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Tim Roughgarden

@Tim_Roughgarden

Head of Research @a16z. Prof @Columbia. Theoretical computer scientist. Educator. Wrote Algorithms Illuminated, 20 Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, etc.

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Valeria Nikolaenko(@lera_banda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When top-tier engineering team (Sam Ragsdale, moodle zoup, ncitron.eth) implements paradigm-shifting academic research (@arasuarun, Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler), the results ought to be and are ground-breaking. Open-sourced zkVM. Congrats to the team.

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Tim Roughgarden(@Tim_Roughgarden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fantastic choice. In addition to his many deep and influential results, Avi's tireless leadership over many decades has played a huge role in the enduring vitality of theoretical computer science community (e.g., without Avi, there'd be no Simons Institute)

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Tim Roughgarden(@Tim_Roughgarden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While we were co-teaching AGT, Jason Hartline handed me a paper and said, with his inimitable conviction, 'we need to understand this.'

That paper changed the trajectory of my research.

Which paper? You get one guess.

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a16z crypto(@a16zcrypto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In this explainer, Tim Roughgarden, Head of Research at a16z crypto, presents a new way to think about the cost side of providing liquidity in an AMM, which centers around a quantity called LVR (“loss versus rebalancing,” pronounced “lever”).

There are two types of

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Colin Camerer(@CFCamerer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Beautiful result…esp as multiple generations of brilliant auction theorists have produced so many other insightful powerhouse proofs.
Dutch auction was just there, not exactly sitting in darkness

Beautiful result…esp as multiple generations of brilliant auction theorists have produced so many other insightful powerhouse proofs. Dutch auction was just there, not exactly sitting in darkness
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Tim Roughgarden(@Tim_Roughgarden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Love this thread on the new origin story for the Dutch auction. Not least because Mohammad Akbarpour and Shengwu Li 's already-classic work on credible auctions was one of the primary inspirations for our paper!

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