Computational Complexity

Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Reading Messy Proofs

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In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan HÃ¥stad o...
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Sunday, October 18, 2026

AI, Math, the document-drop. Non-Tech Thoughts

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So what to make of OpenAI and the future of Math? Here are some points I've either: thought of myself or heard from a human or read from...
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Thursday, October 15, 2026

Complexity and Lean

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In the OpenAI Math Drop some papers have Lean proofs, others don't, including L = RL = BPL. Why is it hard to formalize results on compl...
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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Conjectures that I thought would not be proved in my lifetime....were

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Lance blogged on the OpenAI solutions to many problems  here  and also created a website of the TCS-related problems OpenAI claims to have s...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Open No More

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I wrote the post below last week. That was a quaint and quiet time. Last night OpenAI released a treasure trove of 722 manuscripts solving ...
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Sunday, October 04, 2026

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Do you want to be one of them?

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  (This was written about 9 months ago.  Its not out of date... yet) People think that AI is going to DESTROY some jobs and CREATE some jobs...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Does Programming Help You Understand Complexity?

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I got the following question in an email. My nephew is currently in high school in China and has developed a strong interest in computer ...
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Sunday, September 27, 2026

What is the point of AI-disclosure?

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The STOC conference (and likely others) are requiring that a submission says how much AI was used. I can imagine the following options: 1) A...
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