{"id":322,"date":"2008-04-11T21:48:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T01:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:31:38","slug":"open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_man_makes_it_through_day\">miserable week<\/a> (only partly because of the headaches and coughing fits that have been keeping me up all night), and feel a need to be of use to some other human being without leaving my apartment. So this thread is for you to ask about whatever&#8217;s on your mind &#8212; complexity classes, philosophy, grad school advice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/expert_on_anteaters_wasted_entire\">anteaters<\/a> &#8230; anything asked in earnest will be responded to, in considerably less than the two years it took me for Lev R.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Update (4\/13):<\/strong><\/span> Having spent a good part of the weekend answering 57 questions about everything from quantum computing to painting elephants, I think it&#8217;s time to call it quits. Thanks to everyone who submitted; it really cheered me up! We&#8217;ll do this again sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a miserable week (only partly because of the headaches and coughing fits that have been keeping me up all night), and feel a need to be of use to some other human being without leaving my apartment. So this thread is for you to ask about whatever&#8217;s on your mind &#8212; complexity classes, [&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":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-me-anything","category-procrastination"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}