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2026 57

  1. Talk by Dana Moshkovitz: The Unique Games Conjecture – Proved (!!?)
  2. Podcasts about the Topic: Part II
  3. Vote! (Israeli edition)
  4. Vote!
  5. AI Alignment Theory Course: Readings and Rapporteur Reports!
  6. Podcasts about the Topic
  7. The Mathocalypse
  8. My new course at UT Austin: AI Alignment Theory
  9. My “Knowmads” podcast on science and AI
  10. Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post
  11. The Age of Wonders and Terrors
  12. 9/11 in Berkeley
  13. LLMs and self-referentiality
  14. Anthropic’s LLM watermarking
  15. Better than gold
  16. Michael Rabin memorial conference
  17. Enough with all the world-historic milestones
  18. NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail
  19. Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs)
  20. Announcing BQP Partners: my and my brother’s new angel-investing venture
  21. Happy 250th!
  22. An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
  23. Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an Omega(1) Fraction of Humanity: My Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech at STOC
  24. 50 Years of Aumann’s Agreement Theorem
  25. My response to the White House executive order on QC
  26. Bipartite matching is in NC!
  27. Never trust a T-Rex
  28. On hope
  29. Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance
  30. No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line
  31. The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2
  32. Will you heed my warnings NOW?
  33. Three greats who we’ve lost
  34. Before we start on quantum
  35. Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
  36. Movie Review: “The AI Doc”
  37. My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp
  38. Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!
  39. On Montgomery County public magnet schools: a guest post by Daniel Gottesman
  40. Remarks at UT on the Pentagon/Anthropic situation
  41. The ”JVG algorithm” is crap
  42. Moar Updatez
  43. Anthropic: Stay strong!
  44. Updatez!
  45. On reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100,000 physical qubits
  46. “My Optimistic Vision for 2050”
  47. Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow!
  48. Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work
  49. The time I didn’t meet Jeffrey Epstein
  50. Guest Post from an Iranian
  51. Quantum is my happy place
  52. On thugs
  53. I Had A Dream
  54. Scott A. on Scott A. on Scott A.
  55. FREEDOM (while hoping my friends stay safe)
  56. The Goodness Cluster
  57. Venezuela through the lens of good and evil

2025 54

  1. My Christmas gift: telling you about PurpleMind, which brings CS theory to the YouTube masses
  2. More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
  3. Happy Chanukah
  4. Understanding vs. impact: the paradox of how to spend my time
  5. Theory and AI Alignment
  6. Mihai Pătrașcu Best Paper Award: Guest post from Seth Pettie
  7. Podcasts!
  8. Quantum Investment Bros: Have you no shame?
  9. Quantum computing: too much to handle!
  10. UT Austin’s Statement on Academic Integrity
  11. On keeping a packed suitcase
  12. An Experimental Program for AI-Powered Feedback at STOC: Guest Post from David Woodruff
  13. My talk at Columbia University: “Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics”
  14. Sad and happy day
  15. The QMA Singularity
  16. HSBC unleashes yet another “qombie”: a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isn’t
  17. Darkness over America
  18. Quantum Information Supremacy
  19. For the record
  20. Deep Gratitude
  21. Staying sane on a zombie planet
  22. Deep Zionism
  23. Updates!
  24. ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
  25. Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase #5 (2025 Edition)!
  26. BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large
  27. Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025)
  28. Trump and Iran, by popular request
  29. Guess I’m A Rationalist Now
  30. “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”
  31. Cracking the Top Fifty!
  32. Opposing SB37
  33. Quantum! AI! Everything but Trump!
  34. Fight Fiercely
  35. I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
  36. My most rage-inducing beliefs
  37. Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment … and More
  38. In favor of the morally sane thing
  39. Tragedy in one shitty act
  40. On the JPMC/Quantinuum certified quantum randomness demo
  41. On Columbia in the crosshairs
  42. Jacob Barandes and Me
  43. The Evil Vector
  44. Ryan Williams strikes again
  45. FAQ on Microsoft’s topological qubit thing
  46. Toward a non-constant cancellation function
  47. “If you’re not a woke communist, you have nothing to fear,” they claimed
  48. The duty of stating the obvious
  49. Hymn to be recited for the next thousand mornings
  50. The American science funding catastrophe
  51. Good news for once! A faster Quantum Fourier Transform
  52. Open letter to any Shtetl-Optimized readers who know Elon
  53. The mini-singularity
  54. Above my pay grade: Jensen Huang and the quantum computing stock market crash

2024 42

  1. The Google Willow thing
  2. Podcasts!
  3. Thanksgiving
  4. Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania
  5. Steven Rudich (1961-2024)
  6. My podcast with Brian Greene
  7. My Nutty, Extremist Beliefs
  8. My October 7 post
  9. Quantum advantage for NP approximation? For REAL this time?
  10. Sad times for AI safety
  11. The International Olympiad in Injustice
  12. Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype
  13. AI transcript of my AI podcast
  14. My podcast with Dan Faggella
  15. Quantum fault-tolerance milestones dropping like atoms
  16. In Support of SB 1047
  17. Book Review: “2040” by Pedro Domingos
  18. “The Right Side of History”
  19. My Reading Burden
  20. My pontificatiest AI podcast ever!
  21. My “Never-Trump From Here to Eternity” FAQ
  22. New comment policy
  23. My Prayer
  24. Quantum developments!
  25. The Zombie Misconception of Theoretical Computer Science
  26. BusyBeaver(5) is now known to be 47,176,870
  27. “Never A Better Time to Visit”: Our Post-October-7 Trip to Israel
  28. Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)
  29. Situational Awareness
  30. Openness on OpenAI
  31. Jim Simons (1938-2024)
  32. UmeshFest
  33. My Passover press release
  34. That IACR preprint
  35. Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award!
  36. And yet quantum computing continues to progress
  37. Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter
  38. Never go to “Planet Word” in Washington DC
  39. On being faceless
  40. The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI
  41. On whether we’re living in a simulation
  42. Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?

