{"id":354,"date":"2008-09-01T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2008-09-01T23:40:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:40:43","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-21-ask-me-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 21: Ask Me Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec21.html\">final Democritus installment<\/a>, I entertain students&#8217; questions about everything from derandomization to the &#8220;complexity class for creativity&#8221; to the future of religion.\u00a0 (In this edited version, I omitted questions that seemed too technical, which surprisingly was almost half of them.)\u00a0 Thanks to all the readers who&#8217;ve stuck with me to this point, to the students for a fantastic semester (if they still remember it) as well as their scribing help, to Chris Granade for further scribing, and to Waterloo&#8217;s Institute for Quantum Computing for letting me get away with this.\u00a0 I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed it, and only wish I&#8217;d kept my end of the bargain by getting these notes done a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A question for the floor: some publishers have expressed interest in adapting the Democritus material into book form.\u00a0 Would any of you actually shell out money for that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final Democritus installment, I entertain students&#8217; questions about everything from derandomization to the &#8220;complexity class for creativity&#8221; to the future of religion.\u00a0 (In this edited version, I omitted questions that seemed too technical, which surprisingly was almost half of them.)\u00a0 Thanks to all the readers who&#8217;ve stuck with me to this point, to [&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_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":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democritus","category-metaphysical-spouting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}