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I'm not sure whether I'm taking too seriously something intended as a joke, but this in fact can conceivably be useful! When studying mathematical problems, sometimes you have a nu…

I think this APC system is terrible -- it's enshrining the principle that publication in ACM venues is only open to researchers in institutions that are rich enough to cover the pu…

Can you be more specific about what you are referring to?

About the 2% figure: many things are insignificant in terms of climate change if you narrow down on them. Also, this 2% figure of the share of air travel is projected to increase, …

Interesting! It looks like this is called the "Gyárfás tree packing conjecture".

This came from a database theory study about queries on graphs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517804.3524149 for the paywalled version, https://www.theoinf.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/d…

Yes, ChatGPT is really bad at those things...

The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is…

As much as I think that Wikipedia notability guidelines are way too strict, I'm wondering -- is it necessarily a bad thing for editor communities to split off and create separate s…

Sorry, I don't understand this discussion about gender. If someone on the internet desires to be referred to as "he" and "him", or "she" and "her", then you do it, no? How is gende…

> Bug reports or questions generally do not require mentioning your race, ethnicity, nationality or identity preferences Sure, but pronouns? If someone refers to you using the wron…

Unfortunately it seems that "be excellent to each other" is not specific enough to be understood by everyone. E.g., "address people using the name and gender that they use to refer…

> can't imagine what a "victim of harrasment" for such a thing would look like Well, Drew's article gives a concrete example of a victim. But beyond this specific article, it is no…

This is not really correct -- it is not true, for example, in many of the national parks in which people typically hike.

Not all of them do: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access which charge neither readers nor authors. In TCS, see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Methods…

It looks like there are research works trying to define precisely this notion of existential risk in the context of climate change, see e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.10…

This is an interesting article but it contributes a bit to terminological confusion about reviewing modes. First, the article talks about "double-blind reviewing" as being "logisti…

There is in fact already significant industrial use of hydrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#Use_of_hyd... -- independently from the use case of replacing foss…

No, there was indeed a problem in the CSS, I'm not sure what happened. It is now fixed. Sorry about that!

The nickname is related to my real name, but I'll let you guess how. ;)

Thanks for the pointer to https://qntm.org/tetris -- that's very relevant, I'll add it to the post.

Further, for metric TSP, an approximation algorithm with a slightly better ratio was found, and received a best paper award at STOC'21. See the second paragraph of https://en.wikip…