From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 21:11:46 MDT
Wei Dai wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:04:30AM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>>There are tests for primeness that don't use factoring...
>>
>There are fast provable primality tests too. The following took just a
>second in Mathematica 4...
>
WOW cool, thanks Wei. I didnt realize elipitic curves techniques were
that fast.
Speaking of fast curves, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov
made a funny comment quoted in today's SF Chron. In 1989, after
defeating Deep Thought, he expressed his forboding: "I don't know how
we can exist knowing that there exists something mentally stronger than us."
This cat is definitely not going to enjoy the Singularity. Wei Dai is
clearly
a stronger mathematician that I, yet somehow I have managed to continue
my existence. A computer served up Kasparov's head on a platter only
6 years after he made this comment, yet he survived just the same. Most
serious chess players today can be routinely stomped flat by palm pilots.
You may recall last summer there was a man vs machine chess match
between current world champion Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz,
a commercial software package running on an ordinary PC. That match
was postponed because of the 9-11 attack, but has been rescheduled
for later this year. The insiders are saying that Deep Fritz on a PC is
a stronger player than the jillion-processor Deep Blue.
This match should be fun to watch. In each previous match I was
cheering for the machine but betting on the man. This time my money
is on the machine too. spike
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