Thoughts on a historic week

As everyone knows, this week was a (an?) historic one for the State of Texas and for the United States as a whole—because this is the week when my wife Dana finally gave a 3-hour public lecture on OpenAI’s recent proof of the Unique Games Conjecture! Thanks so much to the nearly 200 people who joined us in person or via Zoom, and to the staff of UT Austin’s CS department for pulling the event together on short notice. Video will be up on YouTube as soon as we can manage it. But also, yes, there was an election. I remember that, when Dana and I moved to Texas in the summer of 2016, we were excited to be a small part of what seemed at the time like Texas’s impending transformation into a cosmopolitan blue state. And now the prophecy is finally being fulfilled. But so many strange and harrowing things have happened in the interim, that I feel like Murph when her father finally returns to her at the end of the movie Interstellar. So it turns out that, indeed, the Democrats could’ve easily…

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