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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 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 Consider this unpublished comment on that post: -----------------------------------...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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Thoughts on Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore passed away on March 24, 2023. He was 94 years old. He is best known for the article Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. It appeared...
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The SIGACT Book Review column list of books it wants reviewed
I am posting this for Nick Tran who is the current SIGACT Book Review Editor (before him it was Fred Green for about 6 years, and before him it was me (Bill Gasarch)...
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New Upper Bound on R(k). WOW!
R(k) is the least n such that for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\) there is a monochromatic \(K_k\)(so there are k vertices such that the coloring restricted...
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Problems we assume are hard. Are they?
We think SAT is hard because (1) its NPC, and (2) many years of effort have failed to get it into P. Imagine a world where we didn't have the Cook-Levin Theorem...
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I wish we had less students in a Class. Demographics says I may get my wish.
According to this article, in the near future LESS people will be going to college. There is even a name for this upcoming shift: The Enrollment Cliff. Why?Ishere...
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It is more important than ever to teach your students probability (even non-stem students)
You are a college president. An online betting company says We will give you X dollars if you allow us to promote online gambling at your University.I suspecthere...
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When is a paper `Easily Available' ?
I was looking at the paper PSPACE-Completeness of reversible deterministic systemsby Erik Demaine, Robert Hearn, Dylan Hendrickson...
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After you are notified that an article is accepted...
After just one round of referees reports(they send me the reports, I made the corrections, they were happy) I got email saying my paper on proving the primes are...
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Why does pi come up so often? I don't know either but ...
Here is how history DID unfold:1) People noticed that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of ANY circle is always the same, it's a number between 3this...
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