Tag: research
Liminalia demographics research
What a demographics report needs to show for a city-builder — the census the player never gets in Liminalia yet, and how to compute it from live world state.
Open MPhil/Part II student projects for 2026-2027
A refreshed set of Part II and MPhil projects, split between environmental science problems that need computer science, and more conventional systems and programming languages topics.
RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and perhaps your insurer. But the reality is more complicated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal privacy law that governs health information...
#oneaday Day 812: Research update
My efforts to catalogue all the noteworthy mentions of Atari home computer games and software (including type-in listings) that I might, one day, want to make a video about are proceeding apace. I have finished reviewing issue 50 of Page 6/New Atari User, and my spreadsheet is up to 1,179 lines. This may have been...
#ai #openai #astra
https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/
#oneaday Day 810: Compiling information
It will probably not surprise you to hear that, as an autistic person, I quite like organising sets of information into a visually pleasing and/or easy-to-refer-to manner. To that end, ahead of my intention to reboot my Atari A to Z and Atari ST A to Z series, I have been doing something I have...
Measuring Metros on Housing Stability
There is no way around it. Housing stability is a pivotal matter that indicates the level of relational connectedness in a community. It speaks to a community’s ability to rally around principles of justice and fairness. The ability to balance the forces of profit maximization and ensuring reasonable access to basic needs. Housing stability, and the lack thereof, is also very visible. We see the many tents and carts adjacent to interstates and major roadways. We’re becoming more and more aware of how vulnerable low-income community members are to eviction and shady landlords who do little to nothing to upkeep their rental properties.
The Internet Was Magic
The old internet served what people found relevant; bots pretending to be people killed that. Treat AI like a list of links to read.
Stay Sharp
AI is a train, not a bicycle for the mind. A summary is not a source.
Videogames For Hearts and Minds
More and more, the military is using games to influence.
Wow, that did not last long
I thought you were going to keep this up
Benchmarking Greenville on Housing Stability
For most of us, living in the contemporary United States means engaging in a weekly struggle to secure enough money to meet our basic needs. If we take for granted all of the merit involved in “eating by what you earn,” the question remains: ‘What is reasonable and fair when it comes to the wages we earn from our labor and what it costs to secure safe and decent housing?’ Analysts, advocates, and policy people have sought insight on this housing stability question in a variety of ways. This analysis focuses strictly on the data by comparing the housing stability characteristics of Greenville—a metro showing progressive signals—to metros that share its baseline housing stability profile.
#ki #geschichte
https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-geburtsstunde-der-ki-die-dartmouth-konferenz-100.html
#ai #telepathy #conduit
https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/
#madeineu #brainchip
https://borncity.com/news/spinnaker-2-gehirnaehnlicher-ki-chip-verbraucht-unter-025-watt/
The Software Stewardship Lab
A new applied research lab for open source sustainability, launching today
#ki #deepfake
https://www.heise.de/news/Deepfakes-in-Videokonferenzen-Fraunhofer-entwickelt-Echtzeit-Warnsystem-11397791.html
Self-Hosting my Zotero Library
After the big Pi Server V3 upgrade, I'm now comfortable enough to migrate my Zotero library to my own server and ditch another third-party solution in favour of complete control and essentially limitless storage. You can of course support the great open source Zotero project by buying storage directly from them, which I would wholeheartedly...
#ki #demokratie #meinungsbildung #forschung
https://agoradigital.de/meinungsbildung-unter-ki-einfluss-studie-belegt-einseitige-quellenauswahl-und-desinformation/
#ki #hack
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/auch-ki-von-anthropic-griff-echte-firmen-an-a-f35a127c-dc89-4c67-afeb-b6863387cb91
#ki #forschung #sicherheit
https://www.far.ai/blog/ai-security-leaderboard
#ki #forschung #kontrolle
https://the-decoder.de/ueber-1-200-beschaeftigte-von-openai-anthropic-google-und-meta-fordern-werkzeuge-zum-ausbremsen-der-ki-entwicklung/
#ki #security #openAI
https://www.golem.de/news/neue-details-zum-ki-angriff-openai-hat-mehr-als-nur-hugging-face-gehackt-2607-211385.html
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?
As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and methodologies actually give to researchers and the broader world? Has there been a meaningful increase of wisdom since these became popular? I went to look for an answer.
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Just to say "Hi !"
The Artificial Self
Anthropic's identity verification policy takes effect today. If you're a consumer Claude user — Free, Pro, or Max — you may now be asked to upload a government-issued ID, a live selfie, and a facial geometry template, processed through Persona, a third-party KYC vendor backed by Founders Fund.
