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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 …
From My Biased Coin
Justice!
Harvard is putting the lectures (and other materials) online for a fantastic course, Justice, taught by Michael Sandel. It's a class on moral reasoning, exactly...
From Computational Complexity
The Journal Manifesto
Some people say that for-profit journals do not currently serve our community well. Some even think they cannot do so. Others think they are doing a fine job as...
From Computational Complexity
The IT Rules
My family has discovered a British Series, the IT Crowd, about two techies in a corporate IT department. An American version never got past the pilot phase. ...
From My Biased Coin
Blog Posts of the Day
A blog post worth reading is Mihai Patrascu's post on, essentially, coming in second, if only for the chance to play armchair psychologist and try to deconstruct...
From Computational Complexity
Debunking Proofs
One of the comments of the last post asked my (or someones) opinion on the proofs floating around that P=NP or P\ne NP. As a grad student I used to readWhat...
From The Noisy Channel
Human-Computer Information Retrieval in Layman
One of the great benefits of practicing, as Daniel Lemire calls it, open scholarship is that I have many opportunities to see how ideas translate across the research...
From The Noisy Channel
Information Retrievability
Last year, I wrote a post about Leif Azzopardi and Vishwa Vinay’s work on information accessibility: Instead of an actual physical space, in IR, we are predominately...
From My Biased Coin
UC President Interview
Luca Trevisan points to this NY Times Magazine interview with UC president Mark Yudof. Is it just me, or is this guy just completely tone deaf to the current situation...
From Computational Complexity
Inspiring a Love of Math
A reader writes I come to you by way of your computational complexity blog. I get that there is some really good stuff there, but frankly don’t understand about...
From Computational Complexity
My two cents on P vs NP
There have been several posts on blogs about P vs NP and two expository articles. Is there anything else to add. I'm not sure, but here are my 2 cents. QUESTION...
From My Biased Coin
Extending the Sketching of Sketches Result
I'm putting online a paper with Zhenming Liu and Kai-Min Chung (both graduate students at Harvard) that extends one of the results from Declaring Independence via...
From Computational Complexity
Another Reason to goto FOCS: Theory Day!
(Posted by request of Vijay V. Vazirani. Flame him for any spelling or grammar mistakes, or if you don't like the content.) Another reason to goto FOCS:here...
From The Noisy Channel