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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

God made the volume, but the devil made the interface. Wolfgang Pauli. Robustness was in mind when designing the approach for handling damage at interfaces. Also, it should scale well. The applications are composites, but the main application is to model chip reliability.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Our new paper has been published. Conservative data-driven finite element framework with adaptive hp-refinement for diffusion problems with material uncertainty. doi.org/10.1016/j.cm...

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 08/01/2026

This is for anyone who thinks they don't need to at least practice due diligence that output from an LLM is not copyright infringement or (obvious) plagiarism. (I contend it should be understood as both, even when the emitted text is not near-verbatim, because the mechanism is identical.)

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Extracting books from production language models

Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Fun fact? In the 1950s–60s, the Polaris missile program (submarine-launched ballistic missiles, first (PC) computers), the adjoint method was used for optimal control—the same method later branded as backpropagation, now honoured with a Nobel Prize. ???

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Seeking robustness while preserving high accuracy is a tricky business. We are on the right track, but not yet where I would like us to be. We are testing the Higham method for projecting onto a cone of symmetric positive-definite matrices.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

In #MoFEM (mofem.eng.gla.ac.uk), we like to break things and are not bad at this.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Preprint on our new paper on "Conservative data-driven finite element formulation", with MoFEM at the core of it. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18206

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Today was perfect weather for a swim in Loch Lomond. It was my second time, but I am already addicted to open water swimming.

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Edinburgh event: #Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero youtube.com/watch?v=DzbC... #HPC #AI via @likask.bsky.social

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Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

First MoFEM work in Ukrainian on a block solver for GPU. :)

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Interesting discussions on HPC, AI, and computing. From my perspective, we often solve not the problems we want, but the ones we can. Also, it makes no sense to build infrastructure solely for AI; the same infrastructure can be used for other things. youtu.be/DzbC4KG3XwU?...

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Exascale computing for research and the implications of quantum computing, AI and Net Zero

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We have the pleasure of running a workshop on modelling cracks in MoFEM for our colleagues from EDF and Amentum from 8 to 9 May. We have been working together on this topic for over 16 years.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My talk at mfem.org/seminar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) on the Mixed Finite Element formulation and MoFEM. Thanks to @tzanio.bsky.social for the invitation. It was a great pleasure.

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MFEM - Finite Element Discretization Library

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Tzanio Kolev @tzanio.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

📅 The next talk in our 𝗙𝗘𝗠@𝗟𝗟𝗡𝗟 seminar series will be on Tuesday, April 8th, 9:00-10:30am PDT. 🌟 Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarczyk (@likask.bsky.social) from University of Glasgow will present: "Mixed finite element formulation for solid mechanics problems". 👉 Sign up and learn more at: mfem.org/seminar.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

MoFEM accoring OpenHub. There are 53 developers, but according to the estimate, it will take a single professional programmer 73 years to write our code! openhub.net/p/mofem

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Glasgow University can be also brutal.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Jak każą dziękować za kupienie komercyjnej usługi, to za pomoc będą żądać całej naszej miedzi? "Prawdziwi" patrioci są OK z tym?

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Let's pray, mechanics. Mechanics have one dogma, and that is objectivity. Before the lecture in the old church.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

BTW Bandwith for L2 and H-div can be a priori determined, and does not depend on the mesh. Made in #MoFEM

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Energetic spaces. The same mesh, 4th order, different space. You can observe how space (not the base itself) renders matrix structure and sparsity.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Keir Starmer, "Nigel Farage didn't even turn up to parliament today" "Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin" "That's not patriotism"

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Słucham poranka Tok FM z Wróblem. Parfianowicz mówi, że Rosjanie planują na sto lat do przodu ;) Ogólnie ekspertów cechują zawsze mocne opinie. Btw Wycięte z kontekstu, ale tak widać ostrzej.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

mofem.eng.gla.ac.uk/mofem/html/r...

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Putin wanted to stop NATO from expanding, and it ended up with Sweden and Finland joining it. It would be funny if Trump wanted to annex Canada, and it ended up joining the EU.

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ExaGEO DLA @exageo-dla.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📣📣 LAST FEW DAYS REMAINING to apply for fully funded PhDs for September 2025 Entry via the ExaGEO DLA 🌍💻🧠🧑‍🎓 www.exageo.org UG and PG degree holders are welcome to apply!

