Editing Jonathan-dowling

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	| number    = 5694
	| date      = June 26, 2020
	| title     = jonathan-dowling
	| image     = 1593167549-20200626.png
	| votey     = 159316769020200626after.png
	| titletext = I was supposed to write the foreword to his last book, but wasn't able to get around to it in time. With characteristic directness and understanding, he suggested using one of my comics he'd inspired. I still feel guilty about it.
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==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:Nders tand quantum ting anyone tands
:Technol ogy and our usual process wasto obsess over a topic for a month or twountil we had basic unders tanding then consult with a few experts toss in some jokes, and voila/
:Who quantum computing knows isa ield that one cannot 1 earn
:Unders
:Extra
:But with this wall usually, we tried to literature with quantum uting, primary literature too technical to if you don't have a deep
:Explain it to me againp
:It's like there's bit but the bit is like different places, and the places I have no idea what I'm talking about
:Popular treatments are so simpl they don't even make sense or they're actively wrong
:Bumped into
:Book called
:Nger killer appbya guy named jonat han dowl ing and it cracked open the whole universe for me.
:Be which so the qubit can is way more numbers/
:Had
:Jonathan passed away this month
:Nerdy
:Up
:At
:April 1955
:June 2020
:I never met him in person, but : Learned a lot from him last we talked, he was working on book about the quantum internet. Which hope is still published
:Anyway I don't have any special insight here. Honestly.It just sucks but in memoriam here's a comic-ified version of my favorite story from his book the only context you need is that shor's algorithm is extremely important in quantum computing
:These are his words my pic tures
:When studenta university took the number math
:My physics students and laughed at this number theory course with the retort
:"number theory! What seue-respecti physicist would ever need to know number theoryyoushould take something useful
:Found
:Guly
:I was research when I army
:One memorable lecture two-star army general me when I got to the chinese remainder and exclaimed
:Was tasked give lectures
:How long have the chinese been working on this
:To army
:The general turned to aide and barked
:Straight face
:General when it comes the remainder theorem the chinese a are years ahead of us
:The chinese are ahead! Write that down
:To
:Suntzu firs the theorem in his book tue classic which was published in the third century ad)
:On
==Votey Transcript==
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:Jesus, it's a freakin' memorial comic and you're here for a bonus joke?!
:Shame!
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