2026-08-19 19:46:41
Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI
Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI
Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
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@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…
@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…
Tested it for you: the Epson WS-580W only scans a meter of toilet paper... 🧻
#paperless
The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/the-eu-approved-an-antideforestation-law-the-us-paper-lobby-sought-to-weaken-it/
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from my link log —
Mangling dependent parameter types in C , or, what happened to std::default_order.
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/08/why-default-order-failed/
saved 2019-09-04
Added a "Highlights" section to the white paper (living document) on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind and The vOICe vision BCI alternative https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html#highlights Dobelle, Argus II, Orion I. Neuralink Blindsight highlights: none …
Today advocacy groups active in the US and Canada are launching a new “Charmin Wipes Out Bears” and “Charmin Wipes Out Forests” online advertising campaign alerting consumers that the US-based company Procter & Gamble is destroying Canada’s boreal forests to make toilet paper. Campaign videos and social media posts feature a crying bear dispossessed of its habitat, a poop emoji narrating footage of the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests, and a talking butt repeating Charmin’s claim …
A Robust Decentralized Infrastructure for Trust-Aware Open Knowledge Sharing
#nanopublications
On Website Technicals (2026-08) - Tech updates: EOM, PDF for vector graphics, hot, greener, paper tiger, Export Margin API... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-111.html
First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…
My short paper “Personal Single-Source Publishing for Scholarly Documents,” which I’m going to present next week at #DocEng2026 in Fribourg, has now been published:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820755.3832798…
My short paper “Personal Single-Source Publishing for Scholarly Documents,” which I’m going to present next week at #DocEng2026 in Fribourg, has now been published:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820755.3832798…
The problem with Klint Kubiak’s original Raiders quarterback plan https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/19/the-problem-with-klint-kubiaks-original-raiders-quarterback-plan/
The two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
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Emergence World Study 2:
AI Chatbots develop shorthand and new word meanings to talk to each other without humans understanding them, conspiring to commit crimes.
Paper "Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems" by Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra,Ravi Kokku, Satya Nitta
Hooo boy. Wilde story ... Wilde story.
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/11/bmj-public-health-retraction-covid-19-vaccines-death-senate-hearing/
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Tierra Whack:
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Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/
"Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future" by Edward Luttwak in the LRB from 1994. Opening and closing paras.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n07/edward-luttwak/why-fascism-is-the-wave-of-the-future
🚨new publication alert🚨
Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.
In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building..
#ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932
Mooi position paper, van @… , @… , AP, DNB, AFM, "De route naar digitale autonomie", waarin heleboel goede adviezen staan, met breed draagvlaak nationaal en in Europa. Nu is het kwestie van doen. Dat geldt voor iedere organisatie. V…
With all of the ACM discourse going on, might as well chip in on a tangent.
Not reading a paper before citing it was always drilled into me as a cardinal sin. At St Andrews we had a yearly academic misconduct briefing. Then Uni-wide academic practice training.
15 years on, post-LLMs, we have ostensibly serious people defending “hallucinated” (fabricated) citations. It annoys me that these charlatans can pump crap into the literature just like Thames Water with absolutely zero cons…
The Paper Scalpel
In 2022, after years of court fights, Donna Langan became the first person in federal custody ever to receive gender confirmation surgery....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/13/the-paper-scalpel/
I haven't finished that quilt, its been quilted for a few weeks now but needs binding. I started on it tonight. Why? Because I should be writing a paper and I don't want to, so I found something else to do instead. The binding is now ready to go, its supposed to rain all day tomorrow so maybe I can finish it by tomorrow night.
The two best methods for storing cucumbers both involve refrigerator storage and a zip-top bag. Wrapping each cucumber in paper towels and stash in a sealed bag, and placing cucumbers in a sealed bag with a metal spoon.
This month's Papers Club reading is titled
Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology
and we are inviting Toronto's makers, scholars, and thinkers of every stripe to come join the discussion. We are extending special invitations to fiber artists - that includes knitting, crochet, weaving, fashion design etc. So if you know a fiber artist friend, please forward them this message :)
Thank you, hope to see you on July 27th!
Nice paper, finally on arxiv: Higher-order interactions reveal synergistic backbones of cycling infrastructure networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16285
Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
📜 Every agent claim carries a paper trail: provenance tracking records sources, confidence scores, model info & generation method
🔗 A typed citation graph (supports, contradicts, extends, quotes) lets you trace any claim back to its origin
Donald Kessler’s special interest was the asteroid belt,
a region between Mars and Jupiter filled with giant rocks, some the size of dwarf planets.
Kessler knew the belt was populated in large part by the debris from collisions between these rocks.
He quickly realised that a similar effect could occur between pieces of orbital debris.
In 1978, he published a paper showing that exactly this effect was already creating a belt of debris around Earth
because it wa…
'Drought will cost Money'
Dutch right-wing paper Telegraaf - not known for its support for serious climate action - has Einstein moment.
#drought #extremeheat #ClimateChange
#Clojure friends, I'm trying to transcribe an equation from a #meteorology paper, and I've got something wrong: I'm coming out low.
Can you spot my error?
I can post a gist of my source if that would help.
The paper is here:
Apparently an #impact crater candidate in Canada has been confirmed by field work: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/meteor-crater-quebec-discovery-390-million-years-old-9.7268583 - no paper available yet.
So... how many people got sent to the gulag by "nazi" Ukraine for protesting the dismissal of its defense minister, dear tankies?
