@jessicahullman.bsky.social in the comments: "I’ve had similar experiences – as soon as model fitting runs into a problem, coding agents start devising their own idiosyncratic solutions" oh no. this plus [relentless proactivity](simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...) is a nightmare
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tj mahr 🤘
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data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
What they're sharing
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive simonwillison.net
Robust Inference and Model Criticism Using Bagged Posteriors arxiv.org
Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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Articles & links
who up bagging their posteriors arxiv.org/abs/1912.07104
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Recent commentary
feeling great about AI with my job at the “counting letters in words” factory
This new verbal style. It’s all over the place. Okay, YouTube. Terse. I can’t stand it. I blame AI.
i had the llm extract part of an old C++ windows program (circa 2005) into a CLI app and then i told it to memoize some of the work (it does grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and got a 5x performance boost
MS Teams is missing the last six months of messages in each of my chats. It's weird how AI is revolutionizing programming and yet Microsoft stuff has never seemed so janky.
having the LLM create a javascript function to fill out a form I frequently use and download the results into .csvs with names i want
yes I worked with so-and-so and well they just did everything with AI
jumping through a paper about Navajo English and it used the phrase "AI children". it took me a second. (AI: American Indian).
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