Graham C

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Same in NHS

Will you visit in person?

Or Frankie-valli to his friends. Something something something, can't take my eyes off you.

All eduroads lead to eduroam

Surely "WMF! (There it is)"

But won't someone think of the golden ratio...?

I remember reading that someone tried to defang the personal comments by getting an LLM to read the feedback and pull out only the actionable items, without having to read them themself. I have taken this one step further by not looking at the comments at all.

Shorten the title to just "it's that man again"

I’m looking for postdocs and PhD students to join my group at Cambridge!

Topics include: Classical & Quantum Complexity, Sublinear Algorithms, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Learning Theory, and their interplay with Fourier Analysis & Additive Combinatorics.

To apply or inquire, email me your CV.

Jesus College

With @jesusoxford.bsky.social we are looking for a Professor of Statistics.

Become part of a historic institution and a community focused on academic excellence, innovative thinking, and significant practical application.

About the role: tinyurl.com/b8uy6mr5
Deadline: 15 September

To give you a draft of bullets to pick from or ignore

Surely that would be an appropriate use of LLMs in reviewing?

Going beyond reason...

Call it "auto-reflective ideation"

I feel doubly seen

Or just summertime sadness?

Playing video games?

Surely "Severn Samurai"?

(this is not necessarily a bad thing -the exam board applies a fixed set of rules to the module scores so there is no subjectivity or favouritism. Mitigating circumstances are handled by a subcommittee)

My institution has optimized this process by removing the need for academic judgement

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax

Them: What band are you in

Me: Erm, The Charlatans

Them: Your council tax band?

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Giuseppe Cannizzaro has won the 2025 Adams Prize for "his innovative contributions to stochastic partial differential equations." The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by Cambridge's Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers.
www.maths.cam.ac.uk/...

"There are gaps in the competence where the leadership gets in.."

And what about this strategy could not also be equally applicable to any other university?

But surely "fake bs" is actually... oh, nevermind

Inflict ideas on the next generation. The computer science cur- riculum is far more dynamic than, say, the mathematics curriculum, and it is still feasible to include research ideas in undergraduate classes. There may not be room to go in-depth on cutting edge ideas, but including a few results from the current century may help to keep students engaged. Sketches are a good exemplar for this, since the ideas can fit well into an algorithms or database class, and illustrate some of the underlying principles and concepts. A long-term benefit of this approach is that some students may just remember these ideas after graduation, and be motivated to make use of them in whatever career they choose to go in to. Write accessible notes, and put them where people can read them. While we may think of peer-reviewed academic publications as the medium for sharing research ideas, these are unfortunately not the place where practitioners will find them. You can have more reach by writing accessible notes addressing the software engineering community. For sketches, we made web pages and wrote articles in practitioner-focused journals. Today, you should consider making more use of platforms like medium and substack, and promoting posts via social media.

Very interesting (short) paper by Graham Cormode (@grahamrc.bsky.social), "Applications of Sketching and Pathways to Impact", using sketching algos as case study to see how to go from theory to—impactful—practice, and what to keep in mind in the process. (Small) sample below
doi.org/10.1145/3584...

Did John Graham require it to be so?

I have the same issue with A/Q and E/E. Not sure what you mean about the adrift clue.

Ah, I should look at the grid more carefully!