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
I recently heard or read the following phrases.
former cop killer
ideal compromiser
even prime numbers have their uses
In each case it was ambiguous...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | September 14, 2009 at 05:22 PM
A colleague sent me this link to a Washington Post article, on how colleges are going to be "torn apart" like newspapers have been by the Internet. Dramatically...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM
The story goes that Andrew Wiles dreamt of proving Fermat's last theorem when he was a kid. No surprise since all of us math-loving kids dreamed of solving this...Lance From Computational Complexity | September 11, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Muthu points to a blog entry (by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research) on research labs vs. academia. It's a good read -- especially for graduate students thinking...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM
ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a severe shortage of plug outlets...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here's the paper, and here's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM
As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (consistent) way to get comments...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM