What else could possibly be more important?
A few weeks ago I heard the TED radio hour with NPR’s Guy Raz. The speaker was MIT’s Physicist Allan Adams. I heard an enthused and sincere-sounding speaker [...]
Tips by Ashish Goel
Next on our advice-sharing project, Ashish Goel shares advice he got and advice he gives. I was really excited about a new approach to decision [...]
Donald Knuth – On Writing up Research
Previously on this blog, Don Knuth gave advice on doing research, as part of our shared-tips project. This time, he is sharing some of his view on writing up research. Of [...]
Li-Yang Tan: “lock in” seemingly small progress
Continuing with our advice-sharing project, Li-Yang Tan shares with us an excellent research habit. Would you share habits that work for you? For me, one of the most [...]
Joan Feigenbaum – not the Best, but Good Enough
The next installment of our sharing-advice project. For the ten colleges who only hire “the best in five years” and for all of us as well. Just a few weeks ago, I [...]
Code of Conduct for TOC
If you haven’t read the important and heart wrenching post by a brave female theoretician about sexual harassment and rape as part of her academic life in our community, [...]
Testing Juntas (or “Avoiding the Curse of Irrelevant Dimensionality”)
Juntas (or, with more words, “functions of few relevant attributes”) are a central concept in computational learning theory, analysis of Boolean functions, and [...]
Oded Golreich: Take Yourself Seriously
The next installment of our sharing-advice project is dedicated to advice by Oded Goldreich. But Oded didn’t wait for this project to share his advice and has been [...]
Christos H. Papadimitriou: on travel commitments and research focus
The next installment of our shared advice project is devoted to Christos H. Papadimitriou through his contribution and the contribution of Aviad Rubinstein. From Christos: [...]
Donald Knuth – On Doing Research
As a Stanford-based research blog, it is very fitting that we will start our shared-tips project with Don Knuth. We will split his advice to (at least) three posts (too much [...]
Theory Dish 