Carlos Baquero

✨ #ECSS_2026 is underway! 🎉 An inspiring first day in Porto, bringing Europe’s Informatics community together to discuss academic strategy, institutional impact, leadership and career development. 🇵🇹 More to come for our shared vision and goals! 🤩 🔗 www.informatics-europe.org/ecss-2026/pr...

Preparing for an Informatics Europe session where I plan to address both the past publishing patterns and the AI transformation of research. Not an easy topic, since we are all figuring out how to cope with the exponential. Will probably frame it as questions for audience.

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Beautiful morning in Madrid. Visiting the statistics department at UC3M for a PhD committee. A large body of work in Network Scale-up survey method.

There are only two options: a) AI only produces sloph and we must double down on detection of AI errors; b) AI produces significant science breakthroughs, and we should double down on detecting human errors.

US manufacturing employment share has now increased for three months in a row (1/2)

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.

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.

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

The 2nd Intellectual Genealogies Report is out: Renamed into Invisibility. What became of Simula. cbaquero.github.io/web/genealog...

If you can still swim and walk, do it. Best things in life are free.

Waiting the moment

Temptation

Not all Algarve is fully developed

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.

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.

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.

Cognitive dissonance

Waiting for arXiv green light, and then likely a JMLR submission. First steps in bringing CRDTs to Latent Communication.

🐋 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

Fire starter

Vim nos dois últimos fim de semana ao Gerês e está surpreendentemente vazio. É de aproveitar.

Ok. Fable and Sol are making new science I barely understand in my field of expertise. Just need to point them into good directions.

Cávado desconhecido

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/...

Claude's last query

We live in exciting times. Auto-research has been automated. Fable been running experiments all night.

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

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

Fora de Época

Fourth Europe Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2026) August 31 to September 4 | Milan | Italy. dare-milan.github.io

⏳ 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

What separates science from a cult? A scientist is genuinely happy when proven wrong. That means progress is being made.

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...

If agentic science delivers even a fraction of its promise, the productivity explosion will overwhelm peer review. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/whe...

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.