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• Post #4304173

  This code is an absolute mess but at least it's correct

• Post #4304172

  Egg. E. E. Egg.

• Post #4304171

  The ACM made $6m profit and total assets grew $25m this year https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131921358

• Post #4304170

  Question about accessibility best practice in PL papers/PDFs: in the \Description of a figure, say a bunch of inference rules or a grammar definition, what do you write? Do you write a visual description of what the reader "sees"? Because, the text referencing the figure already describes the meaning. So it seems redundant to describe their meaning, which is sort of my instinct. (reposting publicly feel free to boost)

• Post #4304169

  In case you didn’t notice, ICFP dropped Anduril as a sponsor https://icfp26.sigplan.org

• Post #2340226

  If you are an author whose work is on the ACM DL, I'd like to strongly encourage you to check the accuracy of the AI Summary of your paper, and send feedback to the ACM on this feature and the inaccuracies in your summary. See more here: https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations Please boost, repost, and otherwise steal this post to reach other authors. In long: The ACM has begun rolling out "Digital Library Premium" features. A very notable one is AI Summaries of papers,...

• Post #1327339

  Wrote a new blog post: "Against Vibes: When is a Generative Model Useful" https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/

• Post #1327337

  I think if I spend any more time on this, I'll risk doing more harm than good: new blog post on "AI" and ethics. https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/

• Post #1327336

  @GeoffWozniak I'd be shocked if anyone agree with me completely. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. I don't think my mind is totally settled on the matter, but.. it is more settled having written this

• Post #1327335

  It's been a long time and many rants ago so you may not remember my ranting about UBC installing some artificial turf fields that shed not-even-micro-plastics all over the place, so may I just say "wow who could have seen this coming" https://news.ubc.ca/2026/03/ubc-study-links-artificial-turf-fields-to-lethal-chemical-threat-for-salmon/

• Post #1327334

  New blog post triggered after reading an autogenerated bibliography: https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/24/please-don-t-generate-your-bibliography/

• Post #1327333

  Well this is a great article about what science is and how it has been corrupted by metrics and what LLMs have to do with this. But now I’m depressed again https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows

• Post #1327331

  I for one welcome our new feathery overlords https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1s9pb2r/welcome_to_goosecouver_updated_honk_requirements/

• Post #1327330

  accidental prompt injection while trying to look up a quote

• Post #867258

  Finally setup a browser redirect from dl.acm.org to https://al.radbox.org and it is so fucking embarrassing for the ACM how much better this experience is

• Post #808525

  A list of software pledging not to use "AI" https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

• Post #320534

  Good news ACM Financial Data Fans, the ACM released new high-level financial data on their CEO search page: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/ceo-search TLDR: They made $2m in profit last year, up from $300k in 2024 (depending on how exactly you define profit. but both of these are using the definition consistent with my original article so I'm stuck giving them the $300k). The projected loss of $6m--$8m by 2026 (see https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/10/03/are-the-acm-s-profits-supporti...