Readings
An annotated shelf. Each entry is one line on what I took from it.
Ongoing
- ongoing
blog
Where I go for honest takes on quantum complexity, quantum advantage claims, and the field's debates.
On doing research
- 2016
Ambitious problems are often not much harder than small ones, and they force you out of the obvious approaches.
- 1986
Bell Communications Research talk, transcript
Keep asking what the important problems in your field are, and why you aren't working on them.
Mindset
- 1982
Simulating Physics with Computers,
International Journal of Theoretical Physics 21, 467. Keynote at the 1981 Physics of Computation conference
The paper that argued nature has to be simulated quantum mechanically, because nature isn't classical.