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Because we humans are macroscopic beings who constantly interact with our environment, reasoning about the behavior of individual particles in a closed system — quantum behavior — can be difficult.

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Learning quantum computing typically involves learning about the Bloch sphere, a representation of a qubit state as a point on the unit sphere.

It has been a few years since I wrote a post on this blog, so I wanted to share a fun proof, even if it’s a little trivial.$ \newcommand{bra}[1]{\langle #1 |} \newcommand{ket}[1]{| #1 \rangle} \newcommand{braket}[2]{\langle #1 | #2 \rangle} \newcommand{br…

The official “Spotify for Linux” page states: Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines.

In courses taught in Java (such as a data structures class), you can build pretty robust autograders for homeworks — after all, the student’s code runs in the JVM, which prevents it from doing spooky things like corrupting memory or branching to weird pla…

Here’s a cherrypicked list of the highest praise I’ve received in student evaluations: TAing nothing except maybe less CS humor communist ought to watch more anime This course was not just a disappointing course, but an embarrassment to Georgia Tech. [1400

In CS 2110 at Georgia Tech, we use the Gameboy Advance to demonstrate how C code can interact directly with hardware.

I’ve always wondered how the shady PDF wizards make those shady textbook PDFs you find online, and I was bored yesterday, so I decided to find out.

On GNU/Linux, to make .sim files have a Roigisim icon and open in Roigisim, run the following (except replace 1.6.0 with the version you want): curl -Ls https://austinjadams.com/img/blog/open-sim-in-roigisim/roigisim-setup.sh | bash -s 1.6.0 After the scr…

A driver on Ubuntu 16.04 was giving me some trouble, so I wanted to quickly install Debian sid on an external hard drive to see if later versions of Debian/Ubuntu fixed the issue.

Sometimes you gotta have pretty icons and pretty buttons, y’know?

When redesigning my website recently, I realized I needed some meat on my homepage.

Selected publications (for more, see my Google Scholar profile): Austin J.

Yesterday, I visited a website that uses dd-formmailer, a Wordpress plugin that provides a form for sending an email, complete with a CAPTCHA intended to prevent automated abuse.

In my combinatorics class, we covered many neat subjects, some easier and some harder.

On GNU/Linux, I suggest using the OpenJDK, a free implementation of Java, and IntelliJ, so this guide will use both.

I’m a pro at using things incorrectly, so of course I’d brick my Archer C7 v2 a few hours after I got it.

In my college dorm, my roommate and I have three machines on the same network: My laptop (GNU/Linux) My roommate’s laptop (Windows) My desktop, a headless GNU/Linux server with my printer connected Because my roommate doesn’t have a printer and I often ta…

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Don’t tell rms, but sometimes I play Steam games.

For years, I’ve been meaning to set up a blog, but characteristically I couldn’t muster the effort to even try.

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