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Sean Barrett
I'm a theoretical physicist working on quantum computation. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people...
The highlight of that wedding for me was discovering @quantum_tunnel does a wicked impression of @ProfBrianCox
BBC review the year in science... including my small contribution! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
RT @stuarthoughton: If it's too snowy to go and buy the Telegraph - LIKE I JUST DID, BRAVELY - you can read my Quantum Computing words here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsor...
RT @VizTopTips: IT'S probably a bad idea to invite Julian Assange to join your secret Santa group. /via @sheardyj
RT @parmy: Teeny-tiny quantum computers are now a step closer to reality: http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyol...
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Gratuitous plug: Quantum computers a step closer to reality http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsand... , preprint here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2456
....not so good for discovering the "long tail". e.g. implemention stuff, experiments, or the .... @mattleifer@mickbremner@jfitzsimmons
Most contributors on those are enthusiasts, not researchers but there's one obvious solution to that. @jfitzsimons @mattleifer @mickbremner
Can we force last.fm to give us a list of @danbrowne77 's albums of the decade?
J.Pickrell on ocean acidification: a huge threat to sea life. Too late to fix? #cop15 - To vote: RT #ejavote http://awards.earthjournalism.org/finalis...
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
"Still, bad though it is, I vaguely prefer the clumping, clueless, uncool, crappiness of Microsoft's bland Stepford gang to the creepy assurance of the average Mac evangelist. At least the grinning dildos in the Windows video are fictional, whereas eerie replicant Mac monks really are everywhere, standing over your shoulder in their charcoal pullovers, smirking with amusement at your hopelessly inferior OS, knowing they're better than you because they use Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard. SNOW LEOPARD. I don't care if you're right. I just want you to die."
- Sean Barrett
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Gratuitous plug of my article "Quantum computation via
measurements on the low-temperature state of a many-body system," which has just appeared in PRA: http://link.aps.org/doi...
Quantum computers still work with half their bits missing | COSMOS magazine - http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news...
Michael Bremner liked this
Excellent headline. we should have used it as the title of the paper
- Sean Barrett
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Nice experiment from the Rempe group on phase shaping of single photons: http://www.nature.com/nphoton...
Posted here as an excuse to shamelessly plug my N&V article on same: http://www.nature.com/nphoton...
- Sean Barrett
I'm trying to work out if twitter, ff etc are at all useful.
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FF is useful once you get it set up correctly, which takes a while. Twitter is useless aside from the small fact that most of the people are there rather than on FF.
- Matt Leifer
Hmm what do I need to do to set it up correctly? It seems to be working ok so far.
- Sean Barrett
I mean that once you have a lot of subscriptions the Home feed becomes really noisy and difficult to keep up with. You will eventually need to set up several friend lists and saved searches in order to keep track of important things and eliminate some of the noise. Also, if you are interested in using FF as a Twitter client and feed reader as I do then you have to set up a lot of imaginary friends in order to deal with the people/blogs that are not on FF yet.
- Matt Leifer
Matt, do you find that people on here are discussing physics/CS (as in research) in the same way (or as actively) that they are discussing, e.g. science 2.0? If so, where?
- Sean Barrett
Generally no. There are not enough physicists/theoretical CS people on here for that. For example, the Quantum Computing room is pretty dead. We are vastly outnumbered by bioinformatics and chemistry people, who apparently do have some useful research discussions. It's one of the reasons that I pull a lot of blog feeds into FF.
- Matt Leifer
I find that FF is more useful for quantum link discovery rather than for discussion at the moment. For example, someone like Dave Bacon might point out an interesting article that I had ignored (especially experimental stuff). Also, I pull in a feed from Google Alerts about quantum stuff, which occasionally comes up with good stuff that I haven't seen, but mainly lets me know what articles people are blogging about and writing about in the press.
- Matt Leifer
I guess "quantum link discovery" is part of why I'm here. I found myself emailing people a lot about papers I was excited by, it seems to make more sense to make those comments public. I think if we start doing that then the discussion will follow in these comment threads.
- Sean Barrett
Absoultely, but unfortunately we lack the critical mass to make that happen at the moment. You should also look into social bookmarking sites like Delicious, and social reference management like CiteULike, Connotea and 2Collab, which are better for managing papers and can replace a desktop bibtex manager. You can then pull a feed from those services into here. Unfortunately, they also lack critical mass in our field at the moment.
- Matt Leifer
What would be really useful would be if any of those sites could connect to some sort of "scrobbler" plugin, like Last.fm has, which could just quietly collect information on which abstracts/pdfs I was looking at or printing, and building a recommendation engine based on that. I don't know if such things exist but it would certainly harvest more data than having to explicitly link to things on ff or wherever.
- Sean Barrett
You might try looking at Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/ It claims to be a "Last.fm for research" and is backed by some of the people behind Last.fm. Personally, I found the desktop client to be very slow on the Mac and I had difficulty importing my library from Papers so I haven't used it too much (it didn't seem to want to import whole directories at once and I wasn't about to add...
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- Matt Leifer
Hi Sean - as Matt points out, what you're saying is exactly the idea behind Mendeley. Matt: We've had a major new release yesterday, with many new features (including PDF annotation: http://www.mendeley.com/blog...) and a much more native interface for Mac. Some speed/stability issues remain, but these will be ironed out as we approach version 1.0. Perhaps you could give it a try and let us know what you think?
- Victor / Mendeley Team
As Matt points out, social reference managers (like 2collab) are meant for this, but lack critical mass. I added my 2collab feed to FF, which at least is a good way to get scholarly citations into FF.
- Michael Habib
England got as much chance in the #ashes as I have of seeing a pink elephant on the internet... Oh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
I'm testing to see if this also appears on twitter.
Magic!
- Sean Barrett
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