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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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IMU's non-controversial changing the name of the Nevanlinna Prize
(I want to thank Alexander Soifer for supplying me with some of the documents I point to in this post. We should all thank him for getting the ball rolling on changing...
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separating fact from fiction with the 56% of Americans say Arabic Numerals should not be taught in school
On the excellent TV show Veep there was a subplot about a political candidate (who himself had failed algebra in HS) objecting to Algebra since it was invented...
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Notorious L.A.H or Notorious LAH? OR You always need one more proofread
I noticed a while back that even on the nth proofread of a document there are still corrections. So I decided to keep track of how many corrections there are in...
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Ronald Graham's other large number. Well---- it was large in 1964 anyway.
Graham's number (see here) was at one time the largest number to appear in a math proof. a) GN was an upper bound on a problem in Ramsey theory. There are nowhere...
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Thoughts on the recent Jeopardy streak (SPOILERS)
James Holzhauer has won 22 consecutive games of Jeopardy and has made around 1.6 million dollars. Nice work if you can get it. Here are some thoughts no this 1)...
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x3 + y3 + z3 = 33 has a solution in Z. And its big!
Consider the following problem: Given k, a natural number, determine if there exists x,y,z INTEGERS such that x3+y3+z3=k. It is not obvious that this problemHuisman...
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Quiz Show Scandals/Admissions Scandal/Stormy Daniels/Beer names:being a lawyer would drive me nuts!!!!!!
0) Charles van Doren (see here) passed away recently. For those who don't know he he was (prob most of you) he was one of the contestants involved in RIGGED quiz...
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Good article, terrible headline
About a month ago (after my P NP poll appeared) I got email from Jacob Aron asking me some questions about it. One thing he was excited about was that the number...
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Elwyn Berlekamp Died April 9, 2019
Elwyn R. Berlekamp entered this world on Sept 6, 1940, and left it on April 9, 2019. Wikipedia calls him An American Mathematician which seems to narrow to me....
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Problems with a point- NOT a plug, just some thoughts on books and book writing
Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science by Gasarch and Kruskal, available on amazon here, came out a while back and I plugged it in my blog...
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An Interdisciplinary approach to P vs NP
I have a grant with some brain scientists on the following exciting approach to P vs NP. We want to prove: There is no algorithm...
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Random Thoughts on the admissions scandal
In light of the recent academic scandal I am going to list ways I've heard to help get your kid into college and thoughts on how ethical they are (hint: bribing...
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Third Poll on P vs NP and related Questions is out now! And the winner is Harambe!
I took a poll of the theory community (and others) about P vs NP and related issues in 2002, 2012, and 2019 (sorry its not an arithmetic sequence --- read the...
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Richard Karp: His influence and how to honor him
When I first saw the definition of NP-Complete I first thought if there are NP-complete problems I suspect they are contrived. When I saw the proof that SAT is...
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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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