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I started reading SMBC when there were on like number 2700...binge-reading them, that is.

You could definitely notice when XKCD's humor started seeping in :P

I seem to recall thinking in my adolescent "teen logic" haze that if I could get As on tests it was stupid to waste time doing busy work.

I'm pretty sure every teenager goes through this phase for at least a little while. It took me until I dropped out of college, worked for 2 years, then decided to come back before I got over it o.O

Well, I don't think he's planning on replicating the exact actual quantum states of the original teacup...:O

Perhaps a random question, but: Have you guys ever thought about designing the hardware of a quantum computer (maybe an adiabatic one) that uses Bayesian network "logic" rather than aiming for the traditional circuit model? Would such a computer be easier to build than a gate-based one?

And one other question...AdS/CFT relies heavily on quantum information. It provides ways to describe certain field theoretic problems, on a fairly abstract level, using spacetime equations. Has this ever, have you guys ever, considered using it to, for instance, design a topological quantum computer? (and if so, are there any direct tie-ins to figuring out ideal ways for built-in error correction using this correspondence?)

Haha, well, couldn't you still, say, consider a space of d-dimensional qudits (ie the vibrational states available to atoms in a lattice) and use that for computation, while using d+1 spacetime maths to describe its operation?