arnicas
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Lynn Cherny. Creative AI, NLP, data science, infovis, narrative, sci fi. Consultant in France. Bio: Ph.D. Linguistics at Stanford, studied online community, worked in […]
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JOB: Research Scientist at Wikimedia
"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge […]
"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge […]
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mastodon.online
December 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
JOB: Research Scientist at Wikimedia
"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge […]
"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge […]
A little reminder on top of my latest mid-month links newsletter about the British Lib Tales of the Weird - https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-735-weird-december-tales
TITAA #73.5: Weird December Tales
Image Similarity - Procjam - Museum Labels - Shopify?! - RAG - Myrninerest - Quantum Magic
arnicas.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A little reminder on top of my latest mid-month links newsletter about the British Lib Tales of the Weird - https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-735-weird-december-tales
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Very cool!
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
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The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Very cool!
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
This conference is very high quality on the tech front and attendance front — major cultural heritage institutions! and every chat i had was interesting. Strong rec. Well done, British Lib team! https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/115668038384713395
Digital Scholarship at the BL (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images Safe travels to all the #ff2025 #ai4lam visitors from all of us in the British Library Digital Research Team! See you at Fantastic Futures 2026 in Washington D.C. next September!
techhub.social
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This conference is very high quality on the tech front and attendance front — major cultural heritage institutions! and every chat i had was interesting. Strong rec. Well done, British Lib team! https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/115668038384713395
Folks concerned about prompt optimization for tasks might want to look at packages like DSpy https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy #ff2025
GitHub - stanfordnlp/dspy: DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models
DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models - stanfordnlp/dspy
github.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Folks concerned about prompt optimization for tasks might want to look at packages like DSpy https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy #ff2025
Great insights from Nation Library of Sweden attempts at AI assisted workflows - if you have a long complex pipeline, it’s hard to debug or find location of a decision; and sometimes when AI method struggles, it would have been hard for humans. #ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Great insights from Nation Library of Sweden attempts at AI assisted workflows - if you have a long complex pipeline, it’s hard to debug or find location of a decision; and sometimes when AI method struggles, it would have been hard for humans. #ff2025
Yale Library talk on implementing MCP call to Yale catalogue in Claude — with great results. Boosted user confidence in searches. #ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yale Library talk on implementing MCP call to Yale catalogue in Claude — with great results. Boosted user confidence in searches. #ff2025
Fab from French Ministry of Culture - https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr for people to compare LLM responses blindly and then learn about them. Developed by a solid multidisciplinary team. #ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Fab from French Ministry of Culture - https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr for people to compare LLM responses blindly and then learn about them. Developed by a solid multidisciplinary team. #ff2025
Hmm, Rachel Coldicutt - “AI is an austerity policy” - if you don’t have enough money, throw it to AI. And “FOMO is not a strategy.” Makes good points, although I am a fan of the creepy & weird and she isn’t 😆 #ff2025
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hmm, Rachel Coldicutt - “AI is an austerity policy” - if you don’t have enough money, throw it to AI. And “FOMO is not a strategy.” Makes good points, although I am a fan of the creepy & weird and she isn’t 😆 #ff2025
I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/
My fairytale semantic search app, i forgot the link: https://ghostweather.com/apps/fairytale-hunt/
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My fairytale semantic search app, i forgot the link: https://ghostweather.com/apps/fairytale-hunt/
Hey, I made a fairytale semantic search app! Select part of the text, and navigate to a new text snippet. Find themes! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ghygca5j533iez1r8qh6j/Screen-Recording-2025-10-18-at-2.58.41-PM.mov?rlkey=qyh1yqz55i818u5lqyo3ld6fq&dl=0 #dh #folklore
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Hey, I made a fairytale semantic search app! Select part of the text, and navigate to a new text snippet. Find themes! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ghygca5j533iez1r8qh6j/Screen-Recording-2025-10-18-at-2.58.41-PM.mov?rlkey=qyh1yqz55i818u5lqyo3ld6fq&dl=0 #dh #folklore
I wrote about the 3d generated World Labs splats in my latest, along with the other fun news of the past 2 weeks (video test, reve image editing, games AI, narrative, data science tools) https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-71-splats-and-fat-cats
