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		<title>On the several proofs about P and NP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve found this nice web site that collects wrong proofs about P and NP relationship. https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm Currently there are 107 proofs. Probably, all of them are wrong (otherwise, probably we would know the guy) and the nice scoring function provided by Scott Aaranson here can be applied. This scoring function is the number of signs exhibited<a href="https://www.andreamarino.it/?p=187">[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve found this nice web site that collects wrong proofs about P and NP relationship.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm">https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm</a></p>
<p>Currently there are 107 proofs. Probably, all of them are wrong (otherwise, probably we would know the guy) and the nice scoring function provided by Scott Aaranson <a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304">here</a> can be applied. This scoring function is the number of signs exhibited by the paper among the &#8220;Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong&#8221;.</p>
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<li>The authors don’t use TeX.</li>
<li>The authors don’t understand the question.</li>
<li>The approach seems to yield something much stronger and maybe even false (but the authors never discuss that).</li>
<li>The approach conflicts with a known impossibility result (which the authors never mention).</li>
<li>The authors themselves switch to weasel words by the end.</li>
<li>The paper jumps into technicalities without presenting a new idea.</li>
<li>The paper doesn’t build on (or in some cases even refer to) any previous work.</li>
<li>The paper wastes lots of space on standard material.</li>
<li>The paper waxes poetic about “practical consequences,” “deep philosophical implications,” etc.</li>
<li>The techniques just seem too wimpy for the problem at hand.</li>
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		<title>Fender Stratocaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days ago, I visited a very nice museum in Pistoia. In occasion of Pistoia Blues 2015, the Flavio Camorani&#8217;s Fender collection has been shown in the so-called &#8220;Fender Vintage Museum&#8221;. The museum contained all the guitar and amplifier models produced in the golden age of Fender, that is from 1951 to 1974. Indeed, during these<a href="https://www.andreamarino.it/?p=132">[...]</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some days ago, I visited a very nice museum in Pistoia. In occasion of Pistoia Blues 2015, the Flavio Camorani&#8217;s Fender collection has been shown in the so-called &#8220;Fender Vintage Museum&#8221;. The museum contained all the guitar and amplifier models produced in the golden age of Fender, that is from 1951 to 1974. Indeed, during these years, the Fender company was under the guidance of the founder Leo Fender, who sold the Fender Musical Instruments to <em>Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) </em>in 1974.</p>
<p>You can see the full collection <a href="http://www.flaviocamorani.it/schede.php">here</a>. It includes an impressive collection of Fender Stratocaster Sunburst year by year, from the first one in 1954 to the last one in 1974. For some older models, there is even the name of the girl or guy was working on the guitar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.andreamarino.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-07-21-20.43.55.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-138" src="http://www.andreamarino.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-07-21-20.43.55-300x169.jpg" alt="2015-07-21 20.43.55" width="300" height="169" /></a></p>
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<p>You can read the history of Fender brand <a href="http://www.fuzzfaced.net/storia-della-stratocaster.html">here</a> or you can read the book by Tom Wheleer, <em>Stratocaster Chronicles. </em>You can see a tour of Fender factory in 1959 here:</p>
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<p>In the same web <a href="http://www.fuzzfaced.net/storia-della-marshall-e-nascita-dei-suoi-primi-amplificatori-la-plexi-era.html">site</a> you can also read the interesting story of Marshall amplifiers.</p>
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		<title>Invalid proofs</title>
		<link>https://www.andreamarino.it/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a funny list of invalid proofs. Some of them are quite common, like the so-called proof by intimidation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Invalid proofs" href="http://staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00043886/humour/invalid.proofs.html" target="_blank">This is a funny list of invalid proofs. Some of them are quite common, like the so-called <em>proof by intimidation</em>.</a></p>
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		<title>The Best (and Worst) Ways to Shuffle Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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