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  1. OpenAI Unveils Astra, AI Model That Solves Decade-Old Math Problems

    Meet Astra, OpenAI's game-changing AI model that's cracking decade-old math problems that have stumped experts for years. This breakthrough tech has achieved ten major advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, paving the way for new discoveries.

    osintsights.com/openai-unveils

    #ArtificialIntelligence #AiModel #Mathematics #TheoreticalComputerScience #Openai

  2. OpenAI Unveils Astra, AI Model That Solves Decade-Old Math Problems

    Meet Astra, OpenAI's game-changing AI model that's cracking decade-old math problems that have stumped experts for years. This breakthrough tech has achieved ten major advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, paving the way for new discoveries.

    osintsights.com/openai-unveils

    #ArtificialIntelligence #AiModel #Mathematics #TheoreticalComputerScience #Openai

  3. 🚀 Ah, yes, the cutting-edge intersection of #mathematics and theoretical computer science, where progress apparently requires a PhD in browser settings. 🔧🍪 Who knew the future of #academia would be unlocked by enabling cookies? 🍪🔓
    openai.com/index/ten-advances- #theoreticalComputerScience #browserSettings #cookies #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🚀 Ah, yes, the cutting-edge intersection of #mathematics and theoretical computer science, where progress apparently requires a PhD in browser settings. 🔧🍪 Who knew the future of #academia would be unlocked by enabling cookies? 🍪🔓
    openai.com/index/ten-advances- #theoreticalComputerScience #browserSettings #cookies #HackerNews #ngated

  5. Two associate professor (maître·sse de conférences) positions will soon open at the department of computer science and IRIF (@IRIF) at Université Paris Cité. Applications with a background in theoretical computer science (including both `track A' and `track B') are sought. This is a great scientific environment in Paris, France.

    🗓️Important dates:
    1. Application deadline: Apr. 3, 2026 (16:00 CEST) on the French `odyssee' application platform
    2. Notifications for interviews should be received on May 5. 2026
    3. Interviews take place in May 18–19, 2026
    4. Positions start on Sept. 1, 2026

    🔗 irif.fr/postes/universite

    ⚠️ Notes:
    * Contact people at the department and at IRIF to prepare your application
    * Don't forget to apply to both positions
    * Some fluency in French is mandatory for these positions: if hired, you'll be teaching in front of a French-speaking class in September.

    #academicJobs #wearehiring #theoreticalComputerScience #campagne #esr #universite

  6. Two associate professor (maître·sse de conférences) positions will soon open at the department of computer science and IRIF (@IRIF) at Université Paris Cité. Applications with a background in theoretical computer science (including both `track A' and `track B') are sought. This is a great scientific environment in Paris, France.

    🗓️Important dates:
    1. Application deadline: Apr. 3, 2026 (16:00 CEST) on the French `odyssee' application platform
    2. Notifications for interviews should be received on May 5. 2026
    3. Interviews take place in May 18–19, 2026
    4. Positions start on Sept. 1, 2026

    🔗 irif.fr/postes/universite

    ⚠️ Notes:
    * Contact people at the department and at IRIF to prepare your application
    * Don't forget to apply to both positions
    * Some fluency in French is mandatory for these positions: if hired, you'll be teaching in front of a French-speaking class in September.

    #academicJobs #wearehiring #theoreticalComputerScience #campagne #esr #universite

  7. #Mathematics #GroupTheory #Algebra #TheoreticalComputerScience

    In my study (a while ago) I learned about Σ Algebras (theoretical computer science).
    Then later, I learnt in math there are σ Algebras, which seems sort of the same thing.
    Today I'm curious about group theory, and groups are also sort of the same thing.

    Can anyone tell me what's the difference? Between Σ Algebras, σ Algebras, and groups?

  8. #Mathematics #GroupTheory #Algebra #TheoreticalComputerScience

    In my study (a while ago) I learned about Σ Algebras (theoretical computer science).
    Then later, I learnt in math there are σ Algebras, which seems sort of the same thing.
    Today I'm curious about group theory, and groups are also sort of the same thing.

    Can anyone tell me what's the difference? Between Σ Algebras, σ Algebras, and groups?

