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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3h

October 16 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=152405

October 16 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: "Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Election" #ELB

Thursday, October 16 Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Elections (webinar) 12:15pm-1:15pm PTRegister here.Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School, Moon Duchin, Director, Data...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Thomas Rothvoss and Lang Liu, the inaugural winners of the Trevisan Prize at Bocconi University.

cs.unibocconi.eu/trevisan-pri...

Trevisan Prize 2025 – Winners

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 7d

Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · 7d

TIL that Fruit Bats redid the entire Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream youtu.be/E8jDhs5MuvE?...

Rocket

YouTube video by Fruit Bats - Topic

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · 8d

“Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.”

nutritionfacts.org/video/do-not...

Do Not Eat Pawpaws | NutritionFacts.org

Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.

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Chris Kenny, PhD @chriskenny.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, I have fair point. I do all of my journal writing in Quarto, so that I can swap between formats, which lets me write Quarto => Typst. If a journal requires LaTeX, you just swap the engine and Quarto produces the LaTeX file.

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · 12d

The journals that I normally submit to will often accept pdf files for the review process, but want .tex source files once the paper is accepted 🫠 Have you dealt with that before?

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · 19d

When did HGTV hire Xzibit?

Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · 25d

Reminded me of a story from one of von Neumann’s biographies farkasdilemma.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...

John von Neumann’s dog

From page 311 of Norman Macrae’s biography of John Von Neumann: Johnny then appointed Julian Bigelow as chief engineer after an interview that caught some of the mood of the project. It is re…

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 30

On INFORMS Connect, Austin Saragih (MIT) advertised their new Python package (SCGraph) for accurate distances and shortest paths in *real* road networks (and rail, maritime, multimodal). #orms

Getting Started: github.com/connor-makowski/scgraph
Paper and Tutorial: ssrn.com/abstract=5388845

SCGraph: A Dependency-Free Python Package for Road, Rail, and Maritime Shortest Path Routing Generation and Distance Estimation

SCGraph (Supply Chain Graph) is a dependency-free Python toolkit that provides fully offline, accurate multimodal routing and network-based distance estimation

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 23

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue

Demagogue - Wikipedia

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 23

Do you know of any lawsuit that successfully used this argument regarding a mid-decade redraw?

Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Don’t know why the link isn’t working but this is the episode

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wondering if they got their inspiration from this Bob’s Burgers episode.. bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/P.T.A._...

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 10

“The radium water worked fine until his jaw came off”.

WSJ article from 1990 about Eben Byers:
www.scribd.com/document/188...

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The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Fell Off | PDF | Radiation Therapy | Radioactivity

WSJ story about the 1932 death of pro golfer and industrialist Eben Byers, who suffered progressive radium poisoning.

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Staying sane on the tenure track” by Shane Henderson. Written in 2008 but still good advice for junior faculty. people.orie.cornell.edu/shane/pubs/S... #orms

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 1

Bethune-Hill anyone?

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 28

“It was carefully submitted as by A.H. Land and A.G. Doig with no indication whatever that we were both women.”

Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · Jul 27

There is a podcast interview with her! Props to @optima-arc.bsky.social for recording this important history

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 27

All about Markov chains #orms

Veritasium @veritasium.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Russian Math Behind Google's Trillion Dollar Algorithm

Watch our latest video in full on YouTube
youtu.be/KZeIEiBrT_w

The Russian Math Behind Google's Trillion Dollar Algorithm

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · Jul 27

This story of the discovery of Alison Doig the person is wild

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/cel...

The first author of that paper was his own supervisor, Ailsa Land, who was still at the London School of Economics. But he did not know what had become of the second author. “All I know is that she was Australian and that she shares your name,” Gilbert said to me.

Many years later, I started teaching optimisation (and her own branch-and-bound method) at the University of Melbourne. I always mentioned the mystery of this Australian woman who was my namesake and who had disappeared after publishing such an influential paper.

After one of these classes, a student approached me and said, “Professor, there’s a tutor here named Alison. Maybe it’s her.”

With little hope, I looked into it, and to my surprise, the tutor was indeed Alison Doig, now Alison Harcourt. My desire was to run, knock on each one of my colleagues’ doors and ask: “Do you know who that woman is?”.

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 27

This part stuck out too

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 20

Texas was already arguably the biggest Republican gerrymander in the nation, according to this PNAS paper by @chriskenny.bsky.social @corymccartan.com @simko.bsky.social @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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ArXiv math.OC Optimization and Control @optb0t.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper

Title: Implied Integrality in Mixed-Integer Optimization
Authors: Rolf van der Hulst, Matthias Walter

Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07209

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Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Important to note their local search neighborhood. It is not just adding a single vertex (if so, the problem for independent sets is easy—build two maximal ind sets, one from each endpoint of an edge). Rather, it is about dropping one vertex and adding two others

Austin Buchanan @austinlbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 11

“We show that computing two locally optimal solutions is NP-hard for various natural unweighted local search problems, including Maximum Independent Set, Minimum Dominating Set, Max SAT, and Max Cut.”

arXiv cs.DS Data Structures and Algorithms @csds-bot.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yasuaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, Yutaro Yamaguchi: Finding One Local Optimum Is Easy -- But What about Two? https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07524 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07524 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07524

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