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  This code is an absolute mess but at least it's correct

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  Egg. E. E. Egg.

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  The ACM made $6m profit and total assets grew $25m this year https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131921358

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  Question about accessibility best practice in PL papers/PDFs: in the \Description of a figure, say a bunch of inference rules or a grammar definition, what do you write? Do you write a visual description of what the reader "sees"? Because, the text referencing the figure already describes the meaning. So it seems redundant to describe their meaning, which is sort of my instinct. (reposting publicly feel free to boost)

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  In case you didn’t notice, ICFP dropped Anduril as a sponsor https://icfp26.sigplan.org

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  If you are an author whose work is on the ACM DL, I'd like to strongly encourage you to check the accuracy of the AI Summary of your paper, and send feedback to the ACM on this feature and the inaccuracies in your summary. See more here: https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations Please boost, repost, and otherwise steal this post to reach other authors. In long: The ACM has begun rolling out "Digital Library Premium" features. A very notable one is AI Summaries of papers,...

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  Wrote a new blog post: "Against Vibes: When is a Generative Model Useful" https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/

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  I think if I spend any more time on this, I'll risk doing more harm than good: new blog post on "AI" and ethics. https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/

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  @GeoffWozniak I'd be shocked if anyone agree with me completely. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. I don't think my mind is totally settled on the matter, but.. it is more settled having written this

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  It's been a long time and many rants ago so you may not remember my ranting about UBC installing some artificial turf fields that shed not-even-micro-plastics all over the place, so may I just say "wow who could have seen this coming" https://news.ubc.ca/2026/03/ubc-study-links-artificial-turf-fields-to-lethal-chemical-threat-for-salmon/

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  New blog post triggered after reading an autogenerated bibliography: https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/24/please-don-t-generate-your-bibliography/

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  Well this is a great article about what science is and how it has been corrupted by metrics and what LLMs have to do with this. But now I’m depressed again https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows

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  I for one welcome our new feathery overlords https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1s9pb2r/welcome_to_goosecouver_updated_honk_requirements/

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  accidental prompt injection while trying to look up a quote

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  That uh "operating reserve" number is probably out of date. It's the same as their 2024 number, so it's probably much higher now. By between 10--12m would be my best guess, based on market trends and historical analysis. Their "operating reserve", i.e., giant hoarded surplus assets went up by $10m even in 2024, when they "only" made 300k in profit.

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  Finally setup a browser redirect from dl.acm.org to https://al.radbox.org and it is so fucking embarrassing for the ACM how much better this experience is

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  A list of software pledging not to use "AI" https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html