Computational Complexity: Total Pixel Space
Last month the New York Times highlighted some AI generated short movies, including Total Pixel Space , by Jacob Adler that gets philosophi...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
Martin Kruskal was born Sept 28, 1925 and passed away on Dec 26, 2006, at the age of 81 (we did two posts for his memorial, here and here). Today, Sept 28, 2025, is his 100th birthday. His son Clyde Kruskal wrote today's blog post as a tribute to his father.| Computational Complexity
A few weeks ago I took an Uber to a regional airport and was picked up by a Tesla. The driver used FSD, so-called Full Self-Driving, never touching the steering wheel during the entire trip. Should you tip a driver who just sits there? In the end I gave my usual tip and five-star rating. I figured the driver had to be there or the car wouldn't drive and he probably ponied up his own money for the FSD. I give five stars to any driver who gets me from point A to point B without major incident. ...| Computational Complexity
STUDENT: What did you do before the web to find papers?| Computational Complexity
When announcing Open-AI's latest release last month, Sam Altman said "GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert." Before we discuss whether GPT-5 got there, what does "PhD-Level intelligence" even mean?| Computational Complexity
"I'll be on vacation so I won't be checking email.'' "I can't be at the meeting since I will be out of town'' Technology has made it so tha...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
(After I wrote this post Lance tweeted a pointer to a great talk by Ronald de Wolf with more examples, and also examples of quantum proofs, see here.)| Computational Complexity
When I first became a professor I had it all planned out, I would do research, teach and supervise students, get tenure and do more research, teach more courses, and supervise more students for the rest of my life. But once I got tenure, instead of feeling very excited, I felt kind of depressed. I achieved the main goal I put out for myself. Would I really just do the same stuff for the rest of my career?| Computational Complexity
Coding Style Is Important| Computational Complexity
This will be one of a series of posts that I've always wanted to write but I needed to wait until I was no longer an academic administrator....| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
(This post was inspired by George Foreman, who passed away March 21, 2025, at the age of 76.)| Computational Complexity
I've heard this story from a few places. A father watches Back to the Future II with his kid. The 1989 movie view of 2015 looks entirely different when in fact not much has changed except for the fashion and the lack of mobile phones. This is supposed to be a parable about the lack of technological progress.| Computational Complexity
Tom Lehrer passed away on July 26, 2025, at the age of 97. I wrote a blog-obit here. One of my readers read the post and went down a rabbit hole (or did he?), which lead to a blog post about rabbit holes here. | Computational Complexity
Last month the New York Times highlighted some AI generated short movies, including Total Pixel Space , by Jacob Adler that gets philosophi...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
NICK: I read and enjoyed your blog post on Tom L (see here). I then spend 40 minutes down a rabbithole listening to his music on YouTube.| Computational Complexity
AI and Vacation| Computational Complexity
Tom Lehrer passed away on Saturday July 26 at the age of 97. (For other obits see this collection of ten obits here .) He worked in both of...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof recently published in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Scie...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
In a prior post I asked what criteria I used to place Prez and VP nominees since 1976 into two groups. | Computational Complexity
A new prize:| Computational Complexity
I am curious how AI or humans can do on the following question.| Computational Complexity
Douglas Hofstadter first published Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid in 1979 and my then high school self tried, and failed, to read though the entire book. It focused on the contradictions, with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems, M. C. Escher's Drawing Hands and Johann Sebastian Bach's Canon a 2 per tonos, a piece that keeps rising until it ends a whole tone higher than it started.| Computational Complexity
UMCP has a building named | Computational Complexity
I had an epiphany reading an article in the Trenton Times when I lived in New Jersey at the turn of the century. The article interviewed com...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
We denote the busy beaver function by BB.| Computational Complexity
A new dean has taken my place, and I have returned to the professoriate at Illinois Tech, ending thirteen years in administration, six as dean and seven as department chair at Georgia Tech. I won't rule out more administrative roles in the future, but only if the right role presents itself.| Computational Complexity
Lance's post on Babai's result on Graph Isomorphism (henceforth GI) inspired some random thoughts on GI. (Lance's post is here .) 1) Here ...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
The New Pope is Pope Leo XIV (pre-Pope name is Robert Prevost). 1) Pope names are one of the few places we still use Roman Numerals. I sa...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
As we hit five years from when the world shut down, lots of discussions on how Covid has changed society. What about academia and computer s...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
In the book Those Fascinating Numbers by Jean-Marie De Konick they find interesting (or `interesting') things to say about many numbers. I ...| blog.computationalcomplexity.org
