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...
should be practicing Feulliard exercises
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
should be practicing Feulliard exercises
FedEx parked in our “protected” bike lane
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
FedEx parked in our “protected” bike lane
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...
a very Seattle little free library: fancy camera book, child overachiever book, polyamory book, outdated O’Reilly books
September 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
a very Seattle little free library: fancy camera book, child overachiever book, polyamory book, outdated O’Reilly books
everything from information retrieval comes back in LLM research. here, asking clarifying questions to disambiguate user turns: www.semanticscholar.org/reader/36c1e...
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
everything from information retrieval comes back in LLM research. here, asking clarifying questions to disambiguate user turns: www.semanticscholar.org/reader/36c1e...
"Folk Economics of Housing"
(1) people blame easy targets like developers rather than complex causes like urban planning and policy (2) perception of causality in the housing market is directionally incorrect significantly more than other markets
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
(1) people blame easy targets like developers rather than complex causes like urban planning and policy (2) perception of causality in the housing market is directionally incorrect significantly more than other markets
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
August 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Folk Economics of Housing"
(1) people blame easy targets like developers rather than complex causes like urban planning and policy (2) perception of causality in the housing market is directionally incorrect significantly more than other markets
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
(1) people blame easy targets like developers rather than complex causes like urban planning and policy (2) perception of causality in the housing market is directionally incorrect significantly more than other markets
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
example threat to the Spotify AI playlist bot; prior to the threat it over-indexed on songs like “Here Comes The Sun” and “You Steal My Sunshine”
I also refined my prompt to explicitly avoid songs about the sun, which probably would have sufficed but I have no counterfactual
I also refined my prompt to explicitly avoid songs about the sun, which probably would have sufficed but I have no counterfactual
August 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
example threat to the Spotify AI playlist bot; prior to the threat it over-indexed on songs like “Here Comes The Sun” and “You Steal My Sunshine”
I also refined my prompt to explicitly avoid songs about the sun, which probably would have sufficed but I have no counterfactual
I also refined my prompt to explicitly avoid songs about the sun, which probably would have sufficed but I have no counterfactual
Watermelon salsa caviar. Used sodium alginate spherification with watermelon, cucumber, serrano, and cilantro
August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Watermelon salsa caviar. Used sodium alginate spherification with watermelon, cucumber, serrano, and cilantro
Detecting Earthquakes on Android phones, from Google Research x Android
Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Blog post: research.google/blog/android...
Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Blog post: research.google/blog/android...
July 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Detecting Earthquakes on Android phones, from Google Research x Android
Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Blog post: research.google/blog/android...
Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Blog post: research.google/blog/android...
Halely’s comet trajectory in Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, c. 1687 (Caltech Archives)
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Halely’s comet trajectory in Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, c. 1687 (Caltech Archives)
Salvador the 9-armed octopus used its abnormally regenerated arms for less risky tasks #neuroscience www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
June 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Salvador the 9-armed octopus used its abnormally regenerated arms for less risky tasks #neuroscience www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
I vibe coded Gemini 2.5 Pro in Canvas mode to find the uncommon terms and them write them to an HTML <canvas>. Telling it to use <div> with absolute position also worked. It didn't preserve the linebreaks though. Cute, well-defined exercise. I work with these things daily and I'm still impressed!
May 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I vibe coded Gemini 2.5 Pro in Canvas mode to find the uncommon terms and them write them to an HTML <canvas>. Telling it to use <div> with absolute position also worked. It didn't preserve the linebreaks though. Cute, well-defined exercise. I work with these things daily and I'm still impressed!
"Listening for Bias: The Politics and Potential of Speech AI" free panel @ NYU CUSP April 10.
www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
April 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Listening for Bias: The Politics and Potential of Speech AI" free panel @ NYU CUSP April 10.
www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
Vonnegut satire on American businessmen (Cat’s Cradle, 1963)
March 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Vonnegut satire on American businessmen (Cat’s Cradle, 1963)
candidate for inclusion in any "musicbench" for reading music
(Allen Strange: Star Salon Strikers and Slider’s Last Orbit, 1973)
(Allen Strange: Star Salon Strikers and Slider’s Last Orbit, 1973)
March 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
candidate for inclusion in any "musicbench" for reading music
(Allen Strange: Star Salon Strikers and Slider’s Last Orbit, 1973)
(Allen Strange: Star Salon Strikers and Slider’s Last Orbit, 1973)
want this for string instruments
PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance arxiv.org/abs/2406.09326
PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance arxiv.org/abs/2406.09326
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
want this for string instruments
PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance arxiv.org/abs/2406.09326
PianoMotion10M: Dataset and Benchmark for Hand Motion Generation in Piano Performance arxiv.org/abs/2406.09326
more remote sensing fun: NASA EXport Processes in the Ocean program featuring ships, seagliders, "Lagrangian floats" and more oceanexports.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
more remote sensing fun: NASA EXport Processes in the Ocean program featuring ships, seagliders, "Lagrangian floats" and more oceanexports.org
classic situation with two AI models where one model generates suggestion and one generates the explanation, even if they conflict. (Copilot in Word)
February 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
classic situation with two AI models where one model generates suggestion and one generates the explanation, even if they conflict. (Copilot in Word)
little did I know playing BBS games would prepare me for 2025
February 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
little did I know playing BBS games would prepare me for 2025
February 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
confusing #UX from Microsoft Forms: you submitted your response. Labeling this as "important thing you can do next" under "save my response" is misleading. Compare with Google's very clear "send me copy of my results," end of story.
January 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
confusing #UX from Microsoft Forms: you submitted your response. Labeling this as "important thing you can do next" under "save my response" is misleading. Compare with Google's very clear "send me copy of my results," end of story.