2023 44

  1. Postdocs wanted!
  2. Rowena He
  3. On being wrong about AI
  4. Weird but cavity-free
  5. Staggering toward quantum fault-tolerance
  6. More Updates!
  7. Updates!
  8. New travel/podcast/speaking policy
  9. The Tragedy of SBF
  10. The floorboard test
  11. Bring the Brodutch family home
  12. Shtetl-Optimized’s First-Ever “Profile in Courage”
  13. To all those who’ve emailed me…
  14. Quantum miscellany
  15. Palate cleanser
  16. Long-awaited Shtetl-Optimized Barbenheimer post! [warning: spoilers]
  17. Testing GPT-4 with math plugins
  18. “Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and me (+ GPT-4-enabled transcript!)
  19. Because they could
  20. On students as therapy
  21. Common knowledge and quantum utility
  22. Life, blogging, and the Busy Beaver function go on
  23. Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (tl;dr DO NOT BUY)
  24. Could GPT help with dating anxiety?
  25. Robin Hanson and I discuss the AI future
  26. Brief Update on Texan Tenure
  27. AI and Aaronson’s Law of Dark Irony
  28. Five Worlds of AI (a joint post with Boaz Barak)
  29. Will UT Austin and Texas A&M survive beyond this week?
  30. AI safety: what should actually be done now?
  31. GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam!
  32. Quips are what I’ve got
  33. If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason
  34. An unexpected democracy slogan
  35. Xavier Waintal responds (tl;dr Grover is still quadratically faster)
  36. Of course Grover’s algorithm offers a quantum advantage!
  37. On overexcitable children
  38. The False Promise of Chomskyism
  39. Why am I not terrified of AI?
  40. Should GPT exist?
  41. Statement of Jewish scientists opposing the “judicial reform” in Israel
  42. Visas for Chinese students: US shoots itself in the foot again
  43. Movie Review: M3GAN
  44. Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring

2022 52

  1. Happy 40th Birthday Dana!
  2. Short letter to my 11-year-old self
  3. Google’s Sycamore chip: no wormholes, no superfast classical simulation either
  4. My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruism
  5. Dismantling Quantum Hype with Tim Nguyen
  6. Reform AI Alignment
  7. WINNERS of the Scott Aaronson Grant for Advanced Precollege STEM Education!
  8. Sneerers
  9. Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience
  10. The Caesar problem remains open
  11. Oh right, quantum computing
  12. On Bryan Caplan and his new book
  13. Explanation-Gödel and Plausibility-Gödel
  14. Postdocs, matrix multiplication, and WSJ: yet more shorties
  15. Two more shorties
  16. Shorties!
  17. I had a dream
  18. What I’ve learned from having COVID
  19. Win a $250,000 Scott Aaronson Grant for Advanced Precollege STEM Education!
  20. My Quantum Information Science II Lecture Notes: The wait is over!
  21. Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier
  22. That Financial Times QC skepticism piece
  23. Summer 2022 Quantum Supremacy Updates
  24. Updatez
  25. Juris Hartmanis (1928-2022): Guest post by Ryan Williams
  26. On black holes, holography, the Quantum Extended Church-Turing Thesis, fully homomorphic encryption, and brain uploading
  27. More AI debate between me and Steven Pinker!
  28. A low-tech solution
  29. Choosing a new comment policy
  30. Linkz!
  31. Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all
  32. We Are the God of the Gaps (a little poem)
  33. Steven Pinker and I debate AI scaling!
  34. Because I couldn’t not post
  35. OpenAI!
  36. Alright, so here are my comments…
  37. Computer scientists crash the Solvay Conference
  38. An understandable failing?
  39. Donate to protect women’s rights: a call to my fellow creepy, gross, misogynist nerdbros
  40. My first-ever attempt to create a meme!
  41. An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California
  42. On form versus meaning
  43. Back
  44. Nothing non-obvious to say…
  45. Happy 70th birthday Dad!
  46. AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
  47. Scott Aaronson Speculation Grant WINNERS!
  48. Why Quantum Mechanics?
  49. Win a Scott Aaronson Speculation Grant!
  50. On tardigrades, superdeterminism, and the struggle for sanity
  51. The demise of Scientific American: Guest post by Ashutosh Jogalekar
  52. Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley

2021 53

  1. My values, howled into the wind
  2. An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
  3. Two new talks and an interview
  4. The Acrobatics of BQP
  5. Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said…
  6. Q2B 2021
  7. An Orthodox rabbi and Steven Weinberg walk into an email exchange…
  8. Welcome to scottaaronson.blog !
  9. Gaussian BosonSampling, higher-order correlations, and spoofing: An update
  10. The Physics Nobel, Gaussian BosonSampling, and Dorian Abbot
  11. “Is China Ahead in the Quantum Computing Race?”
  12. Was Scientific American Sokal’d?
  13. My ACM TechTalk on quantum supremadvantage
  14. Open Problems Related to Quantum Query Complexity
  15. Exciting opportunities at Kabul University!
  16. “The Chair”: A Straussian interpretation
  17. Please cheer me up
  18. Stephen Wiesner (1942-2021)
  19. Yet more mistakes in papers
  20. On blankfaces
  21. Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion
  22. Steven Weinberg (1933-2021): a personal view
  23. Slowly emerging from blog-hibervacation
  24. Open thread on new quantum supremacy claims
  25. STOC’2021 and BosonSampling
  26. On Guilt
  27. More quantum computing popularization!
  28. Three updates
  29. In which I answer more quantum computing questions
  30. On turning 40 today
  31. What I told my kids
  32. Three updates
  33. The easiest exercise in the moral philosophy book
  34. Doubts about teapot supremacy: my reply to Richard Borcherds
  35. The ACM Prize thing
  36. Just some prizes
  37. The Computational Expressiveness of a Model Train Set: A Paperlet
  38. QC ethics and hype: the call is coming from inside the house
  39. Abel to win
  40. Long-delayed UT Austin Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase!
  41. Sayonara Majorana?
  42. Another axe swung at the Sycamore
  43. The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  44. Stop emailing my utexas address
  45. Brief thoughts on the Texas catastrophe
  46. On standing up sans backbone
  47. A grand anticlimax: the New York Times on Scott Alexander
  48. Once we can see them, it’s too late
  49. Research (by others) proceeds apace
  50. Sufficiently amusing that I had no choice
  51. A day to celebrate
  52. To all Trumpists who comment on this blog
  53. Distribute the vaccines NOW!

