Getting ready to celebrate 150 years of women at @ucph.bsky.social with the Wave workshop, focusing on algorithmic research
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In anticipation of this week’s Nobel prizes? Sign next to UCPH Nobel prize reserved parking says ”Beware of crossing traffic”

My run yesterday passed by Malmö Stadium, where West Germany defeated Argentina 3-1 in the 1958 soccer World Cup, after an early Argentinian goal. Sadly the stadium will soon be demolished to make room for new sports facilities.

Space flight as a normal technology

Finally a workshop on Differential Privacy in Europe! Organized by Monika Henzinger at IST Austria next year in September, so reserve the date! Monika’s STOC keynote, where the workshop was announced, was about the intersection of privacy and dynamic algorithms. Lots of questions in this space!

Jonas Klausen hashing out the details at his PhD defense at BARC yesterday. Congratulations to Jonas for a successful defense!

With apologies to Gary Larson

ChatGPT 4o's XeTaL abilities (going from a PDF to LaTeX source) are not perfect but pretty impressive and useful!

Seen in Google Maps. I want this as a sign on my office door!

New dramatic development in digital currencies! Did you know that you can mine your own NaN by simply dividing with zero?

New indispensable tool at BARC

We have reached a turning point - towards a brighter 2025

I am not much of a collector but fell for this 300 year old map of Denmark. It is hanging in my office as a reminder of how approximate, and sometimes distorted, our understanding of the world is compared to what will be known in a few hundred years.

@demishassabis.bsky.social, looking sharp in that white tie plus tails!

If my computer is one day equipped with an AI co-professor the first task I will delegate is proofreading.

Keyboard connoisseur - ha! - did not see that one coming, but the LLM has spoken. blueskyroast.com

When I was in high school more than 30 years ago I liked math and thought computers were fun, but did not know how well these topics went together until I read this book: Algorithmics, the spirit of computing, by David Harel. Still a fan today!

Bingo!