Mathieu Besançon

Another missed opportunity after *check notes* the first and second Ukraine wars, Georgia, Irak...

Je pensais avoir un quartier de gauche, et j'ai regardé les affiches de ma rue 😭

Super curious to see the final slide deck if you make it public!

Inria (sadly not here yet) will be preparing candidates for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Program scholarships.
The institute also centralized a whole list of hosting teams (including GHOST, mine!) with potential topics:
www.inria.fr/en/marie-skl...

It's not so much against the tool itself, it's more like everyone seems to focus on designing better and better hammers because they're conceptually appealing while home improvement people are left with screwdriver models from the 90s

Which operation do you have in mind?

Les Grenoblois quand les Lyonnais viennent en rando en chaussures bateau et chino

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against doing that theoretical upper bound research. The drama is that I struggle to find real improvements to maxflow (or more generally flow?) algorithms that came from this theoretical progress. Isn't that one role that theoretical algorithmic should fill?

Hi XYZ, I found your paper with the smart algorithm for problem blah and wanted to implement it for my hard blah instances
TCS people looking at each other whispering "he... He doesn't know"

And yes, this is brought to you by maxflow

Galactic Algorithms Algorithms with huge running times David Johnson is a renown computer theorist who was awarded the 2009 Knuth Prize, for his seminal contributions to theory. He is famous for: his many great papers…

Related, today I learned about the phrase "galactic algorithms": rjlipton.com/2010/10/23/g... which exactly describes that: the whole zoo of "algorithms" that will never be useful if one needs to solve instances of the problem they are addressing

<academic rant>
I am always amazed and annoyed at the same time that there is a research field of "algorithms" in which you need to spend an enormous amount of time to understand if any new method has a slim chance of ever being run

Le confort est pas aussi bon mais je prenais souvent le bus entre les deux c'était pas aussi long que le train était cher 🫣

Le fameux "Les jeux vidéos sont un objet culturel" is lava

Early Christmas for MIP folks!

The SCIP 10 optimization suite has many new interesting features and is fully open source. For binaries and downloads, check www.scipopt.org/index.php#do...

* Scrambles through parents' house to find the last laptop where I installed a Matlab version *

I got hyped and then read the last line 😑

Probably my lazy french brain but some journal allowing delays in paper reviews for "exceptional personal circumstances (e.g. vacation)" gets my teeth grinding hard 😬
Of course with 3 vacation days per year I guess that falls into exceptional

Barely have a permanent position and already called old by the new generation, academia is brutal

Assumebly it was a very cool one, I was bummed to have a calendar conflict!

Do Massy and Marne-la-Vallée count or does it need to be a larger region?

Already failed just yesterday 🥲

Or call your models 1B with high sparsity?

For one paper sure, but the point is also the person learning the correct spelling no?

The only reason would be on the first paper of a grad student so they learn the errors they do (I just saw today the same word spelled incorrectly a bunch of times)

It's even the case for US faculty, the University salary typically doesn't cover summer (although it's typically covered by grants)

Isn't three days from the deadline when everything happens?

Bientôt les belles polaires bleues du LIG après la fusion?

Well not really, if I understand they get the manuscript at different stages (from early draft to final submission)