2020 62

  1. My vaccine crackpottery: a confession
  2. The case for moving to a red state
  3. Chinese BosonSampling experiment: the gloves are off
  4. Beth Harmon and the Inner World of Squares
  5. Happy Chanukah / Vaccine Approval Day!
  6. Shor’s algorithm in higher dimensions: Guest post by Greg Kuperberg
  7. Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
  8. Happy Thanksgiving Y’All!
  9. Huck Finn and the gaslighting of America
  10. Annual post: Come join UT Austin’s Quantum Information Center!
  11. The Complexity Zoo needs a new home
  12. On defeating a sociopath
  13. Five Thoughts
  14. On the removal of a hideous growth
  15. A Drawing for Singularity Eve
  16. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis: Part 1 of <=Aleph_0
  17. Vote in person if you can
  18. My second podcast with Lex Fridman
  19. On the destruction of America’s best high school
  20. Agent 3203.7: Guest post by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  21. In a world like this one, take every ally you can get
  22. My Utility+ podcast with Matthew Putman
  23. My new motto
  24. Seven announcements
  25. The Busy Beaver Frontier
  26. Is this blog obsolete?
  27. My Enlightenment fanaticism
  28. Scott’s Zoom tip: Email the link!
  29. David Poulin
  30. Pseudonymity as a trivial concession to genius
  31. Quantum Computing Since Democritus: New Foreword!
  32. Justice has no faction
  33. Book Review: “Will He Go?”
  34. Jonathan Dowling (1955-2020)
  35. Pooled testing for covid: Guest post by Zeph Landau
  36. The US might die, but P and PSPACE are forever
  37. The Collapsing Leviathan
  38. Quantum Computing Lecture Notes 2.0
  39. Four striking papers
  40. Announcements
  41. Vaccine challenge trials NOW!
  42. Martinis, The Plot Against America, Kill Chain
  43. AirToAll: Another guest post by Steve Ebin
  44. Lockdown day 39
  45. The quantum computer that knows all
  46. John Horton Conway (1937-2020)
  47. When events make craziness sane
  48. If I used Twitter…
  49. On “armchair epidemiology”
  50. Ask Me Anything: Apocalypse Edition
  51. First it came for Wuhan
  52. National disgrace
  53. Coronavirus: the second-weirdest solution?
  54. Turn down the quantum volume
  55. A coronavirus poem
  56. Paperz
  57. Freeman Dyson and Boris Tsirelson
  58. My video interview with Lex Fridman at MIT about philosophy and quantum computing
  59. My “Quantum Supremacy: Skeptics Were Wrong” 2020 World Speaking Tour
  60. From shtetl to Forum
  61. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM: Guest post by Karen Morenz
  62. MIP*=RE

2019 40

  1. Quantum computing motte-and-baileys
  2. NIPS vs. NeurIPS: guest post by Steven Pinker
  3. Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority
  4. Two updates
  5. Guest post by Greg Kuperberg: Archimedes’ other principle and quantum supremacy
  6. The Aaronson-Ambainis Conjecture (2008-2019)
  7. Annual recruitment post
  8. The morality of quantum computing
  9. My New York Times op-ed on quantum supremacy
  10. Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
  11. Book Review: ‘The AI Does Not Hate You’ by Tom Chivers
  12. From quantum supremacy to classical fallacy
  13. Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!
  14. Blurry but clear enough
  15. Paul Bernays Lectures
  16. A rare classified ad
  17. A nerdocratic oath
  18. Links, proofs, talks, jokes
  19. Fake it till you make it (to the moon)
  20. On two blog posts of Jerry Coyne
  21. John Wright joins UT Austin
  22. Sensitivity Conjecture resolved
  23. Quantum Sabinacy
  24. Quanta of Solace
  25. NP-complete Problems and Physics: A 2019 View
  26. The SSL Certificate of Damocles
  27. On the scientific accuracy of “Avengers: Endgame”
  28. A small post
  29. Not yet retired from research
  30. Just says in P
  31. Wonderful world
  32. Congratulations!
  33. Beware of fake FOCS site!
  34. Can we reverse time to before this hypefest started?
  35. “Quantum Computing and the Meaning of Life”
  36. Death of proof greatly exaggerated
  37. De-sneering my life
  38. Four updates
  39. Sabineblogging
  40. The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy

2018 38

  1. Incompleteness ex machina
  2. Announcements
  3. Why are amplitudes complex?
  4. The NP genie
  5. Airport idiocy
  6. Teaching quantum in junior high: special Thanksgiving guest post by Terry Rudolph
  7. Ten updates
  8. Boof
  9. It’s hard to think when someone Hadamards your brain
  10. CS and quantum information at UT Austin: come join us!
  11. My Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize talk
  12. Lecture notes! Intro to Quantum Information Science
  13. Thank you, world!
  14. Beyond fiction
  15. Summer recapitulates life
  16. Customers who liked this quantum recommendation engine might also like its dequantization
  17. My Y Combinator podcast
  18. Ask me anything: moral judgments edition
  19. Five announcements
  20. Quantum computing for policymakers and philosopher-novelists
  21. The relativized BQP vs. PH problem (1993-2018)
  22. PDQP/qpoly = ALL
  23. The stupidest story I ever wrote (it was a long flight)
  24. The Zeroth Commandment
  25. Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education
  26. Summer of the Shark
  27. How to upper-bound the probability of something bad
  28. Amazing progress on longstanding open problems
  29. Two announcements
  30. 30 of my favorite books
  31. Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
  32. Hawking
  33. Review of Vivek Wadhwa’s Washington Post column on quantum computing
  34. Three updates
  35. Interpretive cards (MWI, Bohm, Copenhagen: collect ’em all)
  36. Practicing the modus ponens of Twitter
  37. John Preskill, laziness enabler
  38. Should I join Heterodox Academy?

