
Laurent Lessard
@LaurentLessard
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Associate Professor of MIE @Northeastern. Interested in control theory, optimization, math, and puzzles. The glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
Boston, MA
Joined April 2009
My contribution to the #Wordle discourse, with help from @VincentTjeng and @evanrsparks. A definitive look at the game: insights, heuristics, optimal strategies, and the limits of what is possible.
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"Deadlines are final and no extensions will be given". You got me @IEEECDC2025 --- I totally fell for it! Happy April Fools everybody!.
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RT @DjDvij: Can your AI keep up with dynamic attackers? In a paper to appear at #AISTATS2025 with @avibose22 @LaurentLessard and Maryam Faz….
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This week's #Fiddler puzzle is a random walk: From (k), you hop to (k-1) with probability 1/k and hop to (k+1) otherwise. If you start at (2), what is the probability you eventually hop to (1)?. I wrote a short tutorial here:.
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Hey @AerLingus I'm on a flight from Dublin to Boston and we've been stuck on the tarmac at @loganairports after landing for TWO HOURS (and counting). Apparently other planes are being de-iced which is preventing us from deplaning. .
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RT @LarsLindemann2: Great pleasure of hosting @LaurentLessard at USC who spoke about "An automatic system to detect equivalence between ite….
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