At University of Michigan CSE we have a new program for PhD applicants to apply for an application fee waiver. If you are interested in applying but paying the fee poses a challenge, see here for more info: https://t.co/vnClBRNegJ
Why don't our schools teach our kids useful life skills instead of useless crap like how to serve a volleyball or make a free throw in basketball? Nobody ever uses that again. If you become a pro you'll learn it in college. PE classes should be about how to move a fridge.
Physics is so stagnant that its Nobel Prize was just awarded to two computer scientists.
Both are brilliant ML researchers, who have nothing to do with fundamental physics research.
This is as close as we get to an admission of stagnation in physics.
SOSA 2025 was so much fun to co-chair with @ioanabercea and a great PC! We just finalized the exciting list of papers that will appear at the conference in New Orleans in January:
https://t.co/tvmVK58Hmb
I got my first P=NP crank paper emailed to me today! It's titled "A brilliant idea for solving the 3-CNF-SAT problem," and it roughly works by correctly proving that if all Boolean formulas are unsatisfiable, then no graphs are 3-colorable.
Today I learned about a 1944 foundational crisis in graph theory, when a WW2 Soviet bombing campaign rendered the Königsberg bridge problem temporarily solvable https://t.co/JSJKtwsyLT
How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."