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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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How are there 20 copies of my new book through other booksellers and why are they so highly priced
(This is about my book PROBLEMS WITH A POINT: exploring Math and computer science by Gasarch and Kruskal, here. This post is NOT a plug.) I often see weird pricing...
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Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science
As you can see from Lance's tweet Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science by Gasarch and Kruskal is now available...
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Using `who will be the dem VP choice' article in class
I recently read an absurd article that speculated on who the Democratic VICE prez nominees will be. Yes, you read that right, VICE Prez. Gee, wouldn't knowing who...
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I think ze was confused -- in favor of genderless pronouns
You've probably heard the following: At first I didn't want to get an X but now that I have it, I can't imagine life without one. X could be telegraph...
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Don't know Football but still want bet on the Superb Owl?
(Suberp Owl is not a typo. I've heard (and it could be wrong) that the NFL guards their copyright so you can't even say `Buy Beer here for the YOU KNOW WHATl'...
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The Paradigm Shift in FinTech Computation and the need for a Computational Toolkit (Guest Post by Evangelos Georgiadis)
The Paradigm Shift in FinTech Computation and the need for a Computational Toolkit (Guest Post by Evangelos Georgiadis) We are experiencing a paradigm shift in...
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ACM prize and some thoughts on the Godel Prize
As Lance Tweeted, and I will re-iterate, nominations for the following prizes are due soon and you can nominate people here Godel Prize for outstanding paper...
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do we ever only care about the decision problem? I know of only one case of that
(I had been thinking of this for a post then Lance's post on search versus decision inspired me to write up these thoughts.) When teaching NP-completeness we often...
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When is a kilogram not a kilogram?
A long long time ago the standards for meter's, kilograms, etc was an actual physical object. Those days are long gone of course. For example, the meter is defined...
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Today is Thirdsday! Enjoy it while you can!
Fellow Blogger James Propp has come up with a new Math holiday: Thirsdsday! The day is Jan 3 (1-3 in America, thought 3-1 in ... Everywhere else?) but only when...
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Guest post: Join SIGACT!
This is a guest post by Samir Khuller and Robert Kleinberg. Dear friends, As our research community continues to grow and thrive, SIGACT membership has not grown...
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Super Asymmetry on The Big Bang Theory: How Realistic?
The TV show The Big Bang Theory portrays academia so I am naturally curious how realistic it is. I have posted about this before (see here) in the context of whether...
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George HW Bush passed away- some non-partisan math comments
George HW Bush passed away recently. When he was alive there were 5 living ex presidents. Now there are 4. What is the max and min number of ex presidents? This...
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If you think a theorem is true then spend half your time trying to prove its true, and half trying to prove its false.
There is a quote I recall but not who said it. I have not been able to find it on the web. If you think a theorem is true then spend half of your time trying...
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Is Secret sharing REALLY REALLY REALLY used?
Since I am teaching Cryptography this semester I am teaching things people REALLY REALLY REALLY (RRR) use. For some topics this is RRR true, like RSA (that it is...
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And the winner is again, Harambe: A pre election poll of my class that was truly a referenum on the Prez
I had meant to post this before the election but I didn't quite time it right. Oh well. It has been said that this midterm election (more than others) was a referendum...
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Is Fuzzy Sets Common Knowledge? How about Napier as inventing (or something) logs?
Darling: Bill, help me with this crossword puzzle. 6 letter word that begins with N, clue is log man Bill: Napier Darling: Who was that? Bill: A famous lumberjack...
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If P=NP then we HAVE an alg for SAT.
I am writing up the result of my survey of peoples opinion of P vs NP (it will be in a SIGACT News, in Lane's Complexity Column, in 2019.) Some people wrote: ...
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Please Don't call them Guidance Counselors
As I mentor many HS students I was recently in email contact with the HS contact for projects and I noticed that the sign off was Allie Downey Guidance Schoolhank...
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