Anupam Basu

Collecting data about stories. Telling stories with data.
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[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Just reviewed the "strong evidence" in Jacobi and Anderson's Merry Wives of Windsor piece in @guardian:

https://t.co/fGYaHNyMTH

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

"For example, if you dropped feet first through the event horizon, as you approached the black hole's center you would find yourself getting increasingly uncomfortable."

https://t.co/yKv8vDEYzu

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Chinese quant fund leveraging its data to take on OpenAI.
https://t.co/iHUF7QW3Ox

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Looking forward to this volume. I have an essay in it on the criminalization of early modern migrants.
https://t.co/C2uqtTQoZ3

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

On John Cage, 4'33", and the supposed disruptions of the campus protests.

It's not a piece to chill out with happy thoughts and comfortable sounds. It's a call to attention! To stop and listen. Really listen. Listen to what the students have to say!

https://t.co/muzMyUoHfD

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Interesting how AI is steadily taking over cognitive labor and human expertise while waiting for robotics to catch up for certain menial tasks. I for one had thought burger flipping robots would get here earlier than dumpling inspecting ones.
https://t.co/ZYH328exVE

[Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky @quadrismegistus]

I talked about this at ACLA recently—with @mmvty, on @GabrielHankins' great panel, "AI and/as Form"—but I've been making progress on examining "formal stuckness" in AI-generated texts. For some reason, when generating poems, LLMs *love* to rhyme, even when you tell them not to!

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

@quadrismegistus @mmvty @GabrielHankins Love this. Would love to read more if you have something out or even a draft if you wouldn't mind sharing. Have been thinking about this a bit.

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Yuja Wang wears a heart rate monitor through a complete Rach cycle. A data story.

https://t.co/TTz2pQqRf4

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Verso is hosting an interesting series of blogposts for each of Fredric Jameson's major books. Here's the second installment.

https://t.co/eFEr73TQdW

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Great review of the Lamy 2000 - one of my top 3 pens ever. But mixed in with some mildly infuriating blabber about mortality and mindfulness. Use it if it's your thing, but a $200 pen won't make you any more or less mindful. It doesn't need accessorizing.

https://t.co/s3fvpFFBzq

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

"His image is so commonplace that you could believe it must always have existed — yet for six centuries after his death, he was never once depicted in human form."

https://t.co/YcGbKlOLbw

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Literary critics often take it as axiomatic that a given work is valuable - then explain why it should in fact be so. Imagine asking instead what, if anything, readers value in it. I think most critics would find this approach disturbing. It might be worthwhile to interrogate why

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Ok - apart from the fun of using #MachineLearning to analyze beer, I love the way this paper maps a large featureset of the chemical properties of beer to the subjective categories of "taste, smell, mouthfeel and appreciation."
https://t.co/Gb8glcf3Mv

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

This is probably the diametric opposite of Janis. But oh my -- what a thoughtful, majestic rendition this is.
https://t.co/L6NHHvcXBp

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

The definitive recording of "Pictures."
https://t.co/ny0Lpj1wsM

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"We present an alternative explanation that emergent abilities appear due to the researcher's choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale."

https://t.co/4AnQjHaUqJ

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Liverpool FC and @GoogleDeepMind collaborate on TacticAI, designed to coach corner kicks. This is going to be exciting - sport is a great setting for multi-agent models. But expect some laments for jogo bonito etc.

https://t.co/hwr1NmVMId

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

NLP disadvantages less-privileged socioeconomic groups. We annotate a corpus of 95K utterances from movies with social class and measure the performance of NLP systems. We find significant performance disparities.

https://t.co/7zPZ3eIzoG

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

"This queer essay-thing has come from remembrance of natural beauty which has brought music, and of music that opened suddenly a pathway through to show some picture, long ago seen, it may be, but passioned, made mystic."

https://t.co/ifkgV6htbN

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

Ivor Gurney, poet and composer who survived WW1 but struggled with PTSD. In 1922 - the year he wrote this essay - he was committed to an asylum. He speaks of the moments of clarity in the trenches: "the brighter visions brought music; the fainter verse."

https://t.co/Y61br0DyaL

[Anupam Basu @abasu_]

The essay is a ramble: impressions of composers. Haunting vignettes as he clutches at moments of lucidity - "visions of natural fairness remembered."

"In Bach is fairy tale, firelight, Cathedral space, much human friendliness. The common intercourse of life raised high."