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Quantum Computing systems, Quantum Internet, quantum education.
Caltech, USC, Keio.
West Virginia, LA, Kamakura.
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Where?
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Serge Haroche quotes Flexner.
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tenki.jp says only shindo 2, and friends in Tokyo claim not to have felt it, but it was a solid one here.
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I'm pretty sure we had it in my high school in southern West Virginia around 1981, but I'm not sure it was presented as a bad thing, just sort of a fact that might show up on a test.
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So far, we've only focused on founders because without them, these companies would have never existed. But without the workers, they also wouldn't be where they are today. So let's talk about the workers.
In 1865, Georges Favre-Jacot founded a Swiss watch brand called Zenith.
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Nonetheless, Hans Wilsdorf founded Rolex in 1908, the main luxury watch you sell.
Unfortunately, Wilsdorf wasn't able to fully dodge xenophobia. Anti-German sentiment during WWI contributed to Rolex moving its HQ from England to Switzerland. Hence why it's a Swiss company today.
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Why would you do that to yourself :-) ?
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Define "summer".
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Thirty years ago, in the midst of the Killer Micros era, people used to say, "Ten million dollars gets you one white chip," the cheapest chip in a poker game. Nowadays in quantum (and AI) I think it's closer to a hundred million -- and you need a bunch of chips to build a complete system.
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All tasty looking suggestions, thanks!
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That's the only one of your recommendations I've already read. I found it enlightening.
One of my colleagues knew the author and disliked him, found his attitude toward Japan to be paternalistic.
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I've read so much and yet I'm so woefully under read.
I'm particularly interested right now in the period roughly 1960 to 1975.
Thanks for any pointers!
3/3
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And I have read a few things on women's history and still fewer on Black history, both things I need to correct.
So:
Anybody got good books on:
Global or US overview
Civil Rights Movement
Cold War
Africa
Latin America
West Asia
Middle East & Arab World
2/3?
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I forgot to add, Doctor Walton!
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Congratulations!
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"From 1944 to 1951, Ruby helped lay the very foundations of #RadioAstronomy — a whole new way of seeing the universe."
For the full story, Miller Goss' book "Under the Radar" is an interesting read:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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And one other thing: when I graduated from college in 1986, the low-end Ferrari was about twice my annual income. Now, 39 years later, the low-end Ferrari is...about three times my annual income.
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I know nothing about their engineering, reliability or performance, but one thing I know for certain: the current generation of Ferraris are BEAUTIFUL machines.
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JR East would like to give them a run for their money, but I'm sure Eurostar has been in the business of non-functional WiFi longer.
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Me, too.
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That was fantastic. Moving and relevant, a history piece that holds a mirror up to today.