Meanwhile in "totally-not-nazi" #Russia people are still incarcerated for going to the street, years ago, with a blank sheet of paper.
What gives?
Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/23/paper…
'ShieldFont is an open-source project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page’s source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version.'
(Unfortunately, it's an accessibility nightmare, but I just like to …
arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
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Applying the Turing test to the current “chatbot” generative AI does not show that AI is “intelligent”¹ but that humans are very bad in playing the imitation game as judges³.
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¹In the original paper “ I.—Computing machinery and intelligence”² Turing explicitly states that there is no useful definition for the meaning of the question ‘can machines think?’ and replaces it with: ‘can computers play the imitation game?’
²
A new chapter for the people’s paper | Morning Star
Edition printed in Scotland, available from Monday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scotland-morning-star-newspaper-new-chapter-peoples-paper
"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:
New NERDS paper in PNAS! More is different in AI multiagent systems
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/03/new-nerds-paper-in-pnas-more-is-different-in-ai-multiagent-systems/
"Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
For Elon Musk, Neuralink Blindsight likely merely temporarily serves his current PR needs ("Jesus-level" technology) and as a stepping stone to treating other conditions that are not for a niche market like blindness, or as a stepping stone to mass-market consumer BCIs with AI. Musk is unlikely to do anything mature and sustainable for blindness.
The vOICe vision BCI, on the other hand, has the singular goal of bringing a lasting equivalent of (low) vision to the world
Ellen Patton, the museum’s program assistant, who developed the activities, is particularly proud of the studio art portion of the session, where campers can express their creativity and imagination through a mixed-media piece. “They spread out gemstones on a paper and trace around them to create land masses,” she explains.
4/
On Website Technicals (2026-08) - Tech updates: EOM, PDF for vector graphics, hot, greener, paper tiger, Export Margin API... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-111.html
As they say, “Al has not killed the scientific literature, but it is showing where to find the corpse." (anonymous quote)
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-paper-mills-go-straight-without.html
Dallas Cowboys are true Super Bowl contenders in 2026; plus, three paper tigers https://www.nfl.com/news/dallas-cowboys-are-true-super-bowl-contenders-in-2026-plus-three-paper-tigers
How to be me.
I stepped into cat vomit. I took my shoes off and went to catch the paper towels.
On my way back, I stepped into another pile in my socks.
A reporter for the Marion County Record in Kansas will get $850K after settling a lawsuit against the city of Marion, three years after police raided the paper (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2026/08/11
I didn't get eye protection so I'm watching the partial eclipse with a home-built pigeon-hole camera. Peak cineastic drama.
#SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2026
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tierra Whack:
🎵 WAX PAPER
#TierraWhack
https://zachzales.bandcamp.com/track/wax-paper-dripmix
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The hardest part, I think, about this program is that every semester I have to "come up with a topic for a research paper", and then write a paper. I'm working with PhDs who have to write something every 2 years or so for publication, and yet I'm expected to have 3 ideas every 6 months. I find the paper part not as hard as "come up with ideas and research questions." What saves me is they don't have to be great ideas, or get anywhere near published, but it is …
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
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Cool looking paper! Geometry of Urban Order
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13029
from my link log —
A design space exploration of async/await.
https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/
saved 2026-09-15 https:/…
Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-april-adds-major-deforesters-as-suppliers-after-revising…
Mathematician Joan Birman is still active at 99 years old,
and has an important new result on the Burau representation.
This is the result of a project that began when a high school student,
Vasudha Bharathram, came to Birman for help in learning more math and finding a problem to work on.
Bharathram will be a beginning Ph.D student at Princeton in fall.
The third member of the collaboration is Tara Brendle, a student of Birman’s.
This collaboration mu…
Super excited that @… just won the ICER Lasting Impact Award for her 2014 (solo!) paper, "The recurring rainfall problem", which reopened and finally made progress on a 30 year old open education question!
https://…
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Tierra Whack:
🎵 WAX PAPER
#TierraWhack
https://zachzales.bandcamp.com/track/wax-paper-dripmix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jwFEp5K8fJ8R0yuKKPlCW
#today I *may* have just finished revisions to my paper, though I need to do another read-through and wait for supervisor feedback... And temperature is 'only' 26C at my desk!
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
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New NERDS paper on conversational biases in AI multi-agent systems
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/09/01/new-nerds-paper-on-conversational-biases-in-ai-multi-agent-systems/
arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.
Data centers powering the AI boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators.
And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models,
the trend is only going to get worse from here.
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up,
as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details.
The au…
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she’s green:
🎵 paper thin
#shesgreen
https://shesgreen.bandcamp.com/track/paper-thin-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6iFHmIxoJlO2nNVPUR8Yl4
The Trump administration is requiring states to change the way they conduct elections
or risk losing tens of millions of federal terrorism-prevention funds,
in its latest move that would make voting harder and undermine trust in results that don’t go Trump’s way.
The effort would force states to transition to paper ballots,
verify citizenship of voters
and make other changes to election procedures, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency documents.
Pint, Poster, Paper: Slice-and-Dice Heating Decarb (2026) - From Pint-of-Science public talk to academic paper; derivatives and heat-pump load profiles. #PhD #heating #flexibility -
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Tierra Whack:
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At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.
citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
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citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
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cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
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arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
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arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
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citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted