Roly Perera

Roly Perera

@dynamicaspects.org

Making software more open, explorable and self-explanatory https://dynamicaspects.org/research Also: subjectivity, agency, active inference, niche construction, enactivism @plrg-bristol.bsky.social @iccscambridge.bsky.social @f.luid.org

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Andrew McNutt
@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social

Do you like VIS/HCI/programming interfaces? Do you care about critical visualization? Or perhaps building dynamic data interfaces? Perhaps some combo therein? If so! I'm hiring for Ph.D. student to work with me at UBC starting Fall 2027! You should apply! www.mcnutt.in#/hiring-26

mcnutt.inAndrew McNuttAndrew McNutt is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, where he leads the HAVOC Lab and works on HCI, visualization, and programming interfaces.
Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

New preprint with Robert Atkey. This paper recasts Galois slicing (a program slicing technique) as a kind of automatic differentiation, with lattices of slices corresponding to tangent spaces, and forward and backward slicing corresponding to forward- and reverse-mode AD. arxiv.org/abs/2511.09203

arxiv.orgGalois Slicing as Automatic DifferentiationGalois slicing is a technique for program slicing for provenance, developed by Perera and collaborators. Galois slicing aims to explain program executions by demonstrating how to track approximations ...
Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

Excited for three Fluid presentations coming up: Fluid: Towards Transparent, Explorable Research Outputs rsecon25.society-rse.org Language-Based Dependency Tracking for Explorables liveprog.org Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

liveprog.orgWorkshop on Live Programming (LIVE)The 11th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2025) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.
Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

Main claim: functionally speaking (and in contrast to the usual materialist line about the Cartesian Theatre), things do “come together for the persual of a Central Meaner” — not as a static representation but as a dynamic capability. Our capacity to behave about the content is the representation.

Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

Excited to be speaking on Subjectivity as Self-Simulation: Virtualising the Cartesian Theatre at the AGI 2025 Philosophy and Machine Consciousness workshop. Even more buzzed to see @annaciaunica.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social just announced as invited speakers! agi-conf.org/2025/ 🤯

agi-conf.orgHome - AGI-25The 18th Annual AGI Conference August 10 – 13, 2025 IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL FROM REYKJAVÍK UNIVERSITY, ICELAND Register to Attend – Live or Virtually The frontier of mind and machine is closer than ever. ...

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Sakana AI
@sakanaai.bsky.social

Introducing The Darwin Gödel Machine sakana.ai/dgm The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants, allowing for open-ended exploration of the vast design space of such self-improving agents.

Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

What’s wrong about IIT is closely related to what’s wrong about the Hard Problem. There is no Hard Problem of consciousness that science needs to solve. Science only needs to explain why it seems like there’s a Hard Problem. But that’s a non-Hard problem, by definition.

Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

The basic problem with IIT is that it takes our intuitions about consciousness and treats the content of those intuitions as the observable to be explained. But the actual observable to be explained is simply the fact that we have intuitions with that content. Explaining that would cover all bases.

Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

I love that a human artifact is a full light-day away

DocAtCDI@docatcdi.com

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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Institute of Computing for Climate Science
@iccscambridge.bsky.social

👀 Fancy a summer internship working at the intersection of programming languages, AI/ML and HCI, working on a new language being developed at ICCS for open climate science communication? See @f.luid.org and www.epsrc.group.cam.ac.uk/DTP/internsh... for more information. ⏰ Deadline Fri 14 March!

epsrc.group.cam.ac.ukInternships | EPSRC Doctoral Training OpportunitiesApplications are now open! STEM Widening Participation Research Internship Programme The Schools of the Physical Sciences and Technology are inviting current undergraduate students to apply for an eig...

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@chrisshank.com

For example, it becomes possible for a web extension to turn any web page into a spatial canvas and start deconstructing it!

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The next evolution of the <folk-shape> element is custom HTML attribute that lets you spatially manipulate HTML elements. If no position or height/width it will auto-detect those values to you can seamlessly transition between intrinsic and manually-controlled sizing/position.

Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

Something depressing (and possibly inaccurate) about a CS conference pitching itself as “radical, visionary and open” but only having 3 female PC members out of a total of 23.

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Inst. for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution UZ
@isle-uzh.bsky.social

Our next ISLE Colloquium will be from Sarah Brocard (Université de Neuchâtel), on "The evolutionary origins of event cognition in hominids", Tues 25 Feb 4:15pm, UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121 evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-a...

evolvinglanguage.chGreat apes and humans perceive events in a similar way - NCCR Evolving LanguageThis is an agents’ world. Through a transspecies study, researchers from the University of Neuchâtel and NCCR Evolving Language have discovered that great apes could have a similar perception of event...
Roly Perera
@dynamicaspects.org

I love the work of Pierre Dragicevic et al on “multiverses” as a form of research transparency. But multiverses are at play even within a single computation, in the form of different instances of the same subcomputation – each seeing a different part of the input and acting differently as a result.