@christopher

data and research at @lichess

 Leipzig, Germany
hf.co/christopher
Joined July 2009
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Maxime Labonne
@maximelabonne
Sep 21
ChessLFM went full circle and is now on the home page of @lichess Super cool to see, Lichess is where I collected all the seed data. Based on my limited chess skills, I never thought I'd have an article there.
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Love this new slop option on linkedin. They seem to at least be self-aware.
linkedin report message menu: post hidden in feed. You'll Hide posts by Jamie Seems like AI slop (underlined) Report post

ALT linkedin report message menu: post hidden in feed. You'll Hide posts by Jamie Seems like AI slop (underlined) Report post

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Very interesting looking viz fail.
odd looking graph. everything is bundled. colorful edges. black background.

ALT odd looking graph. everything is bundled. colorful edges. black background.

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t-SNE on SigLIP embeddings of 1,360 @OReillyMedia cover animals. The penguin cluster is my favorite.
t-SNE plot of animal engravings.

ALT t-SNE plot of animal engravings.

Christopher Akiki
@christopher
Jul 16
O'Reilly animals sorted by orientation using PCA.
Image quilt of O'Reilly media animals sorted by direction.

ALT Image quilt of O'Reilly media animals sorted by direction.

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O'Reilly animals sorted by orientation using PCA.
Image quilt of O'Reilly media animals sorted by direction.

ALT Image quilt of O'Reilly media animals sorted by direction.

Christopher Akiki
@christopher
Jul 13
Image quilt of all @OReillyMedia book covers sorted by color.
List of all O'Reilly books, sorted by hue.

ALT List of all O'Reilly books, sorted by hue.

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Image quilt of all @OReillyMedia book covers sorted by color.
List of all O'Reilly books, sorted by hue.

ALT List of all O'Reilly books, sorted by hue.

Christopher Akiki
@christopher
Jul 11
An image quilt of all @OReillyMedia animals.
small multiple photo of 1360 oreilly animals

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An image quilt of all @OReillyMedia animals.
small multiple photo of 1360 oreilly animals

ALT small multiple photo of 1360 oreilly animals

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Christopher Akiki retweeted
Ian Johnson 🔬🤖
@enjalot
Jul 11
single 5090 running parametric umap on 8 million points. getting ready to push to 16 million then 150 million 🌌
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The McManifold (2216 burger recipes as 146-dimensional ingredient vectors)
small multiples umap plots of the burger dataset.

ALT small multiples umap plots of the burger dataset.

Nature Portfolio
@NaturePortfolio
Jul 3
Using burgers as a model system, a generative AI system rediscovers the classic Big Mac without explicit supervision and generates novel burgers optimized for deliciousness, sustainability, or nutrition, according to a paper in npj Science of Food. go.nature.com/3SU7JDQ
This is figure 2, which shows rediscovering classic burger and discovering delicious burgers.

ALT This is figure 2, which shows rediscovering classic burger and discovering delicious burgers.

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Some fun looking UMAP tomfoolery.
UMAP plot.

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4 years ago today, BLOOM finished training.
BigScience Large Model Training@BigScienceLLM
28 Jun 2022
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10M Bohemian eigenvalues of all 19x19 {-1, 1} companion matrices.
rainbow colormap scatterplot of a fractal structure. Circular, symmetric.

ALT rainbow colormap scatterplot of a fractal structure. Circular, symmetric.

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work in progress: 1 million synthetic personas from @NVIDIAAI's Nemotron-Personas-USA dataset.
scatter plot of 1 million personas from https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Personas-USA

ALT scatter plot of 1 million personas from https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Personas-USA

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Been trying to reproduce datashader functionality using only Apache Arrow and Acero as a learning exercise. This is a 1-billion point Clifford attractor rendered in ~8s from a 9GB parquet file. (No JIT)
Clifford attractor

ALT Clifford attractor

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What's everyone using for their CPU-intensive data workflows? Modal? Lambda? Hetzner? Something else?
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Christopher Akiki retweeted
Leland McInnes@leland_mcinnes
Apr 27
I had a great time chatting with @fishnets88 about EVoC -- the interactive tools for @marimo_io did an amazing job at making the speed and cluster layer effects much clearer and easily explorable. It is definitely worth a watch if you have time. youtube.com/watch?v=ES4PPjK2…

EVoC is the new UMAP - with Leland McInnes!

LeLand and his colleagues have been working on the next iteration o...

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Christopher Akiki retweeted
@dingchilling 🫪@dingchilling
Apr 10
here they are: huggingface.co/Lichess

Lichess (lichess)

Chess

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Sad story in two acts.
Git diff view. Before: # Google Summer of Code 2026 Welcome to M-Lab's Google Summer of Code page! We're excited to have you here and look forward to working with talented contributors from around the world. After: # Google Summer of Code 2026 Measurement Lab had to drop out of GSoC. The motivation for this decision is that, due to the massive usage of AI, we have seen a large volume of similar and incremental contributions that our team cannot handle.

ALT Git diff view. Before: # Google Summer of Code 2026 Welcome to M-Lab's Google Summer of Code page! We're excited to have you here and look forward to working with talented contributors from around the world. After: # Google Summer of Code 2026 Measurement Lab had to drop out of GSoC. The motivation for this decision is that, due to the massive usage of AI, we have seen a large volume of similar and incremental contributions that our team cannot handle.

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UMAP connectivity plots of 3,627 chess openings from the @lichess datasets (hf.co/datasets/Lichess/chess…)
3 by 3 grid of networks color-mapped with "plasma" and with edge-bundling. Lung looking structure.

ALT 3 by 3 grid of networks color-mapped with "plasma" and with edge-bundling. Lung looking structure.

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