{"id":194,"date":"2007-01-31T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-01-31T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:54:05","slug":"open-shtetl-day-at-qip07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Open Shtetl Day at QIP&#8217;07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, like, I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qinfo.org\/qip\/\">QIP&#8217;2007<\/a> in Brisbane, Australia?  And, like, everyone&#8217;s expecting me to blog about all the wild talks and poster presentations going down in Q-Town?  But, like, I don&#8217;t actually <em>want <\/em>to blog about that stuff, since it seems suspiciously close to <em>useful content<\/em>, the very thing this blog was created to avoid?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m therefore declaring an <strong>Open Shtetl Day<\/strong>, for all of my readers who happen to be in Brisbane.  Here&#8217;s how it works: using the comments section, tell the world about your QIP experience.  What were the best talks\/results\/open problems?  What happened at the business meeting?  (I actually want to know &#8212; I skipped it.)  What are the most salacious rumors about who&#8217;s coauthoring with whom?  C&#8217;mon, you know you want to post, and you know you&#8217;ve got nothing better to do.  I can <em>see<\/em> I&#8217;m not the only one in this lecture hall who&#8217;s typing away on a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>And get this: after a day or two, I&#8217;ll pick the best comments and QIPiest quips, and <em>post them right here in the blog entry proper<\/em>!  QIPers, don&#8217;t miss what could be your big break in the competitive quantum blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">(To preempt the inevitable question: No, there&#8217;s not going to be an after-dinner speech this year.  But I have it on good authority that there&#8217;ll be something in its place.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, like, I&#8217;m at QIP&#8217;2007 in Brisbane, Australia? And, like, everyone&#8217;s expecting me to blog about all the wild talks and poster presentations going down in Q-Town? But, like, I don&#8217;t actually want to blog about that stuff, since it seems suspiciously close to useful content, the very thing this blog was created to avoid? [&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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-procrastination","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}