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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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Goldilocks Principle And P vs. NP
The rule of three Wikimedia Commons source Robert Southey was the Poet Laureate of Britain from 1813 until his death in 1843. He published, anonymously, “The Story...
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A Great Solution
A great conjecture too Alternate photo by Quanta Thomas Royen is a retired professor of statistics in Schwalbach am Taunus near Frankfurt, Germany. In July 2014...
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Theory Fest—Should You Go?
Theory Fest—Should You Go? Boaz Barak and Michael Mitzenmacher are well known for many great results. They are currently working not on a theory paper, but on a...
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The End Of Human Science?
Could we go the way of telegraph operators? Pixabay source Lofa Polir has sent us some new information that will have widespread ramifications for math and theory...
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Gender Bias: It Is Worse Than You Think
q Science meets bias and diversity Deborah Belle is a psychology professor at Boston University (BU) who is interested in gender differences in social behavior....
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Is Computer Security Possible?
The breaks keep on coming… Holly Dragoo, Yacin Nadji, Joel Odom, Chris Roberts, and Stone Tillotson are experts in computer security. They recently were featured...
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Raymond Smullyan, 1919–2017
Serious work amid the puzzles and jokes. Amazon source When Raymond Smullyan was born, Emanuel Lasker was still the world chess champion. Indeed, of the 16 universally...
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How to Check a Proof
What to do about claims of hard theorems? Cropped from source Shinichi Mochizuki has claimed the famous ABC conjecture since 2012. It is still unclear whether or...
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Snow And Theory
The 25th Anniversary of the ACO Program Cropped from src1 & src2 in gardens for karma Prasad Tetali and Robin Thomas are mathematicians at Georgia Tech who are...
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Babai’s Result: Still a Breakthrough
Even after today’s retraction of quasi-polynomial time for graph isomorphism Cropped from source László Babai is famous for many things, and has made many seminal...
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Hunting Complexity in Zeta
A second look at Voronin’s amazing universality theorem Anatoly Karatsuba and Sergei Voronin wrote a book on Bernhard Riemann’s zeta function. The book was translated...
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Thanks
Theorems and Proofs—which are more important? src Ken and I wish to thank all who read and follow us. May you have a wonderful day today all day. But we would like...
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Halloween Math Style
The top scariest possible results Head chopped from source Washington Irving was a famous writer of the early 1800’s who is best known for his short stories. The...
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Going For Two
Some football wisdom from Dick Karp Cropped from S.I. Kids source John Urschel is a PhD student in the Applied Mathematics program at MIT. He has co-authored two...
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Why Is Being Truthful A Good Thing?
In the context of stable matching problems Jamie Morgenstern is a researcher into machine learning, economics, and especially mechanism design. Today Ken and I...
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Congratulations, Noam
The winner of the 2016 ACM-IEEE Knuth Prize Coursera source Noam Nisan has been one of the leaders in computational complexity and algorithms for many years. He...
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A Creeping Model Of Computation
Local rules can achieve global behavior Sarah Cannon is a current PhD student in our Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program working with Dana Randall...
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A Proof Of The Halting Theorem
Toward teaching computability and complexity simultaneously Computing Large Numbers source Wilhelm Ackermann was a mathematician best known for work in constructive...
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How Hard, Really, is SAT?
A new longest computer proof makes us wonder about things from security to the Exponential Time Hypothesis Marijn Heule, Oliver Kullmann, and Victor Marek are experts...
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