Well hello people! Long time no see.
I see there is not much going on in the forums anymore except in the geometry areas. I understand that "we kinda got it all right" for a variety of reasons.
However, I remember that the forum was much more than just 4D questions, and there were a wealth of random questions we liked to muse about and waste our time on.
So I wonder: since my last post here was like, ages ago (6 years, my god!) and a lot has happened in the meanwhile, what have people been up to?
For one, I finished high-school in my home city of Constanta, RO, circa 2010 and hit the admissions jackpot with a free spot in Some Old University in New Jersey. As my third year here comes to an end, I realize just how much I've learned in the meanwhile. I was just reading the posts on some old thread and PWrong said at some point "I forgot you don't know any calculus". Holy sift! Did I ever not know calculus!? I've also got a whole bunch of questions on my mind these days! Surely I'm not the only one here.
So, what's up?
Guess it's fair I started. What bugs me most these days are bandit problems - specifically, stochastic fixed budget. Spend 2 hours on http://www.princeton.edu/~sbubeck/pub.html for a good idea (he's one of my advisers for undergraduate research). I hope I could discuss some of those issues with you guys!