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The Geomblog
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The Geomblog is a personal blog at geomblog.blogspot.com about math and programming. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link The Geomblog's posts on the crowdsourced review of the 2010 Deolalikar P≠NP proof attempt, a topic of computational complexity discussion.
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Ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms, theoretical computer science and life
What Hacker News says?
Precisely! I found the crowdsourcing approach that got started at http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-deolalikar-proof-cro... amazing. Terence Tao had done a similar thing, not for paper review but to prove some theorems. Compared to this, the rigid approach adopted in Math Overflow to close any discussion on the issue seems so 19th century. See the discussion here: http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/590/
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on “Issues in the Proof that P ≠ NP”Submitted Soviet-style mathematics as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI am a graduate student at a big state university, studying complexity theory. I TA for the (required) introduction to discrete mathematics sometimes, and when we study FSM's I get to have a lot of fun motivating them for the students. Automata theory may seem arcane, but if you want to truly understand concurrent programming, protocol design, robust systems, etc, you need good cognitive models. Heck, Erlang (one of…
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