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This post is a rewrite of my earlier blog post from Nov 2023 with new insights and updates.
When I was still a PhD student, under the supervision of Paul Vitányi , I thought of doing a thesis on the game of connect-4 . Instead, I ended up working on distributed computing problems, and many other topics in my PhD research, which resulted in this thesis .
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This post is a rewrite of my earlier blog post from Nov 2023 with new insights and updates.
A rewrite of this blog post with many new insights and updates appeared in Jan 2026