iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve known about this for a couple of weeks, but now I can share: as of today, arXiv is rate-limiting submissions to two per month. And as a mod, I have to admit this is a necessary move (at least temporarily). blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My tenure dossier’s due in two weeks, so if anyone would like to quote me in an article, invite me to give a talk, cite all my papers, or nominate me for a huge award… now’s your time.

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not even half done September and the situation on campus already feels like a mess (for various reasons), but after my theory class today, one student said to me “I’m really enjoying it so far, and I didn’t expect to!” And y’know what? That’s who I’m doing all this for. Illegitimi non carborundum.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 08/09/2026

To be clear, I have no information about the NS allegations. Just pointing out that matters like this largely come to mind only *after* something bad may or may not have happened (W @floriantramer.bsky.social + Carlini we mentioned privacy issues like this in 2022) arxiv.org/abs/2212.06470

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Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining

The performance of differentially private machine learning can be boosted significantly by leveraging the transfer learning capabilities of non-private models pretrained on large public datasets. We c...

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's hard to put into words how disappointing it is that the first settled Millennium Problem was solved by a mathematician who cared solely about understanding over accolades, while the second (supposedly) settled problem came from parties who care solely about accolades over understanding.

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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Publishing my research as open access for a grand total of $0. The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is one of the best things to happen to Canadian academia. @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social

A screenshot taken from a publisher's website. It lists the Article Processing Charge as $3030 USD, but an Institutional Agreement Discount takes off -$3030 USD from the total, resulting in a final cost of $0 to publish open access.

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Blorkatomic @blorkatomic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Free access for the next few weeks” I need to scrape the proceedings asap. I can’t miss this incredible opportunity! Good job. I wish I could have joined you guys.

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A few months ago, I was interviewed by CBC News about my unique collection. The video interview was just posted today! There's also an article for those who like reading instead of watching: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 1976montrealolympics.ca #montreal #mtl

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Montreal Olympics enthusiast shows off his memorabilia collection from the 1976 Games

YouTube video by CBC News

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Blorkatomic @blorkatomic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I totally agree. And let’s not forget the chart starts with: 1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm far from being a legal expert, but I think it'll be interesting to watch how this under-16 social media ban plays out in Canada - especially since children don't enjoy the same legal autonomy as adults. If compulsory education is allowed for child welfare reasons, why not this ban?

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Blorkatomic @blorkatomic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Researcher in 2026 be like: *Slap AI on the paper*.

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Blorkatomic @blorkatomic.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A full day in England. Every French worst nightmares.

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Blorkatomic @blorkatomic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Me realizing I can barely write 5 pages. Then decide to add lots of figures.

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I received a review like this five years ago. It’s probably the right time now to share it with everyone who wrote or got random discouraging reviews from ICML/ACL.

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Lukas Schäfer @lukaschaefer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social! What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

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CNN @cnn.com · 17/11/2024

Doctors say RFK Jr.'s anti-Ozempic stance perpetuates stigma and misrepresents evidence. Here's what President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has said about the medication: cnn.it/3VjQ86X

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Doctors say RFK Jr.’s anti-Ozempic stance perpetuates stigma and misrepresents evidence | CNN

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to tackle high rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. T...

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