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Cristina Abad @cristinaabad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 The CFP for the ACM/SPEC International Conference for Performance Engineering (ICPE) is out! icpe2027.spec.org 🗓️ Abstract Deadline: 9 November 2026 (AoE) 🗓️ Full Paper Deadline: 16 November 2026 (AoE) We are looking forward to your submissions! 📝 #ICPE2027 #Performance #ICPE #SPEC

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ICPE 2027

A demo website to showcase the features of the "Event" theme for the static website generator HUGO.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

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Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

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Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gah, sorry. I just needed to let that out, because I was so polite in my response email. :)

Hi there!

I’m curious about what your pitch is about the usefulness of this tool. That is, in what context would someone need it? Shouldn’t researchers always be reading the sources that they cite?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 16/07/2026

it’s inspiring to watch Messi play, you can’t even quite figure out why he’s so good, just seems to be in the right place at the right time and casually do the right thing … this is my career advice

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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If you find the premise of the question ridiculous I totally get it. But I assure you the question is on almost everyone's mind at AI conferences, and I believe in meeting people where they are. If we don't challenge the narrative it will continue to be embedded in the way the tech itself is built.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

with a little help from his older brother, @hankgreen.bsky.social has invented an absurdly enjoyable word-spelling game called smush. www.hankgreen.com/smush/

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Smush

A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2026

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-97-of-average-am…

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 09/06/2026

Most OSS security practices were not designed for the generative AI era. @openssf.org and LF Research want to know how the community is responding. If you maintain, build, or secure open source, your input matters. Take the survey: linuxfoundation.research.net/r/KLBG…

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Inspired by this post from a while ago, I *finally* got around to writing up a bunch of things I find myself frequently telling people. In particular, [the current] section 5 on classroom tips directly answers this question. parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...

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Pedagogy Recommendations

Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."

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ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References

Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 25/03/2026

The NEW Designing Data-Intensive Applications dropped on my desk this morning and at 600+ pages it landed with a thud! If you work in data, this book definitely belongs on your shelf. It's undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, important and relevant data systems book you could read.

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

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Adrian Sampson @adrian.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

By popular demand* Analog Library now generates minimum viable BibTeX. *one person asked

A BibTeX entry for the Lamport happens-before paper.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

this is a well executed and interesting study. The conclusions are worrisome, even though the absolute amounts are small for now.

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Marcin Copik @mcopik.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Serverless simplifies deployment but complicates performance analysis. Join our tutorial at #HiPEAC2026 to learn how serverless operates and evaluate FaaS systems with the benchmarking suite SeBS! 🗓️ Monday, 26 January 2026, 14:00-17:30 📌 HiPEAC 2026, Cracow ➡️ www.hipeac.net/2026/krakow/...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21/01/2026

What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I'm trying to find scholars who have studied how scientists assimilate the discoveries of other scientists. I'm trying to understand the potential impact of AI-assisted acceleration of scientific discoveries beyond the short term. Can anyone point me to people and publications?

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Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📢 Jobs! arXiv is looking for editorial support to help tame the waves of incoming submissions. Two postings today (US-based): 1. arXiv Assistant Production Editor cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree... 2. arXiv User Support Assistant cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

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Cristina Abad @cristinaabad.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

=== The Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance === (HotCloudPerf-2026) hotcloudperf.spec.org VENUE: Held w/ ICPE, May 5, 2026, Florence, Italy. IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) January 19, 2026 Abstract due January 26, 2026 Papers due February 27, 2026 Author Notification

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Cristina Abad @cristinaabad.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📣 ICPE 2026 — January submission deadlines are approaching! Conference Tracks 💡 Emerging Research — Jan 23 📚 Journal-First — Jan 26 📊 Poster & Demo — Jan 26 🧑‍🏫 Tutorials — Jan 26 🏆 Data Challenge — Jan 28 📦 Artifacts — Jan 29 🔗 All tracks & details: icpe2026.spec.org

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Welcome to ICPE 2026: ICPE 2026

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Kristopher Micinski @krismicinski.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...

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Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering

Dear students of Computer Science,

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/01/2026

Last month started doing daily Wordle & Sudoku with my kids via Discord. I will just say that today's Wordle was evil.

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

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Cristina Abad @cristinaabad.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Couldn’t you run a bunch of YCSB clients to fix this? Also, we have a modified version of YCSB that replays traces and support open-loop replay (though our validation tests focused more on the replay accuracy than on evaluating the limits of the open loop implementation). github.com/disel-espol/...

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GitHub - disel-espol/KV-replay: Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for replay of workload traces

Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for replay of workload traces - GitHub - disel-espol/KV-replay: Forked version of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark with support for repl...

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Why read a 300-word "abstract" summary of a paper written by the actual authors when one can read a 300-word summary produced by an AI prone to hallucinations?

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Is there anything more annoying in this universe that an AI assistant on the phone? If I am picking up the phone to call a company its because I have tried every other alternative through websites, apps, etc. It isn't going to be cleared up by an AI assistant. Get me to a real person.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2025

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My day is half over, and so far I've been ... takes deep breath... PhD Advisor/budgeting strategist/event planner/comms expert/product manager/strategy thinker. Do a Ph.D they said. Become a prof they said. You'll have infinite time to think they said. Academics don't live in the real world HA

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Cristina Abad @cristinaabad.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Know a recent PhD w/ a standout dissertation in benchmarking or performance evaluation? 🎓 Nominate them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award! They could win $1,000 & recognition at ICPE 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/Rliz50WBA2E #PhD #Research #CompSci

A pile of books with a mortarboard (square graduation cap) on top.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

📢 The Journal of Systems Research (JSys) is looking for senior graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers to serve on its Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB). #OpenScience 🧑‍🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TA...

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Self-Nomination for JSys Artifact Evaluation Board

The Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB) for the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) assists with the review of two kinds of submissions. "Tool/benchmark papers" present new, open-source tools and benchmark...

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

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Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

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