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My latest post on this blog was on December 30th 2019. It seems like a lifetime away. The rate at which paradigm shifting events have been happening in 2020 is staggering. And it might very well be that the worst … Continue reading →

I started out this decade with the project of writing a survey of the multi-armed bandit literature, which I had read thoroughly during the graduate studies that I was about to finish. At the time we resisted the temptation to … Continue reading →

It has been a year since the tragic event of September 2017. We now know what happened, and it is a tremendously sad story of undiagnosed type 1 diabetes. This summer at MSR Michael was still very present in our … Continue reading →

This is an incredibly difficult post to write. Michael Benjamin Cohen, an amazing student and person passed away this week in Berkeley. Below is the official MSR statement (where he spent the summer together with many friends) and some personal … Continue reading →

This post is targeted at prospective graduate students, especially foreigners from outside the US, who are primarily interested in optimization but also have a taste for probability theory (basically readers of this blog!). As a foreigner myself I remember that … Continue reading →

This post is a continuation of the previous one, where we explored how to detect geometry in a random geometric graph. We now consider the other side of the coin: when is it impossible to detect geometry and what are … Continue reading →

This is a one-sentence post for the set {blog followers}\{Twitter/Facebook followers} to advertise the COLT 2016 videos which have just been posted!

A year ago I started this blog. I did not expect this experience to be so rewarding. For instance seeing weeks after the weeks the growing interest for the optimization posts gave me the stamina to pursue this endaveor to … Continue reading →

The videos for COLT 2013 were just published on videolectures.net. The videos for ICML 2013 are also available on TechTalks.tv.