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 18
AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4
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 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
arnicasMay 8
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
Victor Hugo Drawings

Details and pictures from the Victor Hugo art exhibit at the Royal Academy in London, April 2025.

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arnicasJan 24
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/
Interpolated Text Embeddings

Some notes and how-to on doing text embedding interpolation on sentences from Gutenberg Books, for NaNoGenMo 2024.

Lynn Cherny (arnicas) Blog
arnicasNov 15, 2024
Curious about bluesky? my opener has some tips on tools for getting started. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-605-blueskies-after-dimension?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
TITAA #60.5: Blueskies after Dimension X

Migrating to 🦋 - Depth & Motion - Dark Folk - Liminality - Scythe of Birds - Geoff

arnicasOct 26, 2024
@angusm found their new site for the first time in decades
arnicasOct 15, 2024
The French owl treasure hunt in my latest newsletter (free intro). Then a bunch of the usual news links and AI video tool outputs and esoteric and weird data. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-595-the-owl-treasure-hunt?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
TITAA #59.5: The Owl Treasure Hunt

Chouetteurs - AI Video - Real-time - Time & Space - Uncooperative Poets - Fun & Sad Databases

arnicasOct 1, 2024
Latest post intro is about AI in aerial archaeology, specifically the latest Nazca geoglyphs! And then a host of other AI/game/narrative-research news. #archaeology #ai https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-59-citizen-satellite-glyphs?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
TITAA #59: Citizen Satellite Glyphs

Zelda Worlds - Creative/Multimodal Writing - Frankenstein Vis - Skydrop - Tutorials - Weather Landscape

arnicasSep 15, 2024
That painting, The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke, is deeply weird and even gruesome. A dive in my mid-month newsletter (free on top). https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-585-fairy-axes-and-jailbreaks #art #folklore
TITAA #58.5: Fairy Axes and Jailbreaks

Richard Dadd - Jailbreaking Story Cults - Third Men - Game Gen - Staring

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