arnicas
@arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Creative AI, NLP, data science, infovis, narrative, sci fi. Consultant in France. Bio: Ph.D. Linguistics at Stanford, studied online community, worked in industry […]
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I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/
My fairytale semantic search app, i forgot the link: https://ghostweather.com/apps/fairytale-hunt/
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My fairytale semantic search app, i forgot the link: https://ghostweather.com/apps/fairytale-hunt/
Hey, I made a fairytale semantic search app! Select part of the text, and navigate to a new text snippet. Find themes! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ghygca5j533iez1r8qh6j/Screen-Recording-2025-10-18-at-2.58.41-PM.mov?rlkey=qyh1yqz55i818u5lqyo3ld6fq&dl=0 #dh #folklore
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Hey, I made a fairytale semantic search app! Select part of the text, and navigate to a new text snippet. Find themes! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ghygca5j533iez1r8qh6j/Screen-Recording-2025-10-18-at-2.58.41-PM.mov?rlkey=qyh1yqz55i818u5lqyo3ld6fq&dl=0 #dh #folklore
I wrote about the 3d generated World Labs splats in my latest, along with the other fun news of the past 2 weeks (video test, reve image editing, games AI, narrative, data science tools) https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-71-splats-and-fat-cats
TITAA #71: Splats and Fat Cats
World Labs splats - Video Cats - Distributed Heroines - Among AIs - Historical Type - Reve
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October 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I wrote about the 3d generated World Labs splats in my latest, along with the other fun news of the past 2 weeks (video test, reve image editing, games AI, narrative, data science tools) https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-71-splats-and-fat-cats
What is a door? And why are the AI generated ones so... weird? It's like hands, but more liminal, by definition I guess. In my latest newsletter with the other news of the past 2 weeks and weirdness of the past month. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-what-is-a-door-anyway
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
What is a door? And why are the AI generated ones so... weird? It's like hands, but more liminal, by definition I guess. In my latest newsletter with the other news of the past 2 weeks and weirdness of the past month. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-what-is-a-door-anyway
My latest end-of-month newsletter tests out the new smart gemini nano-banana image gen model, along with the other usual video, 3d, narrative & games research and links, etc. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-cottage-door-generation
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My latest end-of-month newsletter tests out the new smart gemini nano-banana image gen model, along with the other usual video, 3d, narrative & games research and links, etc. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-cottage-door-generation
My latest nl covers Braitenberg's odd little book on vehicle agents (from 1986), a classic. Also the latest AI news, narrative research, games with poetry, and info extraction frameworks. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-69-braitenberg-vehicle-agents
TITAA #69: Braitenberg Vehicle Agents
Info Extraction Tools - Poetry Games - Video Gen - Stendhal's Tips - 3d Prison
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August 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My latest nl covers Braitenberg's odd little book on vehicle agents (from 1986), a classic. Also the latest AI news, narrative research, games with poetry, and info extraction frameworks. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-69-braitenberg-vehicle-agents
A couple from the Creativity & Narrative section of my newsletter - Creative Preference Optimization (arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442) and Creative Thought Embeddings: A Framework for Instilling Creativity in Large language Models ( […]
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June 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A couple from the Creativity & Narrative section of my newsletter - Creative Preference Optimization (arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442) and Creative Thought Embeddings: A Framework for Instilling Creativity in Large language Models ( […]
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
June 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
What was RadiantAI? In my latest newsletter: What was Radiant AI, anyway? “A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy.” Radiant AI (Bethesda) was an umbrella term for a bunch of AI features, especially a greatly expanded "AI package" system that gave NPCs […]
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June 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
What was RadiantAI? In my latest newsletter: What was Radiant AI, anyway? “A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy.” Radiant AI (Bethesda) was an umbrella term for a bunch of AI features, especially a greatly expanded "AI package" system that gave NPCs […]
Newsletter post about the discovery and resurrection of a Merlin manuscript, which includes interesting fashion commentary. Done at Cambridge Univ Libs. #dh https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-675-merlin-the-shape-shifter?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
June 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Newsletter post about the discovery and resurrection of a Merlin manuscript, which includes interesting fashion commentary. Done at Cambridge Univ Libs. #dh https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-675-merlin-the-shape-shifter?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
And evidently Aby Warburg of the Warburg Institute thought he was a werewolf https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
May 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
And evidently Aby Warburg of the Warburg Institute thought he was a werewolf https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...
