Dan Liebling
@liebling.org
AI for science, HCI+AI research, #nlproc leading w/empathy @ Google Research https://liebling.org
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
acceptable response with weird RAG attributions -- "I can't tell jokes, but I'd be happy to assist with any licensing or vehicle-related questions you might have." source: "Eluding a police officer"
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
acceptable response with weird RAG attributions -- "I can't tell jokes, but I'd be happy to assist with any licensing or vehicle-related questions you might have." source: "Eluding a police officer"
apropos of emailing yourself, we looked at this behavior in several corpora of emails. < 1% of emails are self-mail but for heavy users it could be 8% of all their mail!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
apropos of emailing yourself, we looked at this behavior in several corpora of emails. < 1% of emails are self-mail but for heavy users it could be 8% of all their mail!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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The false historical narrative that progress — from women’s suffrage to civil rights — was 1) finished and 2) driven by singular, centralized movements is itself an impediment to progress today.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The false historical narrative that progress — from women’s suffrage to civil rights — was 1) finished and 2) driven by singular, centralized movements is itself an impediment to progress today.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Call for Papers - Workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval @ AAAI 2026 | ACL Member Portal
www.aclweb.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
should be practicing Feulliard exercises
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
should be practicing Feulliard exercises
skibid-AI hires in ohio news.osu.edu/ohio-state-t....
Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...
news.osu.edu
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
skibid-AI hires in ohio news.osu.edu/ohio-state-t....
FedEx parked in our “protected” bike lane
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
FedEx parked in our “protected” bike lane
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
someone asked why “summarize” is the AI feature that shows up everywhere
• summarization is a longstanding NLP task that LLMs excel at
• Silicon Valley vibe of “save me time so I can spend more time coding”
• summarization is a longstanding NLP task that LLMs excel at
• Silicon Valley vibe of “save me time so I can spend more time coding”
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
someone asked why “summarize” is the AI feature that shows up everywhere
• summarization is a longstanding NLP task that LLMs excel at
• Silicon Valley vibe of “save me time so I can spend more time coding”
• summarization is a longstanding NLP task that LLMs excel at
• Silicon Valley vibe of “save me time so I can spend more time coding”
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Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026!
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026!
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
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Programming skill is just a set of rules you've inferred via personal suffering
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Programming skill is just a set of rules you've inferred via personal suffering
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A new essay on the crazy, all or nothing approach to work happening in AI today, the looming human costs, and the lack of a finish line.
I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
www.interconnects.ai/p/burning-out
I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
www.interconnects.ai/p/burning-out
Burning out
The international AI industry's collective risk.
www.interconnects.ai
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A new essay on the crazy, all or nothing approach to work happening in AI today, the looming human costs, and the lack of a finish line.
I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
www.interconnects.ai/p/burning-out
I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
www.interconnects.ai/p/burning-out
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As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT.
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT.
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
my favorite outage is the 2012 Azure leap year outage. all the redundancy kicked in to try to mitigate the problem, but that only made things worse. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s...
Summary of Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012 | Microsoft Azure Blog
Introduction As a follow-up to my March 1 posting, I want to share the findings of our root cause analysis of the service disruption of February 29th. We know that many of our customers were…
azure.microsoft.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
my favorite outage is the 2012 Azure leap year outage. all the redundancy kicked in to try to mitigate the problem, but that only made things worse. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s...
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If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
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“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
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They fully posted the meme but not the meme.
October 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
They fully posted the meme but not the meme.
noooo
Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
noooo
In Spaceship in the Desert, Gökçe Günel dedicates a whole chapter to “beautiful buildings” of Masdar City that actually contain disfuncțion and misplaced aspirations. www.dukeupress.edu/spaceship-in...
“We want to see beautiful buildings,” said the president last month
“We want to see beautiful buildings,” said the president last month
Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi
www.dukeupress.edu
October 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
In Spaceship in the Desert, Gökçe Günel dedicates a whole chapter to “beautiful buildings” of Masdar City that actually contain disfuncțion and misplaced aspirations. www.dukeupress.edu/spaceship-in...
“We want to see beautiful buildings,” said the president last month
“We want to see beautiful buildings,” said the president last month
thinking about nonlinearity and asymmetry in human-llm conversations; in the back of my brain Flatland (1884) popped up books.google.com/books/downlo...
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
thinking about nonlinearity and asymmetry in human-llm conversations; in the back of my brain Flatland (1884) popped up books.google.com/books/downlo...
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i've always Been This Way
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
i've always Been This Way
congrats László Krasznahorkai on the literature Nobel
fortunately I had just read Satantango right before a mtg with Translation Studies scholars. we had to go around the room and say the last book in translation that we had read
(oddly enough there is not an entry for Sátántangó in Hungarian WP)
fortunately I had just read Satantango right before a mtg with Translation Studies scholars. we had to go around the room and say the last book in translation that we had read
(oddly enough there is not an entry for Sátántangó in Hungarian WP)
October 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
congrats László Krasznahorkai on the literature Nobel
fortunately I had just read Satantango right before a mtg with Translation Studies scholars. we had to go around the room and say the last book in translation that we had read
(oddly enough there is not an entry for Sátántangó in Hungarian WP)
fortunately I had just read Satantango right before a mtg with Translation Studies scholars. we had to go around the room and say the last book in translation that we had read
(oddly enough there is not an entry for Sátántangó in Hungarian WP)
AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.
October 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
congrats to my former direct report for raising $300MM
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
congrats to my former direct report for raising $300MM