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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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Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)
Complexity theorist Luca Trevisan lost his battle to cancer yesterday in Milan at the age of 52. A terrible loss for our community and our hearts go out to hisTCS4All...
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Rethinking Hueristica
I've argued that more and more we seem to live in an Optiland, a computational utopia where through recent developments in optimization and learning we can solve...
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Favorite Theorems: Algebraic Circuits
Most of my favorite theorems tell us something new about the world of complexity. But let's not forget the greatest technical challenges in our area: proving separations...
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The Godzilla Moment
On the plane earlier this week I got around to watching the Academy Award winning movie Godzilla Minus One, one of the best monster movies I've seen set in Japan...
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Double Digit Delights
It started with a post from Fermat's Library. 132 is the sum of all the 2-digit numbers made from its digits. It is the smallest such number. pic.twitter.com/hrByAXbr51...
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Peer Review
Daniel Lemire wrote a blog post Peer Review is Not the Gold Standard in Science. I wonder who was claiming it was. There is whole section of an online Responsible...
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Jim Simons (1938-2024)
Jim Simons passed away Friday at the age of 86. In short he was a math professor who quit to use math to make money before it was fashionable and used part of his...
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Favorite Theorems: Dichotomy
A constraint satisfaction problem has a group of constraints applied to a set of variables and we want to know if there is a setting of the variables that makeA...
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Our Obsession with Proofs
Bullinger's post on this blog last week focused on Vijay Vazirani's public obsession of finding a proof for the 1980 Micali-Vazirani matching algorithm. But why...
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Is Persistence an Anachronism?
Guest post by Martin BullingerVery recently, Vijay Vazirani's paper A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length got accepted...
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Favorite Theorems: Quantum Provers
For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier...
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Avi wins the Turing Award
The ACM announced that Avi Wigderson, a force in computational complexity and beyond, will receive the 2023 A. M. Turing Award (Quanta article). This is the first...
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The Softening of Computing Jobs: Blip or Trend?
Tech companies are performing exceptionally well, driving the S&P 500 to new heights with their soaring stock prices. However, the tech sector, apart from AI, expects...
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Can you feel the machine?
In the recent academy award winning movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr tests a young Oppenheimer. Bohr: Algebra's like sheet music, the important thing isn't canOppenheimer...
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Translation in Context
La Scala in Milan Google translate generally impresses but consider this translation from a short Italian news article. I boldfaced a few items. Not scheduled...
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Favorite Theorems: Sensitivity
Our next favorite theorem gave a relatively simple proof of the sensitivity conjecture, a long-standing problem of Boolean functions.Induced subgraphs of hypercubes...
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A Quantum State
Illinois' most famous citizen working on a quantum computer The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, unveiled his budget last week including $500 million for quantum...
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Sumchecks and Snarks
Last summer as I lamented that my research didn't have real world implications, one of the comments mentioned the sumcheck protocol used for zero-knowledge SNARKs...
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Focusing on the Outcomes
An academic field often organizes itself pulling ideas from its own field. For example, students on the economics faculty job search can signal at most two schools...
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