August Guang

180 George St

Providence, RI 02906

Lead Genomics Data Scientist at Brown University’s Computational Biology Core and the Center for Computation and Visualization. Former community organizer, current workout and games hobbyist. You can most likely find me at CrossFit, surfing, playing mahjong, video games, or jiujitsu when I’m not at work.

My primary research interest is in quantifying uncertainty in genomics workflows. In a way, that is also my motivation and mantra in community organizing: becoming comfortable with uncertainty and always pushing for change.

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 7, 2015	A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015	A simple inline announcement.

latest posts

Jul 12, 2023	a post with bibliography
Jul 4, 2023	a post with jupyter notebook
May 12, 2023	a post with custom blockquotes

selected publications

1935

PhysRev

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

A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen

Phys. Rev., 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.