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Updatez!

5 days ago

The STOC’2026 accepted papers list is out. It seems to me that...

On reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100,000 physical qubits

10 days ago

So, a group based in Sydney, Australia has put out a preprint...

“My Optimistic Vision for 2050”

13 days ago

The following are prepared remarks that I delivered by Zoom to a...

Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow!

15 days ago

This is just a quick announcement that I’ll be hosting Nate Soares—who...

Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work

18 days ago

Friend-of-the-blog Salil Vadhan has asked me to share the following The Trevisan...

The time I didn’t meet Jeffrey Epstein

24 days ago

Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears...

Guest Post from an Iranian

25 days ago

The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran...

Quantum is my happy place

27 days ago

Here’s a 53-minute podcast that I recorded this afternoon with a high...

On thugs

about 1 month ago

Those of us who tried to stop Trump from ever coming to...

I Had A Dream

about 1 month ago

Alas, the dream that I had last night was not the inspiring...

Scott A. on Scott A. on Scott A.

about 1 month ago

Scott Alexander has put up one of his greatest posts ever, a...

FREEDOM (while hoping my friends stay safe)

about 1 month ago

This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history,...