Funny segment from Conan O’Brien. It used to be on YouTube, but now you’ll have to watch it on NBC’s website.
Apparently the usual advice of only cooking with a wine that you would drink isn’t necessary. Julia Moskin at the NYTimes did some testing and found that cheap wines worked just as well.
Lifehacker is one of my favorite daily reads. They publish a bunch of DIY ideas, but I am quite fond of this solder-wick spool cord wrap idea. I wonder how many people have empty solder wick spools lying around, though? We certainly have a bunch in lab…
Finally, an article on a popular press site with a healthy dose of skepticism regarding D-Wave’s announcement.
Incidentally, D-Wave has posted some details of their implementation on the arxiv. I have only had a chance to skim it so far, but I was amused to see that their readout scheme couples their qubits to an LC circuit, and they measure the phase shift of the resonator. This is an idea which has become increasingly popular after my lab demonstrated it in 2003 (Patrice Bertet published results for an harmonic oscillator readout of their flux qubits, and I understand that John Martinis’ group has now coupled their phase qubits to a resonator).
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