Neeldhara 🐦|🐘 @neeldhara Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

2 years

For my 2^12-th tweet, for better or worse, I finally updated my website! Source: (messy, sorry!) There's lots and lots of "Coming Soon!"s and I should have probably tested before "pushing to production", but well, it's up 🎉

6

3

126

Last Seen Profiles

@Rolimons

@LCPioneers

@boxingscene

@toxicocirrus

@besamemuchofest

@yourbabyyx_

@rachelzegler

@burufps

@molodoy_pizdec

@faeryxoxo

@Hawkeye_view

@Sticht_Sobibor

@EU_NO_MORE

@ar_purding

@ahmadkazz

@ayoair

@sz1hao

@lyxvs

@dipicat1

@familyoftwofilm

@lanlanutau

@MyPrideZeeNunew

@KittyDior_Latex

@oYoichio

@eto_cp

@woodz_yum

@glafilmfest

@Emma_Land_Live

@_RXGE

@Paulding_OH_SO

@MercedesAMGF1BR

@poinuto

@Juggernaut_JacQ

@Worship_Kittyx

@secrethazem

@DaytonPolice

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

Anyone interested in a reading group around “33 miniatures in linear algebra” starting this Sunday through end of Nov-ish? I’ll try to go over chapters around 10PM IST.

107

74

551

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Will be at CSE/IITM tomorrow — also decidedly nervous about what I’ve signed up for 🫣 Wish me luck!

18

6

329

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

Anusha Gupta, Megha Hegde, Neha Sane, and Neha Singirikonda are representing India at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics 2023 next week. They are here with Sonia Garcha, team lead, getting ready to go to Sweden! Best wishes to the team --- have fun 🙌

3

14

303

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

What a lovely view to wake up to at the @IISERPune guest house!

7

3

220

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

9 months

The Indian team at the IOI: 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze! 🎉

6

23

195

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

🧵 summarizing of my presentation to incoming graduate students @iitgn . I mostly tried to draw from my current struggles, and also distilled some of the amazing advice I received on Twitter into ten balancing acts ⚖️. Unrolled version: (0/N)

10

60

196

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Oh yay!!! Congratulations @nutanlimaye ! This is most wonderful news, and I am so thrilled for this recognition 🎉 Thanks for all the inspiring work you do, in theoryCS and well beyond ❤️

1

13

192

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

While some (several?) problems in competitive programming platforms are inspired by ideas from the algorithms literature, I am curious about papers that focus on CP problems. Here's a couple that I found: 1/n

4

21

153

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

8 months

Turns out I joined @iitgn OTD eight years ago 🩵

7

2

156

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

I finally have my course plans up for next term! I'll be offering: (a) Combinatorics with Applications in Computer Science, and (b) Topics in Games, jointly with Jyothi. Both of these are turning out to be learning opportunities for me that I'm very excited for! 🎉 +

6

10

153

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Finished seven years @iitgn today. Also recently wrapped up my stint with the most amazing "comms team". I figured this was a good day for a recap: 🎉

12

1

147

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

Made of dice @BLR_Airport 🤩

1

5

138

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

Beyond excited to announce CRiCKET 2024 - a 2.5 day #csed workshop ft. @ShriramKMurthi , happening Feb 2024 @iitgn , brought to you by @cse_iitgn . The deadline to apply is 15th Dec, and the link to the workshop website is in the next tweet. Please help us spread the word! ↵

6

64

137

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

I'm excited for a couple of upcoming courses that I'll be co-teaching this August on @nptelindia The first is about competitive programming and the second is an intro to parameterized algorithms. Both are meant as follow ups to a first undergraduate algorithms course. [1/4]

3

13

133

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

A view of the office building that we’ll be moving to this summer!

8

4

124

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

A counting problem to celebrate the start of discrete math this week! 😀

9

0

110

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Will be teaching Advanced Algorithms next term: this is an elective aimed at undergrads who've finished their intro to data structures and algorithms. Planning to anchor the whole thing around vertex cover and FVS. Suggestions welcome!

