William Umboh

Postdoc position for Algebraic Complexity Theory and Theoretical Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Postdoc position starting in September 2026 or soon thereafter. The position

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...

2026 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Congrats to Sloan fellows: @nyucourant.bsky.social colleagues Florian Schäfer 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/...

It’s also very neat that you maintain a counter

NP is truly Not P

I envy academics who can commercialize their research as I’m not a product guy, just sum guy

A Harry Potter villain is now an unlikely new-year mascot in China | CNN With the Year of the Horse galloping into view, an unexpected face has emerged in China as a symbol of fortune: a villain from Harry Potter’s wizarding world.

Happy Malfoy Day! edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

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 pollywog… 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!

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided | Fortune It’s not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.

I certainly don't dismiss all of this. Especially for some jobs. And even given that its message is "Buy our products". But: "If you’ve always wanted to write a book but couldn’t find the time or struggled with the writing, you can work with AI to get it done." So...
fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

Mathematicians issue a major challenge to AI—show us your work Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way

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 doesn’t get in, we’ll resubmit to FAUXCS

Petition to call pairs that are hard to distinguish “fauxrelated”

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 & 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗜𝗜𝗦𝗰), 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘂

The Algorithms group at IISc invites applications for multiple 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 in Algorithms & Theory.

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸: forms.gle/moz2vx7tiNFC...

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 28 February

#postdocs
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Polylog Deep dives into all kinds of topics in computer science, with an emphasis on algorithms. If you want to support us, check out our Patreon.

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?

📝 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?!