Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social
Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
I started reading _George Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces_ — and it’s not working out right, I am highlighting or bookmarking every page.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I started reading _George Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces_ — and it’s not working out right, I am highlighting or bookmarking every page.
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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The country that produced the novels of Georges Perec has fallen to this level
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The country that produced the novels of Georges Perec has fallen to this level
Weekend post has animating sprites and Midjourney styles, web arty proc gen and fun ( @samplereality.bsky.social's great 1 Million Random Acts, for instance), game article links, some narrative AI papers (new creative writing bench, couple on style), infovis/ds. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-73-a...
TITAA #73: Animated Sprites After Eating
Nano Banana Pro - MJ Style Creator - "Simple" Game Design - CW Benchmarks - Mgrep - Sprite Animation
arnicas.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Weekend post has animating sprites and Midjourney styles, web arty proc gen and fun ( @samplereality.bsky.social's great 1 Million Random Acts, for instance), game article links, some narrative AI papers (new creative writing bench, couple on style), infovis/ds. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-73-a...
Huh. new great looking book, Surrealism and the Tarot, from Fulgur Press! www.fulgur.co.uk/books/surrea... cc @alphachar.bsky.social
Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story - Fulgur Press
A grounding-breaking survey
www.fulgur.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Huh. new great looking book, Surrealism and the Tarot, from Fulgur Press! www.fulgur.co.uk/books/surrea... cc @alphachar.bsky.social
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In stressy times I find myself reading a lot more horror, & I always find myself comforted there. My spirits can be brightened by just one short story of Ligotti or Aickman.
This year I’ve read some really great books by new-to-me horror writers, so if you’re in the mood for a chilly hug, read on…
This year I’ve read some really great books by new-to-me horror writers, so if you’re in the mood for a chilly hug, read on…
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In stressy times I find myself reading a lot more horror, & I always find myself comforted there. My spirits can be brightened by just one short story of Ligotti or Aickman.
This year I’ve read some really great books by new-to-me horror writers, so if you’re in the mood for a chilly hug, read on…
This year I’ve read some really great books by new-to-me horror writers, so if you’re in the mood for a chilly hug, read on…
Absolutely considering this 😜
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Absolutely considering this 😜
If anyone I know here is going to the #ff2025 conf at the British Lib this week, it would be great to connect there! Er, and anyone else in London who wants to grab a coffee or drink, feel free to ping me :)
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If anyone I know here is going to the #ff2025 conf at the British Lib this week, it would be great to connect there! Er, and anyone else in London who wants to grab a coffee or drink, feel free to ping me :)
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We all make society, every day. If we do so simply by solving problems using technology, we will never get anywhere as humanity. Universities are the ground zero of cultural development. And they can do that very cheaply while also supplying the current system with a workforce.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We all make society, every day. If we do so simply by solving problems using technology, we will never get anywhere as humanity. Universities are the ground zero of cultural development. And they can do that very cheaply while also supplying the current system with a workforce.
Lol omg - Eiffel Tower Llama, a new open version of Golden Gate Claude but Parisian. SAEs! huggingface.co/spaces/dloua...
The Eiffel Tower Llama - a Hugging Face Space by dlouapre
Discover how the Eiffel Tower Llama experiment reproduces the Golden Gate Claude demo using an open-source model, showcasing modified model activations to change behavior without prompting tweaks.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Lol omg - Eiffel Tower Llama, a new open version of Golden Gate Claude but Parisian. SAEs! huggingface.co/spaces/dloua...
Great looking edu-ish 80 days-ish gone, love the idea.
I can't lie, seeing the first wishlists trickle in feels amazing after working on this for a year. 🫣
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
Trailmarks on Steam
You're the new fact-checker for the Trailmarks Travel Guide. Your job: Answer trivia, verify facts and circumnavigate the globe before time and money run out. Travel by boat, bus, train, or flight. Tr...
store.steampowered.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Great looking edu-ish 80 days-ish gone, love the idea.
Vive la France, I was given a 10 year visa today. I am so damned happy (and also grateful). 🇫🇷🍾🍷🧀
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Vive la France, I was given a 10 year visa today. I am so damned happy (and also grateful). 🇫🇷🍾🍷🧀
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Tencent's HunyuanOCR
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Tencent's HunyuanOCR
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
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Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
www.conftool.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
@kissane.myatproto.social buckwheat chestnut flour gf sourdough, outstanding - honestly every recipe so far www.amazon.com/Art-Gluten-F...
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@kissane.myatproto.social buckwheat chestnut flour gf sourdough, outstanding - honestly every recipe so far www.amazon.com/Art-Gluten-F...
I just tried Midhjourney's new style "training" (really steering) to create a horrifying folk horror photos effect, and it is super creepy.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I just tried Midhjourney's new style "training" (really steering) to create a horrifying folk horror photos effect, and it is super creepy.
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#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
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I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews
How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.
buthonestly.io
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
The online edition of @hardmaru.bsky.social new book on neuroevolution, Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design neuroevolutionbook.com
- Neuroevolution
neuroevolutionbook.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The online edition of @hardmaru.bsky.social new book on neuroevolution, Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design neuroevolutionbook.com
Short Little Difficult Books - great post from Lincoln Michel open.substack.com/pub/counterc...
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Short Little Difficult Books - great post from Lincoln Michel open.substack.com/pub/counterc...
gemini in vs code: "That's a great question. As a language model, I can't directly view images or photos."
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
gemini in vs code: "That's a great question. As a language model, I can't directly view images or photos."
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perma-link to the full Gemini 3 model card
oh! found an archive link: web.archive.org/web/20251118...
web.archive.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
perma-link to the full Gemini 3 model card
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If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
oh cloudflare. I was going to do some stuff today.
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
oh cloudflare. I was going to do some stuff today.