"Words, words, words"

A compendium of cool math/TCS things, fiction, and general thoughts.


  • Faust Reconstructed

    A math-themed retelling of Faust centered around the reconstruction conjecture
  • Perl Diving

    A short story about Kolmogorov complexity
  • Lost in Space II

    First steps towards destroying BPL (the complexity class, not Boston Public Library, which is lovely and can take as much space as it wants)
  • Lost in Space I

    Looking to get a good grade on parity tests? Try small-bias distributions!
  • O Tennenbaum

    Nonstandard models of Peano Arithmetic and the true meaning of Christmas
  • Welcome to Minicrypt

    Constructing cryptographic pseudorandom generators from one-way functions.
  • A Soft October Night

    A couple of my favourite poems about quiet beauty
  • Pick A Card, Any Card

    A simple strategy stealing argument for a nim-like card game
  • Asymptotes in Asymptotics

    Does every problem have an optimal algorithm? (Follow-up to previous post.)
  • The Best Algorithm Ever

    An asymptotically optimal algorithm for (pretty much) every computational problem
  • Hello World

    Initial commit.