Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
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Lynn Cherny
Creative ML and AI, NLP and data science
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.
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AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net
IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
Science Workflows - Conversing with antiquity — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors arxiv.org
TITAA #80: Fitting a Hot Manifold - by Lynn Cherny open.substack.com
Assistant Professors in Computer Science (5 positions) vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
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Flavien CORONINI (@FlavienC) on X x.com
Document Understanding Leaderboard - Best AI Models for PDFs & Documents arena.ai
Articles & links
are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
- The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
- Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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@dmimno.bsky.social might interest you deepmind.google/science/work...
@mariaa.bsky.social did you see this arxiv.org/abs/2605.07847
End of the month nl post has a bunch of bangers on AI and fiction, two by @mariaa.bsky.social in fact 😀. Also the usual web toys and games, some AI video contest winner links, Krea 2 LoRAs, and some fun games things. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
Lynn Cherny reposted
Many openings for Assistant Professors in Computer Science at Maastricht University! Areas of interest include Programming Languages and AI+PL/SE (among others). Deadline August 16.
HuggingFace is hiring a senior Python dev (remote) x.com/FlavienC/sta...
I wasn’t aware of the subtleties of specific model performance at document analysis per arena votes. arena.ai/leaderboard/...
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Hah I rec’d a good recent AI based novel in my media recs nl post and gained a new sub (the author) 😄. Anyway, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein is a fine 10-minutes from now AI read.
today was a solid morning of AI industry wtf
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