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Mittag-Leffler Institute and Yale, Winter 2005; Test your intuition: Who Played the Piano?
This is a little “flashback” intermission in my posts about my debate with Aram Harrow. This time I try to refer to Cris Moore’s question regarding the motivation for my study. For the readers it gives an opportunity to win a … Continue reading →
Posted in Computer Science and Optimization, Controversies and debates, Physics, Test your intuition
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Tagged Alain Lascoux, Allon Percus, Andrei Okounkov, Andrew Casson, Boris Tsirelson, Chris Skinner, Cris Moore, Dorit Aharonov, Ehud Friedgut, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Itai Benjamini, Michael Ben-Or, Michel Devoret, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Muli Safra, Mystery-person-playing-the-piano, Oded Schramm, Peter Mester, Peter Shor, Quantum computers, Ravi Kannan, Robert Alicki, Tim Gowers, Xavier Viennot, Yale
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