David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
A lot of the tension in education is surfacing disagreement about what is a silly thing that doesn’t matter
This is honestly such an inspiration. Every silly thing that doesn't matter that can be done with an LLM is getting done with an LLM going forward
timdettmers.com/2026/01/13/u...
timdettmers.com/2026/01/13/u...
Use Agents or Be Left Behind? A Personal Guide to Automating Your Own Work — Tim Dettmers
If you are reading this, you probably feel the FOMO. Maybe you have seen the Twitter threads about coding agents completing entire features in minutes. Maybe a colleague mentioned they are “10x more p...
timdettmers.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A lot of the tension in education is surfacing disagreement about what is a silly thing that doesn’t matter
I recently updated the maven central version of Mallet with serialization-breaking changes (that have been on github for years). If you have older data files, this package can help export to JSON: github.com/mimno/Mallet...
GitHub - mimno/MalletJSON: Convert MALLET binary InstanceList files to human-readable JSON format
Convert MALLET binary InstanceList files to human-readable JSON format - mimno/MalletJSON
github.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I recently updated the maven central version of Mallet with serialization-breaking changes (that have been on github for years). If you have older data files, this package can help export to JSON: github.com/mimno/Mallet...
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University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Librarian, Rare Books (Assistant or Associate)
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIESAcquire, appraise, and
preserve collections of primary and significant research value, especially rare
books.In partnership
with ...
arizona.csod.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Moby Dick is a road trip buddy comedy
January 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Moby Dick is a road trip buddy comedy
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We'd love to see more graduate students here because we want to hear about your work! So what else could make this better? We'll build it.
Something @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and I are very curious about... how can we make our client (a version of Bluesky for researchers) more friendly to grad students? What would encourage you all to post more?
Things I miss from our custom client when I'm using Bluesky:
- avatar colors that show whether we're mutuals
- exportable bookmarks with custom folders
- feed of trending papers and articles
- safety alerts when a post goes viral
- researcher profiles with topics, affiliations, featured papers
- avatar colors that show whether we're mutuals
- exportable bookmarks with custom folders
- feed of trending papers and articles
- safety alerts when a post goes viral
- researcher profiles with topics, affiliations, featured papers
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
We'd love to see more graduate students here because we want to hear about your work! So what else could make this better? We'll build it.
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In Chap 11 of #ComputationalHumanities, Vanessa Holden and Josh Rothman describe the Freedom on the Move project. No matter how computational you get, history is still about real people, in their triumph and trauma.
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In Chap 11 of #ComputationalHumanities, Vanessa Holden and Josh Rothman describe the Freedom on the Move project. No matter how computational you get, history is still about real people, in their triumph and trauma.
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Still accepting applications for this postdoc position in my lab at NYU! Applications due Feb 1. Please see the posting below for more information and apply on Interfolio:
cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc...
apply.interfolio.com/178940
cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc...
apply.interfolio.com/178940
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Still accepting applications for this postdoc position in my lab at NYU! Applications due Feb 1. Please see the posting below for more information and apply on Interfolio:
cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc...
apply.interfolio.com/178940
cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc...
apply.interfolio.com/178940
This 100%. Musk has made it very clear that he will always tip the scale towards his opinion. No one else can possibly "win". Accept that Twitter is dead. X is wearing its skin.
It’s not just X. There is simply no winning in a *privately owned* website by a *single person* with an agenda that’s opposite of yours. 🤷
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
January 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This 100%. Musk has made it very clear that he will always tip the scale towards his opinion. No one else can possibly "win". Accept that Twitter is dead. X is wearing its skin.
I love the “it is unclear why” in this title. So many times readers/reviewers want everything neatly tied up by page 8. Identifying a problem is work! It’s hard!
1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.
This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."
This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."
January 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I love the “it is unclear why” in this title. So many times readers/reviewers want everything neatly tied up by page 8. Identifying a problem is work! It’s hard!
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Cornell Tech and @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social are proud to share that the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA has been ranked #4 on @poetsandquants.bsky.social’s 2026 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship list. 🎉
View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4aQX83B
View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4aQX83B
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Cornell Tech and @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social are proud to share that the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA has been ranked #4 on @poetsandquants.bsky.social’s 2026 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship list. 🎉
View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4aQX83B
View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4aQX83B
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📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester.
We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester.
