@swumboh
Lecturer in Computational Theory, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Interests: Theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimisation, focussing on approximation and online algorithms. williamumboh.com
Postdoc position(s) in my section. Exciting opportunity to work as a postdoc in a Danish university with fantastic colleagues and enriching research atmosphere! Please spread the word.
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Best Google Scholar profile ever
The kickoff workshop for IDEAL's
"Special Program on Data Science with Strategic Agents"
is Fri. Feb. 27 at UIC. If you are in Chicago and interested in this topic, I hope to see you there! (Registration info in link.)
www.ideal-institute.org/2026/01/09/w...
Congrats to Sloan fellows: @nyucourant.bsky.social colleagues Florian Schรคfer and Joe Tassarotti, and theory colleagues @behnezhad.bsky.social, @surbhigoel.bsky.social, Aayush Jain, Anand Natarajan, @adtraghunathan.bsky.social, @soledadvillar.bsky.social, and John Wright!
sloan.org/fellowships/...
Itโs also very neat that you maintain a counter
NP is truly Not P
I envy academics who can commercialize their research as Iโm not a product guy, just sum guy
I know $1 billion sounds like a lot, but it's incredibly, astonishingly cheap to get the best minds to work over a decade on fundamental research critical to Australia.
A decade!
All the "you need to learn AI skills or you'll get left behind" things are patently nonsense. It's easy to use and only becomes easier to use over time. If there's skill it's in knowing what it does well and what is does poorly
Congratulations! Loving the Beyond PDF initiative!
Nice!
hold on i gotta take this
iOS autocorrects polylog to pollywogโฆ I suppose it makes sense since pollywogs are tadpoles which kinda look like ~.
Also wild that iOS autocorrect is orientation-dependent. It also suggests polyglots in landscape and poly logs in portrait.
Excited for my first journal editorial board membership at Theoretical Computer Science!
I certainly don't dismiss all of this. Especially for some jobs. And even given that its message is "Buy our products". But: "If youโve always wanted to write a book but couldnโt find the time or struggled with the writing, you can work with AI to get it done." So...
fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...
More on #1stproof, from @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/math....
We still have a few weeks to write a paper for FOCS. If it doesnโt get in, weโll resubmit to FAUXCS
Petition to call pairs that are hard to distinguish โfauxrelatedโ
๐๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐น๐ด๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ต๐บ๐ & ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฟ๐
๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ป๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ (๐๐๐ฆ๐ฐ), ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฟ๐
The Algorithms group at IISc invites applications for multiple ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐-๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐ in Algorithms & Theory.
๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ธ: forms.gle/moz2vx7tiNFC...
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: 28 February
#postdocs
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Question:
1. Are you familiar with Polylog on YouTube?
2. If so, how did it impact you?
Gotta apply mirror descent to go back up
Theoretical CS community! I have a small favor to ask. If you ever used, read, watched some of the (excellent IMO) exposition content by Ryan O'Donnell, would you mind filling this very short survey, and maybe say how useful to you it was?
๐ forms.gle/xrvc2mLRbMqK...
Please spread this! #TCSSky
Fine, we admit it. Computer was a big op and there actually is a little guy inside of it
and artificial intelligence is just human intelligence all this time
simple
Two cats lounging
Cats of Meowbourne
3rd "Mathematics of Data" Summer School is being held in Singapore in June. Applications for attendance (with accommodation for most & no registration fee for all) are open throughout February and possibly longer: ims.nus.edu.sg/events/ma_da...
Wait, is the week over already?!
