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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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Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause for Complexity Theorists, If you Only Believe
(Guest Post by Hunter Monroe) In this guest post and discussion paper, I present a remarkable set of structurally similar conjectures which, if you...
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Open: 4 colorability for graphs of bounded genus or bounded crossing number (has this been asked before?)
I have co-authored (with Nathan Hayes, Anthony Ostuni, Davin Park) an open problems column on the topic of this post. It is here.Let g(G) be the genus of a graph...
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When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard?
I posted on When did Math get so hard? a commenter pointed out that one can also ask When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard?For the Math-question I could...
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Reflections on Trusting ``Trustlessness'' in the era of ``Crypto'' Blockchains (Guest Post)
I trust Evangelos Georgiadis to do a guest post on Trust and Blockchain. Today we have a guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis on Trust. It was written before Lance's...
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When did Math Get So Hard?
I have been on many Math PhD thesis defense's as the Dean's Representative. This means I don't have to understand the work, just make sure the rules are followed...
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Squaring the circle is mentioned in a Gilbert and Sullivan comic Opera.
The problem of squaring the circle: Given a circle, construct (with ruler and compass) a square with the same area. While browsing the web for more informationhere...
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Is MATH Ready for P=NP? Is Alexandra Fahrenthold Ready for P=NP?
(This post was inspired by Harry Lewis emailing me about his granddaughter.) Harry Lewis's grand daughter Alexandra Fahrenthold (see both pictures) wants informationon...
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I have a book out on muffins (you prob already know that)
Lance: How come you haven't blogged on your muffin book? You've blogged about two books by Harry Lewis (see here and here) one book by the lesswrong community (see...
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How have computers changed society? Harry Lewis (with co-authors) have a book out on that.
(Disclosure - Harry Lewis was my PhD advisor.)It seems like just a few weeks ago I I blogged about a book of Harry Lewis's that was recently available (see here...
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My academic lineage and more interesting facts that come out of it
I got my PhD from Harvard in 1985 with advisor Harry LewisHarry Lewis got his PhD from Harvard in 1974 with advisor Burton Dreben (Dreben was in the Philosophy...
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The New Jeopardy Champion is a `A CS grad student from a school in New Haven'
As of Sept 17, Matt Amodio has won 23 straight games in a row on Jeopardy and won over $800,000 in regular play. The following website is not quite up to date,...
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Review of A Blog Book based on the Less Wrong Blog
There is a blog called lesswrong. Many people contribute to it (how many people must contribute to a website before it stops being called a blog and starts being...
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Guest Post on Solving (or trying to) Poly Diophantine Equations by Bogdan Grechuk
(Guest post by Bogdan Grechuk) Motivated by Mathoverflow question here I have recently became interested in solving Polynomial Diophantine equations, thathere...
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Since we will soon be back in the classroom, how was Zoom? Anything you want to maintain?
UMCP will have all classes on campus this Fall. There is a Mask Mandate. All students and faculty have to get vaccinated unless they have a health or religiousthis...
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When Words Get Stretched Beyond Their Original meaning
STORY ONE: On a Jeopardy rerun with Alex Trebek the question (actually the answer, given the shows format) was (I paraphrase)Who resigned his commision in the US...
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What are the most important 46 papers in Computer Science? Harry Lewis has a book about them!
(Disclosure: Harry Lewis was my PhD advisor. For a blog post on disclosures and bias see my post on that topic here.)Harry Lewis has a book out: Ideas that Created...
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Combing two posts: Blankface (Scott Aa) and Is Science Slowing Down? (Scott Al)
(I also posted this to the Less Wrong Website. At least I tried to- I don't quite know if or when it will appear there as its my first post there.) Some papersblankfaces...
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Do Four Colors Suffice?
(Guest Post by David Marcus)Comment by Bill: Haken and Appel proved that all planar maps are 4-colorable. Or did they? David Marcus emailed me that its not quite...
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I wish problems I have with computers really were my fault
As you know, the website for out for a few days, as Lance explained here.When I first could not get to the this blog my thought wasOH, I must have changed some...
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