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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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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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Solutions to some Hat Problem AND some points of interest.
In my last blog here I asked three (known) hat problems since they may be new to you (one of them I just learned last week) and I had a point to make about them...
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Two hat problems you may or may not have seen but I have a point to make about one of them
Hat problems are fun and often require clever solutions. I have posted about one type of hat problem here. In this post I ask three. For two of them I have a point...
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Harvard revokes admission of students based on what was said in a private(?) chat room
Harvard revoked the admission of 10 students (see here) based on what the students said in a private (can't have been too private) chat room. Normally I wouldThe...
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Climate Change: The Evolution of the Deniers/Does Paul Ryan Hate His Grandchildren?
I went to the Mach for Science and then Drumpf pulled out of the Paris Accords. Causation or Correlation? I then posted about climate change (CC). That's caustation...
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Big News on W(3,r) !
This is a JOINT POST with Evangelos Georgiadis who brought this problem to my attention.) In 2010 I posted about how dense a set of integers has to be before...
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Google Scholar thinks my Hilbert Number is 1
(I want to thank Lane Hemaspaandra for bringing this to my attention.) When I google: google scholar William Gasarch I get this (I wonder if what you get...
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If an ugrad asks `is field X worth studying' the answer is almost always yes
An undergraduate Freshman recently emailed me that he was very interested in Quantum Computing and wanted to know 1) Who on the fCS aculty works in QC (Answer:...
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Students try to memorize rather than understand! Who knew! (everyone)
Discrete Math. Required for CS majors, taken mostly by Sophmores. Goal is to teach them how to think rigorously. Topics are logic, number theory (not much),...
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A Celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis's 70th Bday
My adviser Harry Lewis turned 70 recently. I blogged about how things have changed since I got my Phd in this post. I now post on A celebration of Computer Science...
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