Article on how microcontrollers in resource-constrained environments work! Performing ML inference on tiny hardware improves privacy by running locally, lowers costs for model vendors, and eliminates dependence on network. Notes anil.recoil.org/notes/sigmob..., article dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

GetMOBILE article on benchmarking micro-NPUs now out

Resource-constrained, MCU-scale neural processing units have emerged to provide real-time inference within milliwatt-scale power budgets.

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Weeknotes time! Spent a few days sorting out petabytes of our uni infrastructure, ranging from the ever-ballooning TESSERA and to our growing living evidence database of papers. Also some really fun RA jobs just opened for Deep Learning with SDMs, if youre job hunting 🌍 anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w31

.plan-26-31: Sorting out Tessera and Evidence TAP infrastructure

A petabyte of TESSERA embeddings moves to Source Cooperative, and Taposaur's GROBID metadata index and capability-based downloader take shape for Evidence TAP, while Eio gets some native Windows support.

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I still haven't seen a beaver in the UK, but I can certainly appreciate the results of their beavering! Thanks busy beavers! www.standard.co.uk/news/environ...

Beavers create wetland areas that stay green and boost resilience in drought

Images show how beaver dams and ponds provide a refuge for other wildlife and help humans in dry conditions.

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Read our latest paper on tree species classification using geospatial embeddings model, this time in the gorgeous Trentino region www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌎

TESSERA@geotessera.org · 6d ago

Mapping tree species from space is hard, especially in mountains. But not for Tessera! Read our latest on mapping tree species in Trentino's Alpine forests. geotessera.org/news/2026-07... With @camplantsci.bsky.social #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

Combining several interests, I have a 2-year postdoc position now open on Trustworthy Generative AI for Computational Science at @cst.cam.ac.uk and @iccscambridge.bsky.social (closing date Sept 6th) www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

.plan-2026-w30: Bananas ripen, models open up, O(x)Caml code and skill releases, and trying out @ssh_exe_dev : anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w30

.plan-26-30: Bananas ripen, models open, and OxCaml releases

An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.

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For any bleeding edge OxCaml users out there, I've published a fairly comprehensive update to the Claude marketplace skill for the recent minus39 (and intermediate releases); feedback welcome github.com/avsm/ocaml-c...

update skills for oxcaml minus39 release · avsm/ocaml-claude-marketplace@90cd8e9

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This is a really diverse report; I’m in there talking about sovereign geospatial open source, and I greatly enjoyed reading all the other perspectives as well from the UK!

OpenUK@openuk.bsky.social · 2w ago

🔊 The ultimate AI Openness Report: three years on from the opening of Llama 2 🔊 this report digs deep into the data to understand the market's shifts in technology, policy and more openuk.uk/report/aiope... #aiopenness #llama2 #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openuk #openhq

Two of the world's leading computing companies are backing Tessera! Vultr and AMD announced their support for Tessera at AMD's Advancing AI Day. A substantial share of our global embeddings ran on Vultr cloud infrastructure powered by AMD Instinct GPUs. Read more: geotessera.org/news/2026-07...

Quite the variety of activities lately, from visiting the Arctic (quite cold) and then the House of Lords (quite hot) in the last couple of weeks! Here's .plan-28: anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w28 and .plan-29: anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w29

.plan-26-28: What fun papers piled up while I was out at sea

Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.

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I was just working on a noddy systems problem where I needed a fancy logic to express some odd constraints, and an external review request came in today for a paper with the exact logic I wanted! New conspiracy theory unlocked: SIGPLAN chairs are listening to our phones

This is an adorably retro take on rewilding community that made me yearn for geocities guestbooks of old (especially the callout to Tayside). Thanks Paul! rewilding.domain0.org /cc @kathrynnave.eurosky.social

Paul Payne@payne.io · 3w ago

Wish I could have attended this, your writeup got me so excited about all the topics I wanted to make a tribute: rewilding.domain0.org (self-hosted of course) (you'll want a desktop for this one 😄)

Oh this is so useful for quick scripts: octx, a CLI tool to generate type-safe OCaml serialisers for various formats. You can just check in the output to an existing project. tangled.org/patrick.sirr... by @patrick.sirref.org

patrick.sirref.org/octx

OCaml Code-generation Toolbox

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A smashing morning off an icy Greenland coast crank.recoil.org/w/rhdokroMrn...

