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Jeff Erickson

@jefferickson.bsky.social

Human, smartass, father and son of artists, computer science professor.

If you like baseball, you’re probably looking for @jeff-erickson.bsky.social, not me.

https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu

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Ben Stone

@benstemon.bsky.social

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Mae Milano

@mpmilano.bsky.social

If you are a PhD student in computer science who is directly impacted by the last two weeks of orders, please know that it's ok to not be in a headspace for research

If anyone is pushing you to be productive despite it all, please reach out to me, or SIGPLAN CARES, or computingconnections.org

Computing Connections Fellowship

Website for computing connections fellowship

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January 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM

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Hank Green

@hankgreen.bsky.social

Perhaps it is worth saying that the difference between $5M and $500B is $500B.

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 28

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M.

Beautiful.

Trump announces 500B in AI funding. Five days ago.

January 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Clément Canonne

@ccanonne.github.io

Very interesting (short) paper by Graham Cormode (@grahamrc.bsky.social), "Applications of Sketching and Pathways to Impact", using sketching algos as case study to see how to go from theory to—impactful—practice, and what to keep in mind in the process. (Small) sample below
doi.org/10.1145/3584...

Inflict ideas on the next generation. The computer science cur-
riculum is far more dynamic than, say, the mathematics curriculum,
and it is still feasible to include research ideas in undergraduate
classes. There may not be room to go in-depth on cutting edge
ideas, but including a few results from the current century may
help to keep students engaged. Sketches are a good exemplar for
this, since the ideas can fit well into an algorithms or database class,
and illustrate some of the underlying principles and concepts. A
long-term benefit of this approach is that some students may just
remember these ideas after graduation, and be motivated to make
use of them in whatever career they choose to go in to.
Write accessible notes, and put them where people can read
them. While we may think of peer-reviewed academic publications
as the medium for sharing research ideas, these are unfortunately
not the place where practitioners will find them. You can have
more reach by writing accessible notes addressing the software
engineering community. For sketches, we made web pages and
wrote articles in practitioner-focused journals. Today, you should
consider making more use of platforms like medium and substack,
and promoting posts via social media.

January 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM

Jeff Erickson

@jefferickson.bsky.social

I already know that I’m going to LOVE reading this: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046640/the-polyhedrists/ Expect more 16th-century citations in my next conputational geometry paper.