2017 44

  1. Classifieds thread
  2. Journalist moratorium
  3. ITCS’2018 and more
  4. Googatory
  5. Quickies
  6. The destruction of graduate education in the United States
  7. Review of “Inadequate Equilibria,” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  8. The Karp-Lipton Advice Column
  9. Superposition your mouse over these five exciting QC links!
  10. Grad students and postdocs and faculty sought
  11. 2^n is exponential, but 2^50 is finite
  12. The problem with Uber
  13. Not the critic who counts
  14. Coming to Nerd Central
  15. Because you asked: the Simulation Hypothesis has not been falsified; remains unfalsifiable
  16. Also against individual IQ worries
  17. Michael Cohen (1992-2017)
  18. My Big Numbers talk at Festivaletteratura
  19. GapP, Oracles, and Quantum Supremacy
  20. HTTPS / Kurtz / eclipse / Charlottesville / Blum / P vs. NP
  21. What I believe II (ft. Sarah Constantin and Stacey Jeffery)
  22. The Kolmogorov option
  23. Is “information is physical” contentful?
  24. Three things
  25. Amsterdam art museums plagiarizing my blog?
  26. ITCS’2018
  27. Alex Halderman testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee
  28. Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t)
  29. The Social Justice Warriors are right
  30. Yet more errors in papers
  31. Unsong of unsongs
  32. My broken blog
  33. This Week’s BS
  34. Thoughts on the murderer outside my building
  35. Me at the Science March today, in front of the Texas Capitol in Austin
  36. If Google achieves superintelligence, time zones will be its Achilles heel
  37. Daniel Moshe Aaronson
  38. Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation
  39. I will not log in to your website
  40. Insert D-Wave Post Here
  41. First they came for the Iranians
  42. A day to celebrate
  43. My 116-page survey article on P vs. NP: better late than never
  44. State

2016 38

  1. “THE TALK”: My quantum computing cartoon with Zach Weinersmith
  2. The teaser
  3. Quantum computing news (98% Trump-free)
  4. A paper trail that’s never checked might as well not exist
  5. Never, never, never normalize this
  6. What is there to say?
  7. Time to vote-swap
  8. My 5-minute quantum computing talk at the White House
  9. May reason trump the Trump in all of us
  10. Avi Wigderson’s “Permanent” Impact on Me
  11. Stuff That’s Happened
  12. The No-Cloning Theorem and the Human Condition: My After-Dinner Talk at QCRYPT
  13. The Ninth Circuit ruled that vote-swapping is legal. Let’s use it to stop Trump.
  14. Shtetl-Optimized Open Thread
  15. More Wrong Things I Said in Papers
  16. My biology paper in Science (really)
  17. The Complexity of Quantum States and Transformations: From Quantum Money to Black Holes
  18. ITCS’2017: Special Guest Post by Christos Papadimitriou
  19. “Did Einstein Kill Schrödinger’s Cat? A Quantum State of Mind”
  20. Leonard Susskind’s Open Letter on “The Lunatic”
  21. Entanglement without end
  22. Daddy, why didn’t you blog about Trump?
  23. “Can computers become conscious?”: My reply to Roger Penrose
  24. My Quora session
  25. Three announcements
  26. The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory: new paper by Adam Yedidia and me
  27. “Largely just men doing sums”: My review of the excellent Ramanujan film
  28. Me interviewed by John Horgan (the author of “The End of Science”)
  29. Grading Trudeau on quantum computing
  30. A postdoc post
  31. Quantum. Crypto. Things happen. I blog.
  32. From Boston to Austin
  33. The universe has a high (but not infinite) Sleep Number
  34. “Why does the universe exist?” … finally answered (or dissolved) in this blog post!
  35. Here’s some video of me spouting about Deep Questions
  36. Marvin Minsky
  37. Happy Third Birthday Lily!
  38. Edging in: the biggest science news of 2015

2015 37

  1. 6.S899 Student Project Showcase!
  2. Ask an unbounded question, get an uncomputable answer
  3. Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup for WHAT?
  4. If I can’t do math, I don’t want to be part of your revolution
  5. Talk, be merry, and be rational
  6. G. Phi. Fo. Fum.
  7. A breakthrough on QMA(2)?
  8. Ordinary Words Will Do
  9. Six announcements
  10. Bell inequality violation finally done right
  11. Ask Me Anything: Diversity Edition
  12. D-Wave Open Thread
  13. 6-photon BosonSampling
  14. Jacob Bekenstein (1947-2015)
  15. Common Knowledge and Aumann’s Agreement Theorem
  16. Introducing some British people to P vs. NP
  17. Quantum query complexity: the other shoe drops
  18. Celebrate gay marriage—and its 2065 equivalent
  19. “Can Quantum Computing Reveal the True Meaning of Quantum Mechanics?”
  20. FCRC Highlights
  21. A query complexity breakthrough
  22. 97% environmentalist
  23. Can blog posts nourish the soul? Scott A. (alas, not me) as existence proof
  24. The End of Suffering?
  25. NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation
  26. Five announcements
  27. “Is There Something Mysterious About Math?”
  28. Two papers
  29. The ultimate physical limits of privacy
  30. The flow of emails within the block inbox
  31. How can we fight online shaming campaigns?
  32. “The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic”
  33. Memrefuting
  34. Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine Print
  35. Happy Second Birthday Lily
  36. BQP/LHC collision
  37. Quantum computing news items (by reader request)

