Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social
Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Vive la France, I was given a 10 year visa today. I am so damned happy (and also grateful). 🇫🇷🍾🍷🧀
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Vive la France, I was given a 10 year visa today. I am so damned happy (and also grateful). 🇫🇷🍾🍷🧀
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Tencent's HunyuanOCR
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Tencent's HunyuanOCR
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.
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Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - Login
www.conftool.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
@kissane.myatproto.social buckwheat chestnut flour gf sourdough, outstanding - honestly every recipe so far www.amazon.com/Art-Gluten-F...
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@kissane.myatproto.social buckwheat chestnut flour gf sourdough, outstanding - honestly every recipe so far www.amazon.com/Art-Gluten-F...
I just tried Midhjourney's new style "training" (really steering) to create a horrifying folk horror photos effect, and it is super creepy.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I just tried Midhjourney's new style "training" (really steering) to create a horrifying folk horror photos effect, and it is super creepy.
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#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.
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I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews
How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.
buthonestly.io
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
The online edition of @hardmaru.bsky.social new book on neuroevolution, Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design neuroevolutionbook.com
- Neuroevolution
neuroevolutionbook.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The online edition of @hardmaru.bsky.social new book on neuroevolution, Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design neuroevolutionbook.com
Short Little Difficult Books - great post from Lincoln Michel open.substack.com/pub/counterc...
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Short Little Difficult Books - great post from Lincoln Michel open.substack.com/pub/counterc...
gemini in vs code: "That's a great question. As a language model, I can't directly view images or photos."
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
gemini in vs code: "That's a great question. As a language model, I can't directly view images or photos."
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perma-link to the full Gemini 3 model card
oh! found an archive link: web.archive.org/web/20251118...
web.archive.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
perma-link to the full Gemini 3 model card
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If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning
oh cloudflare. I was going to do some stuff today.
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
oh cloudflare. I was going to do some stuff today.
@mattmuir.bsky.social also, on the stone club: I almost didn't click, thinking it was pet rock people, but when I did I had a mini-heart attack of "these are my people", so
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@mattmuir.bsky.social also, on the stone club: I almost didn't click, thinking it was pet rock people, but when I did I had a mini-heart attack of "these are my people", so
@mattmuir.bsky.social lol, just saw my image prompt inspo in Web Curios, thanks :) I was too head down in trying to write my latest to read yours first, so my use of yours will be delayed 2 weeks
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@mattmuir.bsky.social lol, just saw my image prompt inspo in Web Curios, thanks :) I was too head down in trying to write my latest to read yours first, so my use of yours will be delayed 2 weeks
wow - 10,000 Rooms You Could Call Home, web arty game via @mattmuir.bsky.social 's Web Curios frogmen.itch.io/10000-rooms-...
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
wow - 10,000 Rooms You Could Call Home, web arty game via @mattmuir.bsky.social 's Web Curios frogmen.itch.io/10000-rooms-...
I'm reading Ken Liu's (@kyliu99.bsky.social) _All That We See or Seem_ right now, and it's so great to read sf by someone who understand AI and extrapolates well, even with artists. And the hacker woman is 💋. #sf
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm reading Ken Liu's (@kyliu99.bsky.social) _All That We See or Seem_ right now, and it's so great to read sf by someone who understand AI and extrapolates well, even with artists. And the hacker woman is 💋. #sf
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This week's installment of Things I Think Are Awesome from @arnicas.bsky.social has lots of fun stuff, including a way to turn 4 surreal images into a World Model of Surreal World.
TITAA #72.5: Hist Whist
WorldLabs Release - Narrative Papers - Three.js Tools - Qwen Editing - British Lib Images
arnicas.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This week's installment of Things I Think Are Awesome from @arnicas.bsky.social has lots of fun stuff, including a way to turn 4 surreal images into a World Model of Surreal World.
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Kerning can save lives.
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Kerning can save lives.
@do.minik.us like a dipshit i did a "well actually" reply, what was i thinking.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@do.minik.us like a dipshit i did a "well actually" reply, what was i thinking.
time to step away from the computer when the procgen vs. ai debate gets going :(
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
time to step away from the computer when the procgen vs. ai debate gets going :(
i guess that’s what happens when you post random ideas into the ether 🤷🏻♀️
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i guess that’s what happens when you post random ideas into the ether 🤷🏻♀️
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🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
🚨 #CfA - EADH Small Grants 2025–2026🚨
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026) | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities
We are delighted to announce that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) is launching a new Small Grants funding round.
eadh.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
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AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
| Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intera...
ojs.aaai.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
@alphachar.bsky.social evidently i'd rather do any hacking rather than be actually writing anything - i made a toy using @britishlibrary.bsky.social images and a list of nouns: ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@alphachar.bsky.social evidently i'd rather do any hacking rather than be actually writing anything - i made a toy using @britishlibrary.bsky.social images and a list of nouns: ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-...