Meanwhile, in Syria, there are credible reports of atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Syrian government and its affiliated forces. Why Israel is treating the "new" Syria with paranoia... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vmz...

I created the following account for paper announcements on CS.CG on the arXiv. Let's see how long before it/script breaks ;)... bsky.app/profile/cs-c...

Well, this tool looks useful... github.com/msprev/fzf-b...

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

A cute question for an application of a state graph: Given a container of milk with 8 liters of milk (completely full), and two empty containers with capacities of 5 and 3 liters, respectively, can one split the milk equally 4/4, when one is only allowed to move milk from one container to another?

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Why are LaTeX's default page margins so wide? www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/09...

Kudos to whoever made this! #Epstein

Remember all these cryptic, unusable command-line commands (tr, sed, awk, perl, etc). Well, here is a list of a few more Linux command-line tools: sarielhp.org/misc/bloge/2...

Hey Darth what do you think about this?

2026 in unicode is… …that seems alarming. www.compart.com/en/unicode/U...

Happy new year from munich...

I still use Emacs, but my configuration loads a ridiculous number of packages when I start it. To speed up the loading, I started using straight.el, and now Emacs starts in less than a second. Pretty impressive...

1. I just got a DM asking me how Nick Fuentes makes millions every year, here’s how. — Super chats during his show. Fans send him anywhere from $1 to $1,000 with a question or a comment during the show. He only reads and responds to the ones $20 and over. Of the ones $20 and over, he makes…

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

It has already been cited 42 times. He might as well write this paper now...

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Fantastic! A program that goes over your BibTeX file and adds DOI fields (and other fields). Works very well! github.com/dlesbre/bibt...

After 25 years (!) I posted my code for approximating the minimum volume bounding box and approximating the diameter in 3d on GitHub. Better late than never, I guess... ps://github.com/sarielhp/MVBB?tab=readme-ov-file

They have destroyed beautiful country

Ben Raichel: The Road to the Closest Point is Paved by Good Neighbors www.youtube.com/watch?v=yih_...

I posted two "new" chapters for my online book: 1. Coresets for clustering: sarielhp.org/book/chapter... 2. No dimensional geometric algorithms: sarielhp.org/book/chapter... The webpage of the book is here: sarielhp.org/book/

A more advanced procedure that doesn't even require fedex Is 'putting your paper on the arxiv'...

A formal apology regarding the composition of this letter sarielhp.org/misc/bloge/2...

SOSA 26 has the same acceptance rate as FOCS (~27%). SODA has an acceptance rate of ~30%. While SoCG seems to be ~35%. Machine learning conferences with way higher rate of junk submissions, and way way higher impact, have similar acceptance rates (high 20s-low 30s). It does not make any sense.

As usual, my paper got accepted to the complement of SODA.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Accept more papers! sarielhp.org/misc/bloge/2...

No mushrooms detected this time around.

The Road to the Closest Point is Paved by Good Neighbors arxiv.org/abs/2509.23966

BTW, to avoid the captcha on overleaf, login using orcid.

It turns out that computing the closet point and computing the closest point are not the same problem. To begin with, in the former, it is not clear what the point is doing in the closet.

Gemini can now create an audio summary of a paper, and the summary it generates is surprisingly good. Here is an example: sarielhp.org/p/23/fat_sep... For this paper: sarielhp.org/p/23/fat_sep/

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well

Really bad logic. Most of the Palestinians fighters killed in Gaza either their Identity is not known because their body was taken by the IDF. Or are just badly and freshly trained dudes that never got officially registered. So not 83% but probably 50%.....

If it was a Google product it would already have been canceled.

That would have been SAD = Self Assured Destruction....

Terry Tao on AI and IMO. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

The new programming paradigm should be : Don't trust and definitely verify programming. Or you get the following ...

What's next? Including GPA in student application to college? Is there no limit to discrimination in UCLA???

A new statement on the war in Gaza from the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

The outrage continues... While starving billionaires are waiting for their tax cuts, flood survivors expect service from a federal agency in charge of helping people after a natural disaster... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Laura Loomer is currently referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi as “Scam Blondie”

True friendship....

Nobel seems like a heavy lift, but the "Ig Nobel Peace Prize" seems perfect...

Early research on LLMs... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...