4

8

107

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 months

Everyday.

poorly drawn lines

@PDLComics

2 months

do everything

46

3K

17K

7

3

106

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

I will be meeting the incoming batch of grad students @iitgn in a couple of days for an interaction about the PhD experience at large. I’m crowdsourcing advice in the hope of making this more valuable for them - any thoughts/pointers from inside or outside academia, please LMK!

38

11

103

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Thrilled to share that @mnwsth will be speaking to us @iitgn about succeeding in your PhD... ...through Bollywood memes! CC: @AshuCompBio @majishar @mkjolly15 @cse_iitgn

10

13

103

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

@manojlds @StephBazin @DataSciBae Yep. Unrelated — apparently the way things panned out on the show was unlikely too:

The Squid Game glass bridge game explained with probability

How lucky (or unlucky) were the players in the show?

medium.com

1

13

99

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

Some musings on career choices — thanks to @IndianExpress for featuring my rambling!

How do you figure out if engineering is the right fit for you? IIT Gandhinagar professor explains

"A choice of career – or more immediately, a branch or stream – does not have to be prompted necessarily by an intense love at first sight. The routes leading to your final pursuit(s) can be potent...

indianexpress.com

9

19

101

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 months

So thrilled that @_Dhara_Thakkar and @Its_Dipan , graduate students @cse_iitgn , have (separate) papers accepted at #STOC24 … Huge shout out to the advisors @bireswar and Manoj — much admiration for your fantastic work! Congratulations to everyone 🎉

8

3

100

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Is there any interest in a daily reading group (30-45 mins/day) ~Jan'24 around puzzles by Martin Gardner, with games being a broadly unifying theme? A friend is taking the lead on this, and I can't wait - if folks want to join in, we're happy to do it on Zoom IST evenings. LMK!

38

8

96

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Most grateful for the opportunity to have this conversation — this was a very special and fun experience, thanks @Pavan_KumarGV ! I’ve been following this podcast for a while now and was decidedly nervous, but thanks to Pavan for making it easy for me to ramble on :)

G V Pavan Kumar

@Pavan_KumarGV

5 months

We start 2024 🎙️Episode 35 with @neeldhara She is a computer scientist + Prof. at IIT-G + fascinated by maths, algorithms & games. What motivated her to study CS through maths? Why is she interested in sci-comm? ++ links⬇️ 1/n

4

15

95

3

10

92

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

What a week for the team! Anusha Gupta and Megha Hegde won bronze and Neha Sane and Neha Singirikonda got honorable mentions - congratulations everyone 🎉 You can find the tasks here: and the scoreboard here: ...IOI up next :)

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

Anusha Gupta, Megha Hegde, Neha Sane, and Neha Singirikonda are representing India at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics 2023 next week. They are here with Sonia Garcha, team lead, getting ready to go to Sweden! Best wishes to the team --- have fun 🙌

3

14

303

2

10

87

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

Here's a blog about my conversation with #chatGPT (GPT-v4) that led to this a fully functional JS game: Prompts, code, and a few thoughts included. Meanwhile, if you just want to play, here's the game: Feedback welcome! 😀

3

17

83

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Unclear who is who 🫣

Prof. Rausch

@ProfRausch

2 years

PI and their first graduate student…

239

2K

18K

3

82

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Am I glad I asked 😀 We just wrapped up the 33 miniatures reading group. Huge thanks to everyone who showed interest and showed up (in real-time and/or offline). We clocked over 26 hours across 29 sessions, covering 28 miniatures. Might do a reunion to go over the rest :) +

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

Anyone interested in a reading group around “33 miniatures in linear algebra” starting this Sunday through end of Nov-ish? I’ll try to go over chapters around 10PM IST.

107

74

551

4

5

82

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

New semester, new courses! We have advanced #algorithms (aimed at folks who are very concerned about what we do about problems that are NP-complete). Planning to pre-record lectures, FWIW. The course page will be updated as we go along! (1/n)

5

6

80

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Making up some lecture notes for data structures and algorithms.

