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“better with more computational speed, but not quite as rapidly. So for example, if you had what's called a quadratic time algorithm, that would be like grade school multiplication. Like if you…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“Okay, so let's think about another case. In Archimedes' wonderful treatise, the Quadrature of the Parabola, he set himself the task. He had a parabola and a segment,” (Joel David Hamkins)

“and then Cicero imitating this in Latin makes up the word qualitas, quality, right? So we use this word all the time, quality, qualitative. It literally just means houness, what's-it-like-ness,…” (Richard Polt)

“Measuring quantifies what is otherwise vague. It makes it exact, it makes it precise, it makes it replicable, it makes it universal. It is this, the number is the same for everyone.” (Lee Braver)

“Okay, you say, but I also keep hearing about these quantum computers. So what's up with that? Like, did Turing already have in mind quantum computers? Well, I don't know the answer to that question…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“Because, for example, current technology trends you've probably heard about, right? There's quantum computing, there's sort of powerful optimization solvers, like if you've ever heard of integer…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“If you measure A on particle one and A on particle two, the results will always be opposite. If particle one turns out to have A value plus one, particle two will have A value minus one. The same for…” (David Albert)

“But we don't have them. We don't believe those anymore. We've had scientific revolutions since then. Einstein and quantum mechanics have shown... Einstein showed that time and space are not Newtonian…” (Lee Braver)

“first of all, is a book that I myself wrote, years ago called Quantum Mechanics and Experience, published by Harvard. There's a wonderful book by Tim Maudlin, called Philosophy of Physics: called…” (David Albert)

“years ago, used to call this way of talking "quantum mechanics in your face." Okay? Just because it is just von Neumann's rule number one. We ha- w- there's a way of resisting the temptation to…” (David Albert)

“The instruction is that you should change your description of particle number two instantaneously, no matter how far apart particle one and particle two may happen to be, no matter what conditions…” (David Albert)

“represented a sort of really decisive collapse of the traditional aspirations of the scientific project. So, over and above being a set of discoveries, like I say, about the behaviors of subatomic…” (David Albert)

“You couldn't know quartz. Quartz is a crystal. The word crystal comes from the ancient Greek for icy cold, 'cause it looks like ice. It makes up 12% of Earth's land surface, 20% of its crust.” (Lee Braver)

“early can't kill you, you can also tell 'em about Descartes because he was hired by Queen Catherine of Sweden, who liked getting up early and going out and philosophizing in the cold, and he was dead…” (Lee Braver)

“Descartes wrote a horribly obsequious letter at the beginning of the Meditations , begging some rich people to, to pay for him to, uh, stay in bed until noon, uh, thinking. And eventually, Qu- Queen…” (Lee Braver)

“And the new chocolates will always be added mentally at the back of the line, and the glutton will always eat from the front of the line. Yes. So, this is something like what the devil did when” (Joel David Hamkins)