http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/ Computational Complexity Weblog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:43 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1502 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1502 Some misc thoughts on set theory inspired by yesterdays comments and other things. - Geometry: Use Euclidean Geometry when appropriate, for example if you are Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:13:48 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1501 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1501 One of the founders of Conservapedia (a conservative alternative to Wikipedia) said the following on The Colbert Report: There is an absolute truth. People Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:15:20 GMT Lance http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1500 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1500 We go all the way back to January for the paper of the year, Mark Braverman's Poly-logarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits. Runners up include the Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:03:24 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1499 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1499 (This is my last blog of the year. Lance will interupt his blog sabbatical to do an END OF THE YEAR blog later.) The TV show MONK recently finished its 8th and Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:36:47 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1498 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1498 The Prob method (usually credited to Erdos) was once considered quite novel: You show something exists but you don't show how to construct it! An early example Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:11 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1497 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1497 The following problem was problem 1 (the easy one) on the Maryland Math Competition 2009 (I will later report on how the students did on it). - Show that for Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:21:48 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1496 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1496 (Tal Rabin requested to post this so I am doing so. This post is essentially her email, so call it a guest post.) There will be a Women In Theory workshop for Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:37:34 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1495 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1495 (Deadline to submit a paper to CCC is Dec 15. Depending on when you read this that could be today or in the past.) As you all know from Lance's last post, Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:25:08 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1494 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1494 Submissions to 25th CCC are due TOMORROW! (Actually it could be TOMORROW, TODAY, or IN THE PAST depending on when you read this.) Should you submit? - If you Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:23:48 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1493 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1493 Submissions to 25th CCC are due TOMMOROW! (Actually it could be TOMMOROW, TODAY, or IN THE PAST depending on when you read this.) Should you submit? - If you Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:59 GMT Lance http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1492 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1492 With the end of the fall quarter I will take a break from the blog for a few months. This is not another End, just a chance to move my creative juices in Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:17 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1491 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1491 BILL: Clyde is teaching a graduate course titled Games, Game Theory, and the Theory of Games. He tells me that there are basically eight kinds of games Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:08:42 GMT GASARCH http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1490 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1490 (The 17x17 problem has gotten far wider attention than I imagined--- Brian Hayes posted it on his website: here, and its also here and here. The last website Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:06:16 GMT Lance http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1489 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1489 After a talk on derandomization at Midwest Theory Day, someone asked if those techniques could also be used in quantum computing. In classical randomness under Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:33:11 GMT Lance http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1488 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/complexityweblog/message/1488 Quick announcement: If you are a student who wants to go to SODA but doesn't have the funds, click here. I had forgotten we did this. Here's a video of my