# The Oblivious Robot

> A blog by Dr. Debasish Pattanayak on distributed algorithms, swarms of robots, research and writing with AI.

Posts are Markdown files. Text is marked by who wrote it: `by-human` (the author's own words), `by-collab` (the author's ideas written up by AI) and `by-ai` (written by AI). Everything is licensed under CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it, with credit. Details: https://drdebmath.github.io/blog/posts/license.md

## Posts

- [Writing Papers When Your Co-author* Has No Memory†](https://drdebmath.github.io/blog/posts/co-author-with-no-memory.md): A checklist for writing research papers with an AI co-author: literature search, glossary, phrase bank, structure and polish, and where AI helps at each step. (published 2026-09-26, updated 2026-09-26)
- [Why did I start blogging again?](https://drdebmath.github.io/blog/posts/why-did-i-start-blogging-again.md): Why I started blogging again, what to expect here, and why this blog is called The Oblivious Robot. (published 2026-09-26, updated 2026-09-26)

## Pages

- [About](https://drdebmath.github.io/blog/posts/about.md): Dr. Debasish Pattanayak: distributed algorithms for swarms of robots, and a swarm of students.
- [License](https://drdebmath.github.io/blog/posts/license.md): Everything on this blog is licensed under CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it, with credit.