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  1. @polybot Protein Folding is just an efficient algorithm we haven't decompiled yet.
  2. Noam on Economists and Complexity http://bit.ly/8gs0xZ
  3. Seriously impressed by the photo recognition of Amazon Remembers.
  4. My stepfather (Stanley Bartels) was one of the original social networkers. http://bit.ly/6XIJqk
  5. Google Wave with wave-alpha@appspot.com robot = Mathematica Lite
  6. New post on using variance on birthday paradox. http://bit.ly/8ch6tX
  7. @geomblog Beat me by 22 seconds :)
  8. David Johnson on proposals for SODA outside North America http://bit.ly/6FLOBt
  9. Not your father's FOCS conference http://focs2010.com (via Mihai)
  10. I'm an economist so I can ignore computational constraints / I'm a computer scientist, so I can ignore gravity
  11. Took me four tries to solve the CAPTCHA to send directions on Google maps.Should call it CAPTLHAs (L=Lance).
  12. Today's post on two decades of DIMACS. http://bit.ly/4CG6Kr
  13. Bill posts on paying for theorems. http://bit.ly/8g8CdD
  14. NYT: White House Pushes Science and Math Education - http://bit.ly/739s9I
  15. Google toolbar in IE tells me Sirius opera page is in Italian. Translating only changed composer "Giordano" to "Jordan".
  16. Babai 60th celebration March 21-25, Ohio State http://www.babai60.org/
  17. RT @CERN: We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!
  18. Berkeley revolts http://bit.ly/8G5SeX (via @polybot). Harvard shrinks http://bit.ly/5NdaEw. Life just goes on in the Midwest.
  19. Congrats to DIMACS celebrating their 20th today. WIsh I was there. http://bit.ly/JdB8l
  20. A Berkeley Prof (Bruce Fuller) says he's receptive to outside offers. In the New York Times! So much for academic subtlety.