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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)

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 · 29/08/2026

Thanks for the pointer. There is a comment section in each report that can be used to collect feedback that will drive the next revisions of each draft. I am still working on the workflow for possible revisions.

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Suggestions are accepted for more seed papers, seminal papers with 10+ years, and I plan to issue a couple of reports per month since the process is almost fully automated.

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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 · 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

Want my GPU? It comes with instructions.

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That image shows how hard it is to interpret fused data. Our approach allows to read the fragments separately and in turn.

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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 · 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 · 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

Then it took a life of its own when I asked Sol to improve the draft and make it a strong theory paper. Fable was doing reviews and Sol advancing. Now we are running Jepsen Maelstrom to collect traces for the experimental part. Wild.

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I had a long standing open problem I wanted to explore. Initially I discussed it by voice with chat GPT on a car trip. Then at the machine we did a research workflow to find how it related to prior work and confirm novelty. Then it was hard process of formalizing, me setting directions.

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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

Cache Merging as a Convergent Replicated State for Multi-Agent Latent Reasoning. Work with Luís Brito from IPVC.

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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

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 · 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

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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 · 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

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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 · 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...

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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

Just starting a new religion 💪

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