My girlfriend (a.k.a “Jessica”) regularly laments her lack of feline companionship. At this point, kitten acquisition by summer’s end appears inevitable. My primary concern is that a healthy subset of our friends claim to be allergic, and alas, the age of affordable hypoallergenic kitties has not yet arrived. More broadly, there seems to be some […]
All you budding computer scientists our there are no doubt dying for me to resolve last months cliffhanger. As I stated last time, my goal with this series of posts is to describe the PCP Theorem in plain English. The PCP Theorem is a major result in the field of computational complexity, but to really […]
Way back in the 20th century, before I had committed to a lifetime of study at Brown, I was foolish enough to apply early to MIT. Thankfully I was deferred and later rejected (on my 18th/golden birthday no less!), but not before paying a visit to their lovely campus and seeing the MIT museum. Even […]