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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 1d

Last time I was there, Hagia Sophia was a museum. Even that's changed now.

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Robinson College, Cambridge @robinsoncollege.bsky.social · 3d

Assisted Memories: Have Your cake and Eat It

Using a simple model for defective memories, Professor Lapidoth will demonstrate some of Shannon’s key theorems on Data Compression & Channel Coding, at the heart of Information Theory

Tues 28 Oct 6pm Robinson College

shorturl.at/Xe3c6
@eng.cam.ac.uk

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 3d

Cambridge is recruiting Assistant/Associate Professors in Theoretical Computer Science. #TCS #AcademicJobs

Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Contact me for informal inquiries. See more details and apply here:
www.cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be there!

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 14d

I do wonder which experts CNN asked and what they actually said.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations, Cecilia!

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 16d

Cambridge University is recruiting for a new faculty position in the area of Algorithms and Complexity:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

University Assistant/Associate Professor in Algorithms and Complexity

The Department of Computer Science and Technology is seeking to recruit a new faculty member at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor level who will contribute to research and teaching in

www.cam.ac.uk

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 17d

If you want metric, why are you counting feet? You mean 0.3048 metres.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 20d

Niklaus Wirth (of Pascal fame) reportedly once said that Americans pronounced his name "nickle's worth". So, while Europeans called him by name, Americans called him by value.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 22d

I used to do that. Until one day I carried a very heavy load on one shoulder and ended up with a really painful trapped nerve in my neck. Now I always use both straps.

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 24d

Be part of a vibrant academic tradition! 🌍 FoLLI is seeking hosts for #ESSLLI2027, the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
@ESSLLI_official

Bring 300+ students & researchers to your institution. Preliminary proposals by Nov 15! jakubszymanik.com/call-for-pro...

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 27d

I like the thought. The word certainly has a lovely undulating sound to it. But it seems unlikely (with my pedant's hat on). Undulate comes from the Latin diminutive of wave (unda). I don't think the -la- in Sanskrit has that diminutive sense.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · 29d

Fascinating. I look forward to revisiting the National Museum and seeing if they reflect the latest research.
nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/en

National Museum, New Delhi

Wooden book cover showcasing the three different scenes under three arches.

nationalmuseumindia.gov.in

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm sure the account attributing this to the Bactrians was the standard story when I looked at the collection in the National Museum in Delhi twenty-odd years ago. When did it change?

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Sep 10

One thing I learned was that the Hellenic-style Gandhara Buddhas are not the result of skills preserved by Bactrian Greeks but the product of active trade between the Roman and Kushan empires.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Sep 10

Over the summer holidays I had the chance to read William Dalrymple's The Golden Road which has been sitting on my to-read pile for too long. A thoroughly enjoyable read, like all of @willdalrymple.bsky.social's books. I highly recommend it. I do have a question, though.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hardcopy arrived today.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Sep 4

The one in Syracuse? One of my favourite buildings.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Read more here: www.nasa.gov/missions/cha...

NASA's Chandra Reveals Star's Inner Conflict Before Explosion - NASA

The inside of a star turned on itself before it spectacularly exploded, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Today, this shattered

www.nasa.gov

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today I discovered that my contribution to Janos Makowsky's festschrift is online:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Linear Algebraic Quantifiers

The long-standing research question of whether there is a logic expressing exactly the polynomial-time decidable properties of finite structures has motivated, in recent years, the exploration of logi...

link.springer.com

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ah! Well done.

Scroll @scroll.in · Aug 25

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymala Bagchi also quashed all the proceedings in a second FIR against #AliKhanMahmudabad. The court said that no charges should be framed against him.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10858...

#ashokauniversity #OperationSindoor

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 20

More interestingly, I looked in the preface for a name for this style and he calls it "programmed instruction". It was a big thing in the 70s. Google it and you'll find other textbooks from the time like this, on lots of topics.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now I can give you a more complete reply, @neeldhara.bsky.social. The chess book I was thinking of is Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor by Edward Lasker. Here is a sample of the interactive style.

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 18

#PressFreedom

Scroll @scroll.in · Aug 18

Ankur Jain, the joint commissioner of police in Guwahati, told Scroll that the summons was issued as the Supreme Court order had come on a case filed in “some other district”.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10856...

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Anuj Dawar अनुज दावर انُج داور @anujdawar.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is new work with my PhD student Aidan Evans. We obtain an algebraic characterization of the complexity NC1 using typed monoids. The proof is based on arity reduction of quantifiers for regular languages.

arXiv cs.LO Logic in Computer Science @cslo-bot.bsky.social · Aug 18

Anuj Dawar, Aidan T. Evans: Characterizing NC1 with Typed Monoids https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11019 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11019 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.11019

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