2014 46

  1. What I believe
  2. Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase 3
  3. The Turing movie
  4. Walter Lewin
  5. PostBQP Postscripts: A Confession of Mathematical Errors
  6. Lens of Computation on the Sciences
  7. Kuperberg’s parable
  8. What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? Recently-declassified document provides clues
  9. Der Quantencomputer
  10. Interstellar’s dangling wormholes
  11. A few quick announcements
  12. Speaking Truth to Parallelism at Cornell
  13. Microsoft SVC
  14. Speaking Truth to Parallelism: The Book
  15. Steven Pinker’s inflammatory proposal: universities should prioritize academics
  16. Raise a martini glass for Google and Martinis!
  17. Do theoretical computer scientists despise practitioners? (Answer: no, that’s crazy)
  18. “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”
  19. Subhash Khot’s prizewinning research
  20. Is the P vs. NP problem ill-posed? (Answer: no.)
  21. US State Department: Let in cryptographers and other scientists
  22. 3-sentence summary of what’s happening in Israel and Gaza
  23. “How Might Quantum Information Transform Our Future?”
  24. Seth Teller (1964-2014)
  25. The Power of the Digi-Comp II: My First Conscious Paperlet
  26. A Physically Universal Cellular Automaton
  27. Integrated Information Theory: Virgil Griffith opines
  28. Eigenmorality
  29. Randomness Rules in Quantum Mechanics
  30. My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Test
  31. CCC’s Declaration of Independence
  32. Giulio Tononi and Me: A Phi-nal Exchange
  33. Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton
  34. Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)
  35. The NEW Ten Most Annoying Questions in Quantum Computing
  36. The Quest for Randomness
  37. Is There Anything Beyond Quantum Computing?
  38. Waiting for BQP Fever
  39. This review of Max Tegmark’s book also occurs infinitely often in the decimal expansion of π
  40. The Scientific Case for P≠NP
  41. Recent papers by Susskind and Tao illustrate the long reach of computation
  42. Umesh Vazirani responds to Geordie Rose
  43. TIME’s cover story on D-Wave: A case study in the conventions of modern journalism
  44. More “tweets”
  45. Retiring falsifiability? A storm in Russell’s teacup
  46. What happens when an unstoppable PR force hits an NP-hard problem? The answer’s getting clearer

2013 42

  1. BosonSampling Lecture Notes from Rio
  2. Merry Christmas! My quantum computing research explained, using only the 1000 most common English words
  3. Luke Muehlhauser interviews me about philosophical progress
  4. 23, Me, and the Right to Misinterpret Probabilities
  5. Twenty Reasons to Believe Oswald Acted Alone
  6. Scattershot BosonSampling: A new approach to scalable BosonSampling experiments
  7. Three things that I should’ve gotten around to years ago
  8. Five announcements
  9. The Unitarihedron: The Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Computing
  10. NSA: Possibly breaking US laws, but still bound by laws of computational complexity
  11. Firewalls
  12. Twitl-Optimized
  13. The SuperScott and Morgan Freeman FAQ
  14. Three announcements
  15. Microsoft: From QDOS to QMA in less than 35 years
  16. The Collision Lower Bound After 12 Years
  17. The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
  18. The tightrope of truth and courtesy
  19. D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge
  20. Ask Me Anything! Tenure Edition
  21. The Tenured Toll-Taker
  22. “Closer to Truth”
  23. Quantum Computing Since Democritus now out in the US! 20% discount for Shtetl-Optimized readers
  24. Superiority of the Latke: The Unexpected Convergence of Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense
  25. I was right: Congress’s attack on the NSF widens
  26. My fortune-cookie wisdom for the day
  27. QStart conference in Jerusalem, June 24-27
  28. “So You Think Quantum Computing Is Bunk?”
  29. Pigs sprouted wings, Hell froze over, and I guest-posted on Luboš Motl’s blog
  30. Two P vs. NP updates (neither of them technical)
  31. Sen. Tom Coburn, the National Science Foundation, and Antarctican Jello Wrestling
  32. Quantum Computing Since Democritus: The Buzz Intensifies
  33. John Preskill: My Lodestar of Awesomeness
  34. Silvio and Shafi win Turing Award
  35. Collaborative Refutation
  36. TCS+ online seminars
  37. “Quantum Information and the Brain”
  38. Lily Rebecca Aaronson
  39. Statement on Aaron Swartz
  40. Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
  41. Zork’s bloogorithm
  42. Happy New Year! My response to M. I. Dyakonov

2012 31

  1. Lincoln Blogs
  2. Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase 2!
  3. The Boson Apocalypse
  4. Proving Without Explaining, and Verifying Without Understanding
  5. The $10 billion voter
  6. A causality post, for no particular reason
  7. Silver lining
  8. Quantum computing in the newz
  9. Two quick announcements
  10. The Toaster-Enhanced Turing Machine
  11. Why Many-Worlds is not like Copernicanism
  12. The right to bear ICBMs
  13. Ten reasons why the Olympics suck
  14. Complexity Zoo is down — anyone willing to help?
  15. Scott in Scotland
  16. Two announcements
  17. Mihai Pătraşcu (1982-2012)
  18. Enough with Bell’s Theorem. New topic: Psychopathic killer robots!
  19. I was wrong about Joy Christian
  20. Waterman behind the scenes! Partying hard with the National Science Board
  21. Bell’s-inequality-denialist Joy Christian offers me $200K if scalable quantum computers are built
  22. U. of Florida CS department: let it be destroyed by rising sea levels 100 years from now, not reckless administrators today
  23. Blogu Picchu
  24. Big news
  25. Tell President Obama to support the Federal Research Public Access Act
  26. My visit to D-Wave: Beyond the roast-beef sandwich
  27. Safari photos from Kenya
  28. The battle against Elsevier gains momentum
  29. Whether or not God plays dice, I do
  30. Boycott Elsevier!
  31. Updates from Kenya

