Jeff Tharsen 康森傑
@tharsen.bsky.social
doting father, friend & ally; hyperpolyglot computational philologist & sinologist;
currently teaching AI, deep learning + multilingual NLP/NLU + HPC + humanities data science @UChicago, creating new methods for multilingual intertextuality、古聲韻學、文字學等等
currently teaching AI, deep learning + multilingual NLP/NLU + HPC + humanities data science @UChicago, creating new methods for multilingual intertextuality、古聲韻學、文字學等等
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Olmo 3 32B Think is now free on Open Router until 12/22.
Let us know what you think and what to improve!
(Hosted by Parasail)
This may give it the hug of death... would be my dream.
openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...
Let us know what you think and what to improve!
(Hosted by Parasail)
This may give it the hug of death... would be my dream.
openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Olmo 3 32B Think is now free on Open Router until 12/22.
Let us know what you think and what to improve!
(Hosted by Parasail)
This may give it the hug of death... would be my dream.
openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...
Let us know what you think and what to improve!
(Hosted by Parasail)
This may give it the hug of death... would be my dream.
openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...
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📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
dh2026.adho.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright
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Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊
www.cambridge.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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DSA: DeepSeek Sparse Attention
DeepSeek 3.2 & 3.2-Speciale are ridiculously cheap because of DSA
LLMs aren’t quadratic anymore
They trained an additional “model” that does acts as a “pre-attention”, selecting only the portions that are probably relevant
DeepSeek 3.2 & 3.2-Speciale are ridiculously cheap because of DSA
LLMs aren’t quadratic anymore
They trained an additional “model” that does acts as a “pre-attention”, selecting only the portions that are probably relevant
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
DSA: DeepSeek Sparse Attention
DeepSeek 3.2 & 3.2-Speciale are ridiculously cheap because of DSA
LLMs aren’t quadratic anymore
They trained an additional “model” that does acts as a “pre-attention”, selecting only the portions that are probably relevant
DeepSeek 3.2 & 3.2-Speciale are ridiculously cheap because of DSA
LLMs aren’t quadratic anymore
They trained an additional “model” that does acts as a “pre-attention”, selecting only the portions that are probably relevant
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🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods?
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess.
tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers
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Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
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From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages.
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages.
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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When I was young, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was my master class in playwriting - wordplay, wit, structure. I saw Arcadia three times in a row, just trying to figure out HOW he did that. He was utterly singular, RIP Tom Stoppard, there will never be another www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
When I was young, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was my master class in playwriting - wordplay, wit, structure. I saw Arcadia three times in a row, just trying to figure out HOW he did that. He was utterly singular, RIP Tom Stoppard, there will never be another www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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rest in peace, Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays and I always think of this scene between Thomasina and her tutor Septimus anytime I hear the phrase "sexual congress"
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
rest in peace, Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays and I always think of this scene between Thomasina and her tutor Septimus anytime I hear the phrase "sexual congress"
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Olmo 3 is a banger paper. Finally getting to read the rest of it 😅.
We love releasing things that serve as a comprehensive snapshot of public knowledge on training leading language models.
There's an award for whoever finds all the secrets first in the new arxiv version
allenai.org/papers/olmo3
We love releasing things that serve as a comprehensive snapshot of public knowledge on training leading language models.
There's an award for whoever finds all the secrets first in the new arxiv version
allenai.org/papers/olmo3
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Olmo 3 is a banger paper. Finally getting to read the rest of it 😅.
We love releasing things that serve as a comprehensive snapshot of public knowledge on training leading language models.
There's an award for whoever finds all the secrets first in the new arxiv version
allenai.org/papers/olmo3
We love releasing things that serve as a comprehensive snapshot of public knowledge on training leading language models.
There's an award for whoever finds all the secrets first in the new arxiv version
allenai.org/papers/olmo3
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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Today I learned I am a socialist.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Today I learned I am a socialist.
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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It's fine with me if progress is unlimited, and these tools eventually exceed anything I could do unaided. But I don't want it to happen so fast that everything is controlled by first-mover advantage. History should not *actually* behave like a game of Civilization!
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's fine with me if progress is unlimited, and these tools eventually exceed anything I could do unaided. But I don't want it to happen so fast that everything is controlled by first-mover advantage. History should not *actually* behave like a game of Civilization!
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I have long suspected that part of why ai tools have taken off for coding is that they make it more fun, even if they cost you time!
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I have long suspected that part of why ai tools have taken off for coding is that they make it more fun, even if they cost you time!
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I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
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Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Amplified Foreign-Based Accounts This Weekend
One account boosted by Trump promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.
meidasnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Come chat with us at the poster! We will bring some unicorn ducks too!
Will be at #NeurIPS2025 presenting “Concept Incongruence”!
🦄🦆 Curious about a unicorn duck? Stop by, get one, and chat with us!
We made a new demo for detecting hidden conflicts in system prompts to spot “concept incongruence” for safer prompts.
🔗: github.com/ChicagoHAI/d...
🗓️ Dec 3 11AM - 2PM
🦄🦆 Curious about a unicorn duck? Stop by, get one, and chat with us!
We made a new demo for detecting hidden conflicts in system prompts to spot “concept incongruence” for safer prompts.
🔗: github.com/ChicagoHAI/d...
🗓️ Dec 3 11AM - 2PM
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Come chat with us at the poster! We will bring some unicorn ducks too!
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The reason why so many foreigners pose as MAGA influencers is because the formula is pretty basic. Post:
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The reason why so many foreigners pose as MAGA influencers is because the formula is pretty basic. Post:
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Our Olmo 3 models are now available via API on
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Our Olmo 3 models are now available via API on
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.