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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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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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Practical consequences of RH ?
When it seemed like Riemann Hypothesis (RH) might be solved (see Lipton-Regan blog entry on RH here and what it points to for more info) I had the following email...
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A New ACO Center (guest post by Vijay Vazirani)
Guest Post by Vijay Vazirani A New ACO Center! Last week, I helped launch an ACO Center (Algorithms,...
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John Sidles, Mike Roman, Matt Howell, please email me/hard to get emails of people
John Sidles, Mike Roman, Matt Howell : please email me. at [email protected] (my usual email) I need to ask you about some comments you left on the blog a while...
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Google added years to my life
If you google gasarch you used to get the following: here Please go there and notice how old they say I am. Okay, you are back. You may have noticed that...
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What is a Physicist? A Mathematician? A Computer Scientist?
Scott Aaronson recently won the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics (yeah Scott!). In his post (here) about it he makes a passing comment: I'm of course not...
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The Tenure system is broken but not in the way that you think (Anon Guest Post)
This is an ANONYMOUSE Guest Post. Even I don't know who it is! They emailed me asking if they could post on this topic, I said I would need to see the post, and...
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The Rule of Threes/Astology
On Aug 16, 2018 Aretha Franklin died. A famous singer. On Aug 18 2018 Kofi Anan died. A famous politician. On Aug 25, 2018 John McCain died. A famous politician...
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