5

0

78

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

A 🧵 on a magic trick involving graphs and some special sequences of bits. Here's the effect: it needs at least five people in the audience, perhaps works best with more (given sufficient practice).

3

9

77

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

I finally got my physical copy — @benorlin ’s latest is a brilliant tour of some very fun, playable, and thought provoking games. Finally a yellow math book I can hope to actually read and “work” through, plus the work is literally play 🎉

2

77

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

New blog, new post: Meanwhile — happy teachers day to everyone!

20

6

76

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Thank you for the feature! The compendium is a great read, and its surreal for me to be a part of this roundup — am most grateful for the opportunity. CC @VivifyMedia @FollowCII

IIT Gandhinagar

@iitgn

2 years

We are delighted to share that Prof @neeldhara Misra, Smt Amba and Sri V S Sastry Chair Associate Prof, @cse_iitgn , has got featured in a compendium of ‘Women in STEM: Vanguards of India @75 ’, an initiative by @FollowCII . Head on to page 55 to read more:

2

5

52

8

0

76

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

I'm very happy to be hosting #CSEd folks at IITGN later this month (23rd December): I am sorry this announcement is so late, but I hope you can help me spread the word! We're doing a one-day workshop covering various topics, details at: 1/n

5

36

74

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Fond memories of this; the Simputer project and the FOSS scene in Bangalore at the time got me interested in tech… the ambition and execution remains a timeless inspiration.

V Vinay

@ainvvy

6 months

Now a part of history ... in a good way 🙏 @n_dayasindhu

17

34

162

4

6

70

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

A happy memory for the shelf! Thanks for the great times, #FSTTCS2023 :)

4

1

66

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

If we were to run an online/hybrid summer school on tools for visualizing algorithms/proofs, would you be interested? Hopefully covering both theory (principles) and practice (code + tools). Do you have any pointers to resources we should know about?

15

5

67

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Late to the party but I finally have a course plan! Data Structures and Algorithms (part 1) coming up starting next week 🤞

6

5

67

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 months

Thanks @johnazariah for joining us for the art of computing workshop today — and helping settle my nerves ahead of my talk! It was so wonderful to have you around at the talk and the discussions after :)

2

0

67

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

@abhijit_MLab I have a feeling my students are going to say “I did my PhD in spite of…” 😂

7

1

65

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 years

Been @iitgn for five years as of today 🎉 It’s been fulfilling and inspiring in equal measure... thanks to the amazing colleagues and students I’ve had the opportunity to work with! 🙂

0

1

66

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 months

Reminds me of this G.K. Chesterton quote: A man must love the thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Michael Nielsen

@michael_nielsen

4 months

I loved this:

8

185

1

5

64

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Am in the process of putting together lecture notes for a first DS/Algo course for undergraduates. It feels like a rather redundant exercise for obvious reasons, but I think I can still pull off pretending that it's worthwhile 😀 +

5

7

65

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

If you are an academic (broadly interpreted) and have a personal/professional website, could you please share a link? If you can mention the platform you use that will be great too. Also links to websites other than your own in this category are welcome too!

42

10

63

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

Making notes for the pigeon hole principle lecture upcoming in DM and I am afraid my examples are getting too personal: “If you have a list of tasks that take you an hour each to complete, and you can only do one of them at a time, and you have more than 24 tasks to do…” +

7

3

59

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 months

Might be doing a weekend workshop on tips for putting a website together, aimed mostly at early grad students. My layperson take on making websites is that it's almost surprisingly hard to do... spoilt for choice, but not in a terribly good way? +

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

@__WesSouza @wesbos Yeah, it feels like we are now at a point where it’s easier to make complex websites but somehow oddly harder to make the simple ones!

0

5

8

60

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

9 months

A short Monty Hall explanation: If the initial choice was bad, a switch is good. The initial choice was bad with probability 2/3. Therefore, the odds that a switch is good is 2/3 as well. (Inspired by a Numberphile video that scales up the setting — I hope this makes sense!)

12

6

59

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

[Survey] What is the programming language used in the introductory programming course at your university/institute/college? The one that is mandatory for all first year students. The course that is likely to provide, for many students, their first programming experience.

