my god please stay away from education

and Dan Spielman will be giving a talk on this work today at the Institute for Advanced Study at 11:00 am. Come thru, it'll be fun! IAS announcement: ias.edu/events/compute… Zoom link: theias.zoom.us/j/360043913

I am very excited for tomorrow's TCS+ talk! Sahil Singla will be talking about recent work "Online Vector Balancing and Geometric Discrepancy" 1 pm EST. See the link here: sites.google.com/site/plustcs/l… and see their arxiv paper here: arxiv.org/abs/1912.03350

I cannot, in good consciousness, recommend that you listen to the dumpster fire that is our ~newly online~ radio program, “Lofi Big Brain Radio”. Tonight’s topic: the attention economy 7 pm EST (in ~10 minutes) twitch.tv/lofibigbrainra…

Good news: Two of my postdocs got faculty offers (Technion & Linkoping). Better news (please retweet): My group has postdoc positions in the general area of Machine Learning with emphasis on optimization, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. Other areas are also possible.

Hamed Hamed Hassani and I will be delivering a tutorial at ICML Conference on "Submodular Optimization: From Discrete to Continuous and Back". More info and updates can be found here: iid.yale.edu/icml/icml-20.m…

I really see no downside to using git for research projects, except sometimes when there is a conflict on a LaTeX file and the merge fails and you have to burn down your house and start a new life in Uruguay under a different name.

📢 Next Wednesday at 10am PT, Shalev Ben-David (University of Waterloo) will tell us about "Forecasting Algorithms, Minimax Theorems, and Randomized Lower Bounds." More details at tcsplus.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/tcs…; register to attend (free) here: sites.google.com/site/plustcs/l…