Panos Louridas

Happy to read in October's Scientific American @LucyTTu's review of my Cryptography book mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549028/…: "In just five chapters... cracks the code on distilling an intimidating smorgasbord of topics into a digestible and delightful package." scientificamerican.com/article/book-r…

The first LLM for Greek is here: medium.com/institute-for-…

Our work "Leveraging Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation", with Delivery Hero Research, TUDelft, University of Klagenfurt, has been accepted and presented at RecSys '23, the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: arxiv.org/abs/2309.09261

Happy to learn that my book Algorithms (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539029/…) has been translated to Spanish and will now be translated to Turkish; my other book Real-World Algorithms: A Beginners Guide (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262035705/…) will be translated to Japanese.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics? @kdritsa presents our work on Greek Parliament Proceedings (semantic shift, evolution, model stability) at NeurIPS nips.cc/virtual/2022/s…; preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2210.12883. Congrats to the whole team @KaitiThoma @itpavlopoulos.

Just arrived, my Algorithms book in Japanese.

Regarding SCOTUS: "The ones who exercise authority are not those who elect and vote but those who rule", Stalin, Pravda, Jan 17-18, 1918.

Samuel Beckett and Gray codes (to exercise your programming skills): louridas.github.io/rwa/assignment…

To exercise programming skills: hitting objects and covering points louridas.github.io/rwa/assignment…

To exercise programming skills: regular crosswords louridas.github.io/rwa/assignment…

@nkorfiatis Δίπλα στο παλιό.

@louridas Παγκράτι ?

OK, this will be understood only by Greeks, or even Athenians, of a certain age: after some decades, the incomparable Lentzos Frappé coffee is available again. Best in the world.

The i-frame and the s-frame, why the focus on nudges, quick wins, and individuals, must be complemented by systemic changes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Excellent reading to question what we may take for granted: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_…; a reminder that an "is" does not imply an "ought", especially if it "was not".

@AnnaLysyanskaya I have been responsible for the implementation in Greece and took part in the design and preparation, I may be able to help.

Does anyone have a rec for a person who is familiar with how the EU implemented vaccine credentials and who can comment on the underlying cryptographic schemes and answer students' questions about the specifics? Please respond or DM.

Some good news, my book Algorithms mitpress.mit.edu/books/algorith… is to be translated into Arabic. Kind of special, considering the word comes from al-Khwārizmī :-)

omicron in Greek literally means "little o". I do hope it will be that.

Glad to learn that my book Algorithms mitpress.mit.edu/books/algorith… is to be translated to Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, and Russian.

Our work with @CoolSWEng "Conspicuous Corruption: Evidence at a Country Level" has been published at PLOS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/articl….