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Last updated 13 days ago

On hope

13 days ago

The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving...

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

19 days ago

As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance...

No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line

about 1 month 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

about 1 month ago

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

Will you heed my warnings NOW?

about 2 months ago

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

Three greats who we’ve lost

about 2 months ago

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

Before we start on quantum

2 months ago

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

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

3 months ago

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

Movie Review: “The AI Doc”

3 months ago

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

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

3 months ago

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

Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!

3 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

3 months ago

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