David Mimno

dmimno.bsky.social

09 September 2026 19:18

Cars are a surprisingly good model for public acceptance of AI. Some people love them and tinker with them. Others hate and reject them. Most find their own car useful. But everyone viscerally hates everyone else's car: traffic, parking, dangerous driving, pollution, etc.

David Mimno

dmimno.bsky.social

09 September 2026 19:18

NeurIPS getting 30,000 submissions? Traffic jam. Social media overrun by slop videos? Smog. We're already trying to create "pedestrianized plazas" in classrooms.

arxiv cs.CL

arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:30

Elena Alvarez-Mellado Observatorio Lazaro: A self-populating database of anglicism usage in the Spanish press https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00713

Charles Pletcher

charlespletcher.org

22 June 2026 17:17

For an upcoming conference presentation: a heatmapped version of Greek tragedy to show how "epic" or "tragic" each line is (by averaging log likelihoods of lemmata appearing in each genre)—the Tutor's speech in S. Electra is particularly exciting to see in context pletcher.github.io/ccc-2026-web...

David Mimno

dmimno.bsky.social

02 June 2026 18:04

I can confirm that using claude to write rust works pretty well. RustMallet is a whisker faster than Java Mallet at training topic models, and adds some tweaks that I have avoided in Mallet for stability reasons (multiple saved states by default). github.com/mimno/RustMa...