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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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Can you measure which panagrams are natural
A Pangram is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet The classic is: The quick brown fox jumped over thehere...
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The two fears about technology- one correct, one incorrect
When the luddites smashed loom machines their supporters (including Lord Byron, Ada Lovelaces father) made two arguments in favor of the luddites (I am sure IWeapons...
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The k=1 case is FUN, the k=2 case is fun, the k\ge 3 case is... you decide.
(All of the math in this post is in here.) The following problem can be given as a FUN recreational problem to HS students or even younger: (I am sure that many...
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Open: PROVE the pumping and reductions can't prove every non-reg lang non-reg.
Whenever I post on regular langs, whatever aspect I am looking at, I get a comment telling me that we should stop proving the pumping lemma (and often ask me to...
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Reductions between formal languages
Let EQ = {w : number of a's = number of b's } Let EQO = { anbn : n ∈ N} (so its Equal and in Order) Typically we do the following: Prove EQO is not regular...
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Michael Cohen
When I first saw posts about Michael Cohen (see here, here, here) I wondered is that the same Michael Cohen who I knew as a HS student? It is. I share one memory...
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Is the Textbook Market doomed?
STORY ONE: I always tell my class that its OKAY if they don't have the latest edition of the textbook, and if they can find it a cheap, an earlier edition (often...
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Science fiction viewers used to embrace diversity (or did they) and now they don't (or do they)
(This post is inspired by the choice of a female to be the next Doctor on the TV show Dr. Who. Note that you can't say `the next Dr. Who will be female' since Dr...
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Acronyms and PHP
Whenever I teach discrete math and use FML to mean Formula the students laugh since its a common acroynm for Fuck My Life. Now they laugh, and I say I know why...
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A problem I thought was interesting- now...
On Nate Silver's page he sometimes (might be once a week) has a column edited by Oliver Roeder of problems. Pretty much math problems though sometimes not quite...
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The Scarecrow's math being wrong was intentional
In 2009 I had a post about Movie mistakes (see here). One of them was the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz after he got a Diploma (AH- but not a brain) he said The...
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Statistics on my dead cat policy- is there a correlation?
When I teach a small (at most 40) students I often have the dead-cat policy for late HW: HW is due on Tuesday. But there may be things that come up that don't ...
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either pi is algebraic or some journals let in an incorrect paper!/the 15 most famous transcendental numbers
Someone has published three papers claiming that π is 17 -sqrt(3) which is really =3.1435935394... Someone else has published eight papers claiming π is (14...
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What is unusual about this MIT grad student in Applied Math?
(Thanks to Rachel Folowoshele for bringing this to my attention) John Urschel is a grad student in applied math at MIT. His webpage is here. Some students gohere...
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Should we care if a job candidate does not know the social and ethical implications of their work (Second Blog Post inspired by Rogawarys Moral Character Paper)
Phillip Rogaway's article on the The Moral character of Cryptographic Work (see here) brings up so many issues that it could be the topics for at least 5 blog...
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Harvard punishes some social organizations. Why?
Over at the blog Bits and Pieces my adviser Harry Lewis (is he still my adviser 32 years after I got my PhD? Yes) has written many posts about Harvard's decision...
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What are the top Computer science programs for women?
What are the top Computer Science Programs for Women? How would one even answer the question? Some people did a study based on National Center for Education Statistics...
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I would call these Galois Games but I can't
Here is a game (Darling says I only blog about non-fun games. This post will NOT prove her wrong.) Let D be a domain, d ≥ 1 and 0 ≠ a0 ∈ D. There are two players...
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89944 Hat Problems
I've blogged about different hat problems a few times (see here). The question arises: How many hat problems are there? The answer is really infinite (literally)...
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