There's the new JavaScript edition

That's an interesting point, but that's not really due to recorded music is it? We sit around a TV, not a record player or stereo (though maybe those technologies were the bridge).

I should also add that you don't need the LLM/VLM to do this... you can have humans do some (or all) of the algorithm. It's just that the LLM/VLM solution makes it scale and can highlight images for editors that they might not have considered. (6/5)

Images selected in this way are better representatives of the main properties of the concept, while also highlighting what makes it different from other, related concepts. The paper with more details is here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.15059 (5/5)

We also extended this idea to build a Contrastive QuizRank. Instead of just considering what is interesting about the concept (e.g., the Western Bluebird), we let the LLM figure out what makes it different from a "distractor" (e.g., the Mountain Bluebird). (4/5)

So if I ask: "what is the chest color of the Western Bluebird?", a good image helps you answer correctly (orange). QuizRank uses an LLM to generate questions (based on the article) and a VLM to take the test. Images that help the VLM do well on the test are better and are ranked more highly. (3/5)

For example, given the 234 different images of the Western Bluebird, which should I pick? Our intuition is that with a "good" instructional image, someone should be able to answer questions about important visual properties of the concept better than with a "bad" image. (2/5)

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And by *cool, I mean the research. Not what it implies

Very cool... We found something related in privacy. Affordances/design->shifts in perceived norms around sharing (which deviate from actual norms)->increased sharing by individual->increased sharing by community

I'm not that mean... I only hate your single-author papers... :) (but seriously, good luck. We're too old to stay up this late)

to arxiv? yes... probably

@davidjurgens.bsky.social may have pointers

An extended version from Calvino: www.goodreads.com/quotes/25995...

+1 to dspy for implementing a few different options: dspy.ai/learn/optimi...

It's just a mess of a reviewing process. Forced reviewing, leading to non expert, low quality, short reviews that arrive late (well into rebuttal period), etc. they make a slightly random process very random.

One more for your collection, Lecons de Statique Graphique, Favaro, 1885

Lotka, 1926... so "contemporary" :)