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Indeed. But I chose the problem in response to your comment: > But we give no indication that the questions are hard because of computational tasks and we give many indications tha…

I solve 034. By [1, Theorem 4.1], the Neron-Severi rank of the perfectoid cover is the same as the Neron-Severi rank of the reduction. For a product E x E' of elliptic curves, it i…

> 1. Why do you compare it to multiplying two 1000 digit numbers and not to factorizing a 4096-bit numbers into its 2 prime factors, when not knowing any details? The objection is …

I don't like that you've called these problems "research-level", or your description that they are something you might give to a second-year PhD student. Some examples: - Question …

> Is computer assisted chess a thing? It was called Advanced Chess [1], now it's sometimes referred to as Centaur Chess. You can find online servers to play this kind of thing but …

You can watch Magnus Carlsen play a chess program on his phone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNvVWeHZG00 As you can tell from his commentary, he thinks the machine is rathe…

It's actually not that common. Players will use chess engines to analyze positions, but they will rarely play against them because it doesn't provide realistic practice for an actu…

Summary of the paper for those who don't want to read it: So basically there are two categories of "learning" involved in this sort of research, supervised and unsupervised. In sup…

Although I used the word "build", the entire post is talking about the investment. Regardless of whether you consider the people who "built" it to be government employees, the fund…

The entire point is that the government can invest in things that it deems valuable but not necessarily likely to make an immediate profit. The internet is an excellent example. No…

I gave an example of an automated checkout, but my point was not that the jobs I mentioned could all be automated -- my point was that they are not necessary. When I say "necessary…

> The socioeconomic world is as good as it is because most people are employed, doing something which contributes to maintenance and advancement of society & technology. Can you ju…

It seems likely that someone involved with the contest is trying to use it for free advertising. Look at the "About" page on that flash app, the person apparently lives in Waterloo…

There is supposed to be a new version of this contest coming up soon, although it seems to be temporarily stalled as the main developers are busy with other things. You can find th…

I don't think anyone posting about how easy it is to circumvent the paywall understands the point: it's not targeted at you. The NYT knows that if they create a completely restrict…

People using IE6 are XP users considering the default browser on Vista and Windows 7 is either IE7 or IE8, and XP doesn't support IE9.

Why would they purposefully make their case inconclusive?

I still don't understand why Google hasn't done the exact same test with a control variable. Run the exact same test again on a domain that isn't google.com.

The Bing toolbar only sends information back to Microsoft, it doesn't decide what to do with it. For this kind of a task it would be simpler to use a packet sniffer anyway.

I think one important point you're missing is that a chess engine looking to mathematically prove a victory is very different from the ones that play against grand masters. Deep Bl…

There are two very big assumptions being made here. One is that this is even possible to do, and two that porn is harmful to children. I doubt either of those are true.

Can anyone explain to me why people think he's egocentric? As far as I can see he just wants to share things with a technical community rather than with a bunch of teenage beggars.…

Why do people feel the need to label news sources as either "left" or "right" wing. Why do both sides always have to have valid points? Either the news source has good reporting an…