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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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The 2016 Knuth Prize
A non-annoucement annoucement Crop from Farkas Prize src Michel Goemans is the chair of this year’s ACM/IEEE Knuth Prize committee. He teaches at MIT and among...
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Minsky The Theorist
Marvin Minsky’s contributions to complexity theory Cropped from BBC feature on AI Marvin Minsky, sad to relate, passed away last Sunday. He was one of the great...
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Did Euclid Really Mean ‘Random’?
Euclid writes randomness into his Elements Cropped from source (Garrett Coakley) Euclid is, of course, the Greek mathematician, who is often referred to as the...
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You Think We Have Problems
Some hard problems in philosophy Wikimedia Commons source Loki is a Jötunn or ss in Norse mythology, who, legend has it, once made a bet with some dwarves. He bet...
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Blasts From the Past
Is the “Forsch” awakening in complexity theory? Composite of src1, src2, src3 Max von Sydow starred as the chess-playing knight in Ingmar Bergman’s iconic 1957...
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A Game On Infinite Trees
An independent principle in set theory Cropped from Oberwolfach source Ronald Jensen is a famous set theorist who was a past president of the Kurt Gödel Society...
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Permutation Problems With Strings
From “Parsons Puzzles” to Babai’s breakthrough, and more? NZ silver fern source: Robin Ducker (CC) Dale Parsons and Patricia Haden, of Otago Polytechnic in New...
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A Little More on the Graph Isomorphism Algorithm
Looking at some of its components From source, our congrats too Laci Babai’s first talk a week ago Tuesday is now a webcast here. There is also a great detailed...
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The World Series Of Complexity Theory
László’s three talks Chicago Chronicle source László Babai must be busy getting ready for his series of talks. Today Ken and I wish to discuss one issue that has...
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A Big Result On Graph Isomorphism
Jumping GI down from the nearly-exponential neighborhood to the nearly-polynomial one László Babai is one of the world experts on complexity theory, especially...
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Guessing Conjectures
How well can we guess the right side of yes/no questions? source Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that...
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Is The Hot Hand Fallacy A Fallacy?
A simple idea that everyone missed, and more? Composite of src1, src2, src3 —A myth of a myth of a myth? Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo (MS) have made a simple...
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Is The Hot Hand Fallacy A Fallacy?
A simple idea that everyone missed, and more? Composite of src1, src2, src3 —A myth of a myth of a myth? Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo (MS) have made a simple...
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Frogs and Lily Pads and Discrepancy
A breakthrough result shows the power of “almost” Cropped from Quanta Magazine source Terry Tao has done it again. In two beautiful papers with modest titles, he...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Frogs and Lily Pads and Discrepancy
A breakthrough result shows the power of “almost” Cropped from Quanta Magazine source Terry Tao has done it again. In two beautiful papers with modest titles, he...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Taming Some Inequalities
As used to solve a classic problem about distinguishing distributions Composite of src1, src2 Gregory Valiant and Paul Valiant are top researchers who are not unrelated...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Taming Some Inequalities
As used to solve a classic problem about distinguishing distributions Composite of src1, src2 Gregory Valiant and Paul Valiant are top researchers who are not unrelated...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Open Problems That Might Be Easy
A speculation on the length of proofs of open problems Broad Institute source Nick Patterson is one of the smartest people I have ever known. Today I would like...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP