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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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Dyson as a Mathematician
With a lemma from 1947 that might be useful today? Cropped from article on his letters Freeman Dyson passed away last February 28th, one day short of the leap day...
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Reductions and Jokes
Plus a teaching idea that’s no joke? Cropped from Maths History source Emil Post was the first to use the formal notion of reduction between problems. We discussed...
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Counting Votes By Humans
A new way to agree on calculations Cropped from ABC News source Troy Price is the Iowa Democratic Party Chair. He was in charge of Iowa’s primary vote. The vote...
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The Halting No Go Theorem
Using the halting problem to prove positive theorems. Cropped from “Turing’s Lost Letters” source Alan Turing proved the undecidability of the Halting Problem in...
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Our Thoughts on P=NP
The Clay prize anniversary is soon. SME keynote lecture source Evelyn Lamb is a mathematician who is also a journalist. She has a blog called Roots of Unity on...
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No Password Encryption
Who can remember passwords anyway? Real Bernie Sanders reaction source Larry David is an American comedian. He was the lead writer and producer of the Seinfeld...
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Resolutions For 2020
Some fun about resolutions. source Ben Orlin is a funny mathematician. His book title Change Is the Only Constant was selected by the blog Math-Frolic as the best...
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A Math Gift For All
Happy holidays to all. Kathryn Farley is my dear wife. We just celebrated Christmas together and then went off to London for a holiday. Today I thought I would...
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Predicting When P=NP is Resolved
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time...
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An Ancient Conjecture on Primes
After 50 years we still are baffled by the primes. Cornell faculty album source Juris Hartmanis needs no introduction. But we can note this long interview last...
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Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
We all lost a great person Cropped from Mexican NotiCyTI obit Héctor Garcia-Molina died just before Thanksgiving. He was a computer scientist and Professor in both...
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End-to-End Encryption: A Problem
Bopuifs fodszqujpo qspcmfn. “Unsung Entrepreneur” source Adolph Ochs was the owner of the New York Times. In 1897 he created the paper’s slogan, “All the News That...
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A Clever Way To Find Compiler Bugs
Your comments are valuable, we thank you. source Xuejun Yang is a Senior Staff Engineer at FutureWei Technologies. He is the DFA on the 2011 paper, “Finding and...
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Hobgoblins in Our Equations
With consequences for physics Britannica source Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician who specialized in classical mechanics. He is known for a conjecture in...
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Quantum Supremacy At Last?
What it takes to understand and verify the claim Cropped from 2014 Wired source John Martinis of U.C. Santa Barbara and Google is the last author of a paper published...
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Writing 33 as a Sum of Cubes
Cracking a Diophantine problem for 42 too Andrew Booker is a mathematician at the University of Bristol, who works in analytic number theory. For example he has...
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Quantum Switch-Em
A recipe for changing the objectives of problems Composite crop of src1, src2, src3 Aram Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd are quantum stars who have done...
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Our Trip To Monte Carlo
Why does randomness help? Kathryn Farley is my dear wife. She and I are currently on a cruise through the Mediterranean. Our trip started in Barcelona and is stopping...
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Leaps and Bounds: Practice Meets Theory
Solving the runtime selection problem Composite from src1, src2 Brendan Lucier and Csaba Szepesvári were consecutive speakers at this week’s workshop at the Tokyo...
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