From the author of Chaos Monkeys:
My former PhD advisor got the Nobel Prize (John Clarke at Berkeley). It was without question the dullest work I’ve ever done in life and should have left earlier.
Related:
- Chaos Monkeys: Relations between the sexes in Silicon Valley
- Who will sign up to read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to the tender souls at Google?
- “Women in Science” (Greenspun 2006): This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs.
A lot of people were surprised with this year Physics Nobel. Possible connection – relation to Alphabet.
“Five winners in two years.”
Though I remain unconvinced re: quantum computers.
This particular discovery looks more of a derivative of first quantum tunneling discovery. Something that an engineer or a posr doc stambles upon but does not consider important enough. Not real founding discovery for quantum computing. If someone sets to gevelop quantum chip then for sure this effect would come up in R&D process. It is definitely a boring discovery that is based on data analysis. People thought that there were other foundational works in quantum computing that deserved a Nobel price.