Question: 1. Are you familiar with Polylog on YouTube? 2. If so, how did it impact you?

Question: 1. Are you familiar with Polylog on YouTube? 2. If so, how did it impact you?

📚 New Arxiv Paper Title: Circuit Diameter of Polyhedra is Strongly Polynomial Authors: Bento Natura Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06958

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Omg, thread, I love it when people are so thorough

Springer Nature publishes chatbox-generated BookToks now 😭

Our paper will be in STOC this summer! 🌎

I have been enjoying this podcast lately. It's about the very early history of electronic computers. My only complaint is that it skips over the impact of and for linear programming. Luckily there are linked sources that give an extra glimpse

Today, if someone publishes 30 papers per year, we all know that those papers probably aren't very good. But Erdos published 1500 papers in his lifetime, and he is broadly respected. How do we reconcile this?

I need recommendations for a good whiteboard app to collaborate remotely.

The Mathematical Society of France will not be at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in Philadelphia. This is great news. I hope other mathematical societies pull out as well. It would help if the @amermathsoc.bsky.social also declined to participate, in solidarity.

the SMF also led a boycott (withdrawn) of the 1950 USA ICM over the issue of visas, plus ça change

100% agree. Especially since we have author IDs that are matched to the papers when they are claimed!

My name is so boring this is basically unusable to search me, and I've frequently found it frustrating as a searcher, too.

As someone whose full name is one letter off from that of a prominent theoretician, I wholeheartedly agree!

I really want @arxiv.bsky.social to collect more author metadata (and actually use it).

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.” [thezebra.org]

Arxiv's lack of commitment to its author page feature is so disappointing. Why, when I click on the link that is an author's name, am I sent to a search page of "F. Lastname"? This is ridiculous

The ISIT 2026 conference announces that papers with a co-author who resides in Iran can ask for a short extension of the submission deadline. Please spread the word and help your Iranian colleagues contact the organizers. www.itsoc.org/news/isit-20...

Does Springer pay money to conferences that advertise their journal submission fast track? If not, we are getting scammed

turns out NVIDIA's cuOpt is open source! what a treat, i love checking out fresh codes

If you know people in Theoretical CS or adjacent who just joined BlueSky (or just did yourself), please tag them or say hi in this thread! #TCSSky (I'll follow them/you, let's strengthen our research community here)

At least once a year I find myself returning to YouTube channel of @mrillig.bsky.social. He gives very good advice, and his videos have helped me at every stage of my career

Imagine discovering your life's passion but having absolutely no one to share it with. For years, Travis studied in isolation, fearing that the academic world wouldn’t accept him. But one day, he took a risk. www.prisonmathproject.org/blog/the-pri...

If you liked that article about @sophie.huiberts.me research, I think you might like this video of one of her research talks. Maths is accessible, but notably into the ethics of applications of the simplex method: minimum wage debates and supplies allowed into Gaza. youtu.be/OrhiqVmsVxE?...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. www.wired.com/story/resear...

me: how do I think of this complex problem? help please mathematician, normally: how do you feel about geometry??

"Nearly 80 years later, the simplex method is still among the most widely used tools when a logistical or supply-chain decision needs to be made under complex constraints." only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways www.wired.com/story/resear...

"#Gaza remains in a man-made hunger crisis. The latest report from the IPC underscores how fragile the gains have been since the ceasefire began in October." — UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

Rolling my eyes at the marketing, but worth looking at because who knows if this might be all we learn about it: Vincent and David write about the STOC AI review experiment

What made the US-backed aid system in Gaza so deadly? Our new short film reconstructs two Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distributions, showing how the militarised aid system resulted in death and injury. Watch the full video here: ghf.airwars.org

Handling LP-Rounding for Hierarchical Clustering and Fitting Distances by Ultrametrics (FOCS'25) Joint work with Hyung-Chan An, Mong-Jen Kao, and Mu-Ting Lee Pre-recorded talk: youtu.be/Iy1FQARjw0Y?si… Off-site presentation: Dec 17 (Session 10A) See you at the conference!

I am only just getting started studying the simplex method! We finally have a half-decent theoretical framework, that is good. But there is much work left to be done if we want to reach its full potential. Part of that work will be theory, the other part will be experimental validation.

how did CS conference PCs work before the internet? 1. the current rapid deadlines seem impossible to achieve when snail mail is how you contract reviewers. did you know each other's phone numbers? 2. did the PC meet in person to decide the program?

smoothed analysis is dead. i gave a eulogy

The pre-recorded videos (for the talks whose authors opted in to submit one) are now available on our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@FOCS2025 They're also linked from the main website's schedule!

there's a project to solve all 5x6 nonograms by hand. its a fun pastime

PODCAST: Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide +972's Yuval Abraham takes us inside his groundbreaking investigations into the Gaza war and the legal and moral challenges he faces when reporting. www.972mag.com/podcast-unco...

NEW: North Carolina prison officials, this summer, raised the price of items that incarcerated people can buy. The prices are already way marked-up; & incarcerated people make a tiny fraction of minimum wage if they work. An incarcerated reporter explains what's happening, & why it matters:

Multiple times I have been invited for a seminar because of this video. People like how it connects mathematical research with important social issues 🇺🇸 🇵🇸

trying some new animation approaches for the FOCS video. like this one, where i screengrab blender to explain the simplex method (preview is 3x speed)

IDF appears to be supporting those looting aid trucks with UN food bound for the Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

In the study of boolean functions, is the TRIBES function named for the practices of a specific people?

Part of what feels awkward about recording talks is how to start. It is different from irl talks (where a session chair introduces you) or from professional youtube videos (where the speaker can assume you know who they are)

This IACR election news is so relatable

Looking for inspiration for your #FOCS2025 pre-recorded talk? Check out this video youtu.be/Ygu5m-yPFhg

Update: yes. In addition to their in-person talks, authors will have the option to upload a pre-recorded video, to be made available on the #FOCS2025 YouTube channel. Expect an email by the PC chairs shortly!