Sunday, April 15, 2012

Happy Easter

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Happy Easter! ...to all my readers cellebrating today in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. According to persistent rumours: Χριστός ἀνέστη...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Happpy recovery from the FOCS deadline:with a funny picture :)

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Happpy recovery from the FOCS deadline everyone:) With this kind of support from NY fashion stores, it'sodd that we have recruiting p...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

New York Theory Day

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The Fall 2011 New York Theory Day is happening this Friday, November 11th, at NYU (Courant), and features yours truly as a speaker. I hop...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Follow-up: Sampling a discrete distribution

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This is a follow-up to my last  post , on a puzzle about "Sampling a discrete distribution" (see my comment there for the solution...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Sampling a discrete distribution

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The following cute question came up at lunch today (all credit goes to Aaron Archer ). Informal challenge: You are given a discrete distribu...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

International Olympiad, Day 2

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I suspect I got a lot of bad karma this day (I'm the evil mind behind "Crocodile" and "Elephant".) Congratulations t...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

International Olympiad, Day 1

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The problems for Day 1 of the IOI have been posted (in many languages). Exciting! Here are the executive summaries. (Though I am on the Int...
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