(This is a guest post by Stuart Kurtz and Jim Royer.) Collapsing Degrees Guest post by Stuart Kurtz and Jim Royer. Bill Gasarch asked us to write an article...
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Jul 2, 2007 10:06 pm
THIS IS A TEST OF BLOGGER SOFTWARE. (I DELETED LAST POST, ABOUT COLLAPSING DEGREES, A PERFECTLY FIND POST, BECAUSE ITS COMMENTS WERE NOT WORKING. WHEN I TRIED...
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Jul 2, 2007 10:11 pm
(Guest post- reposted- problems with blogger software, the original post comments do not work.) Collapsing Degrees Guest post by Stuart Kurtz and Jim Royer. ...
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Jul 3, 2007 4:31 pm
Collapsing Degrees Guest post by Stuart Kurtz and Jim Royer. Bill Gasarch asked us to write an article about Collapsing Degrees, in the memory and honor of our...
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wgasarch
Jul 5, 2007 3:04 pm
As a collector of Novelty songs and a math-person I was morally obligated to purchase Musical Fruitcake by The Klein Four, a band consisting of math grad...
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wgasarch
Jul 9, 2007 9:23 pm
On the post Math Terms used in Real Life- Good or Bad I mentioned the following: On 24, season two, there was a line `we can't break in, its been Huffman...
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wgasarch
Jul 11, 2007 2:45 am
(Guest Post by Ken Regan) Computational complexity theory is the study of information flow and the effort required for it to reach desired conclusions....
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wgasarch
Jul 12, 2007 9:59 pm
A blog entry of Lance's on open problems noted that it would be good to have a repository of open problems. Perhaps a wiki or something. I recently go the...
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wgasarch
Jul 16, 2007 4:45 pm
and sending by POSTAL mail the following letter. If you do send a similar letter we can have an effect on spam and virusus. Dear Govenor Huckabee, There is...
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wgasarch
Jul 17, 2007 9:12 pm
The following is a quote from Comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The source is Seinfeld Universe: The Entire Domain by Greg Gattuso (Publisher of Nothing: The Newsletter...
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wgasarch
Jul 19, 2007 4:25 pm
A PhD Student, Michal Kouril, found a new van der Waerden number, W(2,6)=1132. See here for details. I had a list of known VDW numbers in an earlier post, but...
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wgasarch
Jul 23, 2007 5:02 pm
The game of checkers seems to have been solved. Its a draw. See here or here if you don't mind seeing an ad for low cholestrol cooking before getting to the...
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wgasarch
Jul 25, 2007 10:23 pm
(Guest post from Shiva Kintali. All capital letters, italics, and boldface are from Shiva.) A request to FOCS/STOC PC members Hi All, I would like to point out...
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fortnow
Jul 30, 2007 11:48 am
When I won't be in email contact for a while I set up a vacation program so that if someone emails me they get a message. I used to use the following: I am not...
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fortnow
Aug 1, 2007 11:06 am
The job market for theorists is rough, and for logicians even rougher. Hence some seek employment outside of academia, outside of research labs, outside of...
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wgasarch
Aug 2, 2007 10:56 pm
This is the 1000th posting on the complexity blogs. 958 were when Lance was running it and the rest (I'll let you do the math) were when I was running it. This...
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wgasarch
Aug 7, 2007 8:21 pm
&pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is one of the most important constants in Math. However, &pi could just as easily have been...
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wgasarch
Aug 9, 2007 9:53 pm
Aravind Srinivasan: I have a great idea for a Blog Post! Bill Gasarch: What is it! Aravind Srinivasan: We all know where Scott Aaronson ended up- MIT, but ...
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fortnow
Aug 13, 2007 12:41 pm
There is a recent story and a request for a petition signing that SEEMS like we should support it, but rather than repeat the story, here are pointers. It...
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wgasarch
Aug 15, 2007 4:52 pm
I will be teaching a Basic Graduate Course in Complexity Theory in the fall. Complexity Theory has too many theorems that you absolutely must cover. Hence you...
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fortnow
Aug 17, 2007 2:34 pm
Guest Post by Lance Fortnow As an anonymous commentor mentioned on Monday, I am moving to Northwestern University EECS in January. Northwestern also hired...
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wgasarch
Aug 20, 2007 6:12 pm
(Guest Informational Post by Phil Klein) Registration has opened for FOCS 2007, which will take place in Providence on October 20-23. Please go to ...
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wgasarch
Aug 21, 2007 3:31 pm
Aaron Sterling pointed Jon Schafer (the checkers guy!) to my entry and Scott's entry on checkers, and the comments on it. the comments on it. Then Aaron...
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wgasarch
Aug 22, 2007 7:49 pm
(Guest Blog by Amir Michail) As you may know, the Facebook platform was launched recently amid great excitement. This API allows developers to integrate their...
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wgasarch
Aug 27, 2007 6:46 pm
When you are asked to referee a paper, should you accept the job? That is not todays topic. Today's posting is a rant! I got a request to referee a paper that...
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wgasarch
Aug 29, 2007 7:13 pm
A while ago, I promised the community around the International Olympiad in Informatics that I would bring them into the conscience of the theory community, and...
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wgasarch
Aug 31, 2007 7:01 pm
(Guest Blog by Jonathan Katz on the Koblitz Controversy) Like many others, I was very upset by a recent article by Neal Koblitz that appears in the Notices of...
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wgasarch
Sep 4, 2007 11:39 pm
How does a theorem get to be believed to be true? There was a paper on this in 1979, Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs by DeMillo, Lipton,...
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wgasarch
Sep 7, 2007 10:10 pm
I have been told quite often that You don't have to understand Quantum Mechanics to work in Quantum Computing. Thats a good thing since I've also been told...
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wgasarch
Sep 11, 2007 4:43 pm
I was curious if my monograph Bounded Queries in Recursion Theory was still available so I went to amazon.com and typed in `William Gasarch'. It had 40 hits....
