Kurtis Heimerl
@kurti.sh
Associate professor @uwcse.bsky.social
Co-founder at Endaga. Co-chair of GAIA @ IRTF
First generation college student. AS 54429, 339663
Co-founder at Endaga. Co-chair of GAIA @ IRTF
First generation college student. AS 54429, 339663
I don't think it's well understood that Google lost the SEO wars. LLMs/AI let them fight back by controlling the content but there's no going back to a world where Google can correctly identify good human content. It's just not possible.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I don't think it's well understood that Google lost the SEO wars. LLMs/AI let them fight back by controlling the content but there's no going back to a world where Google can correctly identify good human content. It's just not possible.
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I am recruiting new PhD students this year in:
🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI
🥽 Augmented Reality
🎨 Creativity Support Tools
Why join us? Work on state-of-the-art Human-AI research that has real-world impact at one of the top CS programs in the world.
Deadline: Dec 15
See: jonfroehlich.github.io
🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI
🥽 Augmented Reality
🎨 Creativity Support Tools
Why join us? Work on state-of-the-art Human-AI research that has real-world impact at one of the top CS programs in the world.
Deadline: Dec 15
See: jonfroehlich.github.io
Jon E. Froehlich
Professor Froehlich’s academic webpage.
jonfroehlich.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I am recruiting new PhD students this year in:
🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI
🥽 Augmented Reality
🎨 Creativity Support Tools
Why join us? Work on state-of-the-art Human-AI research that has real-world impact at one of the top CS programs in the world.
Deadline: Dec 15
See: jonfroehlich.github.io
🌆 Urban Computing / GeoAI
🥽 Augmented Reality
🎨 Creativity Support Tools
Why join us? Work on state-of-the-art Human-AI research that has real-world impact at one of the top CS programs in the world.
Deadline: Dec 15
See: jonfroehlich.github.io
I once again implore technologists to stop saying they "democratize" things. You're not doing "one person one vote", you're just selling to new people that didn't get sold to before.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I once again implore technologists to stop saying they "democratize" things. You're not doing "one person one vote", you're just selling to new people that didn't get sold to before.
I'm going to assume this is less ominous if you can speak the language.
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm going to assume this is less ominous if you can speak the language.
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Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/
www.irtf.org/anrp/
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/
www.irtf.org/anrp/
Whenever these things happen, I am reminded that solo shooter from a rooftop is just not a leftist way of doing things. It's not communal. Instead a big group of friends station themselves around town with grenades. That's communal.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Whenever these things happen, I am reminded that solo shooter from a rooftop is just not a leftist way of doing things. It's not communal. Instead a big group of friends station themselves around town with grenades. That's communal.
In an update on my own AI negativity, I learned that AI girlfriends are not the most impactful AI product at the moment, it's actually AI boyfriends.
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In an update on my own AI negativity, I learned that AI girlfriends are not the most impactful AI product at the moment, it's actually AI boyfriends.
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On June 13, and 14, several volunteers from the Seattle Community Network installed networking equipment including routers, access points, and cabling to enable broadband internet access for the residents at the Y K Building at 110 14th Ave., in Seattle. #seattlecommunitynetwork #seattle
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
On June 13, and 14, several volunteers from the Seattle Community Network installed networking equipment including routers, access points, and cabling to enable broadband internet access for the residents at the Y K Building at 110 14th Ave., in Seattle. #seattlecommunitynetwork #seattle
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Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA.
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
Full Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA.
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
It's interesting to me that the last two major tech hype cycles (LLMs and VR) both are amazing tech demos that seem full of potential but manifest as shallow "solutions-in-search-of-problems".
June 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It's interesting to me that the last two major tech hype cycles (LLMs and VR) both are amazing tech demos that seem full of potential but manifest as shallow "solutions-in-search-of-problems".
My favorite thing about Hans is how he was drafted into WW1 and died. If life was a book this would be a bit of a heavy handed metaphor.
Halfway through „The AI con“ by
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social
Brilliant! I hit pause a lot to make notes. Definitely will also buy the ebook once it’s available in Germany (22.05.) so that I can scribble properly in the margins thecon.ai
TIL about the „Clever Hans Effect“
@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social
Brilliant! I hit pause a lot to make notes. Definitely will also buy the ebook once it’s available in Germany (22.05.) so that I can scribble properly in the margins thecon.ai
TIL about the „Clever Hans Effect“
Clever Hans - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My favorite thing about Hans is how he was drafted into WW1 and died. If life was a book this would be a bit of a heavy handed metaphor.
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Proud #UW alum @armon.bsky.social, co-founder of high-flying @hashicorp.com, stays grounded by lifting up the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. He and Joshua Kalla recently gave $3M to support #UWAllen research and student success. #UWinnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/05/14/d...
