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- TYI 41: How many steps does it take for a simple random walk on the discrete cube to reach the uniform distribution?
- Gil’s Collegial Quantum Supremacy Skepticism FAQ
- Amazing! Keith Frankston, Jeff Kahn, Bhargav Narayanan, Jinyoung Park: Thresholds versus fractional expectation-thresholds
- Starting today: Kazhdan Sunday seminar: “Computation, quantumness, symplectic geometry, and information”
- The story of Poincaré and his friend the baker
- Gérard Cornuéjols’s baker’s eighteen 5000 dollars conjectures
- Noisy quantum circuits: how do we know that we have robust experimental outcomes at all? (And do we care?)
- Test Your Intuition 40: What Are We Celebrating on Sept, 28, 2019? (And answer to TYI39.)
- Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google).
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- Gil's Collegial Quantum Supremacy Skepticism FAQ
- TYI 41: How many steps does it take for a simple random walk on the discrete cube to reach the uniform distribution?
- TYI 30: Expected number of Dice throws
- Lior, Aryeh, and Michael
- Elchanan Mossel's Amazing Dice Paradox (your answers to TYI 30)
- Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google).
- Amazing: Hao Huang Proved the Sensitivity Conjecture!
- Jeff Kahn and Jinyoung Park: Maximal independent sets and a new isoperimetric inequality for the Hamming cube.
- Aubrey de Grey: The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5
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Monthly Archives: July 2018
ICM 2018 at Rio, ICM Trivia Questions, the Sao Paulo General Assembly Meeting, and Other Excitements
ICM-trivia questions You can test yourself in the questions below and then look at the Wikipedea article for the answers. Mondial – scale excitements are here again! Not since the Mondial’s final match between France and Croatia, has an excitement … Continue reading
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Building Bridges II, and Rio ICM 2018
In this post I will talk about Building Bridges II – last week conference in Budapest, about my talk and Lex Schrijver’s talk at the conference, about two old videotaped lectures in Microsoft Research (and a prize carrying competition), and … Continue reading