Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/https://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mu6o2c5aas2smissed the lunar eclipse yesterday due to clouds, but the (almost) full moon today is still pretty good29 Aug 2026 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6o2c5aas2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mtyycfyf6k2lA 2026 update to my Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking, which looks at who publishes in the conferences and journals run by & for the CS-and-games community (AIIDE, CHI Play, FDG, IEEE ToG, etc.). https://www.kmjn.org/game-rankings/26 Aug 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyycfyf6k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mttgshjzss2bWe've been kinda doing this, and it's amazing how many people can't really discuss their own papers, even pre LLM. I remember a senior faculty candidate who made it to the campus interview stage but got nixed because he couldn't answer pretty basic questions about his lab's (many) papers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttgshjzss2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mts5ht4wis2qDiscovered a new-to-me type of wine I didn't know I like: Lambrusco di Sorbara. Tastes remarkably like a good sour beer.24 Aug 2026 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mts5ht4wis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mtca52nfy22gCool new curated Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/vintageai17 Aug 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtca52nfy22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mtc6dibtu223Apple Macintosh ad, 1984: "We could, as they say in computerese, dump another Gigabyte (write another 50,000 or so pages) on Macintosh."17 Aug 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtc6dibtu223https://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mtarm525cc2jHad an unexpected need to print something same-day in a location where I don't have a printer. Spent some time looking for options until I realized I was in walking distance of a public library. Great experience. Hurrah for the library. 1/217 Aug 2026 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtarm525cc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msvyga33pk2dTip for people stuck in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem: the Copilot AI search sidebar is a huge improvement! Largely because almost anything is better than Outlook search (it won't find emails that have the verbatim search term in the subject!). But still, now there's working search. Ty AI boom.12 Aug 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvyga33pk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msvup7b43c2uAn intra-model-family split, Prompt: is NBER pronounced "en-berr" or "en bee ee are" Google AI Overview always answers "en-berr", while Gemini in the app always gives the opposite answer.12 Aug 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvup7b43c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msvqlxj35s24Due to two successful TT hires coinciding with an unexpected (at the time those lines were approved) decline in CS enrollments, every single one of our classes in AY26-27 will be taught by a full-time faculty member (T/TT or lecturer), for the first time since I've been in academia anywhere I think.12 Aug 2026 18:20 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvqlxj35s24https://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msvnoxfyp22dthe big thunderstorm Monday seems to have ripped up the roof of the local middle school (shingles scattered for blocks)12 Aug 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvnoxfyp22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mstg5a67rc2harticle on the labor structure of the anime industry https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/06/19/the-strange-disappearance-of-japans-animators11 Aug 2026 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstg5a67rc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mst5sy3nbc2dThoughtful post on PhD students and genAI tools. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mst5sy3nbc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msqlhrtbhs2jclingo (answer-set programming) tip: set an alias to always use --threads 4 (vs the default 1). Have found big speedups even for small problems that I didn't think needed parallelism. Can be way more than 4x speedup, like 8s to 0.2s, which is a nice quality of life improvement in responsiveness.10 Aug 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqlhrtbhs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msq6rx7ohc25just saw a guy on an electric skateboard pushing a stroller at 10-15 mph10 Aug 2026 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq6rx7ohc25https://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msmtw7srmk2qthis might be the only prompt by which Trump *does* deserve to be on Mt Rushmore (for originating "many such cases") [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Aug 2026 05:25 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmtw7srmk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msmbinpxls22This example seems sort of pointless even by the standards of facadism (it's not even an interesting facade to preserve?), but I guess whatever gets housing construction approved.08 Aug 2026 23:56 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmbinpxls22https://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msm4wnn3uk2qwalked past a yard with a nice fairy ring08 Aug 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msm4wnn3uk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mskcril4a22rexplaining to the cats that I'm not going to be tricked into ascribing communicative intent to what's clearly just stochastically optimized meowing08 Aug 2026 05:13 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskcril4a22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msk4wqjybc2qI initially thought that LLM coding harnesses' extensive use of Unix pipelines might be a way to motivate pipelines and CLI utilities for students (like we can dig into some examples of what exactly the LLM is using sed for). Unfortunately they have quickly gone from sickos_yes to sickos_no.08 Aug 2026 03:29 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msk4wqjybc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msj2tmuoo22iOpen-Rank Professor of Interactive Media and Games – Game Art and Animation, at the University of Southern California. Listed under Preferred Experience: "Familiarity with emerging AI-assisted art and content creation workflows" 👀 https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/open-rank-professor-of-interactive-media-and-games-game-art-and-animation/1209/9352338792007 Aug 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msj2tmuoo22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msin4sjbmk2rThe Economist published a nice remembrance of their late cover designer. Didn't realize they had the same person designing the covers for 30 years. https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/23/the-economists-cover-designer-graeme-james-has-died-aged-6507 Aug 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msin4sjbmk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mshi2zth4s2qI'm cat-sitting/house-sitting in an old house with plaster walls, and one nice thing I hadn't realized is how much better they are at buffering humidity swings than drywall.07 Aug 2026 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshi2zth4s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msggxgombk2hWe have an opening in our Psychology department for an Assistant Professor of Cognitive or Social Psychology. I've been told they are open to cognitive science candidates, and we'd be happy in CS to collaborate with such a person! https://american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-Campus-Washington-DC/Assistant-Professor-of-Cognitive-or-Social-Psychology_R452706 Aug 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msggxgombk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3msfa5a6llc2yfuthark losing its strange status as a pure functional language that didn't support recursion (although it is still not encouraged) https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-08-05-recursion.html06 Aug 2026 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msfa5a6llc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mm-jj-nn.bsky.social/post/3mserxval3k2sBoxing cats!06 Aug 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:ktmis6mlcffobsxzoigeyst5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mserxval3k2s