Short link thread from my latest newsletter... the Gullah-Geechee folks of the waterways of the US southeast, with their folklore about ghosts, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/haunting-drums-and-shadows and song samples from the Smithsonian Folkways […]
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May 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Short link thread from my latest newsletter... the Gullah-Geechee folks of the waterways of the US southeast, with their folklore about ghosts, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/haunting-drums-and-shadows and song samples from the Smithsonian Folkways […]
Victor Hugo was an amazing artist as well. I wrote up a visit to an exhibition in London about his strange ink art, castles and ink stains and more. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/04/victor-hugo-drawings/ #Museums
May 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Victor Hugo was an amazing artist as well. I wrote up a visit to an exhibition in London about his strange ink art, castles and ink stains and more. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/04/victor-hugo-drawings/ #Museums
Everyone should be outside including me, but I just pushed go on a new (free) newsletter with a lot of researchy/tool things on 3d gen, games and game AI, narrative research (lots) and data science small models/doc processing/classifiers etc. TOC on top […]
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May 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Everyone should be outside including me, but I just pushed go on a new (free) newsletter with a lot of researchy/tool things on 3d gen, games and game AI, narrative research (lots) and data science small models/doc processing/classifiers etc. TOC on top […]
I wrote up the Tarot Exhibition at the Warburg Institute and Calvino's surprise spot in it in my latest newsletter (free part). https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-655-motel-of-crossed-destinies?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
April 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I wrote up the Tarot Exhibition at the Warburg Institute and Calvino's surprise spot in it in my latest newsletter (free part). https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-655-motel-of-crossed-destinies?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
My latest post on the AI releases of the past 2 weeks--4o's image claims, vibejam games, games news, creative writing benchmark shifts, tools of use. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-65-ai-bakeoff-hits-a-spaceship?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
TITAA #65: AI Bakeoff Hits a Spaceship
Image Gen with 4o & More - 3D Gen & Games - inZoi - Creative Ngram Slop - Logic Puzzles
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April 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My latest post on the AI releases of the past 2 weeks--4o's image claims, vibejam games, games news, creative writing benchmark shifts, tools of use. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-65-ai-bakeoff-hits-a-spaceship?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
My latest end of month roundup of creative AI, games news, and data science links -- in this one, there is a bunch of Claude 3.7 doing three.js stuff for people. Plus some interactive fiction stuff […]
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March 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
My latest end of month roundup of creative AI, games news, and data science links -- in this one, there is a bunch of Claude 3.7 doing three.js stuff for people. Plus some interactive fiction stuff […]
Beautiful public UFO data via @jonkeegan in my mid-month newsletter intro article, with an AI and weird twist. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-635-deep-data-on-ufos
February 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Beautiful public UFO data via @jonkeegan in my mid-month newsletter intro article, with an AI and weird twist. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-635-deep-data-on-ufos
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Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
February 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
February 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I wrote up an experiment doing interpolation between semantic vectors in Gutenberg Books data, part of my Nanogenmo 2024 project. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/01/interpolated-text-embeddings/
January 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I wrote up an experiment doing interpolation between semantic vectors in Gutenberg Books data, part of my Nanogenmo 2024 project. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/01/interpolated-text-embeddings/
Ugh, finding it hard to focus on work. January is always tough but after yesterday-?
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ugh, finding it hard to focus on work. January is always tough but after yesterday-?
Fairy summonings (and forgery) in my latest newsletter! A bunch of folkloric tastiness. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-625-fairies-and-doom #folklore
TITAA #62.5: Fairies and Doom
Fairy Forgery & Summoning - Straw Bears - Urban Ghosts - Many Game Links - Roach Bots
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January 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Fairy summonings (and forgery) in my latest newsletter! A bunch of folkloric tastiness. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-625-fairies-and-doom #folklore
My December post (no paywall) rounds up the last 2 weeks of intense AI releases (on the the creative and NLP and narrative-related sides) #nlp https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-62-december-ai-madness
TITAA #62: December AI Madness
Gemini 2 & Veo - Narrative - ModernBERT - Moodboards - 3D W's - Alife
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December 31, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My December post (no paywall) rounds up the last 2 weeks of intense AI releases (on the the creative and NLP and narrative-related sides) #nlp https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-62-december-ai-madness