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📊 Post engagement
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0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: FOCS Accepted Papers https://sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_Accepted · 8 likes + reposts
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Posts several times a week.
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Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
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Shayan Oveis Gharan wins the 2026 Abacus Medal for TSP approximation and sampling.
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/imu-abacus-medal/abacus-medal-2026#:~:text=the%20Simons%20Foundation.-,Shayan%20Oveis%20Gharan,-Shayan%20Oveis%20Gharan…
I bring back the Complexity Class of the Week to talk about L_2^P, the set of problems reducible to finding the minimum element of a total linear order.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/complexity-class-of-week-l2p.html
The new OSTP reports "Science: A New Golden Age" is not great for universities but here is a silver lining for the theory community.
Report: https://www.whitehouse.gov/science/
WSJ Gifted Article: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-…
Every time there is some new major theorem proved by AI, I start seeing posts that a resolution of P v NP is right around the corner. This is your regular reminder that no, it isn't.
Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/bipartite-perfect-matching-in.html
ACM is considering giving large language models access to the papers in their digital library.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/now-is-the-time-to-give-llms-access-to-the-acm-digital-library/
You can give feedback here:
https://docs.google.com…
Herman Chernoff passed on July 6, shortly after turning 103 years old.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/herman-chernoff-1923-2026.html
Don't get Bill started with "and so on"
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/2-12-then-3-16-then-5-115-and-so-on-and.html
Does it seem like we're seeing an acceleration in new theorems, especially in combinatorics. Some proved by AI, some assisted by AI, some inspired by AI and some by humans trying to prove what they can before AI takes over.
Whenever I typed "y" into any textbox anywhere on my computer, my ChatGPT app would shut down. Turns out the new windows ChatGPT had a Mac shortcut "Command+Y" and the "Command" is ignored in windows. ChatGPT Work found and fixed its own b…
Two CACM editorial talk about the the need for ACM to take charge at a time that AI is disrupting computing itself and what it means to be a computer scientist
Jim Larus https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/wither-acm-publish-and-perish/
Moshe Var…
The new OSTP reports "Science: A New Golden Age" is not great for universities but here is a silver lining for the theory community.
Report: https://www.whitehouse.gov/science/
WSJ Gifted Article: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-…
Every time there is some new major theorem proved by AI, I start seeing posts that a resolution of P v NP is right around the corner. This is your regular reminder that no, it isn't.
Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/bipartite-perfect-matching-in.html
ACM is considering giving large language models access to the papers in their digital library.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/now-is-the-time-to-give-llms-access-to-the-acm-digital-library/
You can give feedback here:
https://docs.google.com…
Herman Chernoff passed on July 6, shortly after turning 103 years old.
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/herman-chernoff-1923-2026.html
Don't get Bill started with "and so on"
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/2-12-then-3-16-then-5-115-and-so-on-and.html
Does it seem like we're seeing an acceleration in new theorems, especially in combinatorics. Some proved by AI, some assisted by AI, some inspired by AI and some by humans trying to prove what they can before AI takes over.
Whenever I typed "y" into any textbox anywhere on my computer, my ChatGPT app would shut down. Turns out the new windows ChatGPT had a Mac shortcut "Command+Y" and the "Command" is ignored in windows. ChatGPT Work found and fixed its own b…
Two CACM editorial talk about the the need for ACM to take charge at a time that AI is disrupting computing itself and what it means to be a computer scientist
Jim Larus https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/wither-acm-publish-and-perish/
Moshe Var…
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