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2016

“Can computers become conscious?”: My reply to Roger Penroseoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2016
My Quora sessionoriginal ↗
19 May 2016
Three announcementsoriginal ↗
9 May 2016
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory: new paper by Adam Yedidia and meoriginal ↗
3 May 2016
“Largely just men doing sums”: My review of the excellent Ramanujan filmoriginal ↗
1 May 2016
Me interviewed by John Horgan (the author of “The End of Science”)original ↗
21 Apr 2016
Grading Trudeau on quantum computingoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2016
A postdoc postoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2016
Quantum. Crypto. Things happen. I blog.original ↗
6 Mar 2016
From Boston to Austinoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2016
The universe has a high (but not infinite) Sleep Numberoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2016
“Why does the universe exist?” … finally answered (or dissolved) in this blog post!original ↗
6 Feb 2016
Here’s some video of me spouting about Deep Questionsoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2016
Marvin Minskyoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2016
Happy Third Birthday Lily!original ↗
21 Jan 2016
Edging in: the biggest science news of 2015original ↗
3 Jan 2016

2015

6.S899 Student Project Showcase!original ↗
23 Dec 2015
Ask an unbounded question, get an uncomputable answeroriginal ↗
12 Dec 2015
Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup for WHAT?original ↗
9 Dec 2015
If I can’t do math, I don’t want to be part of your revolutionoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2015
Talk, be merry, and be rationaloriginal ↗
23 Nov 2015
G. Phi. Fo. Fum.original ↗
4 Nov 2015
A breakthrough on QMA(2)?original ↗
30 Oct 2015
Ordinary Words Will Dooriginal ↗
18 Oct 2015
Six announcementsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2015
Bell inequality violation finally done rightoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2015
Ask Me Anything: Diversity Editionoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2015
D-Wave Open Threadoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2015
6-photon BosonSamplingoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2015
Jacob Bekenstein (1947-2015)original ↗
18 Aug 2015
Common Knowledge and Aumann’s Agreement Theoremoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2015
Introducing some British people to P vs. NPoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2015
Quantum query complexity: the other shoe dropsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2015
Celebrate gay marriage—and its 2065 equivalentoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2015
“Can Quantum Computing Reveal the True Meaning of Quantum Mechanics?”original ↗
25 Jun 2015
FCRC Highlightsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2015
A query complexity breakthroughoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2015
97% environmentalistoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2015
Can blog posts nourish the soul? Scott A. (alas, not me) as existence prooforiginal ↗
3 Jun 2015
The End of Suffering?original ↗
2 Jun 2015
NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputationoriginal ↗
23 May 2015
Five announcementsoriginal ↗
17 May 2015
“Is There Something Mysterious About Math?”original ↗
22 Apr 2015
Two papersoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2015
The ultimate physical limits of privacyoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2015
The flow of emails within the block inboxoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2015
How can we fight online shaming campaigns?original ↗
25 Feb 2015
“The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic”original ↗
18 Feb 2015
Memrefutingoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2015
Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine Printoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2015
Happy Second Birthday Lilyoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2015
BQP/LHC collisionoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2015
Quantum computing news items (by reader request)original ↗
12 Jan 2015

2014

What I believeoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2014
Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase 3original ↗
26 Dec 2014
The Turing movieoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2014
Walter Lewinoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2014
PostBQP Postscripts: A Confession of Mathematical Errorsoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2014
Lens of Computation on the Sciencesoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2014
Kuperberg’s parableoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2014
What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? Recently-declassified document provides cluesoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2014
Der Quantencomputeroriginal ↗
14 Nov 2014
Interstellar’s dangling wormholesoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2014
A few quick announcementsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
Speaking Truth to Parallelism at Cornelloriginal ↗
3 Oct 2014
Microsoft SVCoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
Speaking Truth to Parallelism: The Bookoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2014
Steven Pinker’s inflammatory proposal: universities should prioritize academicsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2014
Raise a martini glass for Google and Martinis!original ↗
6 Sept 2014
Do theoretical computer scientists despise practitioners? (Answer: no, that’s crazy)original ↗
28 Aug 2014
“Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”original ↗
25 Aug 2014
Subhash Khot’s prizewinning researchoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2014
Is the P vs. NP problem ill-posed? (Answer: no.)original ↗
13 Aug 2014
US State Department: Let in cryptographers and other scientistsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2014
3-sentence summary of what’s happening in Israel and Gazaoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2014
“How Might Quantum Information Transform Our Future?”original ↗
22 Jul 2014
Seth Teller (1964-2014)original ↗
11 Jul 2014
The Power of the Digi-Comp II: My First Conscious Paperletoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2014
A Physically Universal Cellular Automatonoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2014
Integrated Information Theory: Virgil Griffith opinesoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2014
Eigenmoralityoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2014
Randomness Rules in Quantum Mechanicsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2014
My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Testoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2014
CCC’s Declaration of Independenceoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2014
Giulio Tononi and Me: A Phi-nal Exchangeoriginal ↗
30 May 2014
Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automatonoriginal ↗
27 May 2014
Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)original ↗
21 May 2014
The NEW Ten Most Annoying Questions in Quantum Computingoriginal ↗
13 May 2014
The Quest for Randomnessoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2014
Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing?original ↗
11 Apr 2014
Waiting for BQP Feveroriginal ↗
1 Apr 2014
This review of Max Tegmark’s book also occurs infinitely often in the decimal expansion of πoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2014
The Scientific Case for P≠NPoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2014
Recent papers by Susskind and Tao illustrate the long reach of computationoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2014
Umesh Vazirani responds to Geordie Roseoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
TIME’s cover story on D-Wave: A case study in the conventions of modern journalismoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2014
More “tweets”original ↗
31 Jan 2014
Retiring falsifiability? A storm in Russell’s teacuporiginal ↗
17 Jan 2014
What happens when an unstoppable PR force hits an NP-hard problem? The answer’s getting cleareroriginal ↗
16 Jan 2014

2013

BosonSampling Lecture Notes from Riooriginal ↗
28 Dec 2013
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