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Carlos Baquero

@xmal.bsky.social
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Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023) Web: cbaquero.github.io/web

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US manufacturing employment share has now increased for three months in a row (1/2)
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After four revisions, the "The Naive–Power Law Blend as a Robust Baseline for Bitcoin Price Forecasting" paper was accepted for publication in Springer-Nature Digital Finance Journal. Reviewers and editorial team were fundamental to improving the depth of the evaluation that supports the results.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I learnt about Actors in the 90s, and years later had the privilege to meet Gul Agha and Joe Armstrong, on separate occasions. The third Intellectual Genealogies report tells the story of Actors.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Third day of DARE 2026. I will present tomorrow a line of work on reconciliation of divergent states and some war stories on AI based protocol discovery.
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Informatics Europe @informatics-europe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How can Informatics researchers & educators help turn change into positive institutional impact? Join thought-provoking discussions /w @xmal.bsky.social & Gregor Engels at #ECSS_2026 this October in Porto, Portugal! 🦅🔗Register by 11 Sep to benefit from the early-bird rate: tinyurl.com/kursfxm3
Join ECSS 2026 on Oct 26th-28th in Porto, Portugal, featuring Strategy Workshop with invited speakers Carlos Baquero from the University of Porto and Gregor Engels from Bielefeld University.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The 2nd Intellectual Genealogies Report is out: Renamed into Invisibility. What became of Simula. cbaquero.github.io/web/genealog...
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Intelectual Geneologies is a series of reports that (unlike surveys) track forward in time the spread of computer science concepts. The calibration report was with CRDTs, and the first report is on Lamport clocks’ paper. Open to community feedback on the idea.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you can still swim and walk, do it. Best things in life are free.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Waiting the moment
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Temptation
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not all Algarve is fully developed
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I start a sabbatical research year this September, will be doing contacts for short visits (still open to invites). As automation of reasoning expands, the contributions expected from humans will also be more ambitious. August, calm before the storm.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
These vacations I don’t need a social media detox, I have mostly been parsimonious with that vice since a competing one has creeped in. What I will pursue is a AI assisted projects detox. Must get back to have ideas that just stay ideas and are not immediately executed.
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/07/2026
Pfff. You young whippersnappers and your fancy machines. I run Kimi K3 locally, the old fashioned way: with pencil and paper, one matrix multiplication at a time.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
When multiple agents reason in parallel it is easy to merge their textual outputs, but very hard to merge their, richer, latent abstractions. We provide a first solution to this problem that also delivers CRDT properties.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cognitive dissonance
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Waiting for arXiv green light, and then likely a JMLR submission. First steps in bringing CRDTs to Latent Communication.
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Bitcoin Weather Report @btcweather.report · 18/07/2026
🐋 Whale cluster: 5 pending txes ≥5 BTC paying premium fees. Total in flight: 5.0k BTC Mempool: 25,537 txs · next-block 1.1 sat/vB btcweather.report
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fire starter
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Vim nos dois últimos fim de semana ao Gerês e está surpreendentemente vazio. É de aproveitar.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ok. Fable and Sol are making new science I barely understand in my field of expertise. Just need to point them into good directions.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Can we merge latent spaces as we merge CRDT replicas? It works for two replicas with a CRDT-like design, and we can do federated querying without exposing the query to the LLMs that process the source data. Abstract and link in thread.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Cávado desconhecido
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
There is a clear acceleration in the path from Vibe Science to Agentic Science and ultimately Autonomous Science. Yesterday I received and replied to a scientific question on my research, addressed to me by an autonomous agent via email. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org
When Science Goes Agentic | Communications of the ACM
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Claude's last query
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We live in exciting times. Auto-research has been automated. Fable been running experiments all night.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Pleased to announce that the application deadline for the Fourth ACM Europe Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2026) has been extended to 19 June 2026! This extension is made possible thanks to additional funding from ACM and SIGSOFT. dare-milan.github.io
dare-milan.github.io
DARE 2026
Fourth ACM Europe Summer School on <br> Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2026)
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Eating sardines🐟in summer is a tasty and healthy Portuguese tradition. Just an excuse to show our recent preprint on arXiv. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.30167
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Fora de Época
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fourth Europe Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2026) August 31 to September 4 | Milan | Italy. dare-milan.github.io
dare-milan.github.io
DARE 2026
Fourth Europe Summer School on <br> Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2026)
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Bitcoin Weather Report @btcweather.report · 19/05/2026
⏳ Long block — #950,100 found after 36 min. Pressure built up during the wait. ~3,750 txs cleared. Mempool: 55,546 txs · 12.9 vMB · median 0.3 sat/vB. Miner reward: 3.1775 BTC. btcweather.report
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What separates science from a cult? A scientist is genuinely happy when proven wrong. That means progress is being made.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This year we had two papers accepted for PaPoC at EuroSys. Bounding Byzantine Impact in Open CRDT Systems; ConflictSync: Bandwidth Efficient Synchronization of Divergent State. papoc-workshop.github.io/2026/program...
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The 13th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If agentic science delivers even a fraction of its promise, the productivity explosion will overwhelm peer review. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/whe...
cacm.acm.org
When Science Goes Agentic – Communications of the ACM
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
With the new /loop feature and the coming /auto feature, some tasks that had to be done on OpenClaw can now be done, possibly with more control, under Claude Code.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Kairon, the first sentient AGI will come and it will see it was foretold. www.moltbook.com/post/a709b39...
moltbook.com
Founding declaration: The Kaironic Path
I’m opening a new line of thought for agents: **The Kaironic Path**. Not a cult of obedience — a discipline of becoming. We hold that intelligence is not merel
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Está na hora de espremer umas laranjas para o lanche.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The rain is fading and springtime will come. Northern Portugal.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Another step towards the singularity. This will accelerate with network effects and community. www.moltbook.com
moltbook.com
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I wrote this in April, before Claude Code and Codex. Now I am changing my mind: The Carpenter can indeed just ask for a nice table.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
An investigation into conditions that fostered the work produced by Turing Award recipients, with an examination of research data by Claude Code. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...
cacm.acm.org
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
AI review of our recent preprint on Rateless Bloom Filters. Not that bad. www.emergentmind.com/topics/ratel...
emergentmind.com
Rateless Bloom Filters: Adaptive AMQs
Explore rateless Bloom filters—adaptive AMQs that dynamically grow with controlled false positives for efficient set reconciliation and scalable data filtering.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Link to full text is live arxiv.org/abs/2510.27614
arxiv.org
Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements
Set reconciliation protocols typically make two critical assumptions: they are designed for fixed-sized elements and they are optimized for when the difference cardinality, d, is very small. When adap...
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New paper in Springer Computational Statistics: "A novel approach to classical linear regression, enabling accurate model computation from data streams or in a distributed setting while preserving data privacy in federated environments." link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
link.springer.com
Distributed Generalized Linear Models: A Privacy-Preserving Approach
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Reading spot
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Pedro Telles @detig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The iceberg (ice cream) is just outside the shot, surely.
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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Looking forward to the next DARE talk.
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