Sasho Nikolov
@thesasho.bsky.social
Associate professor at U of Toronto. Computer science and math research: (differentially) private data analysis, geometry, discrepancy, optimization.
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I am recruiting PhD students at NYU Courant to conduct research in learning theory, algorithmic statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, starting Fall 2026. Please share widely! Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I am recruiting PhD students at NYU Courant to conduct research in learning theory, algorithmic statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, starting Fall 2026. Please share widely! Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025.
Me to my undergrad students: “Don’t submit 30 secs before the deadline. If you do, don’t complain you missed it.” Also me: pushing submit on a paper at 4:59pm, for a 5pm deadline.
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Me to my undergrad students: “Don’t submit 30 secs before the deadline. If you do, don’t complain you missed it.” Also me: pushing submit on a paper at 4:59pm, for a 5pm deadline.
I admit I didn't pay much attention to baseball till this year, although I have been to games. This was wild, and heartbreaking for Toronto. The World Series is not always this dramatic, is it? 18 inning games, wedged balls, being short of a win by a few inches in the last inning..
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I admit I didn't pay much attention to baseball till this year, although I have been to games. This was wild, and heartbreaking for Toronto. The World Series is not always this dramatic, is it? 18 inning games, wedged balls, being short of a win by a few inches in the last inning..
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The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
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Congratulation to Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Congratulation to Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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The great thing about parenting a toddler is that the rest of your day is easy after whatever you've been through by 9 am
September 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The great thing about parenting a toddler is that the rest of your day is easy after whatever you've been through by 9 am
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Exciting news from SRI!
We’re welcoming Michael Inzlicht & Avery Slater as new research leads for 2025–26! Alongside six continuing leaders, they’ll advance bold projects on AI safety, trust, fairness, creativity & more.
Learn more: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/eight-n...
#AI #UofT
We’re welcoming Michael Inzlicht & Avery Slater as new research leads for 2025–26! Alongside six continuing leaders, they’ll advance bold projects on AI safety, trust, fairness, creativity & more.
Learn more: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/eight-n...
#AI #UofT
Eight research leads drive SRI’s mission forward with new projects — Schwartz Reisman Institute
With two new appointments and six renewed roles, the Schwartz Reisman Institute ’s 2025–26 cohort of research leads will advance projects on trust, creative pedagogy, agentic AI, democratic fairness,...
srinstitute.utoronto.ca
September 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Exciting news from SRI!
We’re welcoming Michael Inzlicht & Avery Slater as new research leads for 2025–26! Alongside six continuing leaders, they’ll advance bold projects on AI safety, trust, fairness, creativity & more.
Learn more: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/eight-n...
#AI #UofT
We’re welcoming Michael Inzlicht & Avery Slater as new research leads for 2025–26! Alongside six continuing leaders, they’ll advance bold projects on AI safety, trust, fairness, creativity & more.
Learn more: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/eight-n...
#AI #UofT
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This is a good feed to have in the mixer. It shows all papers being shared by your follows
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August 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The owner of a giant dog that they had unleashed in a children’s playground just did the “but he’s friendly” to my wife and 4yo this morning. The “Please leash your dog at all times” signs are everywhere. This ad is not mean enough IMO.
August 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The owner of a giant dog that they had unleashed in a children’s playground just did the “but he’s friendly” to my wife and 4yo this morning. The “Please leash your dog at all times” signs are everywhere. This ad is not mean enough IMO.
To test a “quantum computing is impossible” argument, substitute “random bit” for “qubit”, and coins for cats, and see if it sounds silly. E.g.:
“N random coins are simultaneously heads/tails and do 2^N work for you to test if a number is prime? Extremely dubious”
See, it’s silly!
“N random coins are simultaneously heads/tails and do 2^N work for you to test if a number is prime? Extremely dubious”
See, it’s silly!
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To test a “quantum computing is impossible” argument, substitute “random bit” for “qubit”, and coins for cats, and see if it sounds silly. E.g.:
“N random coins are simultaneously heads/tails and do 2^N work for you to test if a number is prime? Extremely dubious”
See, it’s silly!