ALL of the 50MHI Neighborhoods
So far, we have learned several things about the neighborhood prospects for households making 50 percent of the Atlanta MSA’s median household income (50MHI). We located the neighborhood that was the closest match to the group’s rental affordability threshold and built analytic contexts around this neighborhood. Then, we revisited 50MHI households, but this time the…
it’s the end of US science, and we know it
Source: The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it | The Verge The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from...
An outlook on extending the web
What is the future of extensions on the web? Do we even need extensions provided through a store if we can generate them ourselves?
When the work is the output, not the paper
The second wave of making my studio's work citable: AI installations and tools as research outputs, and the Zenodo metadata that describes each one accurately.
Benchmark Your Metro
Various cities and metro areas are in a natural and understandable competition with each other. They compete for high-value companies, high-value talent, and for national prestige. However, some of us wonder how metropolitan areas compete on the stage of equitable access to basic needs. Benchmark Your Metro allows patrons to place their Metropolitan Statistical Area…
Éthique de la recherche : entre réformes européennes et retards de rédaction
Pourquoi ne pas démarrer un nouveau projet plutôt que de terminer sa thèse lorsque le temps vient à manquer...
I wrote a 70x faster SQL parser while barely looking at the code
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser using multiple long-running Claude Code sessions in parallel. The result was 16K lines of…
What is a Scout? A technical deep dive
A scout is a small scheduled agent that watches your PostHog data, learns what is worth knowing, and emits useful signals you (or your agents) can act on. Here is how they work, with real examples.
COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History
I've been writing publicly every day for seven months, and I wanted to know what that looked like for other compulsive writers. From Chesterton dictating past midnight, to Chinese web fiction authors racing through 10,000 words daily. What does their obsessive output reveal about the nature of writing itself? The volume isn't the point. The showing up is.
Giving my livecoding gigs a DOI
Turning nearly two decades of ephemeral livecoding gigs into citable research outputs, with DataCite DOIs through Zenodo and a self-owned atproto layer.
Effectiveness of Training Actions Aimed at Improving Critical Thinking in the Face of Mis- and Disinformation: A Systematic Review
The effectiveness of training interventions aimed at improving critical thinking to counter mis- and disinformation is the focus of this systematic review. While critical thinking is widely recognized as a crucial aspect, the authors state that more evidence is needed to identify which approaches are most effective. Following PRISMA guidelines and a pre-registered protocol, the...
Measuring Adults’ Media Literacy Skills and News Media Literacy Knowledge in the Context of Age, Gender, and Education Level
This study investigated the relationships between self-reported media literacy skills, actual knowledge of news media literacy, and selected sociodemographic factors, namely age, gender, and level of education. Data were collected through an online survey conducted with a national sample of adults in Latvia (n = 871). Findings reveal a significant positive correlation between all self-reported...
Toward Automated Discourse Network Analysis
Discourse Network Analysis has long been limited by the price of expert judgment. Here is a design for automating it at corpus scale without surrendering command of meaning — and FineStructure, the open-source workbench I am building for it.
Enriching Mutual Understanding with Rich Data
Mutual understanding is a powerful force for constructive social change. At the same time, it takes effort to get there, especially among people from diverse social backgrounds who have experienced life differently. Mutual understanding is built through unfettered dialogue, so facilitating mutual understanding from a research standpoint involves cultivating the right atmosphere, an active listening posture, and intense amount of re-listening to the dialogue to properly capture the meaning and implications of what was shared. Technology is cool, but there are no shortcuts here if the goal is gaining rich insights on the dialogical elements that can build mutual understanding and eventually translate it into constructive action.
The Five Cs of Survey Design
Surveys are a powerful means for gaining a better understanding of stakeholder sentiments and how they are feeling about their experiences. At the same time, the effectiveness of surveys are directly tied to the level of effort and expertise behind their design. Some of the most important characteristics of effective surveys can be broken down into the ‘five Cs.’
Advancing Together
The seed of social change is produced in the heart that looks around them and refuses to accept the status quo. This seed is nurtured by taking those humble first steps in the field of action and by forming those initial partnerships with other hearts who also recognize the need for change.
Robotic Arms for the Reading Mind
In which I build a tool to read with me, rather than for me: pdf-gantry, the difference between an arm and an oracle, and the discipline of not asking.
Karpathy's Autoresearch found a 3-year-old bug in our query engine (and improved performance by 11%)
A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow queries from production, and let it run overnight. By the next morning it had found something embarrassing: for almost three years, every query with…
Training our own AI models
I really think we're on the verge of some of our best work through the next six months. Over the past year, we've started building more AI-powered features into PostHog, like our AI installation wizard , PostHog AI , and our MCP . They're all…
Centrality is not vitality
Don't automatically reach for PageRank on dependency graphs
Showing Our Work
An independent benchmark of the ecosyste.ms Python fund