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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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If GASARCH Tweeted what would he tweet?
If I tweeted this is what I would tweet: The problem with trying to predict who will win the election. Prez election thought: if you run as yourself and lose (Stevenson...
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Andrew Goldberg guest blog on new max flow result
Guest Blog by Andrew Goldberg on the recent Max Flow in O(nm) time algorithm. Maximum Flow in O(nm) Time Recently, Jim Orlin published an O(nm) maximum flow algorithm...
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Random thoughts on the election
Neither Lance and I have commented much on the Prez election. I only found one post from 2012 that mentioned Romney: Romney vs Aaronson. A few mentioned Obama but...
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Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist!
At Dagstuhl I was delighted when I saw the title of a talk to be given Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist because I had asked the question about...
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Theory Day. How to get the word out on this and other events?
Aravind asked me to post on this again (NOTE- registration-for-free deadline is TOMMOROW!!!!!) The University of Maryland at College park is having a Theory Day...
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Cruel XOR unusual Punishment
(This post was done with the help of Lane Hemaspaandra and John Purtilo.) The 8th amendment of the US Constitution states Excessive bail shall not be required...
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Quantum Workshop
I went to the QIS workshop on quantum computing which was on the College Park Campus. I went Thursday (reception- free food!) and Friday (free lunch!) but had...
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A new kind of Spam
(In this post I quote attempted posts to the blog. I transcribe them as they are, so if you see a missing period or awkward language, its not me (this time) its...
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Imagining Imaginary Probabilities
In the year 4000BC my great-great-...-great grandmother tried to solve (in today's terms) the equation x2 + 2x + 2 = 0 She discovered that if it had a solution...
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Some quantum Stuff
Two quantum announcements (emailed to me by Umesh Vazirani, and produced here almost exactly) and then some thoughts of mine quantum computing. Announcement one...
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Theory Day at UMCP Oct 24
The University of Maryland at College park is having a Theory Day on Wed Oct 24! Come hear Distinguished talks by Julia Chuzhoy and Venkataesan Guruswami! Short...
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Should we learn from the Masters or from the Pupils?
The following is a paraphrase of a comment at the end of the Suggested Readings section of Spivak's calculus book: Abel remarked that he attributed his profound...
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Neil Armstrong, Ray Bradbury: The future is not what we thought it would be
Neil Armstrong died on August 25, 2012. He was the first man to walk on the moon. (Since they always say this I wonder if Women walked on the moon earlierRay ...
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Fellow blogger Abie Flaxma named Top Innovator!
(Guest post from William Heisel, Assistant Director for External Relations, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 5th Avenue...
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Book Review Column (a bit late)
I try to post my book review column when it comes out but I am behind on that. This is the one that came out a few months ago. The column is here though I have...
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My take on the Olympics
Thoughts about the Olympics If you are rooting for your country, would you rather they get (say) 18 medals: 6 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze, or 17 medals: 10 Gold...
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A natural function with very odd properties
Last time I posted some questions. Today I post the answer that I know. Is there a subset of [0,1] that is uncountable and has measure 0? YES- take theCantor...
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Six Questions about unnatrual and natural mathematical objects
Today (Monday) I pose some questions. In my next post (Tuesday) I will post the answersthat I know (some I do not). Some questions are a matter of opinionin terms...
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The Combinatorics of Batman
(I wrote this post about a year ago but waited until the new Batmanmovie came out to post it. I haven't seen the movie yet sothere may more possibilities to add...
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