“N random coins are simultaneously heads/tails and do 2^N work for you to test if a number is prime? Extremely dubious”
See, it’s silly!
Great cringe comedy over at the other site.
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Great cringe comedy over at the other site.
Imagine you are in charge of a playground of 3 year olds, but they are each three meters tall and are throwing rocks at you. It wouldn’t be very hard for them to get around you.
Huh? On the bright side, at least Hinton didn’t garble the cringey AI mother analogy like he garbled whatever he was trying to say here.
August 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Imagine you are in charge of a playground of 3 year olds, but they are each three meters tall and are throwing rocks at you. It wouldn’t be very hard for them to get around you.
Here is an uplifting song in memory of the greatest that ever got chalk on his coat www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
July 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Here is an uplifting song in memory of the greatest that ever got chalk on his coat www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
Blasting Black Sabbath and remembering seeing them in Sofia in 2005.
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Blasting Black Sabbath and remembering seeing them in Sofia in 2005.
Spent the week at an AIM workshop on metric embedding in Caltech, and got to meet many of my mathematical heroes. Also had this view as inspiration.
July 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Spent the week at an AIM workshop on metric embedding in Caltech, and got to meet many of my mathematical heroes. Also had this view as inspiration.
It’s been 10 years (and 3 days) since I moved to Canada. Lots of things changed in my life in these 10 years, but meeting @theannasu.bsky.social and becoming a dad are the definite highlights!
July 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It’s been 10 years (and 3 days) since I moved to Canada. Lots of things changed in my life in these 10 years, but meeting @theannasu.bsky.social and becoming a dad are the definite highlights!
New profile photo taken by my 4yr old, I think he did a good job!
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New profile photo taken by my 4yr old, I think he did a good job!
Was reading a paper on my iPad while eating my lunch and the waitress asked if I was doing my homework. Been a while since I passed for a student!
June 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Was reading a paper on my iPad while eating my lunch and the waitress asked if I was doing my homework. Been a while since I passed for a student!
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It's a depressing time in Toronto - a city that once had the continent's most ambitious city-building initiative.
This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS:
1. RapidTO
2. GO Expansion
3. Ontario Line
Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵
This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS:
1. RapidTO
2. GO Expansion
3. Ontario Line
Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵
June 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's a depressing time in Toronto - a city that once had the continent's most ambitious city-building initiative.
This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS:
1. RapidTO
2. GO Expansion
3. Ontario Line
Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵
This transformation had 3 KEY PILLARS:
1. RapidTO
2. GO Expansion
3. Ontario Line
Two pillars have been watered down beyond recognition - DEVASTATING for the region. Here's why: 1/🧵
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Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan--
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
cs.unibocconi.eu
June 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan--
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
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It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2025! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2025! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year.
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The King St streetcar situation right now is a disaster, and it will be a disaster for the whole summer. I am experiencing real whiplash after riding the Tokyo public transit last week.
My @thestar.com column this week: Earlier this year, the TTC promised a new approach to handling construction detours on streetcar routes — one that would truly prioritize transit. They haven’t delivered.
A cautionary tale about too much compromise.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
A cautionary tale about too much compromise.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Matt Elliott: There was a better way — ‘transit hell’ from streetcar detour is a cautionary tale
The average speed of travel for transit riders along Toronto’s detoured 504 King streetcar route during service last Thursday was 3.7 km/h, according to GPS data.
www.thestar.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The King St streetcar situation right now is a disaster, and it will be a disaster for the whole summer. I am experiencing real whiplash after riding the Tokyo public transit last week.
Our Japan vacation with a preschooler has just been a train ride after train ride and he’s loving it!
May 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Our Japan vacation with a preschooler has just been a train ride after train ride and he’s loving it!
Христос Воскресе! Growing up in Bulgaria, Easter meant eating lots of boiled eggs and козунак (sweet eggy Easter bread). Sticking to that in Canada too.
April 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Христос Воскресе! Growing up in Bulgaria, Easter meant eating lots of boiled eggs and козунак (sweet eggy Easter bread). Sticking to that in Canada too.