Francis Bach

bachfrancis.bsky.social

23 October 2026 02:05

The one and only Michael Jordan was interviewed last week by the French newspaper Libération. Here is an English translation. Enjoy! www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

NYU Center for Data Science

nyudatascience.bsky.social

23 October 2026 01:58

LLMs run on vectors, not symbols. A preprint led by Yale’s Tom McCoy (@rtommccoy.bsky.social) with CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen.bsky.social found those vectors closely approximate symbolic structure in language, arithmetic, logic, and code. arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 news.yale.edu/2026/10/08/h...

Nathan Lambert

natolambert.bsky.social

22 October 2026 01:11

Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance the risks and benefits of openness! natolambert.com/slides/2026/...

Josef Fruehwald

jofrhwld.bsky.social

21 October 2026 22:56

The phonological crystalline entity is back, this time in typst, and parameterized, so you can mess with the angles if you want: typst.app/project/rP23...

Josef Fruehwald

jofrhwld.bsky.social

21 October 2026 22:56

if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity