{"id":89,"date":"2006-05-29T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T02:04:13","slug":"where-even-the-sun-pulls-all-nighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Where even the sun pulls all-nighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog2\/uploaded_images\/yukon-721152.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog2\/uploaded_images\/yukon-716195.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nWho: From left, Ashwin Nayak, Debbie Leung, Mike Mosca, your humble squinting blogger, Andris Ambainis with coffee, Patrick Hayden.<\/p>\n<p>Where: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haines_Junction%2C_Yukon\">Haines Junction<\/a> (population 789), Yukon Territory, 100 miles east of Alaska.  One of the furthest outposts of civilization, surrounded by one of the last pristine wilderness areas on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>When: We arrived here last night, after flying to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitehorse%2C_Yukon\">Whitehorse<\/a> and then battling heavy traffic (i.e., at least two other cars) for several hours on the Alaska Highway.<\/p>\n<p>What: A quantum computing workshop sponsored by the CIAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research).<\/p>\n<p>Why: I dunno, I guess the CIAR has more money than it knows what to do with.<\/p>\n<p>How: You thought they wouldn&#8217;t have WiFi here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who: From left, Ashwin Nayak, Debbie Leung, Mike Mosca, your humble squinting blogger, Andris Ambainis with coffee, Patrick Hayden. Where: Haines Junction (population 789), Yukon Territory, 100 miles east of Alaska. One of the furthest outposts of civilization, surrounded by one of the last pristine wilderness areas on Earth. When: We arrived here last night, [&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_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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}