arnicas

@arnicas@mstdn.social
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Creative AI, NLP, data science, infovis, narrative, sci fi. Consultant in France.

Bio: Ph.D. Linguistics at Stanford, studied online community, worked in industry as UX & user researcher, then data science and infovis, now doing mostly #NLP and creative AI consulting. I use #spaCy and am interested in knowledge extraction. More hashtags: #AI #ML #digitalhumanities #procgen #games #datascience #narrative
newsletter on creative AI & narrativehttps://arnicas.substack.com/
websitehttp://www.ghostweather.com/
twitterhttps://twitter.com/arnicas
my text generation papers linkshttps://arnicas.github.io/text-gen-arxiv-papers/
arnicasJun 19
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 (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Creative-Thought-Embeddings%3A-A-Framework-for-in-Mahmoud/7cda159e65ac44db562ac08503d8edd2f1999389?email_index=5-0-7)
arnicasJun 18
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
arnicasJun 17
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 schedules and goals. It led to some funny moments during testing... https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
What was Radiant AI, anyway?

A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy

arnicasJun 15
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
TITAA #67.5: Merlin the Shape Shifter

Memory of Games - Personas - Cambridge Merlin MS - RadiantAI - OCR Tools - Weird News - Medieval Secrets

Things I Think Are Awesome
arnicasJun 3
Project GutenbergJun 3

‘Am I not at least something?’ A surreal dive into Descartes’s Meditations

https://aeon.co/videos/am-i-not-at-least-something-a-surreal-dive-into-descartess-meditations

Meditations on First Philosophy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23306

#books #literature #philosophy

Show threadarnicasMay 17
I think it's a good issue, join me https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-665-haint-blue-and-boo-hags?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
TITAA #66.5: Haint Blue & Boo Hags

Gullah-Geechee - Werewolf Collector - Bayeux Dick Count - AI Dead Folk - Story2Game - Tools

Things I Think Are Awesome
Show threadarnicasMay 17
And this lovely article on Desire Paths in open world games, hard to screencap https://media.cordite.org.au/degrees-of-freedom-in-live-space/ #games
Degrees of freedom in live-space

Show threadarnicasMay 17
And the BBC is giving a writing course using a chatbot of Agatha Christie https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/30/bbc-harnesses-ai-to-create-writing-classes-given-by-agatha-christie?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie

Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense

The Guardian
arnicasMay 17
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 ...
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis

Aby Warburg spent his life finding forms that could hold their own against the flow of time. All the while, as Kevin Dann explores, he was churning on the brink of madness with the sense that he himself was changing — into a terrifying animal. What kind of history would a werewolf write?

The Public Domain Review
Show threadarnicasMay 17
And a new scrollytelling datavis project announcing the Getty's Provenance database https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/ #museums
Tracing Art

How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming research on the social life of art

Tracing Art