Patrick Huang

Patrick is an undergraduate in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has experience in computer vision and machine learning, and is interested in efficient implementations of these concepts.

Patrick does his work in GNU/Linux, and finds it much more user friendly than Microsoft Windows. He switched from VSCode to Neovim, and maintains that it is a performance boost, and not shooting himself in the foot.

Outside of engineering, Patrick enjoys piano, philosophy, sociology, running, biking, Ultimate frisbee, and cooking.

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Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.

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