80

5

57

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

Thanks to @iitgn for giving me a chance to talk to the amazing incoming batch of graduate students :) It was lovely meeting you all, and since a few asked: Slides: The Game of Trust: Thanks for being such a wonderful audience! 🙌

The Evolution of Trust

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

ncase.me

2

4

55

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

Anyone else procrastinating on starting a blog, CS or otherwise? Would you be interested in being held mutually accountable for a few weeks to overcome the initial inertia? Do let me know! I’ll try to setup something systematic-looking if there’s interest 🙂

9

3

57

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

So. I am excited to announce that the Department of External Communications at IIT Gandhinagar is growing, and we're looking for several people to join the team. Here be the ads: Trainees/Professionals: Manager: 1/N

Advertisement for a Manager in the External Communications Office.pdf

drive.google.com

2

41

56

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

When I ask ChatGPT to summarize a paper at a *particular* ArXiV URL, it totally hallucinates the title and the author names - even after multiple attempts. Am I missing something? I know I should probably be using specialized summary tools, but I just found this surprising.

17

0

55

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

So @ccl_iitgn is hiring! For anyone interested in STEM education: great opportunity to join a passionate and vibrant team.

4

26

56

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

Overcast — from a couple of days ago.

5

0

56

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Speaking for myself, some things never change:

3

54

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

9 months

Meet the team! Shreyan, Paras, Kshitij, Sushil (left to right).

3

1

55

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

8 months

There's some recency bias, but I want to give a shout out to Magical Mathematics by Diaconis and Graham. ❤️

MAA

@maanow

8 months

Which math book do you wish more people would read? 📚

151

100

680

2

5

55

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

Thinking of using @NotionHQ for your website? Me too 😬 Here's a run-down of the options I've been playing with recently: featuring @super_ @potion_so @camincoll @noahwbragg @traf @TrillCyborg @bensomething @kulikalov

5

4

54

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 months

When you luck out big time on the guests you get to host…

Shriram Krishnamurthi 🟤 🏴‍☠️ 👨🏽‍🏫 🚴‍♂️ 🏏

@ShriramKMurthi

3 months

Find a university that loves you the way @iitgn loves its guests! (Mostly, I think, that means get @neeldhara to host you. 💯 highly recommended.)

5

2

113

0

54

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Oh dear 🙈

Manu Awasthi

@mnwsth

2 years

CS practitioners to CS theoreticians

4

5

111

2

51

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Thanks for all the interest everyone: the Martin Gardner fan club energy is pretty strong 🤩 Very pleased to announce that Jyothi @ccl_iitgn will be walking us through a variety of nuggets from Gardner's writings. Mark your calendars for all weekdays in Jan 2024! Details: +

2

7

51

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

This is what I needed the advice for yesterday, thanks so much everyone for the very helpful inputs! I couldn’t pack it all in because there were so many nice things. Will be sharing pointers offline with the fantastic audience I had the privilege of addressing @HillwoodsATL :)

Poonam

@Punam_Bhargava

11 months

@InfoGujcost @dstGujarat @IndiaDST @UNESCO @vnehra @irushikeshpatel @CMOGuj @PMOIndia @narottamsahoo @GirlsInStem @InfoGujarat Fascinating talk by Dr Neeldhara Mishra from #IIT Gandhinagar

1

24

41

3

4

52

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

It's been very nice to learn that our work on characterizing when ~"a minimum vertex cover is enough to be an eternal vertex cover", on bipartite graphs, has been accepted to #MFCS2023 . This project was led by Saraswati Nanoti, who came up with a very elegant proof 🎉 🧵soon!

1

2

51

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Anyone else finding Byju's dominating search results for basic terms? The Wikipedia links for such things seem to be getting pushed way down.

9

4

50

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Working on a public talk for the “History of Ideas” seminar series @iitgn . It’ll be about the (relatively modern) history of algorithms. As usual, overwhelmed by resources on the internet, so this is a call for anecdotes and examples. Do you have a favourite algorithm or story?

