{"id":2622,"date":"2016-01-21T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2016-01-22T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:16:51","slug":"happy-third-birthday-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"Happy Third Birthday Lily!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-Lily-Related Updates (Jan. 22)<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Uri Bram posted a cute little article<\/a> about whether he was justified, as a child, to tell his parents that he wouldn’t clean up his room because doing so would only increase the universe’s entropy and thereby hasten its demise. The article quotes me, Sean Carroll, and others about that important question.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday I gave a TCS+ online seminar about “The Largest Possible Quantum Speedups.” If you’re interested, you can watch the YouTube video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(I promised a while ago that I’d upload some examples of Lily’s MOMA-worthy modern artworks. \u00a0So, here are two!)<\/p>\n

A few\u00a0quotable quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daddy, when you were little, you were a girl like me!<\/p>\n

I’m feeling a bit juicy [thirsty for juice].<\/p>\n

Saba and Safta live in Israel. They’re mommy’s friends! [Actually\u00a0they’re mommy’s parents.]<\/p>\n

Me: You’re getting bigger every day!
\nLily: But I’m also getting smaller every day!<\/p>\n

Me: Then Goldilocks tasted the third bowl, which was Baby Bear’s, and it was just right!<\/em> \u00a0So she ate it\u00a0all up<\/em>. \u00a0Then Goldilocks went…
\nLily: No, then Goldilocks\u00a0ate some cherries in the kitchen before she\u00a0went to the bedroom. \u00a0And blueberries.
\nMe: Fine, so she ate cherries and blueberries. \u00a0Then she went to the bedroom, and she saw that there were three beds…
\nLily: No, four beds!
\nMe: Fine, four beds. \u00a0So she laid in the first bed, but she said, “this bed is too hard.”
\nLily: No, it was too comfortable!
\nMe: Too comfortable? \u00a0Is she some kind of monk?<\/p>\n

Me [pointing to a taxidermed black bear in a museum]: What’s that?
\nLily: A bear!
\nMe: Is it Winnie the Pooh?
\nLily: No, it’s a different kind of bear.
\nMe [pointing to a tan bear in the next case]: So what about that one? Is that<\/em> Winnie?
\nLily: Yes! That’s Winnie the Pooh!
\n[Looking at it more closely] No, it’s a different kind of Winnie.<\/p>\n

Lily: Why is it dark outside?
\nMe: Because it’s night time.
\nLily: Why is it night time?
\nMe: Because the sun went to the other side of the world.
\nLily: It went to China!
\nMe: Yes! It did in fact go to China.
\nLily: Why did the sun go to China?
\nMe: Well, more accurately, it only seemed<\/em> to go there, because the world that we’re on is spinning.
\nLily: Why is the world spinning?
\nMe: Because of the conservation of angular momentum.
\nLily: Why is the … consibation of amomomo?
\nMe: I suppose because of Noether’s Theorem, and the fact that our laws of physics are symmetric under spatial rotations.
\nLily: Why is…
\nMe: That’s enough for today Lily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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