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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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Books to Inspire Math
Two of my colleagues and co-authors from my early days at the University of Chicago have released books over the past few months designed to excite people withMathematical...
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What Makes a Constructive Proof?
In this weblog, we've used constructive in different ways. Often we talk about constructive as something we can create in polynomial time, like an expander. But...
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Transcripts for the 21st Century
When I start a new academic job, I need to prove that I actually have a PhD. I have to log in my MIT alumni page, pay my $10 and they email my graduate transcript...
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Turning Sixty
I turn sixty today, spending my birthday reviewing a computer science department in Asia. Sixty is a good time to look back and reflect in a rambling way.I started...
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The Acting Professor
When I taught Programming for Engineers at Northwestern in 2008, the textbook gave access to PowerPoint slides I could use to teach the class. Since C++ is notseries...
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The College Visits
My wife's cousin and her daughter came and visited Chicago. The daughter, between junior and senior year of high school, is on the tail end of college tour season...
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Paper Writing Before Overleaf
A twitter question from a young researcher. Wait, how do paper writing collaborations work with LaTeX that doesn’t use overleaf? You need more than a .Tex file...
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More on Psuedodeterminism
Back in May I posted about a paper that finds primes pseudodeterministically and Quanta magazine recently published a story on the result. Oddly enough the paper...
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Whither Twitter
Twitter tells me it's my twitterversary, 15 years since I first started tweeting. Not sure I'll make it to sweet sixteen.No longer do tweets show up on this blog...
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