{"id":4182,"date":"2019-05-03T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:19:29","slug":"a-small-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"A small post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I really liked <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/04\/21\/quantum-computing-is-a-marathon-not-a-sprint\/?fbclid=IwAR2WHdke1ppFQFE4ZfYswa06lXe-sUM2PZ2neLmLOhFTrJYHY3iXNesGHb8\">this article by Chris Monroe<\/a>, of the University of Maryland and IonQ, entitled &#8220;Quantum computing is a marathon not a sprint.&#8221;  The crazier expectations get in this field&#8212;and right now they&#8217;re <em>really<\/em> crazy, believe me&#8212;the more it needs to be said.<\/li><li>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2019\/5\/236426-quantum-hype-and-quantum-skepticism\/fulltext?mobile=false\">piece for <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em><\/a>, Moshe Vardi came out as a &#8220;quantum computing skeptic.&#8221;  But it turns out what he means by that is not that he knows a reason why QC is impossible in principle, but simply that it&#8217;s often overhyped and that it will be hard to establish a viable quantum computing industry.  By that standard, I&#8217;m a &#8220;QC skeptic&#8221; as well!  But then what does that make Gil Kalai or Michel Dyakonov?<\/li><li>Friend-of-the-blog Bram Cohen asked me to link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chia.net\/2019\/04\/04\/chia-network-announces-second-vdf-competition-with-in-total-prize-money.en.html\">this second-round competition<\/a> for Verifiable Delay Functions, sponsored by his company Chia.  Apparently the first link I provided actually mattered in sending serious entrants their way.<\/li><li>Blogging, it turns out, is really, really hard when (a) your life has become a pile of real-world obligations stretching out to infinity, <em>and also<\/em> (b) the Internet has become a war zone, with anything you say quote-mined by people looking to embarrass you.  But don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll have more to say soon.  In the meantime, doesn&#8217;t anyone have more questions about the research papers discussed in the previous post?  Y&#8217;know, NEEXP in MIP*?  SBP versus QMA?  Gentle measurement of quantum states and differential privacy turning out to be almost the same subject?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked this article by Chris Monroe, of the University of Maryland and IonQ, entitled &#8220;Quantum computing is a marathon not a sprint.&#8221; The crazier expectations get in this field&#8212;and right now they&#8217;re really crazy, believe me&#8212;the more it needs to be said. In a piece for Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-procrastination","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}