Maria Antoniak

mariaa.bsky.social

15 October 2026 21:09

babe wake up, new results just dropped, lda is still great

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social

15 October 2026 14:46

George Pólya famously said that `it is better to solve one problem five different ways than five problems one way.' He'd be sad to learn what we found: RLVR pushes LLMs in exactly the opposite direction, toward solving each problem in just one way! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2610.11064

MIT Press

mitpress.bsky.social

14 October 2026 23:22

"An instant classic. [Data By Design] celebrates data visualization while also casting light on the dark parts of its history ... with rigor and grace." — @albertocairo.com "Data By Design" shows how visualization can lead to a more liberatory world. Out Oct 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker

nomads.bsky.social

14 October 2026 23:19

For the last few months, I've been hard at work on a digital humanities project: Mr. Chatterbox, the Victorian Gentleman Chatbot. Now, I'm excited to release Mr.Chatterbox-2.7B, a chatbot pretrained *and* fine-tuned on 19th-century text: huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

Joshua Raclaw

joshuaraclaw.com

13 October 2026 01:48

Yiddish words of the day 🍂 dinye (דיניע): pumpkin dinozaver (דינאָזאַװער): dinosaur dinyezaver (דיניעזאַװער): pumpkinosaurus