Tag Archives: probability
What does a quantum Bayes’s rule look like?
Bayes’s rule is one of the most fundamental principles in probability and statistics. It allows us to update our beliefs in the face of new evidence. In its simplest form, the rule tells us how to revise the probability of … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Bayes's rule, Bayesian network, Bayesianism, Choi operators, commutativity, completely positive trace-preserving map, noise correction, Physical Review Letters, principle of minimum change, probability, quantum computing, quantum information theory, stochastic processes, unitarity, variational Bayesian inference
Comments Off on What does a quantum Bayes’s rule look like?
The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run – 2
I’d linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I’d written to one of the paper’s authors, Pascal Pralavorio … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ATLAS detector, CERN, CMS detector, di-jet events, Large Hadron Collider, luminosity, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, probability, Standard Model, supersymmetry
Comments Off on The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run – 2
The philosophies in physics
As a big week for physics comes up–a July 4 update by CERN on the search for the Higgs boson followed by ICHEP ’12 at Melbourne–I feel really anxious as a small-time proto-journalist and particle-physics-enthusiast. If CERN announces the discovery … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged classical mechanics, deterministic causality, eigenstate, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Higgs mechanism, philosophy of physics, probability, quantum field theory, Quantum mechanics, Standard Model, universe
Comments Off on The philosophies in physics
Eigenstates of the human mind
Would a mind’s computing strength be determined by its ability to make sense of counter-intuitive principles (Type I) or by its ability to solve an increasing number of simple problems in a second (Type II)? Would Type I and Type … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged computing power, eigenstate, probability, state-function
Comments Off on Eigenstates of the human mind