Lynn Cherny. bsky, mstdn. Data science, NLP, AI for creativity & story; science fiction, games. @arnicas.bsky.social newsletter: arnicas.substack.com

Lyon, France
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I'm hiring a Game Designer to join my team at @GoogleDeepMind in London! Bring deep game design expertise to find the fun and shape how cutting-edge Al research translates into new gameplay experiences. Learn more about our work and apply below 👇🎮🚀
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Replying to @GoogleDeepMind
We are advancing Al research and partnering with game developers to explore new gameplay experiences. Learn more about our work here: deepmind.google/blog/from-at… Gameplay Engineer role | Apply here: google.com/about/careers/app…
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Love the cozy game dialogue in a post apoc / castaway survival hellscape.
My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra: I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive. A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... I thought someone was in my apartment. I walked out, honestly a little scared. It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other. Fucking crazy. Here's a brief clip (obviously not 100% perfect yet, but still, insane. sound on!):
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We’re hiring for “psychological design” research at Anthropic. Our aim is to better understand how training impacts a model’s character and alignment. We’re seeking researchers with experience in LLM finetuning, interpretability, and alignment evaluations. More details below.
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Two of us filmed this on a couple phones, and we used Atlas to turn it into a short film. This is just a clip from the @theworldlabs tech blog Atlas is able to generate the parts of the scene that none of the cameras actually filmed. It can freeze time, allowing you to reframe shots to positions never filmed, then resume. View events from impossible angles because Atlas knows what was there.
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seeking technologists who want to end AI slop. if you: - think “i could fix her” about a model frequently - hate purple gradients - know what cerulean is - obsess over evals - love beautiful data, and retrieving it - have unreasonably good taste - want tech to ~ feel ~ right ...this is for you! usual suspects might be researchers, engineers, designers working on personalization, post-training, creativity, multi-modal or gaming. or maybe you’re cracked and have a creative hobby you take very seriously, that counts ;) in person, in SF. generous comp. intensity coming from a place of obsession. a tight group of great, high-agency, low ego, outside-the-box thinkers. if this is you, DM me! if you know a taste-obsessed friend, DM them!
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datatrove — the data-processing library behind FineWeb, FineWeb2, and FinePDFs — just shipped 0.10.0! - JobsPipelineExecutor: run pipelines on @huggingface Jobs: fan-out, multi-stage dependencies, retries, resume. No Slurm cluster needed - HF storage buckets as a DataFolder: read, write, and log straight to hf://buckets/... - Reasoning outputs preserved in inference results pip install datatrove[io,processing] github.com/huggingface/datat…
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NCP-Bench: Can LLM agents keep a story consistent over 100 turns? A new ICML 2026 benchmark tests long-horizon narrative commitment preservation across 100 movie-based environments. Best model survives only 42% after 20 turns.
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New vibecoding competition from @Meta: build a Three.js mobile game prototype in 3 weeks. $300k in prizes. mhcp-game-prototype.devpost.…
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In 1956, Zinaida Yermolyeva, the microbiologist who isolated penicillin from mold during the siege of Stalingrad, founded Antibiotiki - the USSR's journal covering antibiotics. For the next decade, it was the record of a golden age of antibiotic research It remains undigitized. Everything from new drugs like gramicidin S to progress in fermentation chemistry, initial clinical trials, and some of the first evidence of antibiotic resistance all exist today in a Russian language journal and almost never translated. While that journal still exists today, as far as I can tell, no library ever digitized the first ten years of its existence during that first wave of antibiotics research. The complete ten volume set, spanning 90 issues and roughly 8700 pages from 1956-1965, exist in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which offers digitization services for around ~3,800 euro (~$4,400). I am looking for a sponsor for this digitization. The resulting translation cost should be only ~$200, so the burden is on actually getting the documents. If you are interested, please reach out directly in DMs or, if you are completely sold, feel free to donate via Kofi, crypto, or now X Money. If you or your organization is interested, I will happily credit you in the records themselves as the sponsor for these translations. Thank you for all of your support on sovietrxiv.org
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Releasing my small summer project Lattice ☀️ Static embedding model that's: - 7.94 MB on disk - embeds the entire English Wikipedia in 7 minutes on my Apple M2 MacBook Air - 0.530 NanoBEIR NDCG@10 Releasing the model and code that I used for training + wrote a small blog 👇
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Latest newsletter with tests of #flux3 and Minimax H3 along with other cool AI and web toys, games links of relevance, data science tips/tools. Plus that look at AI generated Amazon books and related bits on AI narrative. The usual fun! open.substack.com/pub/arnica…
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Wow, I tried Minimax H3 in the arena with a pic I took in Lyon yesterday
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Lol - I tried the same with #Flux3, but it was more literal and destructive. Did retain the style, without being asked to (which is good).
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On balance, H3 understood the source image better, while Flux3 hallucinated where the cat and people were. Very interesting!
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More maintenance of the artistic style, from #Flux3 -- perfect for animated children's book.
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Here's another #Flux3 test with a Gertrude Abercrombie image, and owls :) It absolutely took the direction I gave. Nice model @bfl_ai :)
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Another test of #Flux3, obeying Matisse art style more or less!
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Been testing out #Flux3 -- super model in dev still, with good direction following ability. It can do some hard things, and is better at sticking to artistic styles than most I've tested. Matisse to real via a sepia photo step:
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You know what would help with rare book access? If someone could scan the books and put PDFs online to download. You know what's not legal in most places? Copyright terms used to be 14 years in the US. If you hate Anthropic for this, hate Disney >100x more.
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