My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/ It supports papers, books, and URLs. Usage: pip install harcx harcx references.bib

~200,000 customers still without power, 76 broken utility poles -> This is not getting fixed in a day or two. Cell service intermittent. Indoor temperature = outdoor temperature. Cats and I are co-hibernating. Jackery battery backup failed utterly.

Critical reminders about generators from MTE, but apply to NES customers also. Generator backfeed is a life threatening problem to power crews. Backfed power isn’t just 120v, it goes through your transformer, which steps it up to many thousands of volts on the distribution lines.

Power's out here and all over Nashville. Cats are atop me.

"Dr. Hawley's Opus": ca. 8-9 years ago, my music album release plans fell apart while my machine learning and AI work took off... Now, guess what?! Stay tuned for release details.

"'I've been writing physical simulators since 1975, and in those decades...one thing that I have learned is that the best simulators are not from software companies. They are without exception developed by the concern that needs that simulator." --Mike Engelhardt (LT SPICE), 2018

I had great experiences with close reading as part of this course last fall and using the solveit platform (though you can do it with other platforms, just maybe not as easily. ;-))

Tried @repl.it's agentic coding system: Agent disappeared for nearly an hour without a *single update* or *any code* to show, then halts with "You've reached your usage limit." 🤷‍♂️👎 PS- Says I'm locked out til *tomorrow*? rofl

For the LeJEPA/SIGReg/SSL demo, I added a summary of the algorithm (scroll down) and links to more resources: www.scotthawley.com/ssltoy

Update, new video after pasting in lecture notes, using a newer model, & also telling it to generate audio via ManimVoiceOver: hedges.belmont.edu/PHY2010/Room...

Super interesting results!

Acoustics + Flow = yes I must post. arxiv.org/abs/2510.22439 "a two-stage generative framework..combines a VAE that upsamples band-limited RIRs to full-band quality (48 kHz) + conditional diffusion transformer based on rectified flow matching that generates RIRs from natural language descriptions"

Added a visualization of the Epps-Pulley (aka Gaussian-ness) test used by the SIGReg loss in LeJEPA, ...plus Dark Mode! I find E-P viz to be instructive, esp. when looking at X-shaped or Swiss-Roll-shaped data manifolds.

Just added LeJEPA to my 3D toy demo of Self-Supervised Learning algorithms: hedges.belmont.edu/classificati... (Documentation is minimal. Playing with it *is* the documentation.)

The conundrum for small acts: Spotify is the de facto standard for *discoverability* & reach. Typical "solution": Use Spotify for gaining listeners, but steer fans away: "Please listen on TIDAL/Deezer/Apple/ BandCamp/etc." Plug: My new album release will use ONCE (once.app) for distro+registration👇

Feature Request: That any/all LLMs could* reliably identify themselves upon request. Like a `uname` for LLMs. Preferably `uname -a`. *somehow, not my job! 🤪

Google Maps still doesn't offer support for non-Mercator projections, so #Greenland looks gigantic. One thing you can do in Chrome is: make sure hardware acceleration is on, then go to Layers > More and select "Globe View". @terriblemapshq.bsky.social

I applaud BandCamp for promoting human creativity, yet there's nuance needed since tech has been used creatively by musicians for ages. Are algorithmic compositions generative AI? ML amp models? LANDR mastering? Will retroactive enforcement violate agreements w/ users? stereogum.com/2485199/band...

Call for Papers for ISMIR 2026, Nov 8-12 in Abu Dhabi: ismir2026.ismir.net/authors/call.... Also, if your company is interested in being a Sponsor for the conference, talk to me! (ismir2026.ismir.net/about/organi...)

CS Profs: If you get a grad application from @marcocassar.bsky.social marcocassar.info, he is top-1% and I recommend him enthusiastically, without reservation.

"The more automated the world becomes, the more people crave connection they can trust. This is true in every industry. People want honesty. They want perspective grounded in lived experience. #Trust has become one of the rarest forms of capital." #AIEthics www.rollingstone.com/culture-coun...

When I fail to bring my guitar to physics class (as today), It's good to fall back to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjT... re. Simple Harmonic Motion / Small Oscillations, answering the question, "Is there a song for which the chorus is an equation?" #iTeachPhysics

~9 years ago, I was about to release a music album and then a whole lot of life intervened, including invitations for "AI (ethics) gigs" wayyy more than music gigs. ...Soon the album will finally be released! Stay tuned. ;-) www.scotthawley.com/music/

🎧 Ready to merge AI and music? Join our Creative Machine Learning in Max course this March (online, in English). Explore generative audio models like RAVE, nn~, FlowSynth — & customize them for your own sound. 8 participants. 📅 March 3–24, Tuesdays 2–4 pm 🔗 Reserve today: https://ow.ly/PYfc50X951r

The Bsky API is so wonderfully open, you can DIY it in about 100 lines of Python: gist.github.com/drscotthawle...

