{"id":669,"date":"2011-06-05T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2019-01-28T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:25:53","slug":"a-personal-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"A personal post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interview<\/a> with me by math grad student Samuel Hansen, as part of a podcast he runs called Strongly Connected Components<\/a>.  (Also check out the interviews with Steven Rudich<\/a>, Steven Rudich a second time<\/a>, Lance Fortnow<\/a>, Doron Zeilberger<\/a>, and your other favorite stars of the nerdosphere!)  In the interview, I talk about my passion for baseball stats, what you don’t<\/em> know about llama-breeding, the use of color in Matisse’s later works … oh all right, it’s mostly about quantum computing and P vs. NP.<\/p>\n

Here’s a story I told<\/a> for an event called Story Collider<\/a>, which was back-to-back with a superb production of Breaking the Code<\/em><\/a> (Hugh Whitemore’s acclaimed play about the life of Alan Turing) in Cambridge’s Central Square Theater.  I was honored to serve as a “scientific consultant” to the Breaking the Code<\/em> production, and to do audience Q&A before and after a couple performances.  In the Story Collider, I talk about the “Turing phase” I went through as a teenager and Alan T.’s impact on my life.<\/p>\n

(Note:<\/em> For the past couple years, I’ve avoided talking much about my personal life on this blog, since I pride myself on being someone who learns from experience and adjusts his behavior accordingly<\/em>.  But two months ago, something truly happy occurred in my life, and if you listen to the end of the Story Collider, you’ll find out what it was…)<\/p>\n

One last personal note: I’m at the Federated Computing Research Conference<\/a> in San Jose all week.  If you read Shtetl-Optimized<\/em>, are here at FCRC, see me, and wouldn’t do so otherwise, come and say hi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interview with me by math grad student Samuel Hansen, as part of a podcast he runs called Strongly Connected Components.  (Also check out the interviews with Steven Rudich, Steven Rudich a second time, Lance Fortnow, Doron Zeilberger, and your other favorite stars of the nerdosphere!)  In the interview, I talk about my passion […]<\/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":[10,5,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-complexity","category-nerd-interest","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}