Gülce
Gülce
@gkardes.bsky.social
I do theoretical computer science at CU Boulder and the Santa Fe Institute.
A few days after running a 102-degree fever and spending a day at the hospital, went to the library to grab a book. Near the entrance, the first person I saw was a cleaner quietly wiping down the tables. I walked over and thanked her without really thinking. Said something like
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#challenge accidentally have to pull an all-nighter because I got locked in a conference room but now I have to make something out of it so I will be giving regular updates on whatever extremal combinatorics fact I’m learning
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
An R1 university with a divinity school and an extraordinary English department, marvelous in many ways not least because every kind of fascinatingly pretty reading room imaginable seems to gather on one campus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
weekend tunes from our friend Comtessa de Dia, 12th century www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1UO...
A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria
YouTube video by Ensemble Apotropaïk - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
What sounds like Philip Glass’s Akhnaten? Grown weary of it (again) and yet, in the absence of anything that resonates quite the same way, I inevitably circle back to it
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I googled “i am a baby lemma and i can't find my theorem“
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Inevitable Randomness in Discrete Mathematics
bookstore.ams.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
this book too is remarkable
April 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
have a feeling that this will be my favorite Mathias Énard, translated by the brilliant Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. You can pre-order...
Reading over the final galleys of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. When in doubt, remember what Curie said: “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something & that this thing must be attained.“
February 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
:-) The study of discrete structures through the analysis of their relationships and constraints - where understanding how subsets of structures behave under constraints and relate to each other reveals what configurations and outcomes are possible for the system as a whole.
how do you define Combinatorics? serious question. i'd like to have a better definition than "has to do with counting" and "the set of problems that i like"
December 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM
!! 🧩
Anyone have good software/algorithms for visualizing large-ish, but combinatorial/mathematical graphs rather than "real-world networks"?

Say 20K nodes, ~500K edges, max degree ~300.

#NetworkScience #MathSky #Visualization 🧪
December 6, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The interdisciplinary research sanctuary SFI @sfiscience.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its Summer 2025 educational programs. I participated in the Undergraduate Complexity Research program a few years ago and it was life-changing. I highly encourage all curious undergrads to apply.
Undergraduate Complexity Research
<p>Application deadline: Jan 14, 2025.</p>
www.santafe.edu
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
@redblobgames.com Your blog is amazing. Visualizations enhance learning like nothing else, and I love your work on pathfinding and keep revisiting it. I wish for Christmas we could get a blog post on contraction hierarchies and distance oracles!
December 2, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I keep misquoting "I shall show the cinders of my spirits / Through the ashes of my chance." I say, "You shall see the cinders of..." OK, Shakespeare is spectacular—he probably wrote it the way he did because "I shall show" signals that the character still has spirit left,
November 30, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Gülce
#FoxOfTheDay 🦊

Just some Fox cubs playing at the entrance to their earth.

Stay safe little ones 💚

🎦 Credit: Unknown
November 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
What are some open exposition problems in computational complexity theory? Timothy Chow defines it as - “all mathematicians are familiar with the concept of an open research problem...solving an open exposition problem means explaining a subject in a way that renders it totally perspicuous.“
November 24, 2024 at 2:55 PM