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Last updated 4 days ago
My Christmas gift: telling you about PurpleMind, which brings CS theory to the YouTube masses
4 days ago
Merry Christmas, everyone! Ho3 Here’s my beloved daughter baking chocolate chip cookies,...
More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
8 days ago
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this...
Understanding vs. impact: the paradox of how to spend my time
18 days ago
Not long ago William MacAskill, the founder of the Effective Altruist movement...
Mihai Pătrașcu Best Paper Award: Guest post from Seth Pettie
28 days ago
Scott’s foreword: Today I’m honored to turn over Shtetl-Optimized to a guest...
Podcasts!
about 1 month ago
A 9-year-old named Kai (“The Quantum Kid”) and his mother interviewed me...
Quantum Investment Bros: Have you no shame?
about 1 month ago
Near the end of my last post, I made a little offhand...
Quantum computing: too much to handle!
about 2 months ago
Tomorrow I’m headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose participants...
UT Austin’s Statement on Academic Integrity
about 2 months ago
A month ago William Inboden, the provost of UT Austin (where I...
On keeping a packed suitcase
about 2 months ago
This Halloween, I didn’t need anything special to frighten me. I walked...
An Experimental Program for AI-Powered Feedback at STOC: Guest Post from David Woodruff
2 months ago
This year for STOC, we decided to run an experiment to explore...