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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A New Tiling

With a flip and some twists Roger Penrose has been floored. And perhaps re-floored. Here he is standing on the floor of the Mitchell Institute of Texas A&M, which...

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The 2022 Turing Award

Bob Metcalfe is the sole winner of the 2022 Turing Award. He keyed the development of Ethernet technology growing out of his PhD thesis while at Xerox PARC in the...

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Problems Better Than Solutions

Defining the problem often means more than solving it Avrim Blum is the CAO at TTIC who got his degrees at MIT and then was at CMU almost for 25 years: CAO is Chief...

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Céad Míle GPT

The gift of Broadscale Linguistic Affinely Regressed Neurally Encoded Yakking By Simplified from “leprechaun robot” Neil L. is sentient. As a fantastical creature...

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Is Pi Informative?

Some musings on the meanings of information content SF Exploratorium tribute Frank Oppenheimer was a physicist who made pioneering studies of cosmic rays via high...

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SODA 2023

Traces of strings, plus ways of tracing accepted papers Anindya De was at Northwestern University and is now at the University of Pennsylvania—see here. He was...

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Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes

Can they inform computational complexity theory? Bill Gasarch and Christian Elsholtz both like primes and jokes and graphs and ways of sharing baked goods. Bill...

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Why Study Logic?

Before and after it is mechanized… Peter Andrews is a Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has...

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Rabin-Scott Time

Nondeterminism—why did it take so long? 2010 interview src1, Society for Science src2 Michael Rabin and Dana Scott won the 1976 Turing Award. They obtained their...

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Logicians are Everywhere

So where were they between 1720 and 1820? Helena Rasiowa was a famous logician from Poland. She visited Case Western Reserve University when I was an undergraduate...

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The Gift of Nonconstructivity

Can we quantify “nonconstructive advantage”? Japan Times source Péter Frankl has been in the news again this year. The news is substantial partial progress on his...

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Fusion Breakthrough or Increment?

And could a barrier be lurking? Her DoE page Jennifer Granholm is the U.S. Secretary of Energy in President Joe Biden’s cabinet. Last week, she said at a press...

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A Mutation Carol 2

Ghosts of creations past and citations not present Domenico Amalfitano, Ana Paiva, Alexis Inquel, Luis Pinto, Anna Rita Fasolino, and René Just are the authors...

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Quantum Circuits in the New York Times

Can quantum circuits have something to do with wormholes? Wikipedia src Maria Spiropulu, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is featured in an...

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The Gerrymanders Have It

The real winner of the 2022 midterms in the House David Wasserman is an elections analyst for the Cook Political Report. He is known for forecasting the results...

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Legal Complexity

Formal logical methods may be needed to represent the Donald Trump documents case her page Monica Palmirani is a Professor of Computer Science and Law at the University...

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A Theoretical Question About UAPs

What should be the Bayesian prior for a new NASA study? Crop from ‘Interstellar’ discussion David Spergel is a physics professor emeritus of Princeton University...

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Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022

A sure foundation for Computational Complexity source—wonderful 2015 CACM interview Juris Hartmanis passed away this morning. He was a professor in Cornell’s computer...

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Complexity 2022

Weaving patterns of proof and the accepted papers for this week’s conference her bio page Karen Donde is the Chair of Complexity 2022, which is being held this...

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The Fallows of Medium Data

Who will curate less-prominent datasets? Presidential Biography src Samuel Fallows was a bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was born in 1835 and headed...
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