Aditya Narayan Sankaran

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

"This only feels possible because the U.S. government is only interested in regulating its perceived political enemies, and which only feels possible because much of the American economy feels held together by cope and the gobs of money being thrown into AI, data centers, and gambling."

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

_for the sleepers in that quiet earth._ is a 2017 print on demand volume containing snapshots of an RNN trained (solely) on the text of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Each copy as unique. Besides the novelty of this experiment, it has the great value of giving us a rare diachronic look at how the model learns.

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

Qui est ciblé par l'hostilité en ligne dans la politique française ?

Très contente de partager enfin les résultats d'une longue enquête sur cette question dans la dernière Revue française de science politique :
shs.cairn.info/tap-t78ca45t...
🧵

Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap' The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.

Hard to know what to believe anymore, but maybe that's the aim. "Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap': Paedophile financier had multiple talks with Putin after conviction - with Russian girls flown in to harvest 'kompromat' on world-famous figures." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

On #AI mediated writing. On living..

#LLMs

A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord.

When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

#chr2025

code-switching in K-pop lyrics (and major spoilers for kpop demon hunters…)
@callmesan.bsky.social

finished my first #CHR2025 presentation.
Check out the paper on code switching in Kpop

anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

Data and Code: github.com/callmesanfor...

Presentation: Session 5A on Dec 11, 2025! See you there!

New paper @ #CHR2025!

Our work uncovers how Korean–English code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈

Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy

Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++

Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org

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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language — a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.

www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Sam Altman BTW, good idea for me to tweet something nice about Elon? Have been meaning to do this after he DMd about not being in the photo from the first day of OpenAI. Just about how much I and others look up to him, how critical his early contributions to OpenAI are, etc.

Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis

February 9, 2023

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It. If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.

But in poetry, whitespace matters!

Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.

New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

Amazon MTurk

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.

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PhD in Computational Social Sciences – CNRS, France
🎓 Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025–2029)
Eligibility: Master’s
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#PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil

www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

I would gladly read a followup on this focused entirely on IRBs. I've been surprised by how often researchers say they could never got approval to run tests mimicking the sort of interventions that major platforms undertake on far larger populations as a matter of course on a daily basis.

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills

#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...