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Lynn Cherny

@arnicas.bsky.social
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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.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EmbeddingGemma 2, a tiny multimodal mobile ready embedding model
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EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TRMNL the dev version!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I bought a TRMNL - they have some apps ready to go including a japanese cards one, but i got the dev version and built my own + small server to connect to
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
haha no model, it’s stuff i saved from a french dictionary api after curating words i’ve looked up
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eink flash card display is great but wth is with some of these sentences
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
nice! i started from various word frequency lists but there were too many i knew, so i switched to words i had looked up while reading (dictionary app keeps track)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
agree!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i feel like a bad boss
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When you feel guilty for confessing to Claude, "I think we need to localize this, can you outline a plan, sorry I know I should have said in advance."
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Solid day of updating a backlog of french flash cards in firebase and getting them to display on a new TRMNL eink display, with significant Claude-ish help.
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Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We also built a website where you can browse these ingredients, annotate the stories you love and see what they are made of, psychologically. Website: motivational-ingredients.com
motivational-ingredients.com
The Motivational-Ingredient Framework
48 motivational ingredients in six domains: what stories are made of, psychologically. Accompanies an article in Psychological Review (2026).
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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In our work on extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight LLMs, we measure how likely models are to output training text verbatim. But near-verbatim cases matter too. E.g., high-probability continuations for this Gatsby quote differ from the original only by punctuation:
For Llama 1 13B under top-k decoding, three likely continuations of a passage from The Great Gatsby: 'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated'. The greedy continuation ends with an ellipsis instead of a period (Levenshtein distance 1, probability 0.1477). The exact original text comes second (distance 0, probability 0.1431). A third drops a comma (distance 2, probability 0.0671).
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yeah, my point at the start about how much work it is to fix things up rather than just vibe code
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ah. bummer, i was trying to get mine done before yours
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of Opus 5.5 being used in creative ways in this issue of my newsletter (no paywall). Many gifs. My own little bee sim meadow game, testing it all out. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-92-o...
arnicas.substack.com
TITAA #92: Opus, Cute and Real
Opus 5.5 Astounds - Animations - Water in 3d - Architecture - Bee Garden - Jev
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of Opus 5.5 being used in creative ways in this issue of my newsletter (no paywall). Many gifs. My own little bee sim meadow game, testing it all out. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-92-o...
arnicas.substack.com
TITAA #92: Opus, Cute and Real
Opus 5.5 Astounds - Animations - Water in 3d - Architecture - Bee Garden - Jev
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have an opening for a tenured Professor / Associate Professor of Interactive Media "with an emphasis on interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, and/or playful design in the public interest". I'm on the hiring committee and happy to answer questions.
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Associate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of Communication
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tokenization: A Survey for Modern NLP Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the comprehensive survey of the field. www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2609.tok...
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
solid entry for my weird nl issue
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026
Light through a forest canopy, rendered in real time by @measure_plan. Visuals and sound are written in code.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hey, i resemble that half baked impressive comment
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quantum snails in a game bug: "Why they flipped: a snail's body was drawn pointing exactly where it had just decided to go, so any sudden change of mind showed as an instant flip." (All games have weird bugs.)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked Claude for an explainer on the paper that inspired Emily St John Mandel for Exit Party and it was quietly scathing. (It would be crazy not to have the best LLMs critique your research these days.)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it did a lot of stuff while i ate. i’m trying to say thank you a lot 😜
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i was running its tests for a couple days, you know. it got stroppy when i didn’t do it every commit
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i guess i could’ve - haven’t invested enough in cloud and remote, my habits are bad enough already
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me to claude: “why don’t you keep working on that while i go to lunch?” — actually makes me feel guilty.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A threejs conf report, doesn't cover everything I liked but a sample and good pics
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Three.js Conf Paris 2026 conference report - ICS MEDIA
Three.js Conf Paris 2026 took place in Paris on September 10–11, 2026. It was the first conference dedicated to Three.js, the JavaScript 3D library.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
yeah i really liked that.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Web Curios is 3 hours early today because I am going to a wedding, giving you all the time you need to click EVERY SINGLE URL. The week's best internet - EAT MY LINKS! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25...
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@simonwillison.net good grief: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
washingtonpost.com
Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.
“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
not just good at 3d games!
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Benjamin Breen on using Opus/Astra to work on alchemical and occult codes, as well as other unsolved historic cyphers resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-ne...
resobscura.substack.com
AI labs need to start funding historical research
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Claude to me: "Can you run the sidebar test again in your terminal." I am a meat puppet.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our journalism program is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor of quantitative/data journalism.
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Assistant Professor / Associate Professor of Journalism in Data Science and Quantitative Methods
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are only 3 days left to vote in this year's Tiny Awards, so if you are yet to explore the nominations then this is the perfect time to remind yourself that the internet is still good (and to pick your favourite website of the year to win a small prize & handmade trophy): tinyawards.net/vote/
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yes, very potentially useful - i tried rating summarizations of fiction on the weekend but realized my decision criteria were weak, which was actually a good realization. i’ll get back to it after firming them up
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I also like the exercise / rigor of having to rethink things as a series of possibly hierarchical classes of decision. I mean, for vastly bigger problems than a simpler local bert.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i was delaying, and wish i’d started on a weekend - would rather be reading
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yes - but i’m ok with some mystery, too!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm only half done but the new Emily St. John Mandel is amazing
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fantastic.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantastic benchmark of Jev vs its "clones" from HuggingFace: DecisionIndex huggingface.co/spaces/multimo...
Screenshot
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
IG has learned I like historical french rock and relatives - i’m learning a lot.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can't get Marcia Baïla out of my head, since IG has hit me with many videos of it since Catherine Ringer died (french rock 1980s+). This is my fav very weird video of it, though it doesn't have the same angry energy some live perfs had www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWl...
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Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla (Clip Officiel)
YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Weekend AI overload - got into the World Labs Atlas preview (no idea how to use it but trying), summarizing fiction (so hard), and building a three js game
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