New Scientist

I’m so glad the Artemis II crew made it back safely. I was worried that something would go wrong and NASA would have another spectacular on its hands. Regular readers will know that I’m all for this kind of thing, but I think we need something better than chemical rockets: Artemis II launch image, courtesy of NASA I am reminded of what Steve Buscemi said in Armageddon: “we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts…

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Quantum Information Supremacy

Scott Aaronson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Texas at Austin. See his Wikipedia entry, which says he’s the founding director of UT Austin's new Quantum Information Center. Aaronson is into quantum computing in a big way, and is a famous blogger on the subject. His blog is called Shtetl-Optimized, and one of his recent posts was called Quantum Information Supremacy. I take an interest in this sort of thing because I have a Computer Science degree, and I know a thing or…

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