From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
A while back I had a paper in an intermediary stage. The version posted to my Ramsey Theory Course Website was not final. Is the paper public? I didn't think about...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | February 23, 2014 at 05:33 PM
My chairman, Samir Khuller, asked me to post our job posting for a lecturer to my blog, so I and doing it right now. I think he overestimates the power of this...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | February 17, 2014 at 08:40 AM
(Stephen Colbert tells me that NFL guards their copyright of the name of the game they played on Sunday, which is why stores say they have a `big game sale on beer'...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | February 9, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Dana Richards emailed us about a place to write how Martin Gardner influenced you. You can leave such comments here. I left a comment there, but I expand it for...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | February 3, 2014 at 08:02 AM
A brilliant math ugrad at UMCP, Doug, is also a creative writer who
wants to work on large cardinals. His creative writing may help him there.
We had the following...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | January 27, 2014 at 10:26 AM
YOU got into your undergrad school because not only were you good at Math but you were on
the Fencing Team and in the Latin Club (so you could taunt your opponents...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | January 20, 2014 at 12:41 PM
I taught a 3-week summer course to High School Students called
Computer Science: A Hands Off Approach
which did some theory. One thing I did was the following...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | January 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM
A while back my parents were in town on a weekend when I was scheduled to give a talk to HS students who had done well on the Maryland math competition. Logistics...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | January 6, 2014 at 10:04 AM
As I am sure readers of this blog know Alan Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, forced into hormone treatment, and committed suicide in 1954 (I had...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | January 2, 2014 at 12:48 PM
Sometimes we are asked to evaluate how good a journal or conference formally(Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Better-than-being-poked-by-a-stick,pass the stick)...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | December 23, 2013 at 08:29 AM
(Jon Katz wanted me to mention this: A wise man once noted that there are fewer quantum algorithms than thereare quantum-algorithms textbooks! But there is still...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | December 16, 2013 at 03:32 PM
(Tal Rabin, Shubhangi Saraf and Lisa Zhang asked me to remind you to publicize this: the bi-annual Women in theory (WIT workshop), NYC, May 28-30, 2014. Apps due...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | December 9, 2013 at 11:38 AM
Who was the first scientist to warn of Global Warning? These questions are complicated, but I would say it was Bing Crosby in a paper called White Christmas. Here...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | December 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM
(This post was inspired by Adam Winklers awesome book
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.
Disclaimers one: Adam Winkler is my cousin and...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | November 25, 2013 at 11:44 AM
In my last post I asked you to solve the following question which
was from the Maryland Math Competition:
The inequalities 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1 and 1/2 + 1/3 +...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | November 12, 2013 at 11:15 AM
(I thought I had posted this a while back but I can't find it in past blogs
so I think I did not. I DID post a diff problem on reciprocals.)
Here is the question...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | November 11, 2013 at 01:07 PM
I proofread Piergiogrio Odilfreddi's book (which is on Lance's List of Favorite Complexity Books) for which I got a generous acknowledgment. I have also
visited...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | November 5, 2013 at 08:43 AM
The University of Maryland at College Park has its job posting up (its been up for a while). You can look at it here. I It lists THREE areas but says that they...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 28, 2013 at 08:38 PM
As a grad student I was teaching the linear-time Median finding algorithm and I FORGOT
that I needed to solve the more general problem of selection. After less...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 21, 2013 at 10:55 AM
There is a debate about the questions:
To what extent do we give them what they NEED? what they WANT?
These questions permeate many other discussions of education...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 14, 2013 at 10:40 AM