Follow-up: x.com/i/trending/2... ...It's almost as if CC is intended as a token-dollars-gobbling machine and the flat-rate subscriptions don't pay out enough. 🤔

Not a compliment

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

Claude itself: "Exactly. Anthropic builds a tool that by design uses tokens as fast as possible, and then sells you the tokens it burns through. It's like if a gas station designed a car that got 2 mpg and wrote glowing blog posts about how far it can drive." ROFL

The "Ralph Loop" is a great setup for one of those "cautionary tale" sci-fi stories. (At least re. the exhaustion of token budgets). venturebeat.com/technology/h...

Evergreen, but esp. for 2026: I resolve not to correct strangers on social media.

Following our previous #ICML2026 call for tutorial topics, we now welcome tutorial proposals! 📆Deadline: February 6, but proposals will be reviewed as they arrive Courtesy the tutorial chairs Claire Vernade (@claireve.bsky.social) and Adam White

Nobody fully follows "The Bitter Lesson." Everyone stops somewhere & says, "We can get way more bang for our budget via tool use, structured ontologies, etc." True BL-pilling means LLM discovers maths, computation, architectures, FP ops, etc. from "scratch", or you wait for someone else to do it.;-)

Man, this is so damn true… - people who argue with others in comments that AI isn't useful = annoying - people who post about how they wrote a new app in an hour with a hierarchical org of 1,000 agents = annoying - me sharing about how I found it useful = just right

CC got me maybe 35% of the way there before running out of tokens. The rest was done interactively / manually. Finished product: 3 websites consolidated into one! www.scotthawley.com

Seeing how the other side lives: Trying Claude Code on a "throwaway" web project and giving it maximum autonomy (within the sandbox):

One area where "AI" (speech to text) has changed my workflow significantly while preserving my agency: I only type about 40% as much as I used to thanks to fast, accurate models like NVIDIA's Parakeet and great open source projects such as Hex by @kitlangton.bsky.social : github.com/kitlangton/Hex

Recommended reading. Suitable for non-religious readers too. Too many quotable parts to pick just one, but.... here's one:

Re. LLM "context rot": Humans -- I -- suffer from this too. Hence daily affirmations, readings, meditations,...etc. Thankful for videos consistently shared by my brilliant friend, pastor-producer-(virtuoso)-guitarist Rex Paul Schnelle. www.facebook.com/crossroadsof...

For consistency, Mosseri's speech should have been him speaking an ad between every pair of sentences and interjecting "suggested" sentences more frequently than his own. ;-)

Interesting proposed connection between Physics & Flow Matching: openreview.net/forum?id=Z8J... (ICLR 2026 submission, anonymous). Looks like reviewers weren't fans: "The motivation of the selected approach is not clear." Well, it's filed under "interpretability" and grounded via the Ising model.🤷‍♂️👍

Blast from the Past, this turned up on my radar today: "If one could devise a successful chess machine, one would seem to have penetrated to the core of human intellectual endeavor." -- Newell, Shaw, & Simon, 1958 iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_b...

EU colleagues: "Next Frontier AI" grants for starting research labs. Proposals due May 2026: next-frontier.ai Funded via SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. EurIPS announcement: www.sprind.org/en/words/mag...

Merry Christmas! Fell asleep last night to HyperMedia Systems (hypermedia.systems) read by ElevenLab's "Father Christmas - Magical Storyteller" voice. 🎅👍

LLM coaching isn't just for "Education," it's for getting s**t done. Creative people operate outside their comfort zone. I use LLM coaching even where I'm an "expert". The case for "AI coaches for experts" may even be stronger than for novices: you need to know when to push back.

Braw! "On behalf of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, I am delighted to confirm that you have been short-listed for the Fulbright-Scotland Distinguished Scholar at the University of Edinburgh." This still might happen, @aagedinburgh.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social! Interview in two weeks.

Now approved on the Chrome Extension Store. This was just a little utility I wanted for me, and I think others would find it useful. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/searc...

Created my first browser extension today - something I've wanted for a while! ( icon via FLUX.1 ;-) ) github.com/drscotthawle...

What if this take is entirely wrong?

All grades in!! 🎉