John Preskill
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Preskill: Leonard Susskind is the active physicist most similar to Richard Feynman
“In terms of style and personality of physicists who are currently active I think Lenny Susskind is the most similar to Feynman of anyone I can think of.”
Preskill: Richard Feynman's refusal to read 1980s literature hurt his research
“The big difference between Feynman and me in the mid-nineteen-eighties is, I was reading literature, and he wasn't. And probably if he had been, it would have, he would have been well-served.”
Preskill: Grover's algorithm only doubles tractable cities in traveling salesman problems
“And in practice, it's not that big a deal. What it means is that, you know, if you have the same processing speed, you can handle about you know, twice as many cities before the problem becomes too hard to solve as you could if you were using a classical proce…”
Preskill: Quantum error correction is now achievable in the laboratory
“But at first that was just kind of a theorist fantasy. It was a little too far ahead of The technology, but, you know, 20 years later, the technology is catching up, so now this idea of quantum error correction has become something you can do in the lab.”