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David Mimno
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He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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Gift is not a verb
Norman Rockwell “Freedom of Speech” town hall painting
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Goodnight sweet prince
A New York City metrocard, the key to transit access for decades, due to be finally deactivated in a few weeks, lies crumpled and caked in road salt in a gutter next to a cigarette butt
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Rebecca Hicke presents our work on Christian fiction #CHR2025
Slide showing results: Left Behind is very different from most Christian fiction Most stories model Christian femininity and depict a loving god LLMs can do a great job of annotating complex constructs but it takes a lot of effort
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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What does it mean for a song to be narrative? @dbamman.bsky.social Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Hanh #CHR2025
Slide comparing lyrics in Cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin to Dua Lipa
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Fandoms have different emotional baselines @julianeugarten.bsky.social #CHR2025
Slide showing general fan fiction affect, LoTR is most positive, then Greek myth, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
Slide showing significant differences in implicit references to bible verses by US political parties
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Someone’s experiment with notebookLM, not entirely successful
A slide with three QR codes that may or may not work with DOIs that are probably ok, and text that seems completely made up
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Can we find all the maps in (out of copyright) literature?

@axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Happy broken pumpkins in the gorge season to all who celebrate!! 🎃 🌊
Cascadilla creek with a couple smashed pumpkins in it that will stay there for months
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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QWEN plans
Looking forward • Scaling context-length: 1M > 10/100M • Scaling model parameters 1T > 10T • Scaling training tokens 10T > 100T • Scaling test-time compute 64k -> 1M • Scaling RL compute 5% -> 50% • Scaling synthetic data -> more compute than training • Scaling environments
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.
Evaluation reasoning interpretability rl in context benchmark alignment synthetic data
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Ha! I knew it!
NYT spelling bee showing “not in word list” for BIELEFELD, referring to the conspiracy theory that this city does not exist
April 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Nacht und Nebel (Manchester, the Arms of Krupp)
DECeNBER7, 1941, lives in infamy in Burope for a crime raster in some and, in its affront to humanity, far more shocking than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, for it was on that Sunday that the Führer promulgated den Nacht und Nebel Erlass, the Night and Fog Decree. The decree's original goal was to winnow out people "endangering German security" (die deutsche Sicherheit gefährden), but two months later Feldmarschall Keitel expanded it to include all persons in occupied countries who had been taken into custody and were still alive eight days later. In such cases . . . sollen künftig die Beschuldigten heimlich nach Deutschland gebracht . . . werden. .. the prisoners are to be transported to Germany secretly these measures will have a deterrent effect because a) the prisoners will vanish without leaving a trace, b) no information may be given out as to their whereabouts or their fate.1 At Nuremberg, Keitel confessed to the International Military Tribunal that of all the atrocities in which he had collaborated. this was "the worst”
March 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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It’s obvious that Steely Dan’s “aja” is an ASCII art dick, right? The official story makes no sense and the band is named after a fictional sex toy. But no one says this?
The cover of Steely Dan’s album aja
March 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A+ for thoroughness
A sign says “sidewalk closed ahead” directly in front of a four story building
March 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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“However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back, and you consequently can’t violate it in ways that impair military efficiency” -Orwell
GEORGE ORWELL nights no. only the future tower happenede Icader « . controls sach an event, "It never happened - well it no suchened. It he says that wo and wo are five - well woe happen five. This prospect fighter she last uch more than two are and after our experiences of the last few years than not a frivolous statement. But is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify oneself with ous of a totalitarian future? Before writing off the totalitar. visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing off the totalitar. tan world as a nightmare that can't come true, just remember that in 1925 the world of today would have seemed a nightmare that couldn't come true. Against that shifting phantasm-goric world in which black may be white tomorrow and yesteruays weather can be changed by decree, there are in reality only two safeguards. One is that however much vou deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back, and you consequently can't violate it in ways that impair military efficiency. The other is that so long as some parts ot the earn remain unconquered, the uberal tradition can be kept alive. Let Fascism, or possibly even a combination of several Fascisms, conquer the whole world, and those two conditions no longer exist. We in England underrate the danger of this kind of this ESSAY. the buying, mited. Ins stance - the the Americo ing that thi domination cause in or savery mus the slave e Civilisatio, four thous When those hun rested Be record W whole of are knov Spartacu at the Bi inscribe picture round
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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WHAT
Spelling bee refuses to recognize “mimnotization”
December 13, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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Sparky in sleepsphere mode
Black cat rolled up in a ball sleeping
November 7, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Capitalism and fascism are definitely NOT mutually exclusive
Page image from “The Arms of Krupp” describing the near bankruptcy of the Nazi party in 1932 and its rescue by German industrialists
November 1, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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“Of course I know it’s National Black Cat day. You wake me up for this?” -Sparky
A black cat on a couch looking a little grumpy
October 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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COLM is live!
Introductory remarks at the conference on language models
October 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Heading to Philly for COLM and holy shit, it’s TRUE
Weather app screenshot predicting its always sunny in Philadelphia
October 6, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Monday morning at O’Hare
Blue screen on an airport display hanging from a ceiling
July 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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I appreciate that Google is trying to attribute suggested code from Colab to sources, but the threshold is set waaaay too low. Possible opportunities for malicious license trolls.
A trivial two line import statement with the warning "Suggested code may be subject to a license" and a link to a towardsdatascience page
June 25, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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UMass administration building
UMass Amherst Whitmore Administration building Motte and Bailey castle https://www.castlesworld.com/tools/motte-and-bailey-castles.php
June 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM