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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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Bias In The Primes
Casinos beware—the primes are not random Quanta source (K.S. at left) Robert Lemke Oliver and Kannan Soundararajan have observed that the primes fail some simple...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
A trick of language and echoing Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun before I began...
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One Flip Sends Many Bits
Another coins on a chessboard puzzle Cropped from Ashley’s TwiCopy source Hou Yifan and Maurice Ashley are champions of chess in several senses. Hou just regained...
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Stonefight at the Goke Corral
Will there be any man left standing? Sensei’s Library player bio source Lee Sedol of South Korea, who is currently ranked #4 on the unofficial GoRatings list, may...
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David Johnson: 1945-2016
David just passed away David Johnson was a computer theorist who worked on many things, with special emphasis on the care and treatment of hard computational problems...
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A Matter of Agreement
On the 2015 Turing Award Mirror image of source Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle publicly broke the yoke of symmetry in cryptography in the 1970s...
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The Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture
A kind of hierarchy collapse? Cropped from father-son bio source Garrett Birkhoff was a mathematician who is best known for his research on lattices, and also his...
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Coins on a Chessboard
A 35-year-old puzzle with extras DeLong Lecture Series source Maxim Kontsevich has established deep connections between algebraic geometry and mechanisms of physics...
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Waves, Hazards, and Guesses
Some matters of gravity in science Moshe Vardi is famous for many things, including his brilliant turn as the Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the ACM....
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Magic To Do
Can we avoid accepting what we cannot verify? Cropped from biography source Arthur Clarke was a British writer of great breadth and huge impact. He was a science...
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The 2016 Knuth Prize
A non-annoucement annoucement Crop from Farkas Prize src Michel Goemans is the chair of this year’s ACM/IEEE Knuth Prize committee. He teaches at MIT and among...
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Minsky The Theorist
Marvin Minsky’s contributions to complexity theory Cropped from BBC feature on AI Marvin Minsky, sad to relate, passed away last Sunday. He was one of the great...
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A Chess Firewall at Zero?
We halve our blunder rate when infinitesimally ahead, but why? Crop from Seneca chess quote source Lucius Seneca was a Roman playwright, philosopher, and statesman...
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Did Euclid Really Mean ‘Random’?
Euclid writes randomness into his Elements Cropped from source (Garrett Coakley) Euclid is, of course, the Greek mathematician, who is often referred to as the...
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You Think We Have Problems
Some hard problems in philosophy Wikimedia Commons source Loki is a Jötunn or ss in Norse mythology, who, legend has it, once made a bet with some dwarves. He bet...
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Blasts From the Past
Is the “Forsch” awakening in complexity theory? Composite of src1, src2, src3 Max von Sydow starred as the chess-playing knight in Ingmar Bergman’s iconic 1957...
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A Game On Infinite Trees
An independent principle in set theory Cropped from Oberwolfach source Ronald Jensen is a famous set theorist who was a past president of the Kurt Gödel Society...
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Permutation Problems With Strings
From “Parsons Puzzles” to Babai’s breakthrough, and more? NZ silver fern source: Robin Ducker (CC) Dale Parsons and Patricia Haden, of Otago Polytechnic in New...
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Thanks for Additivity
A mathematical metaphor for progress Cropped from source Nicole Oresme was a fourteenth-century polymath. He lived in France and became an advisor to King Charles...
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