Eklavya Sharma

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Eklavya Sharma

Eklavya Sharma

@ekujupr

PhD student at UIUC, doing research in algorithms and game theory.

Urbana, Illinois, US Katılım Mart 2015
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Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi·
Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!
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@neeldhara Are there aspects of being a faculty member that you did not foresee when you joined, but which have had a significant impact on what your academic life is like?
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Neeldhara 🐦|🐘@neeldhara·
Clocked ten years at IITGN today :) Thinking of writing a retrospective of sorts, if you have any ideas for what you might find useful in such a reflection, let me know!
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V Vinay@ainvvy·
On Teacher's day, I usually recall a teacher who has had an impact on me. Today I want to remember my father. Recently, I was interacting with someone who was struggling to multiply some simple numbers, and immediately went to "I am bad at maths."
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@neeldhara I tried only one course on NPTEL: the Algorithms and Data Structures course by Prof. Naveen Garg. It's a great course. That was my first exposure to Algorithms. Fun fact: I was honored to have Prof. Naveen Garg on my masters thesis committee!
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Neeldhara 🐦|🐘@neeldhara·
Based on some of the responses to my NPTEL remark — thinking of curating some of my favorite courses from the platform. What are some of yours?
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Not adding `\usepackage{hyperref}` to a LaTeX document meant for publication should be criminalized.
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@JSTOR It took me a lot of time to access a paper on in-flight WiFi. I found that my browser had made 256 requests and transferred 8.5 MB even before I crossed the paywall (i.e., only the first page was visible). Why this inefficiency? What's going on in my browser?
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Gautam Kamath
Gautam Kamath@thegautamkamath·
Very nice and thoughtful post by Chhavi. Now also a guest post on my blog: kamathematics.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/gue…
Chhavi Yadav@chhaviyadav_

Upon graduation, I paused to reflect on what my PhD had truly taught me. Was it just how to write papers, respond to brutal reviewer comments, and survive without much sleep? Or did it leave a deeper imprint on me — beyond the metrics and milestones? Turns out, it did. A dissertation has its margins—blank spaces we don’t write in, but live through. That’s where the real transformation happens. This transformation is what I’ve tried to capture in a blog, "Margins of My Dissertation: Life Lessons My PhD Taught Me." It’s not necessarily a guide to academic success. It’s a personal account of what I really learned & carry with me for life. In it, I ask & Answer : Are we forgetting the human behind the author? Can we be rigorous and still be kind? Would I recommend a PhD to those considering it? Read on to find out. Link in the thread below 👇

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Eklavya Sharma@ekujupr·
@CNNnews18 Can I get a link to the original study? I want to know whether the study only shows correlation or also shows causation.
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News18@CNNnews18·
#Meditation | Mind-blowing research suggests meditation might actually reverse brain aging! A new study found long-term meditators had brains that appeared 6-10 years younger than their actual age. #WATCH more with Dr. Balachundhar Subramaniam, (@balachundhar ) Senior Author and @toyasingh @Sonal_MK
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@NeelNanda5 It worked better than I expected. Fruits started tasting sweeter, and I no longer had to 'fight' cravings. I guess cutting it out cold turkey, or gradually reducing the 'frequency' instead of the 'concentration' wouldn't have given the same results. (4/4)
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@NeelNanda5 The change was so gradual that I didn't notice much of a difference in taste, but my tongue slowly adapted its benchmark of what 'sweet' means. Now I can get the same sweetness with almost no added sugar. (3/n)
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Neel Nanda
Neel Nanda@NeelNanda5·
A recent dilemma: how to eat less sweet food but still have it in moderation? My solution: Have it with prob 2/3. Abiding by the RNG is far easier than resisting temptation! This is surprisingly general! Probabilistic dieting? Vegetarianism? Half the moral benefits, far easier
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@neeldhara @make_hq Yeah, I was wondering why make was listed with these other seemingly unrelated tools 😅 I haven't used xelatex or context or typst.
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Neeldhara 🐦|🐘@neeldhara·
@ekujupr I meant @make_hq, but I realize now that makefiles absolutely qualify in this context too! Do you use either context or xelatex? Also curious if you have given typst a spin :)
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Neeldhara 🐦|🐘@neeldhara·
What are some of your most used IFTTT/Make/Zapier/n8n workflows?
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Rishikesh Gajjala
Rishikesh Gajjala@publishiperishi·
Got legally married today! Interstate ✅ Intercaste ✅ Interlanguage ✅
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This web application works using a clever application of transitive closure. This saves us the trouble of considering all 21-choose-2 pairs of notions for each fair division setting manually. It was still a lot of work, though: 50 pages and ~80 theorems! (3/3)
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Eklavya Sharma@ekujupr·
Our new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2502.02815) is the most comprehensive study of relations among fair division concepts. In these pictures, there is a path from F1 to F2 *iff* every F1-fair allocation is also F2-fair. (1/3)
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It's great that these tools have been curated into a course, because their utility is often not apparent to the uninitiated. Somewhat surprisingly, even as a theoretical computer scientist, I find myself using these tools regularly!
Math Cafe@Riazi_Cafe_en

MIT's "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" The goal of this course is to make sure you're proficient with the tools you need in the other courses. That is: mastering command-line, version control, editor, ... missing.csail.mit.edu

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