Mahir Yavuz

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users."

Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!*

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2050 is as close as 2000. Let that warp your sense of time for a minute.

The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.

solid reading list from latent space #ai #llm www.latent.space/p/2025-papers

Thanks for sharing your wisdom Simon. Happy new year!

2025, the year of @bsky.app ?

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Only thing I miss from twitter: great responses to NYCASP account

more than 10 people asked me whether i use bluesky since the election. very limited but a strong signal for the future of here 💙

10/10

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Nice. Thank you 🙏

Some notes on NuExtract, a family of small LLMs fine-tuned for structured data extraction simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/16/...

who to follow on bluesky? #followfriday 🫠