{"id":5162,"date":"2020-12-11T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:22:11","slug":"happy-chanukah-vaccine-approval-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chanukah \/ Vaccine Approval Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. Inspired by my survey article<\/a>, John Pavlus has now published an article on Busy Beaver<\/a> for Quanta<\/em> magazine.
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  2. This week, I flitted back and forth between two<\/em> virtual conferences: the Institute for Advanced Study’s Online Workshop on Qubits and Black Holes<\/a> (which I co-organized with Juan Maldacena and Mark Van Raamsdonk), and Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) 2020<\/a>, organized by QC Ware, for which I did my now-annual Ask-Me-Anything session. It was an interesting experience, switching between Euclidean path integrals and replica wormholes that I barely understood, and corporate pitches for near-term quantum computing that I … well, did<\/em> understand! Anyway, happy to discuss either conference in the comments.
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  3. For anyone interested in the new Chinese quantum supremacy claim based on Gaussian BosonSampling—the story has developing rapidly all week, with multiple groups trying to understand the classical difficulty of simulating the experiment. I’ll plan to write a followup post soon!
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  4. The Complexity Zoo has now officially moved from the University of Waterloo to complexityzoo.net<\/a>, hosted by the LessWrong folks! Thanks so much to Oliver Habryka for setting this up. Update (Dec. 12):<\/span><\/strong> Alas, complexityzoo.com no longer works if you use https. I don’t know how to fix it—the Bluehost control panel provides no options—and I’m not at a point in life where I can deal again with Bluehost SSL certificate hell. (How does everyone else deal with this shit? That’s the one part I don’t understand.) So, for now, you’ll need to update your bookmarks to complexityzoo.net.
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  5. In return for his help with Zoo, Oliver asked me to help publicize a handsome $29 five-book set, “A Map that Reflects the Territory,”<\/a> containing a selection of the best essays from LessWrong, including multiple essays by the much-missed Scott Alexander, and an essay on common knowledge inspired by my own Common Knowledge and Aumann’s Agreement Theorem<\/a>. (See also the FAQ<\/a>.) If you know any LW fans, I can think of few better gifts to go under their Christmas tree or secular rationalist equivalent.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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