Siddharth Barman
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Siddharth Barman
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How Sanskrit Poetry led to the discovery of recursion & binary numbers!

🎬 English video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCGOCA2_wc] (with explanations using Sanskrit chhandas)

🎬 Bengali video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJWm5RiBMmc] (explanations using Bengali chhandas)

#Algorithms #CS
August 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A PhD may have only one name on the certificate, but it’s a team sport.
Here’s to my village — I couldn’t have done it without you. 🙏

Image: From the acknowledgement page of my thesis -- alluding to rectangle packing. My thesis was on approximation algorithms on multidimensional bin packing.
August 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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This is a great opportunity to learn from the legends: Naveen Garg (IITD), Amit Kumar (IITD), Neeldhara Misra (IIT GN), Akash Kumar (IITB), and Prajakta Nimbhorkar (CMI).
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May 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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R3: Please cite and discuss Verne, J. (1865).
May 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM