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Last updated 2 days ago

Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post

2 days ago

Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu...

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

7 days ago

Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world...

9/11 in Berkeley

11 days ago

Note: Of course I’ve been glued all week to the dramatic developments...

LLMs and self-referentiality

21 days ago

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either...

Anthropic’s LLM watermarking

about 1 month ago

So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of...

Better than gold

about 1 month ago

What’s about the only thing more badass than a 17-year-old winning a...

Michael Rabin memorial conference

about 1 month ago

Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize...

Enough with all the world-historic milestones

about 2 months ago

Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of...

NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail

2 months ago

A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint...

Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs)

2 months ago

Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first...

Announcing BQP Partners: my and my brother’s new angel-investing venture

2 months ago

As I’ve written before, these past couple years I’ve often felt like...

Happy 250th!

3 months ago

I’m at the New Jersey shore with family and friends, where we’ve...