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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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46 lunches free lunches!
(CONGRADS to all the new ACM fellows. Among them are theorists Jennifer Chayes, Anne Condon, Phil Klein, S. Muthu, and Dan Spielman.) In my post about mentoring...
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A BREAKTHROUGH result on density and 3-AP's
We use the following terminology: [n] means the set {1,...,n}. k-AP means an arithmetic progression of length k. A 3-free set is one with no 3-AP.s in it. We use...
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Erdos Distance Problem SOLVED!
(All papers referred to in this post can be accessed from my website on the Erdos Distance Problem.). In 1946 Erdos raised the following question: Given n points...
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Eleven Tweets from GASARCH
I don't do tweets-I don't think I have enough interesting 140-char notes to tell people (though that doesn't stop Lance). However, several tweet-worthy notes did...
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A Problem with Wikipedia and the Next Best Thing to Winning a Godel Prize
(There are TWO theory day events in NY this semsester: Nov 11, 2010 and Nov 12, 2010. The first one has likely already started as you read this.) I searched...
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A non rigorous proof technique
As a grad student (1980's) I found a book in the library that claimed to solve Fermat's Last Theorem using elementary methods. (This was before Wiles had shownhere...
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The revolution will be DVRed
(There are TWO theory day events in NY this semester: Thu Nov 11. and Fri Nov 12.) BILL: Will you be going to the RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY AND/OR FEAR? (Seehere...
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Advice on getting connecting to the community (guest post by Daniel Apon)
(Guest Post by Daniel Apon.) As a follow up to the last post on Do Conferences Build Community? I offer some advice for people to get connected to the community...
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Do conference build community? (joint post)
(Joint Post by Daniel Apon and Bill Gasarch. Does doing joint posts build community?) In GASARCH's post on Will there be a 50th CCC He mentioned that conferences...
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New York Area Theory Day- Nov 12, 2010
New York Area Theory Day, Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia, External sponsorship by: Google, Friday, November 12, 2010 The Theory Day will be held at Couranthere...
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Will there be a 50th CCC? Will you be there?
At the 25th CCC Juris Hartmanis gave a great talk to celebrate having a 25th. Will there be a 50th? I asked people at the conference. What did they say? Watch the...
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How hard is this problem?- I ask this non-rhetorically
I recently saw the following puzzle: Which two numbers come at the end of this sequence? (That is, what are x and y?) 2,4,5,30,32,34,36,40,42,44,46,50,52,54...
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Two Candidates for an Ig Noble in Mathematics
(This is a sequel to my post on the Ig Nobel Prize.) Two candidates for an Ig Nobel prizes in Mathematics. They deserve it for opposite reasons. (They are old...
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Noble and Ig Noble Prizes
What is the Ig Nobel prize? To quote the website: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are...
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Review of Lipton's Book-Blog/Review of Goldreich and Arora-Barak/New Book Review Column/Do you want to review?
My review of Lipton's new blog-book is here. It will appear in my SIGACT NEWS at some later time. Daniel Apon's joint review of Computational Complexity: A...
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Theorems that are less interesting because they are more interesting
(This post was inspired by Joe Kruskal's passing. Kruskal's tree theorem, trees under minor are a well quasi order, relates to example 2 below.) There are some...
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Joseph B Kruskal passed away (Guest post by Clyde P Kruskal)
(Guest post from Clyde P Kruskal.) Yesterday (September 19, 2010) my uncle, Joseph B. Kruskal passed away. I just wanted to say a few personal words. Maybe,...
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Should You Mentor High School Students?
I have mentored many high school students on projects (21 in the past, 6 right now). Is this a good use of ones time? I note my experiences and advice- if you have...
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A Mathematical Urban Legend
I have heard the following story many times in many versions: A PhD student in Math at PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL was defending his thesis which was in REALLY ABSTRACT...
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