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Multibody contact with our hybridised solver. In Blender, I learned to handle multiple components and move the camera along the path. The effect is moderate.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Sweet convergence. Works like a Swiss watch, but it might be better.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My internet at home is faster than at uni—a pretty sad fact in my line of work.

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ExaGEO DLA @exageo-dla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

📣📣 Two weeks remaining to apply for fully funded PhDs for September 2025 Entry via the ExaGEO DLA 🌍💻🧠🧑‍🎓 www.exageo.org UG and PG degree holders are welcome to apply!

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Advanced OpenMP course 18, 20, 25 & 27 Feb (online). Are you a programmer seeking to deepen your understanding of OpenMP? Explore some of its more recent & advanced features with this ARCHER2 course. More info & registration : edin.ac/4jGhkqV

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It was a pretty nice lecture room for the Structural Mechanics course in the Anatomy Thomson lecture room.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm playing more with Blender. HO elements and contact formulation in MoFEM, postprocessing glyphs in ParaView, and composition and rendering in Blender.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

#MoFEM will always remain open-source. It is an incredibly great tool to test new finite element technologies.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Unique PhD Opportunity in (UK Students Only). Join research to develop novel finite element technologies within MoFEM and Simcenter STAR-CCM++. This project offers a fast track to impactful applications, benefiting thousands of STAR-CCM++ users worldwide. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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PhD in Civil Engineering - Scalable solvers for solid mechanics problems for GPGPUs at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD in Civil Engineering - Scalable solvers for solid mechanics problems for GPGPUs at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please, PhD opportunities in ExaGEO. NERC Doctoral Landscape Award in Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions (ExaGEO DLA). Some of them are with #MoFEM group. www.exageo.org

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ExaGEO DLA – Be part of the solution

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As a result of DeepSeek, it is possible that politicians might implement export policies related to open-source, such as funding the development of national labs and research institutions. I do not know how, but it could be crazy—they might try to put the genie back into the bottle.

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The words we heard from the main actors of the AfD rally about “Great Germany” and “the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes” sounded all too familiar and ominous. Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 22/01/2025

UofG ranks in the world top 100 in eight out of 11 subject areas in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2025. Two subjects ranked in the world top 50, with Law placing 44th & Medical Health at ranked at 50th. Read more: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... #TeamUofG

The University tower seen from Kelvingrove Park.

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My new chair, with a pillow. That is a present from the company Mesh Oriented Solutions (MOS).

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today, I managed to learn how to render in Blender. Now, I need to learn the art of composition. ;)

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Lukasz Kaczmarczyk @likask.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Pinched cylinder. Nice Saturday animation. Standard benchmark test for shell elements, this time deployed with solid element on the tetrahedral mesh. Mixed hybridised FE formulation with weakly enforced angular momentum. #MoFEM

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Slides for a general introduction to the use of Optimal Transport methods in learning, with an emphasis on diffusion models, flow matching, training 2 layers neural networks and deep transformers. speakerdeck.com/gpeyre/optim...

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Under the U.K.’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” the government has set itself an ambitious goal of increasing the country’s data center capacity by as much as 20-fold by the end of the decade siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/u... #AI #HPC

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U.K. PM Keir Starmer to announce new plans to transform the country into an 'AI superpower' - SiliconANGLE

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Christoph Peters @momentsingraphics.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

You cannot get physically-based rendering right without understanding radiometry. My new blog post explains it all, relying on familiar concepts from rendering algorithms as much as possible. Part 2 will come next week. momentsingraphics.de/Radiometry1B...

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities: nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

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Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

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Gazeta Wyborcza @wyborcza.pl · 10/01/2025

"X nie wywiązuje się już ze swojego obowiązku promowania uczciwego dyskursu. Jako instytucje naukowe nie możemy tego zaakceptować" – oświadczyła rektorka Uniwersytetu Heinricha Heinego w Düsseldorfie. @boleslawbreczko.bsky.social @wyborcza.biz #wyborcza wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177...

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60 niemieckich uniwersytetów i instytutów naukowych rezygnuje z Twittera

'X nie wywiązuje się już ze swojego obowiązku promowania uczciwego dyskursu. Jako instytucje naukowe nie możemy tego zaakceptować' - oświadczyła Anja Steinbeck, rektorka Uniwersytetu Heinricha Heinego...

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