"HyperDoc - a hypermedia substrate for knowledge workers"

My contribution to yesterday's "Substrates 2026" workshop.

http://hyperdoc.wiki.khinsen.net/view/welcome-visitors/view/substrates-2026-workshop/view/hyperdoc---a-hypermedia-substrate-for-knowledge-workers

In early 1985, Henry Nussbacher sent a letter to all Bitnet contacts calling for admins to hunt down and destroy every chat server because a dozen users actively chatting could bring file transfers to a halt—file transfers being the primary purpose of the network.

Jeff Kell realized that the problem wasn't chatting itself, but redundant traffic from independent connections. So he built the first Relay chat system. I got involved in August, setting up the 10th relay server and contributing code.

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 | by Margaret Mitchell | Mar, 2026 | Medium
https://medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-ai-is-not-a-stochastic-parrot-a99e57766bed

Lisez ça, ça remet bien les idées en place.

Mitchell revient sur la métaphore des perroquets stochastiques. Elle réexplique (l'article originel était pourtant assez clair) que son utilisation permet de pointer les pièges anthropomorphiques des LLM.

Elle détaille néanmoins beaucoup plus pour répondre aux critiques récentes.

"LLMs produce fluent language. Fluent language is what humans associate with intelligence. Therefore, the argument goes, LLMs are intelligent. This is an error in logic that the framing was designed to name."

New #CHI2026 paper: “How are Vibrotactile Experiences Visually Represented? A Taxonomy of Illustration Characteristics”

We analyzed hundreds of images from research articles to uncover how vibrotactile experiences are visually represented and synthesized their features into a comprehensive taxonomy.

preprint: https://hal.science/hal-05488387/

This work received a Best Paper Award at #CHI2026

#haptics #tactileDesign #visualization #taxonomy