Archive

March 2026

• Mar 29, 2026
  How to avoid cognitive surrender to AI · ↗ alexpanetta.substack.com
• Mar 28, 2026
  Opt out of very new Python package versions with uv
• Mar 27, 2026
  Colorado advances ban on algorothmic price and wage discrimination · ↗ coloradonewsline.com
• Mar 26, 2026
  How SARS-CoV-2 variants get named on GitHub · ↗ github.com
• Mar 25, 2026
  Prediction markets are coming to Canada · ↗ www.theglobeandmail.com
• Mar 24, 2026
  Will AI help Canadian police counter a tsunami of fraud? · ↗ theijf.org
• Mar 23, 2026
  Vandalism of OpenStreetMap · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
• Mar 22, 2026
  Properly the work of federal public health agencies · ↗ covidtracking.com
• Mar 21, 2026
  For map nerds only: An atlas of world history · ↗ www.oldmapsonline.org
• Mar 20, 2026
  Fight club at the bird feeder · ↗ www.allaboutbirds.org
• Mar 19, 2026
  Make buses faster and more reliable by having fewer stops · ↗ worksinprogress.co
• Mar 18, 2026
  Manitoba introduces bill to ban algorithmic price discrimination · ↗ www.cbc.ca
• Mar 17, 2026
  Prediction markets incentivize bad behaviour · ↗ www.timesofisrael.com
• Mar 16, 2026
  Some insight into writing a book using Quarto · ↗ kieranhealy.org
• Mar 15, 2026
  Using Claude Claude for cross-package statistical audits · ↗ causalinf.substack.com
• Mar 14, 2026
  Getting citizenship just got a lot harder for those of Italian descent · ↗ www.cnn.com
• Mar 13, 2026
  geoBoundaries: An open database of political administrative boundaries · ↗ www.geoboundaries.org
• Mar 12, 2026
  Open banking comes to Canada · ↗ www.forbes.com
• Mar 11, 2026
  The other half of the ATM–bank teller story · ↗ davidoks.blog
• Mar 10, 2026
  What will the paper of the future look like? · ↗ i4replication.org
• Mar 9, 2026
  Changes in acetaminophen use after the White House Tylenol briefing · ↗ www.thelancet.com
• Mar 8, 2026
  Canada exports a lot of coal, but not for power generation · ↗ thehub.ca
• Mar 7, 2026
  Open By Default: A database of access to information requests to the Canadian government · ↗ theijf.org
• Mar 6, 2026
  The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database · ↗ github.com
• Mar 5, 2026
  Editors hate this one weird trick
• Mar 4, 2026
  Homeownership rate doesn't mean what you think it does · ↗ x.com
• Mar 3, 2026
  The productivity shock coming to academic publishing · ↗ causalinf.substack.com
• Mar 2, 2026
  Testing ZeroClaw, Part 1: Setup
• Mar 1, 2026
  Some examples of just-build-things-ism

February 2026

• Feb 28, 2026
  Will you peruse this post? · ↗ www.merriam-webster.com
• Feb 28, 2026
  Big Muddy turns one month old
• Feb 27, 2026
  It's incredibly easy to game Twitter's trending news algorithm
• Feb 26, 2026
  These academic journal AI policies aren't going to last
• Feb 25, 2026
  Agentic engineering patterns · ↗ simonwillison.net
• Feb 24, 2026
  Comparing the Claw-like agent ecosystem · ↗ clawcharts.com
• Feb 23, 2026
  LLMs automate the erosion of online anonymity · ↗ arxiv.org
• Feb 22, 2026
  Oral texts · ↗ havelock.ai
• Feb 21, 2026
  Film recommendation: Bugonia
• Feb 20, 2026
  The increasingly inevitable social media ban for kids · ↗ www.afterbabel.com
• Feb 19, 2026
  A brief history of chocolate in the army · ↗ www.mcgill.ca
• Feb 18, 2026
  Democratizing voice cloning scams · ↗ github.com
• Feb 17, 2026
  Don't let AI do your thinking for you · ↗ blog.cosmos-institute.org
• Feb 16, 2026
  In the multiverse of forking paths · ↗ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
• Feb 15, 2026
  Regulatory uncertainty threatens biotech innovation · ↗ www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
• Feb 14, 2026
  US Medicaid data gets DOGE'd · ↗ opendata.hhs.gov
• Feb 13, 2026
  More on vibe researching · ↗ joshuagans.substack.com
• Feb 12, 2026
  An end-to-end AI pipeline for policy evaluation papers · ↗ ape.socialcatalystlab.org
• Feb 11, 2026
  There is only one statistical test · ↗ allendowney.substack.com
• Feb 10, 2026
  The case for sharing clinical trial data · ↗ www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
• Feb 9, 2026
  Why a Canadian news site just launched an AI publishing tool · ↗ thehub.ca
• Feb 8, 2026
  A handful of composers created most classic RPG soundtracks
• Feb 7, 2026
  How do you regain access to your computer if you lose your memory? · ↗ news.ycombinator.com
• Feb 6, 2026
  Anthropic's statistical analysis skill doesn't get statistical significance quite right · ↗ github.com
• Feb 5, 2026
  The CIA World Factbook has been memory holed · ↗ simonwillison.net
• Feb 4, 2026
  Guinea worm one step closer to eradication · ↗ www.cartercenter.org
• Feb 3, 2026
  msgvault: A personal email archive and search system to watch · ↗ wesmckinney.com
• Feb 2, 2026
  The Divergent Association Task, a measure for creativity · ↗ www.pnas.org
• Feb 1, 2026
  A/B testing for advertising is not randomized · ↗ flovv.github.io

January 2026

• Jan 31, 2026
  Total electoral wipeout · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
• Jan 30, 2026
  Twyman's law · ↗ en.wikipedia.org
• Jan 29, 2026
  Remember that a lot of numbers are fake · ↗ davidoks.blog
• Jan 28, 2026
  Welcome to Big Muddy