...I have seen practically no serious discussion in the ACM community of its relationship with surveillance-capitalism corporations. For example, the ACM Turing Award, ACM's highest award, is now accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, supported by Google. cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022…
how big should a generating set S be so that the Cayley graph of F_2^n generated by S has small diameter (like O(1) or O(log n) ~ O(log log |G|))? any references for this problem (specifically F_2^n)?
I’ve decided to leave my PhD after a lot of personal challenges due to mental health/COVID, which also revealed the frustrating ways that academia and I are less-than-compatible. Not sure what’s next (other than continuing to do math, because I literally cannot help myself)!
arxiv.org/pdf/1206.3686.…
this (awesome) 2012 paper mentions some (then) upcoming work on using interactive proofs (including quantum setting) for studying confirmation in philosophy of science. anyone know if this exists/follow up work?