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
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) will soon stop having print versions of most its publications. Rather than list which ones are going paper free, Iare...gasarch From Computational Complexity | September 17, 2023 at 04:00 PM
At the workshop Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Edited by Alexander Soifer, 2011. (There is a printed proceedings that you can find.) I saw Joel...gasarch From Computational Complexity | September 10, 2023 at 03:31 PM
Jimmy Buffett passed away on Sept 2, 2023. His Wikipedia entry (see here) says his death was peaceful and he was surrounded by friends, family, and his dog, sohere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | September 3, 2023 at 10:11 PM
I was recently asked by a non-mathematician about the difference between the terms Theorem, Lemma, etc. My first reaction was I probably have a blog post on that...gasarch From Computational Complexity | August 27, 2023 at 09:14 PM
There are some people who believe that we are all characters in a video game written by Abisola (this is sometimes called The Simulation Hypothesis). I first dismissed...gasarch From Computational Complexity | August 21, 2023 at 12:53 PM
This post is about an open problems column by Gasarch-Gezalyn-Patrick so they can be considered co-authors on this post. The column is here.Known: A permutablehere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | August 6, 2023 at 08:57 PM
I was giving a recruiting talk for my REU program and I had some slides with testimonials from students:-------------------------------------------------------...gasarch From Computational Complexity | July 30, 2023 at 09:17 PM
(I covered a simlar topic here.) In the June 2023 issue of The Atlantic is an article titled: Never Give AI Intelligence the...gasarch From Computational Complexity | July 22, 2023 at 11:13 PM
In 1983, as a grad student, I knew that HALT \( \le_T \) KOLG but didn't know how to prove it. I asked around and A MONTH later through a series of connectionshere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | July 17, 2023 at 12:35 AM
Ravi Boppana recently did a guest blog on Chernoff turning 100 for us here. Consider this unpublished comment on that post: -----------------------------------...gasarch From Computational Complexity | July 9, 2023 at 09:45 PM
In Jan 2023 I went to the Joint Math Meeting of the AMS and the MAA and took notes on things to look up later. In one of the talks they discussed a problem and...gasarch From Computational Complexity | June 24, 2023 at 10:35 AM
(This post is inspired by the death of Ted Kaczynski who died on June 10, 2023.) From 1978 until 1995 23 mailbombs were send to various people. 3 caused deaths,...gasarch From Computational Complexity | June 18, 2023 at 09:37 AM
Recently Lance, at the request of Vijay Vazirani, tweeted the following (I paraphrase)------------------------------------------------------------------------...gasarch From Computational Complexity | June 10, 2023 at 11:16 AM
For the book Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi (See here for a link to a first draft.) we had to...gasarch From Computational Complexity | June 4, 2023 at 10:42 PM
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the...gasarch From Computational Complexity | May 28, 2023 at 03:34 PM
I wrote the post below the dotted line a long time ago but never got around to posting it. Now that WHO says COVID emergency...gasarch From Computational Complexity | May 21, 2023 at 08:25 AM
Let f: N--> N map a number to the number-of-letters in its name in English (we will consider other languages later).So for example 14 is fourteen so it maps tohere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | May 14, 2023 at 05:53 PM
I often Google Ramsey stuff to find something. I often end up back on my own collection of Ramsey theory papers. But I sometimes find OTHER uses of the phrase...gasarch From Computational Complexity | May 8, 2023 at 07:06 PM
In the last few years there have been four papers that prove the primes are infinite using some number theory and some Ramsey Theory. The papers are:Van der Waerden...gasarch From Computational Complexity | May 1, 2023 at 09:05 AM
Gordon Moore passed away on March 24, 2023. He was 94 years old. He is best known for the article Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. It appeared...gasarch From Computational Complexity | April 23, 2023 at 04:05 PM