‘An incredible driver of economic mobility’: $3M gift from alum Armon Dadgar and Joshua Kalla will support systems research and student success - Allen School News
Ever since he was a student, Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) has had his head in the cloud. Inspired by an undergraduate research project, he went on to co-found the high-flying company HashiCorp after gradu...
news.cs.washington.edu
May 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Proud #UW alum @armon.bsky.social, co-founder of high-flying @hashicorp.com, stays grounded by lifting up the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. He and Joshua Kalla recently gave $3M to support #UWAllen research and student success. #UWinnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/05/14/d...
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Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)!
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)!
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
What's funny is I talk about this a lot in my networks class; it wasn't just the NSF, the DoD built the Internet. It goes to show how much an ideology (decentralization) can have massive repercussions on designs and how technology isn't wedded to its funders in the way lots of people presuppose.
All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.
May 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What's funny is I talk about this a lot in my networks class; it wasn't just the NSF, the DoD built the Internet. It goes to show how much an ideology (decentralization) can have massive repercussions on designs and how technology isn't wedded to its funders in the way lots of people presuppose.
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key to the healthiness of many hunter gatherer pops of antiquity was VARIETY. one major area where the carnivore bro guys go wrong is imagining these ancient humans as eating just meat. in fact the majority of their calories came from vegetarian sources
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
Hunter-gatherer diets—a different perspective12
See corresponding article on page 682.
ajcn.nutrition.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
key to the healthiness of many hunter gatherer pops of antiquity was VARIETY. one major area where the carnivore bro guys go wrong is imagining these ancient humans as eating just meat. in fact the majority of their calories came from vegetarian sources
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
Nice article linked by my student Innocent on equating monocultures and the Internet: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nice article linked by my student Innocent on equating monocultures and the Internet: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable speaking to the "thin waist" of the Internet. I guess it's least accurate to its time?
April 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable speaking to the "thin waist" of the Internet. I guess it's least accurate to its time?
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Andor has so far made the very intelligent decision to make the Emperor a character in absence. this is because you can't see that big goofus laugh and not love the sonovabitch
April 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Andor has so far made the very intelligent decision to make the Emperor a character in absence. this is because you can't see that big goofus laugh and not love the sonovabitch
What sort of crazy situation would someone need to be in to only need to print the "even" pages of a document?
April 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What sort of crazy situation would someone need to be in to only need to print the "even" pages of a document?
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Wavely Diagnostics is a #UWAllen startup from the lab of the amazing #ShyamGollakota - www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVNQ7P41
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April 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wavely Diagnostics is a #UWAllen startup from the lab of the amazing #ShyamGollakota - www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVNQ7P41
As ostensibly a networking professor doing computer things, I want to sadly note the passing of Dave Taht, an absolutely amazing engineer and person. These are the people who make the world go around and it's sad there's one less today (libreqos.io/2025/04/01/i...)
In loving memory of Dave Täht
04/01/2025We are devastated to report that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a better pl…
libreqos.io
April 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
As ostensibly a networking professor doing computer things, I want to sadly note the passing of Dave Taht, an absolutely amazing engineer and person. These are the people who make the world go around and it's sad there's one less today (libreqos.io/2025/04/01/i...)
I don't think people quite understand how much of current US electoral politics is simple outlandish contrarianism. Like a whole country of oppositional defiant disorders.
Elon Musk: pours tens of millions into a race that has never seen even a fraction of that much money. bribes multiple voters with $1 million checks to vote. offers any Wisconsin voter who proves they voted $50. wears a fucking cheesehead
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins
April 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I don't think people quite understand how much of current US electoral politics is simple outlandish contrarianism. Like a whole country of oppositional defiant disorders.
I think an underappreciated element of the current electorate (both sides) is that they literally just want someone to do something, anything. Democrats being the party of staid management is a losing play.
I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.
I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.
Maybe a sports metaphor for the moment: You can’t win if you’re always playing defense. Especially when you’re behind. The Dems need to realize that their prevent defense failed, they are way behind, and they need to get off their heels and onto their toes and at least put up a fight.
March 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I think an underappreciated element of the current electorate (both sides) is that they literally just want someone to do something, anything. Democrats being the party of staid management is a losing play.
I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.
I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.
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Allen School’s Shangbin Feng and Rock Yuren Pang earn IBM Ph.D. Fellowships for seeking to change the narrative around AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/27/a...
Allen School’s Shangbin Feng and Rock Yuren Pang earn IBM Ph.D. Fellowships for seeking to change the narrative around AI - Allen School News
Allen School Ph.D. student Shangbin Feng envisions the work of large language models (LLMs) as a collaborative endeavor, while fellow student Rock Yuren Pang is interested in advancing the conversatio...
news.cs.washington.edu
February 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Allen School’s Shangbin Feng and Rock Yuren Pang earn IBM Ph.D. Fellowships for seeking to change the narrative around AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/27/a...
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ACM HotMobile workshop registration rates are unbelievable... just for a two-day workshop.
I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(
I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(
January 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
ACM HotMobile workshop registration rates are unbelievable... just for a two-day workshop.
I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(
I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(