If you're not familiar, Scott is a professor of MIT, specializing in quantum computing. Many readers of his blog are also well known in this sphere, so they would have more technical insight, more in depth than the pbs layman's version.
Technically, you can run Shor's algorithm on non quantum computers, with an exponential speed up (but fully within capabilities of modern computing vs. small quantities of qubits)
I don't think school is too important. My friend and I are from the same school, I got to the next round, he didn't. (He's going to go work for Google anyway, so it doesn't matter). That being said, it probably does play _some_ factor.
I played around with sqlalchemy a bit this week, it seems you still have to dive down to the bare relational manual mapping (by creating a table by hand) to do something simple, like many-to-many mappings. Is there a better way to do it?
Note to people applying: I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. in 2013, Academia.edu came to my school and agreed to an on campus interview, and never actually contacted me for the time of the interview (cancelled my classes all day too :/). I also emailed Ben, who posted at a previous "Who is Hiring" thread with no response.
Does anyone know how the signals are being sent from the cookie to Mother? The company mentioned in a CES video that they werent using the traditional bluetooth, wifi, etc.