{"id":4949,"date":"2020-09-03T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:37:16","slug":"my-utility-podcast-with-matthew-putman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4949","title":{"rendered":"My Utility+ podcast with Matthew Putman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another Update (Sep. 15):<\/span><\/strong> Sorry for the long delay; new post coming soon! To tide you over—or just to distract you from the darkness figuratively and literally engulfing our civilization—here’s a Fortune<\/em> article<\/a> about today’s announcement by IBM of its plans for the next few years in superconducting quantum computing, with some remarks from yours truly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Update (Sep. 8):<\/span><\/strong> A reader wrote to let me know about a fundraiser for Denys Smirnov<\/a>, a 2015 IMO gold medalist from Ukraine who needs an expensive bone marrow transplant to survive Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I just donated and I hope you’ll consider it too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update (Sep. 5):<\/span><\/strong> Here\u2019s another quantum computing podcast I did<\/a>, \u201cDunc Tank\u201d with Duncan Gammie. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks so much to Shtetl-Optimized<\/em> readers, so far we’ve raised $1,371 for the Biden-Harris campaign<\/a> and $225 for the Lincoln Project<\/a>, which I intend to match for $3,192 total. If you’d like to donate by tonight (Thursday night), there’s still $404 to go!<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a mere three days after declaring my “new motto,”<\/a> I’ve come up with a new<\/em> new motto for this blog, hopefully a more cheerful one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When civilization seems on the brink of collapse, sometimes there’s nothing left to talk about but maximal separations between randomized and quantum query complexity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On that note, please enjoy my new one-hour podcast on Spotify<\/a> (if that link doesn\u2019t work, try this one<\/a>) with Matthew Putman<\/a> of Utility+. Alas, my umming and ahhing were more frequent than I now aim for, but that’s partly compensated for by Matthew’s excellent decision to speed up the audio. This was an unusually wide-ranging interview, covering everything from SlateStarCodex to quantum gravity to interdisciplinary conferences to the challenges of teaching quantum computing to 7-year-olds. I hope you like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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