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The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and return to the traditional beat of this blog’s very earliest years … but I’ve now gotten multiple messages asking me to comment on something called the “JVG (Jesse–Victor–Gharabaghi) algorithm” (yes, the authors named it after themselves). This is presented as a massive improvement over Shor’s factoring algorithm, which…

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Professor challenges Gen Z students to answer obscure history questions using only library books

Technically speaking, Duke University professor Aaron Dinin _teaches_ entrepreneurship. But more accurately, he teaches _young people_ to have a _healthier relationship_ with __failure __, and he does this through various oddball challenges—everything fromsolving a 1000-piece puzzle in six minutes to trying to _beat a nine-year-old at selling cookies_.

In one recent video, Dinin's students…

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