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So I think about one of the central thesis of Joseph Weizenbaum a lot.
It’s essentially an extension of “there’s no technical solutions to social problems”; it posits that computers are widely used to immortalize and amplify social problems while preventing reforms.
And it has gotten much worse since he wrote about this in the 1970s.
Two of the examples he gives are nation/world-wide stock exchanges and automated trading (lead to wealth concentration and gambling), as well as highly complex but wasteful, punishing and unfair welfare systems (instead of e.g. UBI).

Design and Evaluation of a GPU-Accelerated Cuckoo Filter
#cuckoofilter #computerscience
🔗 Thesis https://tdo…

I wrote my thesis on Refactoring (Java) in 2001 shortly after @… book came out. One of the three tools was IntelliJ Renamer before there was even an IDE(A).
Ever since I stayed close to my friends at @… (including th…

i’m reviewing a master’s thesis that is extremely well-written but doesn’t really make any sense #SlopAlert

“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
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Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Why put effort into writing your thesis when you can put in the same amount of effort into making it look as if you had written it?
#AcademicChatter

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' ... (Andrew Kerr/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-won-a-key-white-house-post-claiming-he-was-touted-as-a-foremost-expert-on-radical-islam-and-was-studying-for-an-oxford-phd-but-his-thesis-is-missing-and-theres-no-evidence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p52#a251211p52

(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

from my link log —
Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
https://gade.us/thesis/
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/RHHY8.html

Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990
An early history of the Internet's Domain Name System

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

A new Master thesis by Maximilian Arthofer as part of our #Digidow project (https://digidow.eu) focusing on how to get remote integrity attestation of embedded sensing devices is now online:

Digidow

Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
A leaked internal memo reveals the tectonic shift reshaping artificial intelligence, where platform economics are defeating venture-backed innovation at the exact moment markets assumed the opposite.

A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).

We are so multi-modal today! The train runs electric ⚡ and the passenger is powered by 'pâté au riesling' 😋 .
Thesis review is done 👍👨‍🎓 but no change in the weather, grey and wet on the Mosel(le).

A new investment thesis has spread through global markets at the start of 2026, as trading strategies long built on the primacy of the United States now opt for a new approach:
Sell America.
The sentiment started to take hold in financial circles after the shock of sky-high tariffs sent stocks and bonds into a tailspin last April,
but it has taken off recently as the Trump administration has pursued policies like attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence and threats of …

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.

If anything, one piece of evidence supporting Liz Truss's thesis about the decline of Britain, is the national indignity of a former Prime Minister appearing on Rumble to rant about the deep state wokes.
(She *was* Prime Minister, there are citations for this on Wikipedia.)

Master's Thesis Award from The Expatriate Archive Centre (EAC), Netherlands
https://ift.tt/NTapOnJ
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:47pmfull name / name of organization: The Expatriate Archive…
via Input 4 RELCFP

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳 🥳 Johannes Hölken of the @… has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards solar many-line inversions” at the @…

Second connection made in rainy Brussels 👍. More thesis-reading for now 📖.
Then I'll be back on the rails on Monday.
Have a great weekend! 👋

The "Computational Theory of Mind" has become the modern secular religion, promising that if we just find the right algorithm, we can replicate intelligence.
And it is wrong ...
https://www.ocrampal.com/computation-is-limited-the-hidden-f…

Computation is not the right framework to comprehend the concept of life and intelligence
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for computation. The Church-Turing thesis tells us that any "effectively computable" function can be computed by a Turing machine,

The Race to the Bottom | Art Berman #energy

The Race to the Bottom | Art Berman
Welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age. Growth is ending. That was the blunt thesis of a recent essay, and the signals are already here—deindustrialization, grid stress, financial instability, and rising geopolitical conflict. The Honest Sorcerer’s argument is simple: growth depends on ever-faster drawdown of energy and materials as…

Bitbucket recently announced shutting down inactive workspaces.
I logged there, and my Ph.D stuff (mostly papers, some Python) were all there.
To preserve them, I asked #Copilot to write a script to move them to GitHub.
If you want to admire the slop, there’s now a post about it

Migrate Bitbucket repositories to GitHub · Technical inconsistencies blog
Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted. Almost 20 years ago, I created a Bitbucket workspace to host my university stuff (mostly for my research thesis and various papers). And while I have the final PDFs, I did not want all that LaTeX to go to waste, so I decided to migrate everything to GitHub (which, since 20 years ago, added private repositories to their free offering).

In this final talk of the "Civilization" course, #Jiang #Xueqin explains the rise and fall of the American empire.
Thesis:
At the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, America proposed that the dollar should be the world's reserve currency.
In return for this "exorbitant privilege," Am…

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI