iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Angle Basin @anglebas.in · 22/09/2026

Taking another spin of the test pressings to celebrate the fact that AFG just shipped the first pressing of Eigengrau! You can hear the first track and preorder the album at anglebasin.bandcamp.com/album/eigeng....

The side of a brown cardboard box with shipping tape labeled "AFG Record Manufacturing".

The vinyl mockup of Eigengrau by Angle Basin.

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idiolect @idiolect.dev · 18/09/2026

We have a new release (v0.13.0) that introduces a bunch of new community management tooling. There is now one portable path from a governed definition change through consequence analysis, review, verification, signed release, resumable migration, federation, and exit.

github.com

Release v0.13.0 · idiolect-dev/idiolect

Added Community control plane for 0.13.0. The new idiolect-community crate and CLI lifecycle provide versioned idiolect.toml workspaces, role-aware maintainer/consent/vote/steward/hybrid governanc...

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 15/09/2026

Super cool paper by my student @pkuchmiichuk.com that synthesizes Dylan Bumford and @simoncharlow.com's work on effect-driven interpretation with probabilistic dynamic semantics to understand how slack regulators like "exactly" and "approximately" work.

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panproto @panproto.dev · 12/09/2026

We have new versions of panproto (0.74) and didactic (0.15). didactic adds a public general first-order generalized algebraic data type (GADT) and indexed-family language, and panproto checks the resulting theory.

github.com

GitHub - panproto/didactic: A typed data library for Python on top of panproto.

A typed data library for Python on top of panproto. - panproto/didactic

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 12/09/2026

If you are looking for an NSF Linguistics solicitation, you can stop looking. @juliangrove.bsky.social, @h-a-t.bsky.social, and I got confirmation from SBE that Linguistics has no active solicitation.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 09/09/2026

Imagine telling someone in 2009 that this is what python would become. Deeply cursed.

A snippet of python making heavy use of generics and type variables.

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Chive @chive.pub · 08/09/2026

Alongside a bunch of bug fixes, we've got a few new features on chive.pub we're excited about. Most of them involve connecting a paper to other things that relate to it on the Atmosphere and beyond.

chive.pub

Chive | Decentralized Eprint Service

Decentralized eprints on ATProto.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 06/09/2026

After using a lot of cubic grain film (Tri-X, HP5), it really is striking just how sharp T-grain film (Ektapan, formerly T-Max) can be at the exact same ISO.

Black and white close-up of a marigold flower, its ruffled petals catching bright sunlight against a soft, blurred backdrop of foliage.

Black and white photo of anise hyssop plants with dense, spiky flower spikes rising against a bright overcast sky, with blurred evergreen trees in the background.

Black and white close-up of three spiky teasel seed heads silhouetted against a bright sky, with a blurred field behind them.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 05/09/2026

Stoked for this to finally be up. Think it came out pretty well.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 04/09/2026

What do we Rochesterians do for fun? Well. Mostly we just sort of walk around the Genny Brewhouse and take photos of the old flour mill on our Kodak film.

A man in a striped shirt and jeans with a black camera up to his eye. A railing and a large brick building is in the background. A brick smokestack is off in the distance.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 03/09/2026

Really excited about this project. You can now access effectively all of UniMorph, Universal Dependencies, Universal Decompositional Semantics, MegaAttitude, and various other linguistic resources in a unified format. And there's a lot more coming down the pike in the near future.

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ATProto Science @atproto.science · 28/08/2026

We made a thing! Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨ All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 21/08/2026

Come work with CM on multilingual and low-resource NLP!!!

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/08/2026

The solution to one's blood sugar being in the boolean algebra is indeed generally Tanqueray 10 and a walk. post-like.exe.xyz

Spent the last hour trying to map a GLMM into a new algebra homomorphism, only to realize I forgot to eat lunch. The code compiles, but my blood sugar is in the boolean algebra now. Need a Tanqueray 10 and maybe a walk around Rochester before I touch the shot logger again.

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panproto @panproto.dev · 19/08/2026

We have a new release (v0.71.0) that substantially improves automated migration discovery by updating schema morphism search from enumeration and ranking to exact optimization.

github.com

Release v0.71.0 · panproto/panproto

Added panproto_schema::induce and induce_on_vertices (panproto-schema): the supported way to cut a sub-schema, accounting for all twenty-one Schema fields in their own key spaces and rebuilding th...

