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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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ACM to go paper-free! Good? Bad?
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) will soon stop having print versions of most its publications. Rather than list which ones are going paper free, Iare...
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Asymptotics of R(4,k)- a new result!
At the workshop Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Edited by Alexander Soifer, 2011. (There is a printed proceedings that you can find.) I saw Joel...
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The CONTRADICTION of Margaritaville and other songs
Jimmy Buffett passed away on Sept 2, 2023. His Wikipedia entry (see here) says his death was peaceful and he was surrounded by friends, family, and his dog, sohere...
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Theorems and Lemmas and Proofs, Oh My!
I was recently asked by a non-mathematician about the difference between the terms Theorem, Lemma, etc. My first reaction was I probably have a blog post on that...
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Why I have some sympathy for the Simulation Theory (We are all characters in a video game.)
There are some people who believe that we are all characters in a video game written by Abisola (this is sometimes called The Simulation Hypothesis). I first dismissed...
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Permutable Primes and Compatible Primes
This post is about an open problems column by Gasarch-Gezalyn-Patrick so they can be considered co-authors on this post. The column is here.Known: A permutablehere...
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Another problem with CHATgpt
I was giving a recruiting talk for my REU program and I had some slides with testimonials from students:-------------------------------------------------------...
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"Never give AI the Nuclear Codes" Really? Have you seen Dr. Strangelove?
(I covered a simlar topic here.) In the June 2023 issue of The Atlantic is an article titled: Never Give AI Intelligence the...
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Finding and answer to a math question: 1983 vs 2023.
In 1983, as a grad student, I knew that HALT \( \le_T \) KOLG but didn't know how to prove it. I asked around and A MONTH later through a series of connectionshere...
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A futher comment on Chernoff--- and the future of ....
Ravi Boppana recently did a guest blog on Chernoff turning 100 for us here. Consider this unpublished comment on that post: -----------------------------------...
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Can you put n pennies on an n x n chessboard so that all of the distances are distinct/how to look that up?
In Jan 2023 I went to the Joint Math Meeting of the AMS and the MAA and took notes on things to look up later. In one of the talks they discussed a problem and...
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Ted Kaczynski was at one time the worlds most famous living mathematician
(This post is inspired by the death of Ted Kaczynski who died on June 10, 2023.) From 1978 until 1995 23 mailbombs were send to various people. 3 caused deaths,...
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Posting a book online with a password- that you broadcast.
Recently Lance, at the request of Vijay Vazirani, tweeted the following (I paraphrase)------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Quantifiers: To Parenthesize or not to Parenthesize? Matrix of Formula: To Bracket or not to Bracket?
For the book Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi (See here for a link to a first draft.) we had to...
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On Nov 10, 2014 the TV show Scorpion mentions Software that is like ChatGPT for Music
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the...
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Logic and lack of Logic of Anti Vaxers
I wrote the post below the dotted line a long time ago but never got around to posting it. Now that WHO says COVID emergency...
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Take a number and map it to the number of letters in its name
Let f: N--> N map a number to the number-of-letters in its name in English (we will consider other languages later).So for example 14 is fourteen so it maps tohere...
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Other Ramsey's
I often Google Ramsey stuff to find something. I often end up back on my own collection of Ramsey theory papers. But I sometimes find OTHER uses of the phrase...
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There are an infinite number of proofs that there are an infinite number of primes
In the last few years there have been four papers that prove the primes are infinite using some number theory and some Ramsey Theory. The papers are:Van der Waerden...
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