2011 42

  1. Cerebrum-stuffer from Shtetl Claus
  2. My New York Times essay on quantum computing
  3. Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Field Theories
  4. The Alternative to Resentment
  5. ITCS’2012 in Cambridge, MA
  6. 2.373
  7. The quantum state cannot be interpreted as something other than a quantum state
  8. Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship Announcement
  9. The pedophile upper bound
  10. A hacker’s hacker
  11. What happened in the world this week
  12. In Defense of Kolmogorov Complexity
  13. The First Law of Complexodynamics
  14. 6.893 Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science
  15. Al?xes in the news
  16. Ask Me Anything
  17. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity
  18. Force multiplier
  19. Rosser’s Theorem via Turing machines
  20. The dude invented nondeterminism
  21. What Alan T. did for his PhD
  22. My responses to GASARCH’s P vs. NP poll
  23. Spouting Buhl
  24. ICS gets a new name and a new location
  25. Tools for the modern complexity theorist
  26. A personal post
  27. Projects aplenty
  28. The Territory Around BQP
  29. Quantum-Effect-Demonstrating Beef
  30. Point/Counterpoint: “speaking truth to power” vs. speaking power to idiocy
  31. Better late than never
  32. CS timeline voting: the results are in!
  33. Three museum reviews
  34. Top 150 computer science events to be decided once and for all
  35. Valiant’s valiance recognized
  36. Science journalism: good and hilarious
  37. Discussion questions about Watson
  38. My TEDxCaltech talk
  39. The students and the TAs are one hand
  40. Timeline of computer science
  41. Quantum Complexity Theory student project showcase!
  42. Burnt Carmel

2010 33

  1. BQPOTUS (or, the Big-O)
  2. My painful lesson for the week
  3. Alex Halderman, and India’s assault on academic freedom
  4. QCut
  5. Anti-Complexitism
  6. The Computational Complexity of Linear Optics
  7. State of circuit lower bounds now slightly less humiliating
  8. Research projects in quantum complexity theory
  9. The Aaronson Postdoctoral Fellowship
  10. The converse of smoothed analysis
  11. NRC: Nonsensical Ranking Clowns
  12. Possibly the best thing ever to happen to my inbox
  13. Physics for Doofuses: Why Beds Exist
  14. Teaching your students not to need a teacher
  15. Bringing a sacrificial goat and n-bit string to the oracle
  16. And now a word from our sponsors
  17. P vs. NP for Dummies
  18. Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong
  19. The ethics of scientific betting
  20. Putting my money where my mouth isn’t
  21. Going into deep freeze
  22. My diavlog with Anthony Aguirre
  23. My philomath project: Sensitivity versus block-sensitivity
  24. The Generalized Linial-Nisan Conjecture is false
  25. Doing my oracle duty
  26. Fighting Hype with Hype
  27. The Prince of Nerds has left us
  28. What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?
  29. Schrödinger’s cash
  30. The Future of Computer Science, and Why Every Other Major Sucks By Comparison
  31. Announcement
  32. QIP’2010: The Power and the Glory of Quantum Complexity Theory
  33. Changing fields

2009 43

  1. Acknowledging the awesome
  2. Second Women in Theory Workshop
  3. Hopefully my last D-Wave post ever
  4. Prove my lemma, get acknowledged in a paper!
  5. Simons postdoc: call for applications
  6. BQP Aarlines
  7. Off the grid
  8. A little experiment
  9. The Singularity: Now 50% Off!
  10. Worldview Manager is live
  11. Barriers to snarky blogging
  12. My diavlog with Eliezer Yudkowsky
  13. Malthusianisms
  14. Ask me (almost) anything
  15. Essentials of complexity-theoretic stand-up comedy
  16. You can’t prove you won’t want to be there
  17. What is it like to be a nerd?
  18. The Two-Conference Solution
  19. The secant had it coming
  20. The Limits of Irany
  21. My long, complexity-theoretic journey
  22. An unexpected application of the P vs. NP problem
  23. Sidesplitting proofs
  24. The QIS workshop
  25. Wanted: Quantum GGM theorem
  26. One way Obama has supported scientists
  27. Let no one call me an enemy of the arts
  28. Corn, rice, and wheat
  29. Teleport, tunnel, adiabat—but one way or another, get there
  30. A not-quite-exponential dilemma
  31. Literature that skewers pompous fools
  32. The complement of Atlas Shrugged
  33. Time for another contest
  34. Discuss: Should children have the right to vote?
  35. The Email Event Horizon
  36. The LEGO Turing machine
  37. Popular complexity
  38. Math: the book
  39. Stayin’ alive
  40. The arc of complexity is long, but it bends toward lower bounds
  41. At least there’s fresh running water and a Start button
  42. Perspective
  43. The T vs. HT (Truth vs. Higher Truth) problem