16

9

52

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Heading out to @AshokaUniv for the workshop on Computation and Economics happening Fri—Sun this week. My first visit to the campus too: looking forward to being there!

1

52

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

3 years

Ah, this went by in a blink - six years @iitgn now 🥳

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 years

Been @iitgn for five years as of today 🎉 It’s been fulfilling and inspiring in equal measure... thanks to the amazing colleagues and students I’ve had the opportunity to work with! 🙂

0

1

66

1

52

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

I heard this attendee asked some questions in the non theory talks though 😀

Shekhar Mande

@shekhar_mande

5 months

In a conference today in @iiit_hyderabad , a stray dog made its way into the lecture. Needless to mention, the lecture being in theory in computer science, it found good comfort in sleeping away, possibly like few others 😀 😄

21

31

355

5

3

49

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

If you have not seen the "almost impossible chessboard puzzle", watch @3blue1brown and @standupmaths play it out in a very cool collaboration: I wanted recreate this for an audience, but I didn't have a partner, so here's a one-to-many version. 1/n

The almost impossible chessboard puzzle

Check out the meta-solution on 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTJI_WuZSwEThanks to Gordon' s Wine Bar for letting us film in their bar. Ha! It ...

www.youtube.com

1

5

49

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

📣 The FSTTCS abstract submission deadline is right around the corner! To be held @iiit_hyderabad during Dec 18–20 this year. Abstracts: July 12 AoE Submission: July 19 AoE Notification: Sep 22 Please RT if relevant to your audience: thanks! :)

2

38

48

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Now this video reminds me of some of my classes from last term 🫣

Jino George (IISER Mohali)

@Jinothechemist

6 months

1st experience in my life... I'm the one and only one passenger of Indigo 6E7413 to Jaipur on Diwali night. Great experience and many thanks to Indigo staff for the grant welcome and special gift... #Indigo

13

14

461

5

0

48

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

The best part about the inter-IIT sports meet? The intersection of the set of players and CSE folks is non-trivial 🎉 Exhibit A. Venkata has amazingly volunteered a short course on modern crypto between squash practice sessions! Details in reply. We start today & it's hybrid!

2

5

48

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

@abhi9u Yep, it’s a beautiful book!

2

13

46

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

9 months

Joint work (with Harshil Mittal, Saket Saurabh, and Dhara Thakkar) on the complexity of Eigenvalue Deletion accepted for presentation at ISAAC. I finally am a little less afraid of the spectrum thanks to the coauthors on this one! All accepted papers:

5

4

47

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

TIL that @ictstifr maintains a searchable database of the problems that have been discussed across math circles: Session-wise PDFs here: This is a very nice resource! 🤩

3

13

45

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

Making handwritten slides after ages. 🎉 Had nearly forgotten how much fun it is to spend ages picking colors with barely perceptible differences 🎨

3

2

46

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

9 months

Still faster than my email response rate.

jay

@yajwokeup

9 months

1K

20K

361K

2

4

46

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

For the longest time, I was too shy to reach out to people I didn't already know, even if it was just to say thank you. It's definitely been nice to get past that with a what's-the-worst-that-can-happen approach.

3

1

46

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Is there a critique of the use of Python for intro programming that a layperson (i.e, specifically not a PL person) can appreciate? Either from a CSEd perspective, an industry perspective, or a technical perspective that’s somewhat self-contained?

28

3

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Excited about *two* new game-theory themed courses coming up this semester on @nptelindia ! 1. on mechanism design by @swaprava @iitbombay 2. on Algorithmic Game Theory by Palash Dey @IITKgp +

2

5

46

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 months

An amazing program from @IIScCSA organised by @arindamkhan and @ArghaManna — looking forward to all the 🪄 ⚽️ 🤹‍♀️ 🎨 🧩 very much!

