Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / ็คพไผ็งๅญฆ
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Ted Underwood
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Borges wrote about this
The machine learning circle of life
was reading this and enjoying it โ and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
New preprint!
We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews.
We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well.
A thread ๐งต
w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!
I wanted to see which locally-runnable models are most effective for cultural heritage languages, this page has comparisons of 7 languages: mimno.github.io/PhiloBench/ llama3.1 and mistral are both powerful and fast!
For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991
GDM, @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @coop-ai.bsky.social, @aria-research.bsky.social, and Google announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent saftey research!
Amazing, such an important research area. ๐คฉ
Check it out ๐
Deadline for applications: August 8th, 2026.
deepmind.google/blog/investi...
Say what you will about Urbana-Champaign, but in no other town/city that I have lived in have I seen a person with a full bumper decal on their car reading "See You, Space Cowboy..."
Possibly the key to everything.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s...
