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.https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlzytf7vic2nI posted my mid-month newsletter yesterday, with a small faery tale on top -- and I also forgot (and just added to it) a Pudding study of similes in 500 fiction books, next link... https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-785-stay-in-the-manifest-bio?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web17 May 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzytf7vic2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlzytf7vic2nI posted my mid-month newsletter yesterday, with a small faery tale on top -- and I also forgot (and just added to it) a Pudding study of similes in 500 fiction books, next link... https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-785-stay-in-the-manifest-bio?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web17 May 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzytf7vic2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlur6bzmpk2bweird edition of my newsletter today/tomorrow gonna be a doozie - eg:15 May 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlur6bzmpk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlsewjd6gc2bVice la France and it’s drunk deer https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/world/europe/france-drunk-deer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.0FEE.1Am45YyHzH3A&smid=nytcore-ios-share (gift link)14 May 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsewjd6gc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlsdrq7uvs2r@mariaa.bsky.social did you see this arxiv.org/abs/2605.07847 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.0784714 May 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsdrq7uvs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlqj363d322iBroke the A button on my controller the day before a 4 day rainy weekend — emergency 🚙13 May 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqj363d322ihttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlol5tsckc26@tedunderwood.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlol5tsckc26https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlkw47t5bc23Deepseek v4 Pro really does sound like Claude. Same style of interaction and helpfulness.11 May 2026 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkw47t5bc23https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlftq5c27s26Trial run of using Hermes Agent with deepseek v4 pro via OpenRouter to make an X bookmark downloading tool that runs on cron -- successful! Deepseek v4 Pro is really quite good - it was up to date (or able to get there) with the api and dev setup needed for X which is, uh, highly changeable.09 May 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlftq5c27s26https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mld2zlmilc2man old friend wants me to go on a podcast about agent skills and I think it means stop obsessively playing Planet Crafter and level up those skills instead of growing fish in lakes 🥲08 May 2026 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld2zlmilc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mlansqjnec2mFrench academics keep delivering. “Montaclair was an unremarkable teaching instructor who liked to write fantasy books, many about vampires, in his spare time.” And awarding himself a fake prize. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other07 May 2026 07:08 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlansqjnec2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3ml6x5wvnb224Unbelievable seeing myself posting looking for a part-time contract video prompt engineer... but here we are. Junior folks with good experience using video models, feel free to get in touch. (Europe good, maybe US east coast.)06 May 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6x5wvnb224https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3ml3m54gg3s2lFine tuning OCR receipt job with GRPO on Unsloth with kaggle - tutorial https://leoniemonigatti.com/blog/fine-tuning-lfm2-5-1-2b-instruct-with-grpo.html05 May 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3m54gg3s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mkwqkg5dak24I published the splat of the sunny pub (one of them) from my last newsletter, too late to include (I guess I could edit it): superspl.at/scene/57fde5c5 https://superspl.at/scene/57fde5c503 May 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwqkg5dak24https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mkwjoubuq22l1930 Coder - after only 250 examples, Talkie can make a big fix. Evidently the web data doesn’t matter much. https://github.com/RicardoDominguez/talkie-coder03 May 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwjoubuq22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mkuz3fllo224Alright!- don't know if your heart was "no one will notice, you're right" or "we're supporting you staying in and writing it" 😅 So latest free newsletter, with many three.js web games, some more splats/3d stuff, image model that can't do sprites, narrative news https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-78-little-city-builders?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web02 May 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuz3fllo224https://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mkuobjghrc2eKind of sucks to have a newsletter deadline on a sunny 3-day weekend, when I want to relax after hectic travel. Would anyone even notice...02 May 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuobjghrc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mkaz27egg22bPub crawling Thames-side pubs while reading a ghost story, superb evening24 Apr 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkaz27egg22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mk7zcrlz522fI’m obsessively playing Planet Crafter and had a biz trip - carried the heavy steam deck only to find it doesn’t really play “great on steam deck” - so now i have heavy bags and withdrawal :(24 Apr 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7zcrlz522fhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mk7vggf5cs2fI had a complex AI grad school dream in which I got really drunk, wrote strange letters to various researchers, and then vibe wrote an entire diss and submitted it — in architecture, which i wasn’t studying.24 Apr 2026 06:26 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7vggf5cs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnicas.bsky.social/post/3mk2w7636mc2gIf I’m getting the latest release of ChatGPT image (2), it doesn’t really have much knowledge behind it.22 Apr 2026 06:57 +0000at://did:plc:ayoll3ww3v3zgh6m6damfaaf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2w7636mc2g