Dan Browne

Some neat Google interview questions (in the finest Oxbridge tradition). - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

Unflattering name, but great idea. QIP gets a ''rump session''... - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

Unusually aggressive comments on SciRate... - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

I love the conclusion ;-) - Anthony Leverrier

Has hardly changed... - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

via @quantumtunnel Anyone know how successful their predictions have been in the past? - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

quzistor for the win :) We should all redouble our efforts to build a quantum computer so that Cirac and Zoller and Shor et al get their Nobel before they die (qc timescales are depressing?) - Dave Bacon

And have a look at the papers he links too. Gobsmacking. http://www.badscience.net/2007... - Dan Browne

I keep getting letters from my university library threatening to not let me graduate due to outstanding fines. Somehow they haven't touched a nerve yet... - Alexei from BuddyFeed

Or not : http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1726 - Sean Barrett from iPhone

"Arrow-of-time" dilemma becomes "which-paper-to-believe" dilemma. - Dan Browne

Roadtesting textmate as a replacement LaTeX editor for TeX Shop. So far I'm impressed. Have a lot of TeXing to do in coming weeks so let's see how it fares... - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

Really? Unless it was your own article and you entered into a contract with the publisher I don't see how you could have violated anything. - Matt Leifer

You are right. It was rather an overreaction - never mind... - Dan Browne

Now unredacted. :-) The rest of the article is more accurate than the headline... - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

It will appear in Science on 4th September. Yes, you are right that embargos are rather odd. - Dan Browne

I spoke too soon - Latexit is hosed! :-o - Dan Browne

Now downloading pre-release beta of new MacTex... gulp! - Dan Browne

LatexIt seems to have fixed itself. It crashed - I restarted it, seemingly wiped its own prefs file and now it appears to work. :-) No beta version of MacTex necessary.... (phew!) - Dan Browne

Navascues and Wunderlich introduce the principle of "macroscopic locality", the idea that if one course-grains measurements over many copies of an entangled state in a suitable way one should obtain results concordant with a classical local theory. They are able to derive limits on the correlations supported by any theory in which this principle is respected. Remarkably, this coincides with the set Q1 of correlations, a first set of correlations which arises in the hierarchy of SDP bounds introduced by Navascues and co-authors, which converges to the set of quantum correlations. The natural question to ask is whether one can find similar operational interpretations for the remaining SDPs in the hierarchy. - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

I agree that symmetric is more natural that i.i.d. Thanks for reminding me about the counter-example. I was confused because your example was finite-dimensional, but looking at the paper I was reminded that it is the scaling of the distance bound with dimension that is the culprit. I think there *must* be a finite version for the general framework of the paper I referenced because we... more... - Matt Leifer

T'Hooft argues that one can obtain an apparent violation of Bell inequalities in a local deterministic theory. I haven't had a chance to work through his argument carefully, but am suspicious, not least due to the verbose argument which seems to lack a clean mathematical formulation. Like all "disproofs" of Bell's theorem, it is likely to be flawed, but one often learns a lot from finding the flaws in the argument. And then again, you don't win a Nobel prize for nothing...! - Dan Browne

I've never been able to work out enough of what is going on in t'Hooft's quantum papers to figure out whether he has made an error or is just using language in a different way from the rest of us, e.g. what is his definition of local? If there were a Nobel prize in obfuscation then he might have been awarded a second by now. - Matt Leifer

It's now quite old and much copied - but still great. - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

I've been there so many times - xkcd gets it bang on the nail, yet again. - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

"Scientists prove zombie could wipe out humans..." - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

Another example of scientific PR gone mad? Or an excellent piece of science / maths outreach? - Dan Browne

It's not Last.fm it is Digg. It doesn't "scrobble" the papers you are reading but is based purely on voting behavior. - Matt Leifer

Ah yes, good point. It does seem to work pretty well though. - Dan Browne

This looks great. Google Wave can't get here soon enough! via @CameronNeylon - Dan Browne from Bookmarklet

Thanks Matt! On 27 Jul 2009, at 11:27, Matt Leifer wrote: - Dan Browne from email

There aren't any. You don't need @replies because you can comment on any post and the person who wrote it will see it. Comments also remove the need for retweets. As for #tags, they are not really needed even on Twitter. FF has a number of other very useful features, such as groups, friend lists, saved searches and imaginary friends, which you should play around with. Personally, I've never looked at any documentation, but I'm sure it is there somewhere. - Matt Leifer

Well, there are enough third-party web services that you can lifestream on Twitter if you want to and that big text-box does mean that you can microblog on FF if you want to. You can very well use both services for whatever you like, regardless of what they were designed for. The only advantage that Twitter has is the vast number of users. - Matt Leifer