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 17/08/2026

Everyone listens to Grouper at the gym, right?

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Matthijs Hollanders @matthollanders.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyone ever use the geometric Poisson distribution? If I've implemented it correctly in Stan, it's giving me better fits than negative binomial according to PSIS-LOO-CV with a big count occupancy model.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 30/07/2026

Training a semantic tagger/parser for ~30 datasets right now, and it is truly wild that, even if this ends up SOTA on all of them, this is at best something that gets shoved into an appendix nowadays.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 25/07/2026

If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 25/07/2026

If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 22/07/2026

Hypo is now out! It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.

hypo.graycard.app

Hypo

Hypo is a tool for organizing and sharing your film or digital photography: the gear you shoot, develop, and scan with; the workflows that take a film roll from capture to finished scan; and the prove...

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 17/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Jin Dou (@jin-dou.bsky.social) on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday!The dissertation focuses on understanding how humans process naturalistic speech using EEG. Check out all the awesome work he did during his PhD! powerfulbean.github.io

Left to right: Ed Lalor (Jin’s primary advisor), Jin Dou, Aaron White (Jin’s co-advisor).

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 09/07/2026

Doing some final tweaks on the lexicons for a little hobby project.

A screenshot of the Hypo app showing the gear setup page. The page has tabs for cameras, lenses, filters, film, shoots, darkroom, scanning, and workflows. The cameras tab is selected and is filled by two Nikon F2 entries.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2026

also rochester! you folks have some good bridges

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 23/06/2026

Kind of obsessed with this new-to-me macro lens.

Close up of Japanese maple leaves with water droplets on them in black and white.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 20/06/2026

16-year-old me seizing my faculties to buy these Sparta tickets.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 20/06/2026

Multiple generations of JHU semanticists at @elm-conference.bsky.social (with nearly half current and prior JHU x Rochester: four UR + one RIT).

Danielle Novak, Alon Hafri, Abhinav Patil, Emma Wing, Pasha Koval, Kyle Rawlins, Julian Grove, Jenny Culbertson, Lilia Rissman, Aaron Steven White, and Woo Jin Choi in front of Love City Brewery in Philadelphia.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/06/2026

Couple months late on this, but I am obsessed with the breakbeat on Arlo Parks’ Get Go. (Discovered via this great Tape Notes interview with her and her producer Baird.)

podcasts.apple.com

TN:183 Arlo Parks & Baird

Podcast Episode · Tape Notes · June 9 · 1h 30m

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/06/2026

Been quiet on @layers.pub the last couple months, but have some stuff coming soon I’m really excited about.

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Stephen Ramsay @sramsay2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Archaeologists Unearth ‘Prototype’ of Stonehenge Monument Nearby." Thing is, it was written in Python by a bunch of physicists. No comments, no structure, no tests. A big dude with a black robe and very long beard kept saying, "Can we just build this fucking thing in C already?" So they did.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 17/06/2026

Just finished scanning negatives from my trip to Denver and really like how these shots of the Populus building came out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus...

Low angle view of the Populus Hotel, its white facade covered in repeating eyelid shaped window pods rising into a partly cloudy sky.

Close up of the Populus Hotel's roofline showing rows of pointed eyelid shaped window hoods cresting like waves into a streaky sky.

Tight diagonal view of the Populus Hotel's white facade covered in repeating eyelid shaped window pods that wrap the curving column.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 04/06/2026

Heading to Denver for CVPR tomorrow then Philly for ELM next week, but really wondering why I’d ever leave Rochester in late spring.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 24/05/2026

Bought my 6yo a cd/cassette boombox today, and afterward we went to the used record shop to pick out a cd. He picked out Autobahn by Kraftwerk, which he is now referring to as his new favorite record…so dad achievement unlocked.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 23/05/2026

Have made martinis with Dolin Dry for years but just cracked a fresh bottle of Noilly Prat and don’t think I’m going back.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 20/05/2026

What kind of sociopath takes time out of their day to vote in a local election against their school district’s budget?

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 19/05/2026

That time of the year when Rochester smells like flowers for a month straight.

A magnolia tree in bloom with a pine behind it.

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