Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Latest Baez

Is up, and this time it's on complexity theory ! It even contains a post-within-a-post, by Scott Aaronson. Baez covers crypto and pseudorandomness, and has a ton of pointers as usual. The most hilarious link:
From their home page:
...researchers can't just "think" of deterministic numbers; the human brain is an incredibly complex system that is poorly understood. In addition, medical research shows that our brains can be influenced by electromagnetic radiation, including cellular phones and even microwaves. It obviously wouldn't do to have important issues of national security corrupted by stray radio waves! Luckily, computers can help us solve this problem.



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