Lynn Cherny

Lynn Cherny

@arnicas.bsky.social

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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Thibault Clérice
@ponteineptique.bsky.social

Given that some people applied early, we'll probably hear a first round of interview early November. So apply now if you were thinking of applying ☺️ [and deadline was moved to November 15 to ensure accomodation is easier to find for the first day on the job]

Thibault Clérice@ponteineptique.bsky.social

Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH

recrutement.inria.frPost-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 ProjectOffre d'emploi Inria

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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert.bsky.social

We're hiring across many roles at Trillium Labs to build the open scientific ecosystem for LLMs. Most important hires right now (ideally with start dates soon): * Full time post-training researchers * Engineers with experience with popular open-source libraries...

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

lol, status "Mr. Smith currently shares Bill, the general unnamed-man voice, as he did in chapter 2. In this chapter Bill also voices the cinema manager, the men in the street, the professor and the jewel thief. So Mr. Smith and the thief both sound like Bill and talk to each other in the bookshop."

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Claude on how Jev is doing for my audiobook: "... but the castle scene is still problematic since the black, green and red knights aren't part of the cast, causing their lines to scatter incorrectly to the creature voice and Sir Launcelot even though he's locked in the dungeon at that point." 🤷‍♀️

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mr. TIM
@timkellogg.me

i’ve been loving annotate.js i have agents generate html, which is a great way to get visual explanations, and then have them slip in a CDN reference to annotate.js this answers the problem with HTML: people can add comments and export it and send you a json file reviewjs.github.io/annotate/

reviewjs.github.ioAnnotate.js — turn any website into a review boardA drop-in visual review layer for any website. Highlight, draw, pin and comment right on the live page. Open source, local-first, one script tag. Optional feedback endpoint.
Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Friday exercise: using Jev to help split up narration vs dialog and then TTS to build an audiobook, comparing new Gemini tts with Elevenlabs v4. 1/2

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Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Price-wise, Elevenlabs would be 3x the cost of the more robotic Gemini one, and for a book, absolutely at least the cost of buying an audiobook! Except, multiple voices and sfx. Interesting economics. Works out only if you can't find the audiobook?

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Friday exercise: using Jev to help split up narration vs dialog and then TTS to build an audiobook, comparing new Gemini tts with Elevenlabs v4. 1/2

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Jev is remarkably good at the speaker identification judgment, a known hard problem. Useful to find where it gets confused. Elevenlabs sounds amazing, as expected. Gemini blocks on supposed child harm (this is a children's book I'm doing) which is stupidly annoying. 2/3

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

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."

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

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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A. Feder Cooper
@afedercooper.bsky.social

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:

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Mark J. Nelson
@mm-jj-nn.bsky.social

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.comAssociate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of CommunicationAmerican 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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Maria Antoniak
@mariaa.bsky.social

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.comCLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado BoulderThe 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.
Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

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.)

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

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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Char
@alphachar.bsky.social

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...

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Matt Muir
@mattmuir.bsky.social

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/

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

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

Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

Also a game designer role:

google.comGame Designer, Games, DeepMindDeepMind has long-established connections with gaming, whether through early AI-breakthroughs mastering Atari games or Starcraft, and more recent research with Genie and SIMA agents. We are looking for a Game Designer with a deep understanding of core, player psychology, and interactive storytelling to help us architect a new generation of breakthrough experiences. If you are a systems-thinker who views AI not just as technology, but as a brand-new design material, we want you on the team. Inception runs like a startup, balancing high energy idea generation with pragmatic, clear and regularly refined operations. This collaborative, multidisciplinary group is situated primarily in London and Mountain View with collaborators across the globe. It has a sizable and different portfolio of early stage, design focused projects, with a focus on breakthrough experiences that wouldn’t be possible without AI. Your mission is to design core loops, mechanics, and gameplay systems that would be fundamentally impossible without AI. You will be the creative glue bridging the gap between machine learning research and player-facing fun. As a Game Designer, you will advocate a show, don't tell culture by translating abstract AI capabilities into tangible game prototypes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define player agency, map out system dynamics, and steer creative ideation sessions that push the boundaries of modern game design. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social

DeepMind is hiring a gameplay engineer in London. They have also hired an excellent narrative designer.

google.comGameplay Engineer, Games, DeepMindAs a Gameplay Engineer and Prototyper in Inception, you will build interactive experiences, blurring the lines between game development and AI research. Your mission is to move beyond traditional game engineering to show what is possible when generative models and agentic workflows become core mechanics. You will be a key bridge between research and design, moving fast to stand up 0-to-1 prototypes, crafting expert pipelines when necessary, and finding novel technical solutions to creative problems. You will work in a cross-functional environment where every project involves significant experimentation, rapid iteration, and close collaboration. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.