Victor S. Portella
@visportella.bsky.social
Currently Postdoc @USP, Brazil. PhD @UBC. Interested in theoretical computer science, online learning, randomized algorithms, optimization, and cats.
I'm only used to non-technical books on kindle, but 55 BRL sounds reasonable. FWIW "The Name of the Wind" is 53 BRL and "Wise Man's Fear" is 33 BRL.
A silly but sometimes effective way to gauge "real" exchange rates is comparing prices in big food chains. A BigMac meal is ~31 BRL here.
A silly but sometimes effective way to gauge "real" exchange rates is comparing prices in big food chains. A BigMac meal is ~31 BRL here.
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm only used to non-technical books on kindle, but 55 BRL sounds reasonable. FWIW "The Name of the Wind" is 53 BRL and "Wise Man's Fear" is 33 BRL.
A silly but sometimes effective way to gauge "real" exchange rates is comparing prices in big food chains. A BigMac meal is ~31 BRL here.
A silly but sometimes effective way to gauge "real" exchange rates is comparing prices in big food chains. A BigMac meal is ~31 BRL here.
Throwing him under the bus, but I remember @jeremykun.com looking into this rabbit hole (although maybe not focusing on combinatorial algorithms specifically): buttondown.com/j2kun/archiv... .
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March 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Throwing him under the bus, but I remember @jeremykun.com looking into this rabbit hole (although maybe not focusing on combinatorial algorithms specifically): buttondown.com/j2kun/archiv... .
I think it is likely something related to the CS curriculum. Even though I learned calculus early in my undergrad, it was rarely used in courses, even in theory (most of them with a more combinatorial flavor)
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I think it is likely something related to the CS curriculum. Even though I learned calculus early in my undergrad, it was rarely used in courses, even in theory (most of them with a more combinatorial flavor)