Biweekly links for 03/16/2009

• 15-855: Intensive Intro to Computational Complexity
  • Class blog for Carnegie-Mellon’s Intro course on Computational Complexity.
• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
  • When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.
• Stephen Hawking rick rolls auditorium
  • And the audience goes wild…
• Asia@Home
  • Workshop on volunteer computing. Participants include Francois Grey of LHC@Home, and David Anderson of SETI@Home, and creator of Boinc, the software used to run many volunteer computing projects.
• [0903.1633] Deducing the Density Hales-Jewett Theorem from an infinitary removal lemma
  • The first (of several, I would imagine) papers to emerge in part as a result of the Polymath1 project. Gives a new proof of the Density Hales-Jewett Theorem.
• Open Science, Closed Source and Microsoft « petermr’s blog
• Open Reading Frame: Fooling around with numbers, part 2
  • Connections between price and various other factors for journals. Illuminating.
• Timeline for the Polymath1 Project
  • “Some highlights of the polymath1 project to date.”

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