My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing.
She told me it was the top most viewed video of the entire day—over a million views. It was indeed terrific—especially for a video by women who work in complexity theory.
A Result From Simons
As part of their flashback series, they are sharing one of the most popular videos from our SimonsTV YouTube channel. In May 2020, the Women in Theory conference, which was scheduled to take place at the Simons Institute, was held online due to coronavirus restrictions. In connection with the event, the group released a video of a special theoretical—computer-science version of Gloria Gaynor’s classic song “I Will Survive”.
See it here with new lyrics by Avi Wigderson.
Today this video was indeed the top most watched one of the day. It beat out a president candidate singing about cats and dogs—see here. And is much cooler.
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