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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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Corporate Education
First of all read the #metoo testimonial going around the TCS blogosphere. Our field is not immune. Last Sunday Frank Bruni wrote an op-ed column Corporations,...
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For the Love of Algorithms
Wired magazine labelled 2017 as The Year We Fell Out of Love with Algorithms. The article goes on to talk about how algorithms give us filter bubbles, affect elections...
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Flying Blind
Many computer science conferences have made a number of innovations such as a rebuttal phase, multi-tiered program committees, a hybrid journal/conference model...
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From Art to Science
Q: Why did the neural net cross the road? A: Who cares along as it got to the other side. Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman in their classic 1976 paper talk about...
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A Sensitive Game
Last month I posted about the sensitivity conjecture and today I would like to talk about an interesting game developed by Gilmer, Koucký and Saks and independently...
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Donald Knuth Turns Eighty
We've kept this blog going long enough that we start repeating our celebrations. Ten years ago Bill celebrated Don Knuth's 70th Birthday and today Donald Knuthcelebrates...
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Complexity Year in Review 2017
Theorem of the year goes to the resolution of the dichotomy conjecture. I wrote about the conjecture in February and while the Feder et. al paper didn't hold up...
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Having Faith in Complexity
I believe P ≠ NP as much as anyone else. Nevertheless should we worry about trust we put in complexity? You don't need the full power of P = NP to break cryptography...
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Our AI future: The good and the Ugly
I don’t directly work in machine learning but one cannot deny the progress it has made and the effect it has on society. Who would have thought even a few years...
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Razor's Edge
Informally the sensitivity conjecture asks whether every hard Boolean function has a razor's edge input, where flipping a random bit has a reasonable chance ofrecent...
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Kolmogorov Complexity and the Primes
Bill's post on how to derive the non-finiteness of the primes from Van der Waerden's theorem reminds me of a nice proof using Kolmogorov complexity. A quick primer...
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The Grad Student Tax
By now as you've read from Luca or Scott or PhD Comics or a variety of other sources on the dangerous changes to the tax code that passed the US House of Representatives...
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A Tale of Three Rankings
In the Spring of 2018 the US News and World Report should release their latest rankings of US graduate science programs including computer science. These are the...
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Advice for the Advisor
A soon-to-be professor asked me recently if I could share some ideas on on how to advise students. I started to write some notes only to realize that I had already...
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Matching and Complexity
Given a group of people, can you pair them up so that each pair are Facebook friends with each other? This is the famous perfect matching problem. The complexity...
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2017 Fall Jobs Post
You're finishing up grad school or a postdoc and ask yourself what should I do for the rest of my life? We can't answer that for you but we can help you figureCRA...
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The Amazon Gold Rush
Unless you have hidden under a rock, Amazon wants to build a second headquarters in or near a large North American city. Amazon put out a nice old fashioned...
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Lessons from the Nobel Prizes
We've had a big week of awards with the Nobel Prizes and the MacArthur "Genius" Fellows. The MacArthur Fellows include two computer scientists, Regina Barzilay and...
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Monty Hall (1921-2017) and His Problem
Monty Hall passed away yesterday, best known for co-creating and hosting the game show The Price is Right, a show I occasionally watched as a kid. To the best...
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