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Richard Lipton’s Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP is the best blog you and I will never read.
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The recent “ Women in Tech ” (disaster) panel at Techcrunch reminded me of a long overdue post I’ve been wanting to write on the absence-of- women-in-tech debate that’s being doing the rounds over the last few months. Part of it revolves around the far too common prevalence of all (white) male panels/speakers at top tech conferences…a phenomenon I’m all too familiar with (as the pinch-hitter diversity rescuer I seem to be morphing into)… and part of it is around low numbers female-founded start-ups & tech companies. I’m happy to see that the conversation is moving away from “this is the sorry state of things” to “what practical things can we do.”
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Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012 by s.e. smith Many medical students swear some version of the Hippocratic Oath when they become doctors; the oath has become the thing laypeople associate most with medical ethics, even though not all doctors swear by it, and it is more symbolic than binding.
Arjen Lenstra is one of the top computational number theorists in the world, especially on the state-of-the-art in integer factoring. For example, he helped create the best general factorization method known to date—the number field sieve—see here for a previous discussion. Also he was one of the authors of the great paper that introduced the LLL lattice algorithm, which was joint work with one of his brothers, Hendrik Lenstra, and also with László Lovász.
Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
Today my book, HOW TO BE BLACK is released, and I need your help. This is my first book published by someone not-me ( Harper Collins ).
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I am telling you that I do not speak Mandarin, I do not speak Cantonese, I have only a passing familiarity with Chinese culture and to call what I have a passing familiarity is an insult to Chinese culture—I don’t know fuck-all about Chinese culture.
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To many people unfamiliar with Invisible Children, the Kony 2012 campaign looked like a brilliant example of “viral” media spread.