Lies, damned lies and …

SciRate stats.
A few days back Dave did some analysis on papers that were highly scited on SciRate in the past 12 months. He examined papers that had more than 10 scitations and tried to group them by region.
Papers that had multiple co-authors were split between regions and if an author had multiple affiliations between different [...]

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The Tricki looks awesome

I just had a look at the Tricki that Tim Gowers has set up, it looks like it is going to be an incredibly useful resource for solving mathsish problems!

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I walked past Royal Albert Hall on my way to work this mornin

This week I’m attending the IMA conference on quantum computing and the complexity of quantum simulation.
Looks like it’s going to be a good conference. Daniel Gottesman is kicking off with a review(ish) talk on “Computationally hard problems in spin systems”…

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Yay! I’ve now been published in a Royal Society journal

Yay! My paper with Dan Shepherd that was previously titled Instantaneous Quantum Computation has been appeared online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A with the title Temporally Unstructured Quantum Computation.
I wonder if any royals read the Proceedings A?
Update: I forgot to add that the published version is roughly 100 bazillion times easier to [...]

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Matt Hastings is guest posting over at Tobias’ place

For those who are into the adiabatic model of quantum computation I suggest going here and having a read.

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Tobias has gone all open sciencish

Yay for Tobias and his new blog!
If you be all quantumish and are a fan of open science then I highly recommend giving it a look. Having worked a lot with Tobias I can say that he has loads of excellent ideas and the right sort of research style to make this blog an extremely [...]

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Weakly Abstract: A tale of ambition and tragedy

Once upon a time there was a weekly blog series here at Brissie to Brizzle entitled “Weakly Abstract“. In this series I ranted about whatever paper on the arXiv caught my attention in a given week. Unfortunately, it died.
(Who would have thought that keeping a regular schedule while jetting around the world would be hard?)
Well, [...]

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Congratulations Endnote, you’ve made my list

LEAVE ZOTERO ALONE YOU BASTARDS!!!
There will be an Endnote boycott in 3-2-1…
I guess Reuters really wants to have a war with the webs.
Hat tip to Crooked Timber.

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Weakly Abstract: March 10 – March 14

Sorry everyone, I dropped the ball and didn’t manage to get out the Weakly Abstract on time this week. My excuse is kinda lame, yesterday I was giving a talk at the Quantum Information Processing Spring School and with one thing and another I didn’t get time to crank out a blog post. What’s doubly [...]

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Weakly Abstract: March 3 – March 7

This week’s Weakly Abstract is going to be highly controversial. You see, over the last month or so that I’ve been doing this I’ve followed a pretty tried-and-true pattern of picking either the most, or second most, scited paper on SciRate from any given week.
This week I’m going to dip waaayyyy down into the [...]

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