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Lynn Cherny
Creative ML and AI, NLP and data science
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Creative ML and AI, NLP and data science with public evidence across Culture, work & education, NLP & language.
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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.
What they're sharing
AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net
IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants anthropic.com
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Science Workflows - Conversing with antiquity — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors arxiv.org
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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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Lynn Cherny reposted
We're offering grants of up to $50,000 in Claude usage credits to researchers accelerating cures for rare diseases. This is our first focused call within AI for Science, our program supporting scientists using Claude to speed up discovery. https://www.anthropic.com/news/rare-d…
@dmimno.bsky.social might interest you deepmind.google/science/work...
@mariaa.bsky.social did you see this arxiv.org/abs/2605.07847
Google model delay
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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Recent commentary
Bizarre NYT headline on this HF case — "OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library"
This season of Silo — I find I don't care at all about the historical backstory of how this happened; it's too easily imaginable that a bunch of dumb assholes in power fucked up the world and made underground slave cultures with drugs and AI
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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