggerating?\u00a0 Read Leon Wieseltier&#8217;s defiantly doofusy Brandeis commencement speech: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jwhj8ub\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jwhj8ub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black-hole firewalls make the New York Times, a week before the firewall workshop at KITP (I&#8217;ll be there): <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kju9crj\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kju9crj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably already saw the Schrodinger cat Google doodle: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k8et44p\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k8et44p<\/a> For me, the ket was much cooler than the cat<\/p>\n<p>While working on BosonSampling yesterday, (1\/6)pi^2 and Euler-Mascheroni constant made unexpected unappearances.\u00a0 What I live for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I experiment with &#8220;tweeting&#8221;: writing &lt;=140-character announcements, but posting them to my blog.\u00a0 Like sending lolcat videos by mail Last week at QCrypt in Waterloo: http:\/\/2013.qcrypt.net This week at CQIQC in Toronto: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kfexzv6 Back with Lily in between While we debate D-Wave, ID Quantique et al. quietly sold ~100 quantum crypto devices. Alas, market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-nerd-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}