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My Passover press release

about 9 hours ago

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From the university campuses of Assyria to the...

That IACR preprint

7 days ago

For those who don’t yet know from their other social media: a...

Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award!

12 days ago

I can’t find it now, but nearly 20 years ago, in the...

And yet quantum computing continues to progress

20 days ago

Pissing away my life in a haze of doomscrolling, sporadic attempts to...

Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter

29 days ago

Never go to “Planet Word” in Washington DC

about 1 month ago

In fact, don’t try to take kids to Washington DC if you...

On being faceless

about 2 months ago

So I’ve been locked out of Facebook and Messenger, possibly forever. It...

The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI

2 months ago

Here, as promised in my last post, is a written version of...

On whether we’re living in a simulation

3 months ago

Unrelated Announcement (Feb. 7): Huge congratulations to longtime friend-of-the-blog John Preskill for...

Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?

3 months ago

Unrelated Announcement: The Call for Papers for the 2024 Conference on Computational...

Postdocs wanted!

4 months ago

David Soloveichik, my friend and colleague in UT Austin’s Electrical and Computer...

Rowena He

4 months ago

This fall, I’m honored to have made a new friend: the noted...