2008 55

  1. Two links
  2. What can first-order logic do for your self-esteem?
  3. How long could a black hole remain in the center of the earth?
  4. Four announcements
  5. Time: Different from space
  6. Nö nö nö
  7. Wanted: Better Wikipedia coverage of theoretical computer science
  8. Sundry and Various
  9. The unfamiliar burden of victory
  10. Should you vote?
  11. Keeping cool
  12. Opening for a summer student
  13. Nerds and theorists, our honor is at stake
  14. With electronic voting machines, it’s entirely plausible
  15. Open thread #2
  16. On mathematicians and mountains
  17. The Singularity Is Far
  18. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 21: Ask Me Anything
  19. Can we?
  20. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 20: Cosmology and Complexity
  21. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 19: Time Travel
  22. The Pareto curve of freedom
  23. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 18: Free Will
  24. The Routerhead: a fable
  25. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 17: Fun With The Anthropic Principle
  26. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 16: Interactive Proofs
  27. Arithmetic natural proofs theory is sought
  28. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 15: Learning
  29. Better safe than sorry
  30. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 14: Skepticism of Quantum Computing
  31. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 13: How Big Are Quantum States?
  32. How George W. Bush is changing my life for the better
  33. Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science Lectures 16-19
  34. The array size of the universe
  35. Floating in Platonic heaven
  36. The bullet-swallowers
  37. Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science Lectures 12-15
  38. Open thread
  39. Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science Lectures 8-11
  40. Lev R.’s question answered at last; fate of humanity revealed
  41. Mistake of the Week: “But even an X says so!”
  42. Great Ideas In Theoretical Computer Science Lectures 2-7
  43. Statement on conceptual contributions in theory
  44. Long-dreaded politics post
  45. Penrose’s Gödel argument in rap
  46. Sourkatz
  47. The Nerderer
  48. Scientific American article is out!
  49. Great Ideas In Theoretical Computer Science Lecture 1
  50. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 12: Proof
  51. Geordie Rose at MIT
  52. Science: the toroidal pyramid
  53. Volume 4 is already written (in our hearts)
  54. Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
  55. Special entry for you, my friend

2007 92

  1. I’m liveblogging from the Taj Mahal
  2. Australian educators are using my $5,000 plagiarism settlement to sell schoolkids (on science)
  3. Review of Mermin’s book
  4. Entanglement for peace and freedom
  5. Mistake of the Week: Explain Everything (Or Don’t Bother Explaining Anything)
  6. Thanksgiving Special: D-Wave at MIT
  7. ‘Tis the week before deadline
  8. MIT sues Frank Gehry over Stata Center
  9. Deoxyribononapproximability
  10. Unparadox Contest
  11. The Aaronson $25.00 Prize
  12. University takes unfortunate stance on existence of quantum algorithm
  13. Halloween Special: My Inbox
  14. Dead-blogging FOCS’2007
  15. What every math talk should be like
  16. Procrastinating on the sidelines of history
  17. Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers
  18. On Deutsches, Shors, and Vaziranis
  19. On drugs, mammoths, and Mahmoud
  20. Barriers to proving P!=NP and moving this blog
  21. Sellin’ out to the Man
  22. Black-hole complexity theory: from joke to science
  23. My take on the Koblitz affair
  24. What’s going down in AarTown
  25. What Google Won’t Find
  26. Does it come with a 14-Gyr warranty?
  27. Toads, lower bounds vie for control of Australia
  28. My Favorite Growth Rates
  29. Death to Verizon
  30. Intellectual whack-a-mole
  31. German comedy
  32. Sorry, Prof. Guth…
  33. Deep thoughts in shallow lagoons
  34. Checkers solved
  35. Physics for Doofuses: Mass vs. charge deathmatch
  36. This one’s for the physicists
  37. FOCS’36 notification
  38. Experimental complexity theory
  39. America’s nerdiest cities
  40. You down with SPP?
  41. aaronson@mit
  42. In support of an academic boycott
  43. Bluehost sucks
  44. The groupies of science
  45. Wanna bet?
  46. The Myth of the Ivory Tower
  47. A Woitian links, links, links post (slightly stale but still edible)
  48. Religion’s rules of inference
  49. Five reasons why I was in a good mood yesterday
  50. Two Sunday-morning breakfast links
  51. The Hiring Scott Aaronson FAQ
  52. The most trivial theorem I’ve ever written up
  53. Refilling your RSS glass before the entrée arrives
  54. Purely out of intellectual duty
  55. Ecoprocrastination
  56. Physics for Doofuses: Understanding Electricity
  57. New comment policy
  58. The wisdom of Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)
  59. D-Wave Easter Spectacular
  60. D-Wave: Still propagating
  61. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 11: Decoherence and Hidden Variables
  62. Not an April Fools joke
  63. My job situation
  64. Quantum gravity computation: you, too, can be an expert in this field
  65. The Republican Party’s intellectual
  66. A hole in the web
  67. Barbeque ribs and AWPP forever
  68. At most finitely many years
  69. The event horizon’s involved, but the singularity is committed
  70. The Nintendo stork
  71. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 10.5: Penrose
  72. Back from vacation
  73. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 10: Quantum Computing
  74. Shor, I’ll do it
  75. NAND now for something completely different
  76. A complexity theorist’s (non)apology
  77. The Vazmeister enters the fray
  78. Bending WordPress to my will
  79. Speaking truth to parallelism
  80. Mistake of the Week: Belief is King
  81. Chicken soup for the frequent flyer’s soul
  82. The Orion Quantum Computer Anti-Hype FAQ
  83. A quiver springs his voice and breast
  84. Who wants to be a summer student?
  85. Alright, alright, alright (grumble)
  86. Open Shtetl Day at QIP’07
  87. Haere mai, kia ora tatou … eh, whatever
  88. Favorite foods
  89. The P-and-NP Show comes to Caltech
  90. Long-awaited God post
  91. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 9: Quantum
  92. My New Years’ resolution: to get a real job