  9. “Representation shapes what seems possible, even when no one says it out loud. I feel so incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with (...) incredible women.” - Surya Mathialagan

    ➡️ Find her full story at hermathsstory.eu/surya-mathial

    #Cryptography #USA #Math #PhD #TheoreticalComputerScience #hermathsstory

  10. “Representation shapes what seems possible, even when no one says it out loud. I feel so incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with (...) incredible women.” - Surya Mathialagan

    ➡️ Find her full story at hermathsstory.eu/surya-mathial

    #Cryptography #USA #Math #PhD #TheoreticalComputerScience #hermathsstory

  11. I wonder whether "fusion trees with multiple roots" exist

    what I know after a quick search

    • there is a bonsai technique concerning roots of fusion trees
    • there is a minecraft modpack called fusion forest
    • there is a company called b-forest
    • there is a famous counter strike player named forest
    • there is a subfield named forest informatics
    • there is a greek thing named b dag

    #tcs #theoreticalComputerScience #cs #research

  12. I wonder whether "fusion trees with multiple roots" exist

    what I know after a quick search

    • there is a bonsai technique concerning roots of fusion trees
    • there is a minecraft modpack called fusion forest
    • there is a company called b-forest
    • there is a famous counter strike player named forest
    • there is a subfield named forest informatics
    • there is a greek thing named b dag

    #tcs #theoreticalComputerScience #cs #research

  13. People say it's a misconception that quantum computers can evaluate a function on all its possible inputs in parallel. But actually a lot of quantum algorithms do begin by applying a function to a superposition of all possible inputs. It's just that after that point you need to do some difficult linear algebra and you can't always extract the information you want.

    In fact, you can define a lot of important complexity classes in this way. The set of problems solvable in polynomial time with an oracle that evaluates a given circuit on all its possible inputs and tells you …

    P: … nothing.
    BPP: … a randomly chosen output.
    PP: … a majority output.
    NP: … if any of the outputs is nonzero.
    co-NP: … if all of the outputs are nonzero.
    PSPACE: … a fixed point.

    #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ComputerScience #TheoreticalComputerScience #Quantum #QuantumComputing

  14. People say it's a misconception that quantum computers can evaluate a function on all its possible inputs in parallel. But actually a lot of quantum algorithms do begin by applying a function to a superposition of all possible inputs. It's just that after that point you need to do some difficult linear algebra and you can't always extract the information you want.

    In fact, you can define a lot of important complexity classes in this way. The set of problems solvable in polynomial time with an oracle that evaluates a given circuit on all its possible inputs and tells you …

    P: … nothing.
    BPP: … a randomly chosen output.
    PP: … a majority output.
    NP: … if any of the outputs is nonzero.
    co-NP: … if all of the outputs are nonzero.
    PSPACE: … a fixed point.

    #Math #Maths #Mathematics #ComputerScience #TheoreticalComputerScience #Quantum #QuantumComputing

  15. Is there a meaningful way to characterize some "fastest growing function", subject to particular computational limitations? (I answered a question today that asked if all computable functions have polynomial bounds, which they obviously don't.)

    We can't ask for the fastest-growing function in FP, because the composition of polynomial runtimes is polynomial. So if f(x) is in FP, so is the faster-growing f(f(x)).

    Could we identify the fastest-growing function (using binary) in DTIME(n^2)? It seems like it would be something like "given an n-bit input, write n^2 1's after the input". So if the input was 2^a, we'd get 2^a * 2^(a^2) + (2^(a^2+1) - 1) as output.

    But, strictly speaking, there would be a little bit of overhead meaning we couldn't do quite that well. The algorithm above is in DTIME(O(n^2)) but not DTIME(n^2). So it feels like there is a sequence of functions that converges on this one, but there might not be any best possible. And if we permit O(n^2) we're back to not having any fastest-growing function again because we can just slap bigger multiples on our allowed runtime.

    So, is there a nontrivial class of computable functions that has an unambiguously fastest-growing member?

    #TheoreticalComputerScience

  16. Is there a meaningful way to characterize some "fastest growing function", subject to particular computational limitations? (I answered a question today that asked if all computable functions have polynomial bounds, which they obviously don't.)

    We can't ask for the fastest-growing function in FP, because the composition of polynomial runtimes is polynomial. So if f(x) is in FP, so is the faster-growing f(f(x)).

    Could we identify the fastest-growing function (using binary) in DTIME(n^2)? It seems like it would be something like "given an n-bit input, write n^2 1's after the input". So if the input was 2^a, we'd get 2^a * 2^(a^2) + (2^(a^2+1) - 1) as output.

    But, strictly speaking, there would be a little bit of overhead meaning we couldn't do quite that well. The algorithm above is in DTIME(O(n^2)) but not DTIME(n^2). So it feels like there is a sequence of functions that converges on this one, but there might not be any best possible. And if we permit O(n^2) we're back to not having any fastest-growing function again because we can just slap bigger multiples on our allowed runtime.

    So, is there a nontrivial class of computable functions that has an unambiguously fastest-growing member?

