(Also available as a pdf file. Apologies for the many footnotes, feel free to skip them.) Computational problems come in all different types and from all kinds of applications, arising from engineering as well the mathematical, natural, and social sciences, and involving abstractions such as graphs, strings, numbers, and more. The universe of potential algorithms … Continue reading Structure vs. Combinatorics in Computational Complexity
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Reasons to care: In honor of Scott Aaronson
Update (5/7): This post earned me a spot on the not-so-exclusive club of people called names such as a "narrow-minded" "biased" "religious worshiper" "who doesn't want to learn something difficult and new" by Luboš Motl. Interestingly, he mostly takes issue with my discounting the possibility that the complexity of SAT is something like $latex n^{1000}$ or $latex … Continue reading Reasons to care: In honor of Scott Aaronson
Windows On Theory 