Christopher Akiki
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Christopher Akiki
@cakiki.bsky.social
research scientist at ScaDS.AI Leipzig in nlp, ir, and ml. @hf.co fellow. @lichess.org team member. @kaggle.com datasets expert.
- Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Hug...
- Embeddings: huggingface.co/datasets/air... (H/T @loubnabnl.hf.co for recommending this)
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
- Sasha's talk: ted.com/talks/sasha_...
- Tools: datamapplot and EVōC by @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social and colleagues at the Tutte Institute and openTSNE by @pavlinpolicar.bsky.social
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ted.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Update: the color map in this post is misleading. See the quoted post for context.

bsky.app/profile/caki...
Thanks to @jamesabednar.bsky.social I realized I had used the wrong background color for the colormap I had chosen. This is another version of the plot (different embeddings) with the corrected background.
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Glad you like it! Nothing yet, only a very messy jupyter notebook for now. I will share the code and data pipelines once they're all cleaned up.
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Huge props to @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social for optimizing the hammer bundling code in datashader and to Barrett Lyon's inspring work at the Opte Project.
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Allô maman bobo" is another poignant classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdU...
Allô maman bobo
YouTube video by Alain Souchon - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Such a cutie! 🥺
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
July 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Would you happen to have your university lectures on OT anywhere online?
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are grateful for your sacrifice 🫡
March 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Licensing is weird though, they say it's GPL but also include this: "To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game".
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is also addressed in the appendix of @alisawuffles.bsky.social and colleagues' paper on BPE mixture inference. I think it might have been discovered by @soldaini.net if I'm not mistaken.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.16607
February 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM