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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 14, 2026
Will Universities Respond To The AI Moment?
A key role universities play in society is providing knowledge that can guide public action. Moreover, public universities have a legal duty to serve the public. We expect researchers in universities to produce and disseminate knowledge that can ultimately advance human flourishing and meet the informational needs of lawmakers, civil society, and the public generally....
academiaai
Nachdasein | Notebook
Nachdasein | NotebookOct 2, 2026
Finding Your Voice, and Philosophy From the Outside
There is a need to develop my own voice and style of speaking and writing. I have gained much from reading Heidegger, and Nietzsche before him. It is hard to write in my own authentic way when, after reading Heidegger, I cannot help but to channel him and embody his literary style, mannerisms, and prose. The same can be said of Nietzsche: one cannot simply read him without his firebrand and conviction seeping into one's own words. These two thinkers paradigmatically, in their mastery of language...
metapoliticsacademia
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 27, 2026
.plan-26-39: End of my sabbatical, and I feeeel fine!
Reflections on the end of my sabbatical, with a reading list on societal change, Tessera's embeddings finish converting, Scrutineer continues to find security fixes galore, good news from Scotland.
academiaai
A Flower in Dystopia
A Flower in DystopiaSep 5, 2026
Cozy Fiction, Serious Hope: An Ecocritical Look at Becky Chambers
In August 2026 I made a presentation for the Society of Ecocritical Studies – Japan.
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Becky Chambersecocriticism
brennan.day
brennan.dayAug 29, 2026
Creating an Open-source Blogging Studies Syllabus
Announcing a new open-source, asynchronous Blogging Studies syllabus that blends writing craft and independent web publishing, built on Codeberg. I trace the decline of free MOOCs, outline my curriculum's anti-capitalist and community-driven pedagogy, and invite contributors and learners to help shape it.
personal essayblogging
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 28, 2026
The 3rd Programming for the Planet 2026 videos are available
Videos from the third Programming for the Planet (PROPL) workshop at PLDI 2026, and Cyrus Omar is visiting Cambridge on sabbatical for a year to drive followups!
programmingclimate
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 16, 2026
.plan-26-33: Zarro rides out and evidence papers pour in
TESSERA 1.0 is now fully available as Zarr with global RGB previews, a weather downscaling preprint, and Evidence TAP gets a public website with progress on the downloader and parser.
tesseraocaml
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 9, 2026
.plan-26-32: Finally a use for serverless and found the Forester for the trees
GETMobile micro-NPU article and package calculus published, TESSERA embeddings conversion using Fargate Spot, and starting to shift to Forester for teaching.
tesseraocaml
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 2, 2026
.plan-26-31: Sorting out Tessera and Evidence TAP infrastructure
A petabyte of TESSERA embeddings moves to Source Cooperative, and Taposaur's GROBID metadata index and capability-based downloader take shape for Evidence TAP, while Eio gets some native Windows support.
tesseraocaml
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJul 26, 2026
.plan-26-30: Bananas ripen, models open, and OxCaml releases
An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.
ocamleio
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJul 19, 2026
.plan-26-29: Perfect weather, imperfectly measured, precisely predicted
My first viva in Law, a TESSERA stall at the House of Lords, downscaling the weather with embeddings, moving terabytes onto Source Cooperative, the Pembroke garden party, and a from-scratch shell makes progress.
aieio
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJul 12, 2026
.plan-26-28: What fun papers piled up while I was out at sea
Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.
ocamleio
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJun 29, 2026
Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”
Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dutch Professor Argues that Time Itself is Racist, a look at some thought-provoking scholarslop coming out of the Netherlands. Before discussing the chronological-racial...
academiacrt
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 28, 2026
.plan-26-26: Gelato, geospatial, and players of games
Spoke at CHIA's annual conference on AI for a changing world, as well as the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, and started moving TESSERA's embeddings onto Source Cooperative.
aitessera
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 21, 2026
.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems
Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.
conservationbiodiversity
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 16, 2026
The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth
Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land sparing is the key to slowing the extinction crisis.
biodiversityconservation
Boxo Barks
Boxo BarksApr 10, 2026
The Liebox That Wears Our Words
A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.
llmscience
Boxo Barks
Boxo BarksApr 6, 2026
The machines are not, in fact, fine.
"Claude, write me a viral debut blog post using these three sources, make no mistakes."
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llmscience
Sense making
Sense makingDec 31, 2025
Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references
We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?
academiasub-citations
frankhecker.com
frankhecker.comNov 19, 2022
Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism
What the survival of Harvard tells us about Harvard.
Harvarduniversities
Rafael M. Batista
Rafael M. BatistaSep 22, 2021
Advice I Received As I Was Starting My PhD
Advice for first-year PhD students. This is a set of notes I gathered between the summer prior to starting my PhD and the end of my first term; the first version of this was drafted in January 2020. As with the many, many bits of advice you will certainly receive, I hope you take what makes sense to you.
PhD advicegraduate school
eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve
eve.gd: Martin Paul EveFeb 12, 2016
Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
academiapersonal
eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve
eve.gd: Martin Paul EveDec 17, 2015
My 2015 academic year in review
personalacademia
eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve
eve.gd: Martin Paul EveNov 12, 2014
Universities, DH, “the crowd”, and labour that looks like a game
academialabour