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Flip 100 coins, labeled 1 through 100. Alice checks the coins in order (1, 2, 3, …) while Bob checks the odd-labeled coins, then the even-labeled ones (so 1, 3, 5, …, 99, 2, 4, 6, …). Who is more likely to see two heads *first*?
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An outsider has answered the geometry question that legendary problem-solver Jean Bourgain was stuck on for more than three decades -- my latest for @QuantaMagazine quantamagazine.org/statistic…

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved one of the most important problems in high-dimensional convex geometry.

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This is a graph I showed admitted grad students in the last visit day. The point was that they will never have as much confidence as they do right now, but with time they will regain ~75% of it back.
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CQT@quantumlah4 Jan 2021
For our #CQT13 symposium, we welcome speakers @rekastner, Francesco Buscemi, Howard Wiseman, @gilkalai and Markus Aspelmayer. CQT Director @j_i_latorre will give the closing remarks. Join us this Thursday! cqt13.quantumlah.org/
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I've rolled a die and not looked at it yet. The statement, "If the number I rolled equals 2+2 then it equals 5," is ...
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#gpt3 Turing Test. I asked it to continue a recent column by @nytimes' @nytdavidbrooks (which it wasn't trained on). Can you tell which text was the original and which was auto-generated? forms.gle/defQ112pFt289RMk9
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Rupei Xu@RupeiXu21 Apr 2020
Replying to @TomGur
cstheorytalks.wordpress.com/ – at Allen, TX
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Or Ordentlich, Oded Regev and Barak Weiss: New bounds for Covering Density! ift.tt/2U0o35m

Or Ordentlich, Oded Regev and Barak Weiss: New bounds for Covering Density!

Update (June 3, 2020): The paper New bounds on the density of lattice coverings is now on the arXiv. Barak Weiss lectured about his breakthrough results with Or Ordentlich, and Oded Regev, at a Sim…

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"Gil Kalai has a firm belief (about quantum computing) that is not necessarily supported by the majority of the scientific community, but he is determined to prove the majority wrong." Curious? Read on! erc.europa.eu/news-events/ma… 🇪🇺#EUfunded #maths #math @HebrewU @IDCHerzliyaRRIS

Mathematical Mavericks

Apart from funding ground breaking research, the ERC also employs many excellent scientists to mana

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It was a pleasure to have you at the IIAS! A crash course on the math of quantum computing (guest post by Dorit Aharonov) windowsontheory.org/2019/12/… via @wordpressdotcom #Engineering #ComputerScience #SemidefiniteProgramming #TheoreticalMathematics #QuantumComputation
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The Argument against Quantum Computers, by Gil Kalai (noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers will not allow neither good-quality quantum error-correction nor a demonstration of "quantum supremacy"). arxiv.org/abs/1908.02499
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Bidding games and efficient allocations ift.tt/2Mv00sN Publication date: Available online 24 August 2018 Source: Games and Economic Behavior Author(s): Reshef Meir, Gil Kalai, Moshe Tennenholtz Abstract Richman games are zero-sum games, where in each turn players …
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Gil Kalai thinks that noise is fatal to quantum computing, but most physicists disagree. Gil is "pretty certain, while a little nervous to be proven wrong." As he says, we'll soon find out. @QuantaMagazine quantamagazine.org/gil-kalai…
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Some Mathematical Puzzles that I encountered during my career dlvr.it/Pq4rLf
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Friendship and Sesame, Maryam and Marina, Israel and Iran gilkalai.wordpress.com/2017/… via @wordpressdotcom
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That huge list of links to QTech related news you are never able to find? Thx to Gil Kalai gilkalai.wordpress.com/2017/…
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