We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
Could a data center moratorium help US tech? DeepSeek took off because the lazy "just buy bigger GPUs" strategy wasn't available to them. Giving companies some relief from FOMO plus incentive to actually innovate could avoid an involution trap (exponential cost, log returns)
We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at
interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening.
We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening.
First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.
interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening.
We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening.
First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.
January 7, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Could a data center moratorium help US tech? DeepSeek took off because the lazy "just buy bigger GPUs" strategy wasn't available to them. Giving companies some relief from FOMO plus incentive to actually innovate could avoid an involution trap (exponential cost, log returns)
Reposted by David Mimno
a huge victory for universities, worth billions of dollars: Trump can’t cap indirect-cost rates on NIH grants, appeals court rules
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social
Trump Can’t Cap Overhead Rate on NIH Grants to Research Universities, Appeals Court Rules
The ruling is a victory for higher-education associations who challenged the proposed 15-percent cap, calling it illegal and claiming it would devastate the research enterprise.
www.chronicle.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
a huge victory for universities, worth billions of dollars: Trump can’t cap indirect-cost rates on NIH grants, appeals court rules
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social
There are many, many problems that are Not Hard and that we have excellent, cheap solutions for (calculations, first order logic, running python programs, chess). Language models don't need to do everything!
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
There are many, many problems that are Not Hard and that we have excellent, cheap solutions for (calculations, first order logic, running python programs, chess). Language models don't need to do everything!
I used Claude to improve my arXiv API scraping code and topic display, here's an updated view of trends over time in the computer vision section: mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/arxiv/cv
(top rising topic: "Language")
(top rising topic: "Language")
CV Topics in arXiv - Interactive Visualization
Interactive visualization of 100 computer vision topics from arXiv cs.CV abstracts showing trends over time
mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
January 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I used Claude to improve my arXiv API scraping code and topic display, here's an updated view of trends over time in the computer vision section: mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/arxiv/cv
(top rising topic: "Language")
(top rising topic: "Language")
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📢 Apply by Feb 12 to join our CHI 2026 workshop, Speech AI for All, where we'll discuss inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members welcome! speechai4all.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
📢 Apply by Feb 12 to join our CHI 2026 workshop, Speech AI for All, where we'll discuss inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members welcome! speechai4all.org
From the 2022 drop era: “who needs wheat? Bread is so much tastier”
January 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
From the 2022 drop era: “who needs wheat? Bread is so much tastier”
Until I see evidence otherwise, I’m going to assume the “run the country” thing was just ad libbed
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Until I see evidence otherwise, I’m going to assume the “run the country” thing was just ad libbed
This is one of the big design choices: can an AI-forward programming class be the first exposure, or is this always setting students up to fail without the basic variables-and-for-loops programmer-thinking class? That one is looking like mostly on-paper, going forward, btw.
hot take: an introductory class intended for students for whom it will be their first class in a sequence should remain essentiailly unchanged. The fundamentals are still the fundamentals. The difference should be analogous to how presentation of IDE features to intro classes has changed over time.
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is one of the big design choices: can an AI-forward programming class be the first exposure, or is this always setting students up to fail without the basic variables-and-for-loops programmer-thinking class? That one is looking like mostly on-paper, going forward, btw.
What does a class on software development post LLM contain?
Design?
Syntax of common langs?
Programmer thinking?
Environments/libraries/bash?
Debugging?
References and texts especially welcome
Design?
Syntax of common langs?
Programmer thinking?
Environments/libraries/bash?
Debugging?
References and texts especially welcome
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What does a class on software development post LLM contain?
Design?
Syntax of common langs?
Programmer thinking?
Environments/libraries/bash?
Debugging?
References and texts especially welcome
Design?
Syntax of common langs?
Programmer thinking?
Environments/libraries/bash?
Debugging?
References and texts especially welcome
Pushed a bunch of long-overdue updates to Mallet using Claude Code. Updated to Java 17, moved tests to a separate directory, updated to JUnit 4, switched to all maven. Testers welcome!
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Pushed a bunch of long-overdue updates to Mallet using Claude Code. Updated to Java 17, moved tests to a separate directory, updated to JUnit 4, switched to all maven. Testers welcome!
Reposted by David Mimno
PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening.
mishmash.no/news/positio...
mishmash.no/news/positio...
18 PhD and 6 Postdoc positions at MishMash/Norway
The first round of MishMash doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships are now announced.
mishmash.no
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening.
mishmash.no/news/positio...
mishmash.no/news/positio...
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We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
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Research Intern - Sociotechnical Systems | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...