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Christopher Akiki
@cakiki.bsky.social
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research scientist at ScaDS.AI Leipzig in nlp, ir, and ml. @hf.co fellow. @lichess.org team member. @kaggle.com datasets expert.
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Who is winning the open AI race?

Our new study Economies of Open Intelligence maps @hf.co 851k models' downloads 2020→2025.

1) Power rebalance: US tech ↓; China + community ↑
2) Models size & efficient ↑ (MoE, quant, multimodal)
3) Intermediary layers ↑ (adapters/quantizers)
4) Transparency ↓

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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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lichess.org
Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles.

➡️ Read more on this by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team: lichess.org/@/tomas135/b...
AI-Generated Chess Puzzles
A new research by the Discovery team at @GoogleDeepMind using RL and generative models to discover creative chess puzzles
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Three different ways to represent colo(u)r. Work in progress, inspired by an old post by Kat Zhang / The Poet Engineer.
Three scatterplots of colorful points. titles = ['Color Space', 'Text Space', 'Image Space'] subtitles = ['Embeddings of color features', 'Text embedding of color names', 'Image embeddings of color swatches']
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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I made this annotated scatter plot of 1 million FineWeb-Edu documents for @sashamtl.bsky.social's new TED talk.
Scatterplot of a document corpus with cluster information in the form of colors and cluster labels. Includes labels like computing, mental health, religion, etc.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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When the fish left the river:
A four frame comic about the Cambodian genocide. In the first frame, a man can be seen from the back, looking at a window. The text reads: "I never ask my father about Cambodia." In the second frame, a silhouette of the father can be seen, screaming in his sleep, arms reaching into nothingness. The text reads: "What could he say, really, that he didn't already scream in his nightmares?". The third frame shows the father pondering on something, expression neutral. The text reads: But sometimes he would say "It's funny, when it happened, all the fish left the river. They never came back." . The fourth frame shows the father lowering his head, thinking. He says: "I guess they knew." The second page of the comic on the Cambodian genocide, and everything to come. The first frame shows the daughter, young, silent and unsure of what to say. The text reads: "I didn't say anything then." In the present, the daughter, now an adult, looks at the Seine in Paris. The text reads "But I often think of it now.". The daughter then crouches near the Seine to see if there are any fish left. She says: "Are you still here?".
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Also really love how organic the plot looks with "inferno" (left) and "viridis" (right).
organic looking network representing the internet BGP nodes. Inferno colormap. organic looking network representing the internet BGP nodes. Viridis colormap.
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Thanks to @jamesabednar.bsky.social I realized I had used the wrong background color for the colormap I had chosen. This is another version of the plot (different embeddings) with the corrected background.
Correct version of the plot in the quoted post. Graph with an organic like structure of the BGP network.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Map of the internet: 1.3M nodes (BGP)
organic looking graph of the BGP nodes of the internet. black and white
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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We're cooking.. 👀
Photo of three hard disk drives.
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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526.9 million player deaths in 24.7 million levels of Super Mario Maker 2. Data by @tgr.bsky.social
very colorful scatterplot of player deaths in mario maker levels. "inferno" colormap. some level elements highlighted.
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Really cool new embeddings exploration tool by @domoritz.de and colleagues from Apple. Can't wait to build with this. Also includes a streamlit component and a Jupyter widget.
screenshot from the embeddings atlas repo example density plot exploring a wine dataset.
July 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Woah! EA just open sourced "Command and Conquer: Red Alert" and a bunch of other CnC games! github.com/electronicar...
box art from 1996 version of CNC RED ALERT
February 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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lichess.org
Lichess is now on @kaggle.com!

Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your kaggle notebooks: https://www.kaggle.com/organizations/lichess ♟️
Screenshot of Lichess organization overview page on Kaggle
February 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The folks at Foursquare released a @hf.co dataset of 104.5 million places of interest and here's all of them plotted using datashader
world map with points of interest
December 8, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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I recently used the @lichess.org puzzles dataset to experiment with chess position embeddings and visualize 4.5M starting positions. (hf.co/datasets/Lic...)
Scatterplot with 4.5M data points. Inferno colormap. Looks somewhat organic with neat clusters.
December 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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lichess.org
The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Early experiment visualizing of Cohere For AI's newly-released Aya dataset. Multilingual corpora are always so fun to play with.
Scatterplot of the Aya dataset. 250K points in a floral / broccoli like pattern. Inferno color map.
February 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Clifford-inspired strange attractor.
Black and white image of a strange attractor.
November 17, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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10 million digits of Pi.

Kind of.
scatter plot of a UMAP projection. magma colormap. quite clustered. looks almost celestial.
September 27, 2023 at 7:40 PM
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835 languages.
3.5 million bible verses.
Work in progress.
Scatterplot. Starbursty and elongated clusters. Magma colormap.
September 26, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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UMAP connectivity graphs—with edgehammer bundling—are always something to gaze at.
connectivity graph of the previous scatter plot. grayscale. edges bundled.
September 26, 2023 at 9:10 AM
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Revisiting John Williamson's prime factors plot with a few differences in implementation. I am using UMAP and Datashader to visualize the first million integers. Not quite there yet.
2d scatterplot in the viridis palette. Different blobs and clusters. Looks very starbursty in some places and very organic in others.
September 25, 2023 at 10:29 AM
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Multilingual text corpus or Petri dish?
Scatterplot of the BigScience ROOTS corpus
June 6, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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Code Dataset Visualization—11.66 million files from the Stack, a dataset sourced from permissively-licensed GitHub repositories spanning 86 programming languages (StarCoder languages subset).
Scatterplot of many points using a fire-theme palette on a black background. The points cluster in small groups. The general shape is circular, as is common of TSNE embeddings.
June 5, 2023 at 5:12 PM