NYU Center for Data Science

nyudatascience.bsky.social

22 October 2026 20:02

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...

Melissa Terras

melissaterras.bsky.social

22 October 2026 15:23

View from a hotel, #London! Got tix for Bayeux Tapestry this evening (couldn’t get one for last week when I was actually IN London, so worked on the train and back up v early tomorrow!). My slot is after 7.30pm and I hear there are 2 hour queues and it shuts at 9? So 🤞#academicglamour

Tom Aarsen

tomaarsen.com

21 October 2026 21:49

🧵 I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.2.0! Featuring model merging with Arcee AI's mergekit, load models faster, & evaluators share work across GPUs automatically. Plus lower-memory losses, multi-vector improvements & plenty of fixes. Thread with highlights 👇

mr. TIM

timkellogg.me

21 October 2026 21:37

Flint: a brand new, from scratch, small LLM that’s a heck of a lot faster than Qwen3.8-27B and basically as good recursive.com/updates/intr...

Teagan Johnson

teagrjohnson.bsky.social

21 October 2026 21:35

I'll be presenting our work on characterizing the narrative content of web-scale data at #EMNLP2026! @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social ash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social Would love to see you there! 📍 Hall H, Poster Session F 🕘 Tue Oct 27, 9:00-10:30