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Monthly Archives: October 2022
James Davies: Every finite colouring of the plane contains a monochromatic pair of points at an odd distance from each other.
Here is a lovely piece of news: the following paper by James Davies was posted on the arXive a few weeks ago. The paper uses spectral methods to settle an old question, posed in 1994, by Moshe Rosenfeld. (See this … Continue reading
Bo’az Klartag and Joseph Lehec: The Slice Conjecture Up to Polylogarithmic Factor!
Bo’az Klartag (right) and Joseph Lehec (left) In December 2020, we reported on Yuansi Chen breakthrough result on Bourgain’s alicing problem and the Kannan Lovasz Simonovits conjecture. It is a pleasure to report on a further fantastic progress on these … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Computer Science and Optimization, Convexity, Geometry, Probability
Tagged Bo'az Klartag, Joseph Lehec
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Alef’s Corner: “It won’t work, sorry”
Alef thanks Nicolas Curien for the triangulation. Click here for other posts with Alef’s art.
Test Your intuition 51
Suppose that and are two compact convex sets in space. Suppose that contains . Now consider two quantities is the average volume of a simplex forms by four points in drawn uniformly at random. is the average volume of a … Continue reading
Posted in Convexity, Geometry, Probability, Test your intuition
Tagged Test your intuition
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The Google Supremacy Experiment: Data, Information, Discussions, and Three Questions.
Yosi Rinott, Tomer Shoham, and I wrote a manuscript regarding our study of the Google 2019 supremacy experiment. This is still a draft and comments or corrections are most welcome. (The paper already incorporates a few comments by the Google … Continue reading