    #TheoreticalComputerScience

  17. This Karp Distinguished Lecture at at the Simons Institute by Rocco Servedio on July 10 on "New Directions in Property Testing" looks exciting! Rocco is a fantastic speaker.
    simons.berkeley.edu/events/new

    The Karp Lectures are public lectures, meant for a broad, general #TheoreticalComputerScience audience. Registration is free, in person or online.

    To check your time zone: timeanddate.com/worldclock/con

  18. This Karp Distinguished Lecture at at the Simons Institute by Rocco Servedio on July 10 on "New Directions in Property Testing" looks exciting! Rocco is a fantastic speaker.
    simons.berkeley.edu/events/new

    The Karp Lectures are public lectures, meant for a broad, general #TheoreticalComputerScience audience. Registration is free, in person or online.

    To check your time zone: timeanddate.com/worldclock/con

  19. Call for papers for the LearnAut (#Learning and #Automata) 2024 workshop co-located with ICALP/LICS/FSCD!

    Please consider submitting your work. 😊

    "The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts on #FormalLanguageTheory that could benefit from #GrammaticalInference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find new insights for their methods in #TheoreticalComputerScience. [...] We do accept submissions of work recently published, currently under review or work-in-progress."

    learnaut24.github.io/

  20. 📢 Next week (Wed 12/13) on TCS+: at 10am PT/1pm ET, Aaron Bernstein from Rutgers University will speak on "Negative-Weight Single-Source Shortest Paths in Near-linear Time." Join us for the last TCS+ talk of 2023! #Algorithms #TheoreticalComputerScience

    Details: tcsplus.wordpress.com/2023/12/

    Register (optional): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

  21. 📢 Next week (Wed 12/13) on TCS+: at 10am PT/1pm ET, Aaron Bernstein from Rutgers University will speak on "Negative-Weight Single-Source Shortest Paths in Near-linear Time." Join us for the last TCS+ talk of 2023! #Algorithms #TheoreticalComputerScience

    Details: tcsplus.wordpress.com/2023/12/

    Register (optional): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

  22. 📢 Next week (Wed 9/27) at 10:00am PT, Hanlin Ren from Oxford will give the first TCS+ talk of the season, on "Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of Primes." #TheoreticalComputerScience

    Details: tcsplus.wordpress.com/2023/09/

    Register (optional): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

  23. 📢 Next week (Wed 9/27) at 10:00am PT, Hanlin Ren from Oxford will give the first TCS+ talk of the season, on "Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of Primes." #TheoreticalComputerScience

    Details: tcsplus.wordpress.com/2023/09/

    Register (optional): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

  24. Here's a really interesting (long) paper on what a theory of computing based on arbitrary physical substrates might look like: arxiv.org/abs/2307.15408

    "Toward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers: extended version"

    Herbert Jaeger, Beatriz Noheda, Wilfred G. van der Wiel (2023)

    @bnoheda

    #NewPaper #TheoreticalComputerScience #neuromorphic #CogSci #CognitiveScience #VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #AnalogComputing

  25. Here's a really interesting (long) paper on what a theory of computing based on arbitrary physical substrates might look like: arxiv.org/abs/2307.15408

    "Toward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers: extended version"

    Herbert Jaeger, Beatriz Noheda, Wilfred G. van der Wiel (2023)

    @bnoheda

    #NewPaper #TheoreticalComputerScience #neuromorphic #CogSci #CognitiveScience #VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #AnalogComputing

  26. Collective #math / #TheoreticalComputerScience memory question: Sometime in the last couple of months I followed a link from Masto to a blog post about computing (in the most general sense) defined as continuous rather than discrete mathematics. This blog post mentioned (with references) that having *partial* functions was essential for computation.

    Now I can't find the blog post or references. Any pointers to works explaining why partial functions are essential to computation (or refutation) would be greatly appreciated.

  27. Collective #math / #TheoreticalComputerScience memory question: Sometime in the last couple of months I followed a link from Masto to a blog post about computing (in the most general sense) defined as continuous rather than discrete mathematics. This blog post mentioned (with references) that having *partial* functions was essential for computation.

    Now I can't find the blog post or references. Any pointers to works explaining why partial functions are essential to computation (or refutation) would be greatly appreciated.

