Thomas Spooner Ⓥ

HFT/Quant, Rust, RL PhD. Opinions my own.

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

Delighted to say I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday on "Britain's Secret Wars in Colombia, 1948-2009".

Thank you to everyone who has supported and helped me along the way.

[Rahul Savani @rahul__savani]

2-year Postdoc. Come & work with us & @turinginst

on Game Theory (GT), Equilibrium Computation, Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Policy Space Response Oracles, and the Gambit Project (software tools for GT,
@thegambitproj):

https://t.co/9PNYtM5fcR

https://t.co/jzclQYkUCC

[Rahul Savani @rahul__savani]

2-year postdoc position on our EPSRC project on TFNP, which builds on our STOC 2021 best paper showing that CLS = PPAD ∩ PLS.

START DATE: 1st Jan 2024.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3rd Oct 2023.
https://t.co/27E0ZVBSpw

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Water privatisation is a con.

(Location: Thames Water HQ)

[Thomas Spooner Ⓥ @tl_spooner]

I did a thing: https://t.co/DvTdv0QgKi

[Leo Ardon @leoardon_]

Excited to share our @aamas2023 paper: "Phantom: An RL-Driven Framework for Agent-Based Modeling! Phantom bridges the gap between #ABM and #MARL, enabling the study of complex multi-agent systems.
Come and meet us at the conference on June 2.

https://t.co/DuAGYDrnIu

[Thomas Spooner Ⓥ @tl_spooner]

@MarcRigter @j_foerst @AvivTamar1 @hawesie Congratulations Marc!! Well deserved

[Christoph Molnar 🦋 christophmolnar.bsky.social @ChristophMolnar]

I write my books with vim.

Why tough?

While there are many good reasons to use Vim for book writing, one stands out: I don't know how to exit Vim.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Conservative MPs, this is what you’d be voting for

[Mete Coban @metecoban92]

Not going to lie, this brings back trauma.

When my family first received a notice to be deported back to Cyprus, my mum would hide my brother and me at family friends' houses in fear that the UK border agency would come knocking on our door.

Your dream was my nightmare.

[Argyris_Deligkas @deligkas]

In our new paper "Pure-Circuit: Strong Inapproximability for PPAD" https://t.co/0S4ABFJYCJ, with John Fearnley, Alexandros Hollender, and Themistoklis Melissourgos, we have introduced a novel technique for proving *strong* PPAD-hardness results.

[Argyris_Deligkas @deligkas]

Super-excited! Tiger-Lily presented her first paper at @IJCAIconf!! What's even better, is that Tiger-Lily is a CS undergrad student at @RoyalHolloway!!

[Marc Rigter @MarcRigter]

Feel like the world is out to get you? Our reinforcement learning agents can relate.

In our new work, RAMBO, we adversarially train a model of the world to generate pessimistic synthetic data for offline RL: https://t.co/UrG2bmc9Fr

Work with Bruno Lacerda and
@hawesie

[Frans Oliehoek @faoliehoek]

Today, Jacopo Castellini succesfully defended his thesis in his viva. Very proud of my first (and last) @LivUni_CompSci Phd student! Well done Jacopo!

(and also congrats to my co-supervisor @rahul__savani !)

[Thomas Spooner Ⓥ @tl_spooner]

@SuauMiguel Congratulations Miguel!

[Thomas Spooner Ⓥ @tl_spooner]

@dan_w_ley @Harvard @hseas @hima_lakkaraju @umangsbhatt @adrian_weller @DanMagazzeni @lenachossss Congratulations Dan - best of luck!

[Rahul Savani @rahul__savani]

3-year postdoc position for our new EPSRC project on TFNP, which will build on our STOC 2021 best paper showing that CLS = PPAD ∩ PLS.

START DATE: 1st Sept 2022.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th May 2022.
https://t.co/jhJr4dJIC3

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

So @pritipatel hasn’t even turned up for Urgent Question after yesterday’s day of chaos, confusion & wrong information from her on cruel & unjust policy on 🇺🇦 refugees - what an insult to those fleeing Putin’s horror- she needs to give answers & to step up with visa waivers now

[Miguel Suau @SuauMiguel]

Excited to share our new preprint: Influence-Augmented Local Simulators https://t.co/GPdjpjL1gK. We show how to build lightweight simulators of large networked systems that can be used to speed up Deep RL. Joint work with @jinke_he, Matthijs Spaan, and @faoliehoek.