Smashing ice off Reynir Fjord in Eastern Greenland

On the NatGeo Endurance

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Current status: second into the Ryberg Fjord in Greenland this season and engaging in polar diplomacy

Just passed the arctic circle! Looking for polar bears using the 'very carefully' technique. 🌍

.plan-2026-w26 weeknotes: Gelato, geospatial, and players of games anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w26

.plan-26-26: Gelato, geospatial, and players of games

Spoke at CHIA's annual conference on AI for a changing world, as well as the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, and started moving TESSERA's embeddings onto Source Cooperative.

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I attended the @cloudnativegeo.org Forum in London, with 50 geospatial geeks from across industry and academia and policy descending on the Jellicoe. I introduced @geotessera.org there and made notes: anil.recoil.org/notes/cng-lo...

A scorching CNG London during Climate Action Week

My notes from the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum gathering outside the US, up on the top floor of the Jellicoe; covering Source Cooperative's open data economics, Argentina's invisible settlement...

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Finding FreeBSD jails pretty hard to use in practise for OCaml CI; the latest is a leak from double forking processes, which is kind of a surprising default www.tunbury.org/2026/06/24/l...

FreeBSD git-daemon leak

The FreeBSD CI workers get slower over time. Is this a build-up on ZFS snapshots or something else?

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Different genre of fonts, but do you know Berkeley Mono? usgraphics.com/products/ber...

TX-02 Berkeley Mono™ Typeface

A love letter to the golden era of computing.

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My afternoon has been derailed by @oppi.li pointing me to the absolutely gorgeous font collection at djr.com/fern

Fern

A humanist bookface, reimagined for the web.

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.plan-26-w25: From planetary scale plans at PROPL to Windows file-descriptor scale problems in OCaml anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w25

.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems

Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.

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I gave a talk on AI for Science at the Cambridge Union this morning and by the end of it the prime minister had resigned. Coincidence? I think so

I was really struck by Starmer's comments a few months ago: "every time I go to pull a lever there are a whole bunch of regulations [...] that mean that the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be". www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...

Starmer frustrated at gap between 'pulling levers' and delivery

PM says regulations, consultations and arm’s-length bodies 'mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than it ought to be'

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A splendidly eccentric 90 year old conservationist is pedalling down the Thames to raise money for a temperate rainforest research station. Please donate if you can and share the story @irishrainforest.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/campaign/wat...

Robin’s Water-Bike Challenge

At 90, Robin Hanbury-Tenison is water-biking 100 miles on the Thames, Oxford to London. An age-defying marathon a day for 4 days. After a lifetime exploring rainforests, he's raising £100,000 to help ...

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Not your average day at work today since Sir David Attenborough dropped by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative today to celebrate a decade of being in the eponymous building (which used to be the old computer science campus pre-2001!). anil.recoil.org/notes/ten-ye... 🌎

Sir David Attenborough joins us to celebrate the Cambridge Conservation Initiative

Sir David Attenborough drops by for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative's tenth birthday in the DAB, and I spend the afternoon demoing TESSERA and the Dash of Life to a campus packed with visitors.

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Was down at the @royalsociety.org last night for Andrew Balmford's epic talk "on feeding the world without costing the earth" as the inaugural winner of the RS Environment Medal. Here's my notes on it including that rarest of sightings: Andrew in a suit! anil.recoil.org/notes/ab-rs-... 🌍

The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth

Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land...

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.plan-2026-w24: I got promoted! Also did loads of hacking. It's been a good week. I owe many people a pint to say thank you. anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w24

.plan-26-24: Apparently a professor now; still debugging io_uring at midnight

Made professor at Cambridge, shipped TESSERA v1.1, bound a local DeepSeek into OCaml after Fable cut out, and filled the gaps in io_uring and Eio.

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@f.luid.org language moves beyond notebooks to explain itself via literate execution. CamFORT tries to bring units of measure to code. But many of these are partial solutions; what would a complete language solution look like? Fortl is @dorchard.bsky.social's new language! github.com/plas4sci/fortl