The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-tha...

🚨The PLDI'26 Student Research Competition deadline has been extended to Thursday, March 19! Whether your work is in its early stages or more polished, this is a great opportunity to get feedback from the PL community. Check out: pldi26.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2...

Its pi day, so here is another "oh really?" about pi. If you pick two random integer numbers in [-N,..., N], the probability they are relatively prime is 6/π^2.

The problem with working in computer security is you learn never to trust anyone. The problem with never trusting anyone is that often you’re right!

Revisit the biggest moments in computer science from 2025.

The mathematical conundrums that Marijn Heule has helped crack in the last decade sound like code names lifted from a sci-fi spy novel: the empty hexagon. Schur Number 5. Keller’s conjecture, dimension seven.

There is a lot to be appreciated about someone with an actual humanities education and a capacity to think writing about AGI. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco... by @eruditorumpress.com

my timeline of cryptographers has switched from its usual math and code chatter, now it’s mostly people panicking about the asiacrypt venue dress code that disallows *checks notes* tshirts 😱

An advent calendar of some of my favourite TCS/Maths talks. Day #1: Avi Wigderson on Reading Alan Turing. It is a gem of a talk, full of insights about Turing's work, writing style, and influences on mathematics and computer science. Pure joy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uk_...

Congrats to the winners of the 2024 #IACR Test-of-Time Award for #Asiacrypt: "Fiat-Shamir with aborts: Applications to lattice and factoring-based signatures", by V. Lyubashevsky and "Efficient public key encryption based on ideal lattices", by D. Stehlé, R. Steinfeld, K. Tanaka and K. Xagawa !

Are you attending Asiacrypt2024? If you are a women-in-cryptography, you can participate in our coffee breaks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We will match you with someone and you can grab a coffee/tea in person!

Things you need as a PhD student: - coffee ☕ - a living stipend 💰 - a website 🔗 For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html

The Asiacrypt 2024 program is finally up! asiacrypt.iacr.org/2024/program...

Please answer / dm us to be added/ removed. go.bsky.app/8daoJcj

Reminder that, if you're applying to grad school, postdocs, faculty positions etc., you should have asked your writers 2 to 4 weeks ago. The second best time to ask is today. Here's my post on how to ask for a letter of recommendation. kamathematics.wordpress.com/2021/08/18/h... 1/2

The perfect definition of a heuristic doesn't exi-

It’s like we graduated from high school and we’re all finding each other in university classes. lol