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 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 Consider this unpublished comment on that post: -----------------------------------...gasarch From Computational Complexity | July 9, 2023 at 09:45 PM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
I am posting this for Nick Tran who is the current SIGACT Book Review Editor (before him it was Fred Green for about 6 years, and before him it was me (Bill Gasarch)...gasarch From Computational Complexity | March 26, 2023 at 03:25 PM
R(k) is the least n such that for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\) there is a monochromatic \(K_k\)(so there are k vertices such that the coloring restricted...gasarch From Computational Complexity | March 19, 2023 at 08:47 PM
We think SAT is hard because (1) its NPC, and (2) many years of effort have failed to get it into P. Imagine a world where we didn't have the Cook-Levin Theorem...gasarch From Computational Complexity | March 13, 2023 at 11:39 AM
According to this article, in the near future LESS people will be going to college. There is even a name for this upcoming shift: The Enrollment Cliff. Why?Ishere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | February 27, 2023 at 10:10 AM
You are a college president. An online betting company says We will give you X dollars if you allow us to promote online gambling at your University.I suspecthere...gasarch From Computational Complexity | February 19, 2023 at 09:38 PM
I was looking at the paper PSPACE-Completeness of reversible deterministic systemsby Erik Demaine, Robert Hearn, Dylan Hendrickson...gasarch From Computational Complexity | February 12, 2023 at 04:22 PM