Richard Jean So

richardjeanso.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 16:45

Excited about this new paper/preprint with Emily Wenger & our student Zini Yang on AI creativity, which develops a novel approach to measuring "cultural reach" for LLMs with content generation; how far they can reach into the weird, surprising parts of the human imagination. arxiv.org/abs/2608.05576

Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 10:45

1. A quick thread to summarize my and Cosma's new piece on LLMs as Homeric songs at the Economist. The piece has its origins in bactra.org/weblog/feral... and this fantastic article by Murray Shanahan et al, which we couldn't link as we would have liked www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Daniel van Strien

danielvanstrien.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 10:45

Small open OCR models are getting better at reading hard historic newspapers. Surya OCR 2.5 (689M) handled 1760s Fraktur, polytonic Greek and pre-reform Russian on my test pages, layout included. Big broadsheets need full-res input: error rate 25% → under 10% huggingface.co/datalab-to/s...

alphaXiv

alphaxiv.org

29 Ekim 2026 22:50

Introducing autoresearch for arXiv papers Change "arxiv" to "autoarxiv" in any paper URL OpenResearch creates a project for you, sets up an environment on your preferred compute, and runs a minimal reproduction. The agent tracks logs, visualizes runs, and produces artifacts, all entirely local

Federico Pianzola

fpianz.eurosky.social

29 Ekim 2026 19:36

Names that come to mind of people who worked on verbs and narrative are Harald Weinrich, Käte Hamburger, Ann Banfield, Andrea Bonomi