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Last updated 5 days ago

No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line

5 days ago

Over the years, I’ve written two op-eds for The New York Times...

The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2

8 days ago

WHOA … I’ve won the inaugural Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work...

Will you heed my warnings NOW?

20 days ago

Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy...

Three greats who we’ve lost

30 days ago

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (1934-2026) won the 1980 Turing Award for...

Before we start on quantum

about 1 month ago

Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you...

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

about 2 months ago

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell”...

Movie Review: “The AI Doc”

about 2 months ago

Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch...

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

about 2 months ago

Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical...

Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!

2 months ago

I’m on a spring break vacation-plus-lecture-tour with Dana and the kids in...

On Montgomery County public magnet schools: a guest post by Daniel Gottesman

2 months ago

Scott’s foreword: I’ve known fellow quantum computing theorist Daniel Gottesman, now at...

Remarks at UT on the Pentagon/Anthropic situation

2 months ago

Last Thursday, my friend and colleague Sam Baker, in UT Austin’s English...

The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

2 months ago

Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and...