This is the 1000th posting on the
complexity blogs. 958 were when Lance
was running it and the rest
(I'll let you do the math) were when
I was running it.
This is not an exact count of how many postings
we made since there were many guest posts.
SO, how to celebrate?
I request that readers comment on their
favorite and/or least favorite postings of either
Lance or I.
I'll start: my favorite posting of Lance's was on
how fields tend to view themselves as NOT being
in a golden age:
here it is
My least favorite was Lance's fairwell post. Not quite fair-
it was a fine post, but I didn't like that he was stepping down.
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It's spelt farewell, not fairwell.
ReplyDeleteIt's also spelled "spelled," not "spelt." ;)
ReplyDeleteI will not point a particular one, but several. I really liked Lance's "meta-academic" posts aimed mostly at beginning researchers, such as picking an adviser, choosing questions to work on, and quite a few others. They really are a valuable and rare service.
ReplyDeleteTo anon 2: In British English, it is spelt "spelt".See the first line of:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt
To anon4: But this is an American Blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to note that the blog can still be reached using weblog.fortnow.com. Isn't it time that it changed to weblog.gasarch.com?
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps to WEBLOG.GASARCH.COM or to weblog.billg.com (in fact, if you choose the latter, a certain billionaire might also be interested in your blog)
My favorite posts are ones that produced fascinating comments. (Perhaps we can get this particular post in the running?)
ReplyDeleteThe recent comment by Damien Woods on the importance of studying small Turing machines, and Sanjeev Arora's comments demystifying the PC STOC/FOCS process (which appeared in *that* post) are among my favorites. I also really appreciate the link to Parberry's advice on how to write and present.
It's the end of the summer, so I suppose we can't expect much intellectual activity beyond proofreading for another couple weeks.
However, if we didn't have the "lazy days of summer" excuse, I would be worried. If this is truly the level at which the readers of this blog approach this subject, it's no surprise research "areas" are so fragile they stand or fall based on the exact date the proofs of results are released.
...it's no surprise research "areas" are so fragile they stand or fall based on the exact date the proofs of results are released.
ReplyDeleteHuh?