TITAA #71: Splats and Fat Cats
World Labs splats - Video Cats - Distributed Heroines - Among AIs - Historical Type - Reve
arnicas.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I wrote about the 3d generated World Labs splats in my latest, along with the other fun news of the past 2 weeks (video test, reve image editing, games AI, narrative, data science tools) https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-71-splats-and-fat-cats
What is a door? And why are the AI generated ones so... weird? It's like hands, but more liminal, by definition I guess. In my latest newsletter with the other news of the past 2 weeks and weirdness of the past month. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-what-is-a-door-anyway
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
What is a door? And why are the AI generated ones so... weird? It's like hands, but more liminal, by definition I guess. In my latest newsletter with the other news of the past 2 weeks and weirdness of the past month. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-what-is-a-door-anyway
My latest end-of-month newsletter tests out the new smart gemini nano-banana image gen model, along with the other usual video, 3d, narrative & games research and links, etc. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-cottage-door-generation
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My latest end-of-month newsletter tests out the new smart gemini nano-banana image gen model, along with the other usual video, 3d, narrative & games research and links, etc. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-cottage-door-generation
My latest nl covers Braitenberg's odd little book on vehicle agents (from 1986), a classic. Also the latest AI news, narrative research, games with poetry, and info extraction frameworks. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-69-braitenberg-vehicle-agents
TITAA #69: Braitenberg Vehicle Agents
Info Extraction Tools - Poetry Games - Video Gen - Stendhal's Tips - 3d Prison
arnicas.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My latest nl covers Braitenberg's odd little book on vehicle agents (from 1986), a classic. Also the latest AI news, narrative research, games with poetry, and info extraction frameworks. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-69-braitenberg-vehicle-agents
A couple from the Creativity & Narrative section of my newsletter - Creative Preference Optimization (arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442) and Creative Thought Embeddings: A Framework for Instilling Creativity in Large language Models ( […]
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mstdn.social
June 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A couple from the Creativity & Narrative section of my newsletter - Creative Preference Optimization (arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442) and Creative Thought Embeddings: A Framework for Instilling Creativity in Large language Models ( […]
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
June 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
What was RadiantAI? In my latest newsletter: What was Radiant AI, anyway? “A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy.” Radiant AI (Bethesda) was an umbrella term for a bunch of AI features, especially a greatly expanded "AI package" system that gave NPCs […]
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mstdn.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
What was RadiantAI? In my latest newsletter: What was Radiant AI, anyway? “A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy.” Radiant AI (Bethesda) was an umbrella term for a bunch of AI features, especially a greatly expanded "AI package" system that gave NPCs […]
Newsletter post about the discovery and resurrection of a Merlin manuscript, which includes interesting fashion commentary. Done at Cambridge Univ Libs. #dh https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-675-merlin-the-shape-shifter?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
June 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Newsletter post about the discovery and resurrection of a Merlin manuscript, which includes interesting fashion commentary. Done at Cambridge Univ Libs. #dh https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-675-merlin-the-shape-shifter?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
And evidently Aby Warburg of the Warburg Institute thought he was a werewolf https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
And evidently Aby Warburg of the Warburg Institute thought he was a werewolf https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
Short link thread from my latest newsletter... the Gullah-Geechee folks of the waterways of the US southeast, with their folklore about ghosts, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/haunting-drums-and-shadows and song samples from the Smithsonian Folkways […]
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mstdn.social
May 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Short link thread from my latest newsletter... the Gullah-Geechee folks of the waterways of the US southeast, with their folklore about ghosts, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/haunting-drums-and-shadows and song samples from the Smithsonian Folkways […]
Victor Hugo was an amazing artist as well. I wrote up a visit to an exhibition in London about his strange ink art, castles and ink stains and more. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/04/victor-hugo-drawings/ #Museums
May 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Victor Hugo was an amazing artist as well. I wrote up a visit to an exhibition in London about his strange ink art, castles and ink stains and more. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/04/victor-hugo-drawings/ #Museums