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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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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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The Virtue of Closed Problems
A new condition in property testing Composite crop of src1, src2 Maryam Aliakbarpour and Sandeep Silwal are PhD students at MIT. They have a joint paper titled,...
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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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