After 3 days of 100 degree heat in Omaha with no AC, I returned to the blessed mild weather of Santa Fe Monday somewhat depleted, but felt I must go to the Sander Bais talk at SFI (http://www.santafe.edu/events/abstract/1373) since I thought it might have something to do with Topological Quantum Field Theory that I fancied that I almost understood via the Baez essays.
I was fortunately (hoo boy!) wrong, this is different and may be much related to my questions about observers, but I came away very motivated by the clarity of the talk to peruse his books on quantum computing, which were highly recommended by Those In The Know (you know who you are) as being popular books that are highly non-pandering ( see http://tinyurl.com/5q25so ). Anybody else motivated to make sense of these and if so, which one? commas are for all, C. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
