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Re:The “Talk” by kingbirdy on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:02PM (#21379678)
Scott Aaronson, co-author of the comic, is the director of the Quantum Information Center at UT Austin, and has a number of publications about quantum computing. His website has more qualifications: https://www.scottaaronson.com/.
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Re:The “Talk” by knzhou on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:31PM (#21380023)
And it's not just the qualifications -- Scott Aaronson is one of the most approachable, honest, and witty science communicators of all time. You almost never see all those traits all together in popsci, even ignoring qualifications.

If there was a Scott Aaronson tier communicator for every subfield of science, the world would be a much better place. I also wouldn't have to type nearly as many comments.

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Re:The “Talk” by romwell on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:47PM (#21383609)
>You almost never see all those traits all together in popsci

Hold on a second. Scott Aaronson is popsci, as in popular science.

As for what you refer to, see the name of the journal the boy is reading in the first panel :)

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Re:The “Talk” by _asummers on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:07PM (#21379745)
His book Quantum Computing Since Democritus is very good too.
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Re:The “Talk” by Darkphibre on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:22PM (#21379925)
Wow. I had no idea, thanks for this!
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