Lila Prime

No, not framing it for a crime. I just read the article A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters ...

I just finished writing a paper. It's part of my qualification for candidacy so it has some import; on the other hand, professors and s...

I just read Martin Schwartz's note "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." In simple language, it explains how ...

Today we celebrate our gluttonous excesses and the (late) harvest. It may interest you to know that one deadly sin (gluttony) leads to anot...

Another acceptance, at a big conference this time. Whoo! This post's theme word: convoke, "to call together for a meeting."

This month feels like an aggregation of small and irksome tasks -- emails to act upon, articles to read, travel to arrange, deeds to follow-...

It's just a workshop, but still: first acceptance. Yay. This post's theme word: legerdemain, "a slight of hand" or "...

Do you know anything about computing VC-dimension? Or about the Sauer-Shelah lemma? Both Wikipedia and the CC blog state the lemma in a w...

I just received my first paper rejection. Ah, well. We pick ourselves up and move along. This post's theme word: moirologist, "a ...

I gave a seminar today, entitled "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity." The abstract I provided: This week, I'll cover s...

I was sick last week, and now I feel swamped with the tasks before me. This post's theme word: coeval, "having the same age or dura...

At CCC (currently happening!), two of Steve Cook's students won awards. Former PhD Mark Braverman won best paper, and current PhD Akti...

I just finished reading Joshua Wolf Shenk's article "What Makes Us Happy?" from the Atlantic . It was interesting, for all sc...

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth. And by "mirth," I mean "enthusiasm for my current research proj...

I had no idea that today was a holiday. Lo! It is. My calendar told me so. It also told me that I had a meeting with my advisor this mor...

I am looking for a way to organize the academic papers that have, over the past year or so, accumulated in big snowdrifts across my desk and...

I don't like presenting my research. Not because it's unpleasant, but because I psych myself out beforehand and then shake during t...

That's the promising title of an email I found in my inbox this morning. Unfortunately, it was spam: WHAT A GREAT IDEA! We provide a co...

This morning, after a long writing and revision period, my advisor (S.) declared my M. Sc. thesis research paper officially dead done. W...

I'm putting my intertubes embargo on hold for a few hours this afternoon, because (1) I am worried that something important might be go...