2006 123

  1. (To all x MerryChristmas(x)) and (To all x GoodNight(x))
  2. Mercenary in the String Wars
  3. complexityzoo.com finally redirects to the Complexity Zoo
  4. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 8: Crypto
  5. Announcing the Shtetl-Optimized Math Journalism Award!
  6. What American accent do you have?
  7. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 7: Randomness
  8. Shtetl-Optimized is dead. Long live Shtetl-Optimized!
  9. Handle with care
  10. Public Relations 101
  11. Woohoo!
  12. Beating swords into pitchforks
  13. This week, let’s overthrow the Taliban
  14. More tender nuggets
  15. Logicians on safari
  16. My daily dose of depression
  17. My googol rank
  18. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 6: P, NP, and Friends
  19. Mistake of the Week: “X works on paper, but not in the real world”
  20. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 5: Paleocomplexity
  21. You know you’ve made it when…
  22. Newton vs. Leibniz: the wigs are off
  23. Reigniting flame wars is my solemn responsibility
  24. Setting The Record straight
  25. Why complexity is better than cannabis
  26. Ja! Ein klein Wienerschnitzel Entscheidungsproblem
  27. Still fiddling on the roof
  28. The Quantum PCP Manifesto
  29. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 4: Minds and Machines
  30. “Holy sh#t — maybe biology doesn’t suck!”
  31. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 3: Gödel, Turing, and Friends
  32. Is there no other?
  33. Admissions unhooked
  34. Mistake of the Week: “The Future Is In X”
  35. Only eight annoying questions to go
  36. Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 2: Sets
  37. Yau strikes back
  38. How to rig an election
  39. PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus
  40. Intellectual funnel cake
  41. Obligatory retrospective
  42. When modular arithmetic was a STOC result
  43. Reasons to believe II: quantum edition
  44. The quantum-complexity bathroom reader
  45. Reasons to believe
  46. If challenge is what you seek
  47. Bananas
  48. Why I’m not a physicist: reason #4329
  49. Why I’m not a physicist: reason #4328
  50. Chasmgasm
  51. A far-off dream: automating a problem in P
  52. Fruitcake fields
  53. Low-hanging fruit from two conjoined trees
  54. Pipin’-hot learnin’ theorems
  55. The ten most annoying questions in quantum computing
  56. Is it possible to write a competent newspaper article about math?
  57. Breaking Mahmoud news — too hot for Slashdot
  58. CIA, NSA, FBI, DoD, SZK, RNC, QMA, BPE
  59. Merneptah and Spinoza
  60. America the nonexistent
  61. Prague-ing
  62. The anthropicism that had to win
  63. When laziness and idealism coincide
  64. And they say complexity has no philosophical implications
  65. Two John-related announcements
  66. Best anthropicism contest
  67. Something to munch on while I take a long, succulent post out of the procrastination oven
  68. Is publishing as many STOC/FOCS papers as possible a worthy goal to fill the fleeting interlude between infinite expanses of nonexistence?
  69. Time to do Scott’s research again
  70. Websbane
  71. Mistake of the Week: The Unknown Unknown
  72. The physicists and the wagon
  73. Back to safe territory
  74. Confessions of a Hebrew Philistine
  75. Schrödinger’s cat is hunting masked chickens
  76. Anonymous reviewing: the QWERTY of science
  77. Called in for another cohenoscopy
  78. Where even the sun pulls all-nighters
  79. The neologistas
  80. Nerdify the world, and the women will follow
  81. The pee versus in-pee question
  82. The relativity of originality
  83. It’s not radiation-poisoned, it’s just sleeping!
  84. Grab bag
  85. One down
  86. In his country there is problem
  87. Alright, alright, back to complexity
  88. Earth Day, Doomsday, and Chicken Little
  89. And while I’m at it
  90. What is the name of this post?
  91. Repentance
  92. Doofioso
  93. Chicken Soup for the Complexity Soul
  94. My day job
  95. An entry contained in a blog
  96. I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore
  97. The rumors are true
  98. The Glorious Blog of the People
  99. The mouth that cannot bite
  100. Mmm, sacrilicious!
  101. And the CMB spoke unto WMAP
  102. ¿Quién puede nombrar el mayor número?
  103. Alan Turing, moralist
  104. Today I am a mathematician
  105. It’s all about the hyperfractals
  106. Lord, send no sign
  107. Mistake of the Week: Empathy=Sympathy
  108. Jewish inferiority complex in brief, unfamiliar remission
  109. Eigenvalues up the wazoo
  110. The Fable of the Chessmaster
  111. A Euclidean theater of misery
  112. The Cringeometer
  113. Compressed squeals
  114. Hark! From the Fortress of STOC
  115. Hooray for democracy!
  116. Oops, we did it again
  117. By popular demand
  118. The quantum jester
  119. Portugal: “Non-Catholics Once Again Welcome”
  120. I’m asking ’cause I want to know
  121. Stroke of God
  122. But what if?
  123. We the nerds

2005 39

  1. The winner
  2. A setback for science
  3. Umeshisms
  4. My interview with Lance
  5. That’s not a proof, mate — that’s a proof
  6. Get off that shoulder — it’s my giant!
  7. The Bloggour hath returneth
  8. Home of the thirsty and brave
  9. Scott A., disbeliever in Darwinism
  10. First we assume a circular CD
  11. Veiled humor
  12. Dude, it’s like you read my mind
  13. It’s science if it bites back
  14. Cold logic
  15. Can’t… blog… too much… pain…
  16. Buck, buck, buck
  17. Mahmoud and me (continued)
  18. Mahmoud and me
  19. Insert “string” pun here
  20. Missing the boat
  21. Oh, Canada
  22. Alright, alright, alright
  23. A prophet will arise
  24. Doctor of Hacking
  25. Hath not a nerd eyes?
  26. A trivial post
  27. Climbing Mount Boredom
  28. Einstein the man
  29. Reaching agreement with Aumann
  30. Derandomizing BBQ
  31. Run free, my animal friends!
  32. Down with municipal government
  33. Carla and me
  34. Ig-nore this post
  35. Why did I take so long to start a blog?
  36. Weeding out the undesirables
  37. Waste papers
  38. Launching a shtetl
  39. Welcome to my weblog!