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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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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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Code It Up
So you think you have a proof that P=NP Randi 2014 documentary source James Randi is a magician who has challenged paranormal claims of all kinds. Today Ken and...
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Discrepancy Games and Sensitivity
Can we connect the talks that closed this month’s Random Structures and Algorithms conference? Cropped from NYU homepage Joel Spencer gave the closing talk of last...
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Summer Reading in Theory
Some formative books in mathematics and computing theory LSE source: “Calculus on Clay?” Norman Biggs is the author of the wonderful book Algebraic Graph Theory...
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The Network Coding Conjecture Is Powerful
More hard Boolean functions Peyman Afshani, Casper Freksen, Lior Kamma, and Kasper Larsen (AFKL) have a recent paper which we just discussed. Today Ken and I will...
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Network Coding Yields Lower Bounds
Practice leads theory Peyman Afshani, Casper Freksen, Lior Kamma, and Kasper Larsen have a beautiful new paper titled “Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network...
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A Reason Why Circuit Lower Bounds Are Hard
And a possible approach to avoid this obstacle Valentine Kabanets is a famous complexity theorist from Simon Fraser University. He has been at the forefront of...
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Avi Wins The Knuth Prize
Wigderson wins the well deserved Knuth Prize From Avi’s 60Fest at IAS Avi Wigderson is this year’s selection for the ACM/IEEE Donald E. Knuth Prize. Today Ken and...
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The Breakthrough Result Of 2019
Our nomination for best result of the year Cropped from source Faadosly Polir has had an incredible year of research success. A year ago we covered his research...
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The Shortest Path To The Abel Prize
While melding topology, geometry, and analysis IAS page Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician who has won a number of awards in the past and has just now been announced...
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Leprechauns Go Universal
Facing nonexistential realities Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has graced these pages before. Today, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, we ponder universal riddles...
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Making A Mapping Injective
Finding a set of nearly independent objects Wikipedia bio source Giuseppe Vitali was the mathematician who famously used the Axiom of Choice, in 1905, to give the...
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Have Ten Years Brought Us Closer?
To solving the big questions, that is Cropped from Device Plus source Tetsuya Miyamoto is a mathematics teacher who divides his time between Tokyo and Manhattan...
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Primes And Polynomials
A result on the prime divisors of polynomial values Cropped from source Issai Schur was a mathematician who obtained his doctorate over a hundred years ago. He...
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