  28. ICYMI, there's been a series of online talks on "adversarially robust streaming #algorithms" on the Foundations of #DataScience virtual seminar series. The first 3 recordings are available:
    sites.google.com/view/dstheory

    David Woodruff on "Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms"

    Edith Cohen "On Robustness to Adaptive Inputs: A Case Study of CountSketch"

    Omri Ben-Eliezer on "Robust sampling and online learning"

    (one or two more to come this semester!) #TheoreticalComputerScience #TCS #talks

  29. ICYMI, there's been a series of online talks on "adversarially robust streaming #algorithms" on the Foundations of #DataScience virtual seminar series. The first 3 recordings are available:
    sites.google.com/view/dstheory

    David Woodruff on "Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms"

    Edith Cohen "On Robustness to Adaptive Inputs: A Case Study of CountSketch"

    Omri Ben-Eliezer on "Robust sampling and online learning"

    (one or two more to come this semester!) #TheoreticalComputerScience #TCS #talks

  30. Hey, that seems cool!* Zero-Knowledge proofs in the streaming setting (verifier has limited working memory, gets one pass over the input).
    arxiv.org/abs/2301.02161
    By Cormode, Dall’Agnol, @tomgur, and Hickey. #TCS #arXiv #TheoreticalComputerScience

    * Except for the default bright green color of the links, that is :)

  31. Hey, that seems cool!* Zero-Knowledge proofs in the streaming setting (verifier has limited working memory, gets one pass over the input).
    arxiv.org/abs/2301.02161
    By Cormode, Dall’Agnol, @tomgur, and Hickey. #TCS #arXiv #TheoreticalComputerScience

    * Except for the default bright green color of the links, that is :)

  32. Oh, polynomial3sat.org is down and the respective code on GitHub is removed. The corresponding paper on arXiv is still accessible. Does anyone know more about what happened?

    arxiv.org/abs/1903.10081

    #satsolving #complexitytheory #PequalsNP #compsci #theoreticalcomputerscience

  33. Oh, polynomial3sat.org is down and the respective code on GitHub is removed. The corresponding paper on arXiv is still accessible. Does anyone know more about what happened?

    arxiv.org/abs/1903.10081

    #satsolving #complexitytheory #PequalsNP #compsci #theoreticalcomputerscience

  34. I have been making an online #weaeklyquiz 📊 in #TheoreticalComputerScience and #maths for more than 3 years now: first on Twitter weekly, now fortnightly both there and here on Mastodon. If you're interested, all the #quiz threads and their answers are listed here:
    ccanonne.github.io/weeklyquiz.

  35. I have been making an online #weaeklyquiz 📊 in #TheoreticalComputerScience and #maths for more than 3 years now: first on Twitter weekly, now fortnightly both there and here on Mastodon. If you're interested, all the #quiz threads and their answers are listed here:
    ccanonne.github.io/weeklyquiz.

  36. This season of TCS+ has concluded, with 7 talks (including two Test-of-Time surveys), which you can (re)watch at will on the TCS+ website! tcsplus.org/welcome/past-talks 📽️

    We're going to decide on next semester's speakers very soon, so if you have suggestions, please send them through: tcsplus.org/welcome/suggest-a-

    See you next year, and Happy Holidays! 🎉 #TheoreticalComputerScience #seminars #talks

  37. This season of TCS+ has concluded, with 7 talks (including two Test-of-Time surveys), which you can (re)watch at will on the TCS+ website! tcsplus.org/welcome/past-talks 📽️

    We're going to decide on next semester's speakers very soon, so if you have suggestions, please send them through: tcsplus.org/welcome/suggest-a-

    See you next year, and Happy Holidays! 🎉 #TheoreticalComputerScience #seminars #talks

  38. Manuel Blum and I study #consciousness from a #TheoreticalComputerScience (TCS) perspective.
    TCS is a branch of #mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of #computation and #complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations.
    For a TCS perspective on #consciousness, see, bit.ly/38zAhf6
    For a TCS perspective on #FreeWill, see, arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13942.pdf

  39. Manuel Blum and I study #consciousness from a #TheoreticalComputerScience (TCS) perspective.
    TCS is a branch of #mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of #computation and #complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations.
    For a TCS perspective on #consciousness, see, bit.ly/38zAhf6
    For a TCS perspective on #FreeWill, see, arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13942.pdf

  40. Is there a canonical term for "either coinitial or composable #traces"? Concomitant? Adjacent? #TheoreticalComputerScience #CS

  41. Alright, that's all for today. Please comment below if you have any questions, feedback, or comments on this #theoreticalcomputerscience #quiz!

    And see you next week! 🏄

    12/end

  42. Hello everyone!👋 Newly arrived from the site that shall not be named. Miss my friends and all that I learned there. Would love 😍 to make new friends on @mastodon interested in: #Mathematics or #TheoreticalComputerScience or #Consciousness or #Philosophy or #AI or #Neuroscience or #Life ... (to be cont'd)