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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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Puzzle Reviews by a Puzzle Writer
Not puzzling reviews Princeton University Press page Jason Rosenhouse is professor in the Department of Mathematics at James Madison University. His research focuses...
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Hybrid Versus Remote Teaching
Which is best for students? Cropped from Wikipedia src Moshe Vardi holds multiple professorships at Rice University. He is also the Senior Editor of Communications...
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20,000 Comments and More
With more about the Separating Words Problem I.I.T. Madras page Anoop S K M is a PhD student in the theory group of I.I.T. Madras in Chennai, India. His comment...
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Cleverer Automata Exist
A breakthrough on the separating words problem Zachary Chase is a graduate student of Ben Green at Oxford. Chase has already solved a number of interesting problems...
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A Brilliant Book on Combinatorics
And Razborov’s brilliant proof method Stasys Jukna is the author of the book Extremal Combinatorics With Applications in Computer Science. Today we talk about Jukna...
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Mathematical Search
A flying start from nearby Rochester Anurag Agarwal and Richard Zanibbi are tenured faculty in Mathematics and Computer Science, respectively, at RIT. They partner...
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Ron Graham, 1935–2020
Ron Graham passed away, but he lives on… Cropped from tribute by Tom Leighton Ron Graham just passed away Monday at the age of in La Jolla near UCSD. Today Ken...
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Intellectual Fireworks?
Some different ideas for marking the Fourth “Founding Frenemies” source John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did not use Zoom. Their correspondence, from 1777 up to...
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Taking a Problem Down a Peg
By blowing up its objects Composite crop of src1, src2 Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb proved last month that every smooth Jordan curve in the plane and real , there...
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Some Real and Some Virtual News
Gossip and more. Composite of , src1, src3 Jessica Deters, Izabel Aguiar, and Jacqueline Feuerborn are the authors of the paper, “The Mathematics of Gossip.” They...
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Proof Checking: Not Line by Line
Proofs and perpetual motion machines Leonardo da Vinci is, of course, famous for his paintings and drawings, but was also interested in inventions, and in various...
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The Doomsday Argument in Chess
Framing a controversial conversation piece as a conservation law Snip from Closer to Truth video on DA John Gott III is an emeritus professor of astrophysical sciences...
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The 2020 Y Prize
Can one maintain privacy while publicly congratulating? X Facemask src X, who shall go nameless here, recently won a prize for research. Today we congratulate X...
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John Horton Conway 1937–2020
An appreciation Names for large numbers source John Horton Conway just passed away from complications of COVID-19. We are all saddened by this news, and we hope...
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Research at Home
An idea for human-interest interviews Pixabay free src Dr. Lofa Polir is, like many of us, working from home. When we last wrote about her two years ago, she had...
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Logic and Star-Free, Part Deux
A visual proof with no abstract-algebra overhead Composite crop of src1, src2 Dominique Perrin and Jean-Éric Pin are French mathematicians who have done significant...
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Star-Free Regular Languages and Logic
Part 1 of a two-part series Daniel Winton is a graduate student in mathematics at Buffalo. He did an independent study with me last semester on descriptive complexity...
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Leprechauns Stay Home
Stay safe, everyone Cropped from Floss Dance source Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has visited me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun...
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Group Testing For The Coronavirus
Plus other mathematical ideas that may be helping History of Econ. Thought src Robert Dorfman was a professor of political economy at Harvard University, who helped...
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