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
On Tuesday, at the behest of an alumnus, I spent the afternoon at HIMSS, a large health tech conference being held at the big convention center in Chicago. When...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 20, 2023 at 05:30 PM
This week finds me at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in Berkeley California. Simons started about the same time I joined the administrative...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 13, 2023 at 01:07 PM
About six years ago, I posted on why it was important to understand machine learning, mentioning trust, fairness, security and causality. But I then I brought in...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 10, 2023 at 01:37 PM
Eric Allender graciously agreed to write this remembrance of Neil Jones.Neil Jones passed away on March 27.Neil's work had a profound impact on the field of computational...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 4, 2023 at 03:05 PM
Carlos May waving to the crowd on April 1, 1972Instead of the usual April Fools’ Day post, I present one of the best April Fools Day stunts ever. Here’s the text...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 1, 2023 at 10:04 AM
Last Thursday I attended the world premier of The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, a new production from Chicago Opera Theater composed by Justine Chen with the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 29, 2023 at 11:29 AM
In my fall jobs post, I had trouble predicting this season's CS faculty job market but I didn't expect this: strong supply and strong demand, something we haven't...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 23, 2023 at 09:58 AM
Guest post by Josh Grochow
On the birdsite, Jay Cummings tweeted:
TOP 5 IDENTITIES OF ALL TIME5. You4. Can't 3. Rank2. Identities 1. eiπ + 1 = 0— Jay Cummings...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 16, 2023 at 04:31 PM
I ran into a partner of a computer scientist at a social event who asked me "Is the publication system in CS screwed up or really screwed up?" If you don't know...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 6, 2023 at 09:08 AM
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had a racist rant in a video he posted last week. As a result most newspapers that carried the comic strip are dropping Dilbert...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 2, 2023 at 08:19 AM
Martin Haug, who is working on a LaTeX alternative Typst, asked me if I had updates on a LaTeX rant from 2011. I haven't seen any new serious backward compatibility...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 23, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Ted Chiang in a recent New Yorker article likened ChatGPT to a blurry JPEG, i.e. a "lossy compression" of the web. It's a good article but the analogy isn'tKolmogorov...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Despite OpenAI's claim that ChatGPT has improved mathematical capabilities, we don't get far multiplying large numbers.Typical for ChatGPT, the answer passes the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 9, 2023 at 09:59 AM
Nature laid out their ground rules for large language models like ChatGPT includingNo LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 2, 2023 at 09:39 AM
The current state of computer science reminds me of the early excitement of the Internet in the mid-90's. By the beginning of the 90's, computers landed in many...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 26, 2023 at 08:55 AM
I'm sure many of you long-time readers are asking, "Why all this big focus on machine learning in your posts and tweets? You are the 'Computational Complexity'research...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 19, 2023 at 09:42 AM
As Google started to limit academic storage, I started looking at Google Takeout and started wondering what I could do with all that data. I downloaded all the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 12, 2023 at 09:41 AM
Given the excitement over ChatGPT, I spent part of the winter recess trying to understand the underlying technology of Transformers. After trying various tutorials...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 3, 2023 at 09:58 AM
Complexity result of the year goes toNP-Hardness of Learning Programs and Partial MCSPby Shuichi HiraharaConsider the following version of Occam's Razor: find the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 21, 2022 at 08:40 AM
Bill didn't feel he had the expertise to share new insights on the FTX affair. Never stopped me.FTX is nothing short of corporate malfeasance in a poorly regulated...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 15, 2022 at 11:57 AM