David Mimno
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
- “i tested this 7 times because i thought i was doing something wrong. farfalle is wrong”
- Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource. www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
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- Reposted by David Mimno📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
- "never discuss the appearance of coworkers" is actually a really easy policy to follow
- If you're interested in language models for Early Modern English drama text attribution: arxiv.org/abs/2310.18454
- Idea for an LLM benchmark: question answering where one or more of the premises are wrong
- Some time in the last week there was a thread about a paper describing a natural experiment where a Chilean university reduced the workload in a degree program. I have not been able to find it again. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?
- Reposted by David MimnoHigh school teachers and college teachers unite!
- I had a great conversation with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social on the what/why/how of close reading. There’s much to be gained by creating connective tissue between literary studies & secondary English, so I’m excited to share this episode! open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
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- Reposted by David MimnoIn response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey: Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.
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- I have not looked up a conference notification date since a particularly delayed UAI in ~2008 and I tell all my coauthors never to tell me
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- Reposted by David MimnoMicrosoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
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- Reposted by David MimnoWow, this is spectacular! Evolution of beak size in an urban population of juncos in response to the loss of supplementary food (bird feeders) during the COVID pandemic, and subsequent regression. Is the UCLA campus the new Daphne Major? pnas.org/doi/full/10....
- A colleague pointed out that if you ask an LLM to rate docs one by one, it will give them all middling scores. But if you ask it to rate them all at once, it differentiates. Given that a lot of reviewing is quietly AI, could we explicitly design a stronger, better-calibrated AI review phase?
- This English translation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History exists online because I sliced the spines off a beautiful four-volume edition from 1850-something in ~2003. In the previous 150 years only the quires for the first 100 pages had been cut. www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...
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- Reposted by David MimnoCome work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
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- "Abolish ICE" is the law-and-order position
- Drop-in replacement for sklearn LDA using MCMC and hyperparameter optimization: github.com/mimno/sklear...
- Requires numba to be fast, and doesn't yet implement sampling tricks, but already competitive with VB and higher quality
- Why are citations so hard? LLMs are interpolation machines. It works well for, say, programming questions: rather than parsing 3-4 not-quite-relevant Stack Overflow posts, you can get an answer to your exact question. But doing the same trick with refs doesn't work, they either exist or don't.
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- Reposted by David MimnoHCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing. She's recognized for contributions to understanding and improving information ecosystems, including during crisis events and addressing misinformation. www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article...
- Reposted by David MimnoWe are #hiring a #phd student to develop novel #Bayesian #MachineLearning methods and algorithms. A fully funded PhD position at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. See full ad and apply here: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
- Citation is the foundation of academic promotion. It’s noisy, sure, but its integrity is worth fighting for. Hallucinated citations should be a desk reject.
- NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
- Claude Coded a command line translation wrapper for ollama translategemma, with LA->EN as default. It works really well! github.com/mimno/transl...
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- Kinda doing both
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- Reposted by David MimnoThe Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
- Reposted by David MimnoThe inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)
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- Reposted by David MimnoMy department in Edinburgh is hiring a lecturer (assistant prof) in Software Engineering: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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- A lot of the tension in education is surfacing disagreement about what is a silly thing that doesn’t matter
- I recently updated the maven central version of Mallet with serialization-breaking changes (that have been on github for years). If you have older data files, this package can help export to JSON: github.com/mimno/Mallet...
- Reposted by David MimnoUniversity of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
- Moby Dick is a road trip buddy comedy
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- In Chap 11 of #ComputationalHumanities, Vanessa Holden and Josh Rothman describe the Freedom on the Move project. No matter how computational you get, history is still about real people, in their triumph and trauma. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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- This 100%. Musk has made it very clear that he will always tip the scale towards his opinion. No one else can possibly "win". Accept that Twitter is dead. X is wearing its skin.
- I love the “it is unclear why” in this title. So many times readers/reviewers want everything neatly tied up by page 8. Identifying a problem is work! It’s hard!
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- Reposted by David Mimno📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester. We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
- Could a data center moratorium help US tech? DeepSeek took off because the lazy "just buy bigger GPUs" strategy wasn't available to them. Giving companies some relief from FOMO plus incentive to actually innovate could avoid an involution trap (exponential cost, log returns)
- Reposted by David Mimnoa huge victory for universities, worth billions of dollars: Trump can’t cap indirect-cost rates on NIH grants, appeals court rules www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social
- There are many, many problems that are Not Hard and that we have excellent, cheap solutions for (calculations, first order logic, running python programs, chess). Language models don't need to do everything!
- I used Claude to improve my arXiv API scraping code and topic display, here's an updated view of trends over time in the computer vision section: mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/arxiv/cv (top rising topic: "Language")
- What does a class on software development post LLM contain? Design? Syntax of common langs? Programmer thinking? Environments/libraries/bash? Debugging? References and texts especially welcome
- A colleague pointed me to this good description of things you still need to know when coding with AI (mostly security), and tips for using it as a learning tool: nmn.gl/blog/vibe-co...
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- From the 2022 drop era: “who needs wheat? Bread is so much tastier”
- Until I see evidence otherwise, I’m going to assume the “run the country” thing was just ad libbed
