Computational Complexity

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

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Factoring Carmichael Numbers

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Carmichael Numbers are the bane of probabilistic primality algorithms. You have to go through extra steps just to handle these relatively ra...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Test of Time Awards: A Good Idea but ....

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Since there is now a CCC Test-of-Time Award, see  here ,  (CCC stands for Computational Complexity Conference), I decided to look at other T...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Future of Teaching Assistants

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In 2016, in the pre-transformer times, Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel gave a prescient  TEDx Talk on an AI teaching assistant for his la...
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Sunday, November 09, 2025

A Presidential Trivia Question, how I tried to solve it

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        A friend of mine told me that in the last six months, the last grandchild of one of our former presidents (who had already passed aw...
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Thursday, November 06, 2025

The Complexity Argument for Capitalism

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We're seeing an attack on capitalism on both ends of the political spectrum with with the election of Democratic Socialist Zhoran Mamdan...
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Monday, November 03, 2025

Did Euclid exist? Is it okay to quote people that did not exist?

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  The following excerpt from Abrahim Ladha's comment on Lance's post about AI and intro theory caught my attention: ----------------...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

AI and the Power of Nonuniform Circuits

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The advances in artificial intelligence have changed the way we think about computing. For today's post, how nonuniformity plays a much ...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Bill's Bad Advice

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 I sometimes give the following advice for research which I label Bill's Bad Advice . We will later see who it might be good advice for....
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