Arindam Khan

@arindamkhan

4 months

Interested in any of the topics: CS/AI/ML? Science Communication? Education? Comics? Puzzles? Paradoxes? Juggling & Games? Register for the "Art of Computing" workshop, a unique Walmart CSR Initiative, at IISc on Feb 17-18. Great food! Excellent talks! Please register (for

7

41

188

1

4

45

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

This is a nice collection of algorithmic applications of the principle of inclusion-exclusion: For even more examples, check out Section 10.1 here:

0

4

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

📣 Thrilled to announce that @lokshtanov will be @iitgn this winter to teach us randomized algorithms under the GIAN program. The event will be hybrid. Head over below for more details. You can even sign up for a reminder! Please RT🙌 @EduMinOfIndia

2

9

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

@mnwsth Looked like a theory person at a systems conference to me 😂

3

0

43

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 years

@3blue1brown There’s this:

Nilesh

@nileshtrivedi

4 years

Things we take for granted are often quite complex for beginners . Take counting for example. It's supposed to be really simple and easy, right? WRONG. Counting is one of the biggest source of programming errors. Consider this question:

8

87

499

3

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

1 year

Looking forward to these exciting talks, including one by @adagu , in the "History of Ideas" seminars! Mark your calendars for the afternoon (IST) of July 15th and register here: The seminar series is organized by Prof Sudipta Sarkar @iitgn . CC @cse_iitgn

2

7

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

4 years

A long-overdue project finally in the works... should be live soon! 🤞

4

0

43

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

11 months

As someone who’s identified as a loner for the most part, I’m currently discovering that I can, in fact, get away with bugging other people :) Having access to a safe space for freewheeling conversation is a joy and privilege in equal measure, and I’m so grateful for it.

0

1

44

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

Since there seems to be some interest here, I setup a forum to keep track of logistics. Many thanks to everyone who responded with interest, much appreciated! Link to sign up in the follow up post. Join code: matousek

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

7 months

Anyone interested in a reading group around “33 miniatures in linear algebra” starting this Sunday through end of Nov-ish? I’ll try to go over chapters around 10PM IST.

107

74

551

3

5

43

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Yay for being able to pick a YT handle: Not there is much in there yet, but the URL is nice to lock in regardless!

Neeldhara Misra

www.youtube.com

5

0

43

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

8 months

Reaching out to my advisor when I can't work something out...

Dan Wuori

@DanWuori

8 months

Sometimes the key to success is simply knowing the right tool for the job. Loving this little genius. 🎥 via baby_lovings on IG

165

3K

23K

1

2

42

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Oh well — no password managers for me, I’ve been using “forget password” like it’s 2FA 👀

Lance Fortnow

@fortnow

6 months

Bill needs a password manager.

0

6

2

41

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Here's a trick we learned today, look at the next one for spoilers.

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

5 months

Thanks for all the interest everyone: the Martin Gardner fan club energy is pretty strong 🤩 Very pleased to announce that Jyothi @ccl_iitgn will be walking us through a variety of nuggets from Gardner's writings. Mark your calendars for all weekdays in Jan 2024! Details: +

2

7

51

7

2

40

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

Works in Hindi too.

dan bach

@dansmath

2 years

Math Joke: I asked my German friend if he knew the square root of 81. He said no.

61

243

4K

2

4

39

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

2 years

When I was in grad school, I got a lot of well-meaning advice about going out more (e.g, a postdoc abroad, etc.). Turns out, it wasn't feasible for me at the time. With friends who had broader experiences, I had some first-order approximations of what I was missing out on. +

2

0

40

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

10 months

In a first for me, it's really nice to have educator access to @brilliantorg , which means I can share their materials with my class this term! Here are some ways educators use Brilliant: ...and I can't wait to try :)

How Educators use Brilliant | Notion

Brilliant is full of fun, challenging, and interactive content that will give your students the opportunity to think deeply and explore concepts. Brilliant is not meant to replace your core curricu...

brilliantorg.notion.site

4

0

40

Neeldhara 🐦|🐘

@neeldhara

6 months

Very tempted to steal this idea for at least one of my courses next term!

Ben Recht

@beenwrekt

6 months

I live-blogged my course this semester. It was the most rewarding experiment I’ve tried in my teaching. Would do again. 10/10.

3

6

162

0

39