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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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Tom Lehrer At 90
It makes a fellow proud to be a nerd Tasmanian Archive source Tom Lehrer is Emeritus Lecturer in Mathematics at Cowell College of the University of Santa Cruz....
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The Entropy of Baseball
The most shocking existential fact about the universe? Sports April Fools source George Ruth Jr., the “Babe,” may have thought he had cosmic significance but no...
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Is There Momentum in Chess?
And if so, what units does it have? Cropped from source Fabiano Caruana has just won the 2018 chess Candidates Tournament. This earns him the right to challenge...
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Leprechauns Know What It Feels
To be human, that is Neil L. has graced these pages many times before. Every eve of St. Patrick’s Day he has visited Dick. Sometimes Dick has been hard to find,...
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Happy 0x50th Birthday, Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth’s 80th=0x50th birthday was on January 10.
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The Lemma Cited From Burnside
How might it be applied in complexity theory? St. Andrews history source William Burnside was a well-known researcher into the early theory of finite groups. Today...
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A Coup(e) of Duchamp
From “readymade” works to surreal hash table wildness in chess programs fooled by him Toutfait.com source Marcel Duchamp was a leading French chess player whose...
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Doing Mod N Via Mod R
Variations on Montgomery’s trick Peter Montgomery is a cryptographer at Microsoft. Just recently, Joppe Bos and Arjen Lenstra have edited a book titled Topics in...
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Progress on the Frontier
An almost exponential improvement in bounds against ACC Source from previous paper Cody Murray is a PhD student of Ryan Williams at MIT. He and Ryan have a new...
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Timing Leaks Everything
Facing the awful truth that computers are physical machines As moderator of RSA 2016 panel Paul Kocher is the lead author on the second of two papers detailing...
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Predictions We Didn’t Make
With wishes for a memorable New Year 2018 Muhammad Afzal Upal is Chair of the Computing and Information Science Department at Mercyhurst University. He works in...
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Truth From Zero?
How we might compare AlphaZero against standards of perfection YouTube 2015 lecture source David Silver is the lead author on the paper, “Mastering Chess and Shogi...
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P=NP: Perhaps I Change My Mind
An old result put a new way Albert Meyer knows circuit lower bounds. He co-authored a paper with the late Larry Stockmeyer that proves that small instances of the...
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Proving Peano Arithmetic Partially Consistent?
An approach to consistency that could work… Kurt Gödel is feeling bored. Not quite in our English sense of “bored”: German has a word Weltschmerz meaning “world...
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A Magic Madison Visit
To give a Hilldale Lecture and learn about fairness and dichotomies UB CSE50 anniversary source Jin-Yi Cai was kind enough to help get me, Dick, invited last month...
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Lotfi Zadeh 1921–2017
But fuzzy logic lives on forever New York Times obituary source Lotfi Zadeh had a long and amazing life in academics and the real world. He passed away last month...
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Michael Cohen 1992-2017 and Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2017
Two more tragic losses coming before a greater tragedy Composite of crops from src1, src2 Michael Cohen and Vladimir Voevodsky were in different stages of their...
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A TSP Breakthrough
A new approximation algorithm Composite of src1, src2, src3 Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski, and László Végh have made a breakthrough in the area of approximation...
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A Retirement Party for Joel Seiferas
A gathering this Labor Day in Rochester Announcement source Joel Seiferas retired on December 31, 2016 and is now a professor emeritus in the University of Rochester...
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