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QM Professor - Surviving academia.
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Today's 'doom quote' reminded me of this essay I wrote in November, 2022.

It's an easy escape for me to put up graphics, math and moments of doom. From time to time I need to remind myself of how much this all hurts.

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Beyond Grief: There's a Sadness Deep Inside of Me
I am experiencing intense sadness. The source of this sadness is my awareness of all things climate change & collapse. But, I am absolutely not depressed. There's not one descriptive item that comes c...
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January 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Scott Aaronson comments on the recent quantum computing stock market crash.
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"Now for the valuation question. On the one hand, Shtetl-Optimized readers will know that there’s been plenty of obfuscation and even outright lying, to journalists, the public, and investors, about what quantum computing will be good for and how soon. To whatever extent the previous valuations were based on that lying, a brutal correction was of course in order, regardless of what triggered it."
January 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A kind reminder to everyone that the golden rule of peer review is "Do not write a review that you wouldn't want to receive yourself." Even rejection can be done in a way that is helpful to the authors. If a paper is not in your area, you should decline reviewing it instead of rejecting by default.
December 9, 2024 at 8:31 AM