Thought Leaders with Clay Shirky. Richard Lipton’s Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP is the best blog you and I will never read. (Sample sentence: “The structure of a univariate polynomial is strongly determined by its Galois Group.”) Lipton is a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, and the dean of bloggers writing about P=NP. The P=NP question, ridiculously simplified, is that some problems are easy for computers to handle (these are called P), while others are hard (NP), but no one knows if NP problems are fundamentally different from P problems or not.
This seems pretty abstract (it is pretty abstract), but if P and NP turn out to be the same kind of problem, almost every working form of encryption in the world will be vulnerable to defeat. P=NP is the most important problem in computer science, with a million dollar prize for a solution, so when a credible paper appeared claiming that P does not equal NP, Lipton’s blog became the site of the resulting conversation. Visit Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP. Kenyan Pundit. Fetus Business. No, It's Not A Pun Anymore. This Is A Blog For Fetuses. DEAL. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog. Marginal Revolution. Whimsley. Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP. Blog - baratunde.com. Irshad Manji blog and official website » home. …My heart’s in Accra. Danah boyd | apophenia. Like everyone who cares about Crisis Text Line and the people we serve, I have spent the last few days reflecting on recent critiques about the organization’s practices.
Having spent my career thinking about and grappling with tech ethics and privacy issues, I knew that – had I not been privy to the details and context that I know – I would be outraged by what folks heard this weekend. I would be doing what many of my friends and colleagues are doing, voicing anger and disgust. But as a founding board member of Crisis Text Line, who served as board chair from June 2020 until the beginning of January 2021, I also have additional information that shaped how I thought about these matters and informed my actions and votes over the last eight years.
As a director, I am currently working with others on the board and in the organization to chart a path forward. Texters come to us in their darkest moments. First: Why data? Storing data immediately prompted three key questions: I’m a scholar. 1.