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As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem from 1946—one of the central open problems from the field of discrete geometry—has been solved by …
Shtetl-Optimized >> Blog Archive >> Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance Shtetl-Optimized The Blog of Scott Aaronson If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel. Also, please read Zvi Mowshowitz's masterpiece on how to fix K-12 education! --> << No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line On hope >> Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem from 1946—one of the central open
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