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Journals ACM SIGACT News Volume 38 Issue 2

Joint Review of7 Three Blogs by theorists: Computational Complexity (weblog.fortnow.com) by Lance Fortnow Shtetl-Optimized (www.scottaaronson.com/blog/) by Scott Aaronson in theory (in-theory.blogspot.com) by Luca Trevisan) Overview Disclosures: I wrote this review of blogs before Lance Fortnow retired. After he retired I took over his blog. But even before that I have guest blogged for both Lance Fortnow and Luca Trevisan, have been on podcasts with Lance Fortnow for his blog. Note: I have changed a few things in this review because of Lance ™s retiring, but not much. Blogs and books are very di €erent in character. To contrast them consider the book Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner, and the blog (www.freakonomics.com/blog/) with the same name and authors. The book had well thought out careful studies of issues such as ˜does the crime rate go down because of abortions ™ and ˜why do drug dealers still live with their mothers (that is, why isn ™t it more lucrative) ™. The studies they did were careful and I have a certain con dence in them. If someone disagreed with their conclusions they would have to either do a di €erent study or interpret the studies done. By contrast, consider the

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Joint review of Three Blogs by theorists: Computational Complexity (weblog.fortnow.com) by Lance Fortnow, Shtetl-Optimized (www.scottaaronson.com/blog/) by Scott Aaronson, In theory (in-theory.blogspot.com) by Luca Trevisan, reviewed by Bill Gasarch

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ACM SIGACT News , Volume 38 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 2007

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