{"id":177,"date":"2006-12-04T23:08:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-12-04T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:08:56","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 7: Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, less than a week after the course itself finished, a new set of lecture notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec7.html\">is finally here!<\/a>   The topic: randomness.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this post from \u00fcber-commenter Greg Kuperberg&#8217;s office at UC Davis, where I&#8217;m visiting for a few days to give a math colloquium.  Greg has been trying to fill my thick skull with something called &#8220;t-cubature formulas,&#8221; and writing this post provides me with a much-needed break!<\/p>\n<p>After Davis, I&#8217;ll be going to Berkeley for a couple weeks (not that I ever <em>really<\/em> left it), then my parents&#8217; place in Pennsylvania for the holidays, then Caltech, then New Zealand (why the hell not?), then Australia for QIP, then back to Waterloo in February. Much more relaxing than last year&#8217;s trip &#8212; note that I <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> return from this one with an (additional) 2\u03c0i phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, less than a week after the course itself finished, a new set of lecture notes is finally here! The topic: randomness. I&#8217;m writing this post from \u00fcber-commenter Greg Kuperberg&#8217;s office at UC Davis, where I&#8217;m visiting for a few days to give a math colloquium. Greg has been trying to fill my thick skull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-complexity","category-democritus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}