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Machine learning and literary history
OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com…
There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells instead. Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it arxiv.org/ab…
Thoughts on metascientific consequences of AI-generated slides & ideas diluting the impression that speakers are commited to what they present. Science runs on personal attachment more than we admit. If it were a cake mix, how wouldn we add back an egg? statmodeling.stat.colum…
Derived datasets are bigger on Hugging Face Hub than people realise. ~73% of analysed datasets on the Hub are derivatives of something else, i.e. cleaned, translated, extended, etc. Built an explorer that infers the missing lineage from content: huggingface.co/spaces/davan...
The geopolitical angle of the AI race is only going to keep accelerating. More domestic talent travel restrictions from the Chinese government. I expect more and more things like this, AI is getting embedded in the core of existing power structures. www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…
Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026 Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more. www.interconnects.ai/p/some-ideas...
Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment. An eventful month with one flagship release after another www.interconnects.ai/p/latest-ope...
This is a sophisticated example that goes beyond checking “does this exist” to “does it support the claim”—which honestly would often improve on pre-AI practices. In a less sophisticated way I’ve just prompted a model to check format of references one by one, and it caught mor…
Jennifer Frey’s vision is not what I want to do, but it does strike me as a likely future for the humanities: ✔️ anti-vocational ✔️ more gen-ed than major ✔️ firmly analog ✔️ might require “greatness” and cultural hierarchy for consecration? In short, dark academia. Gift link.…
This is dire. Starlet is the core of FastAPI and many other Python implementations of web/API servers. The compromise here will be extremely widespread and difficult to contain. arstechnica.com/information-...
New post: Tagging my blog with BERTopic and LLMs. I suspect as token costs increase, we'll see more blended traditional ML/LLM systems. And, in general, they work really well! vickiboykis.com/2026/05/18/t...
After months of delay, here comes the successor post to "The model is the product": the AI decoupling. All about MoE high margin economics, synthetic pretraining weakening commoditization and the new push toward Model IP. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/t...
People who see value in AI are explaining popular anxiety by saying "SV did a bad sales job." Possible. More plausible, for me, is @michellegoldberg.bsky.social: anxiety is highest in the US b/c low trust in leaders generally. But also, come on—why would we ever expect AI not to provoke anxiety?
The Pope teaming up with Anthropic is how I define “ecumenical.”
Academics are willing to make reasonable adjustments. So you see a lot of requests like "Okay. I don't want to be closed-minded. Show me how I can adjust my teaching to reflect AI, without—of course!—turning the class into a class *about* AI." And I wish I had answers.
A secondary advantage of Berkeley making research on ebooks legal is that chatbots become willing to help you