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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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New, Old, Ancient Results
Nonexistence theorems and attempts at lower bounds Cropped from src Joshua Grochow is an assistant professor in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University...
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Science Advisor
Resources for a new term from our vantage point Crop from Broad Institute src Eric Lander has been appointed director of the US Office of Science and Technology...
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Priming Random Restrictions
Can we expand the base of their use? Technion commemoration src Bella Subbotovskaya was doing Boolean complexity lower bounds in 1961. She originated the method...
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Predictions For 2021
This year is a Blum integer, 43*47 2017 article, not via Zoom Allan Lichtman correctly predicted the 2020 presidential election, based on a 7-6 edge in “keys” to...
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The Night of the Ethical Algorithm
Algorithms for the Election Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth are the authors of the book Ethical Algorithms and the The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design....
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Are Black Holes Necessary?
Our congratulations on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Composite crop of src1, src2 Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez have won the 2020 Nobel Prize...
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IBM Conference on the Informational Lens
Some differences from the Computational Lens Chai Wah Wu, Jonathan Lenchner, Charles Bennett, and Yuhai Tu are the moderators for the four days of the First IBM...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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