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Noah A. Smith
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Researcher in NLP, ML, computer music. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp & familiar to two cats. Single reeds, tango, swim, run, cocktails, מאַמע־לשון, GenX. Opinions not your business.

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Nov 25
now getting close to more followers than people I actually know in real life ... which means some of you are randos or bots and IME that doesn't bode well

I'm not interesting, so if you don't actually know me, consider what better things you could be doing with your time

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 7d
Announcing Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use, and an open model flow—not just the final weights, but the entire training journey.
Best fully open 32B reasoning model & best 32B base model. 🧵

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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 8d
#UWAllen prof @nlpnoah.bsky.social will be the new vice provost for artificial intelligence and Charles & Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies thanks to a $10M gift supporting @uofwa.bsky.social's global leadership in #AI. www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
$10M gift from Charles and Lisa Simonyi establishes AI@UW to advance artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
The University of Washington today announced a foundational $10 million gift from philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi to support groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and emerging...
www.washington.edu

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Oct 6
"We are committed to our fully open ethos. That's why we release everything—weights, code, training data, checkpoints, all of it." — @nlpnoah.bsky.social at the Madrona IA Summit last week.

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Aug 2
a suicide note:

I only logged in 200 times
because your shitty system kept logging me out
now a simple reviewing task has become endless
I cannot do this again
farewell

@openreview.bsky.social

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Mar 11
No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.
arnorosenfeld.bsky.social Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · Mar 11
Interesting story that gets to the heart of why many Christians feel persecuted in the U.S.: The secular elite find many of their views abhorrent and uncouth

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Apr 24
Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · May 2
By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 17
if a restaurant worker feels the need to tell you the food is fresh ... it definitely isn't

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 5
you can go to Vienna, meet people you like in cafes, and not pay the registration ... seems like a net win

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 5
this is not new, it was always tedious

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 5
if you find it or write it (or want to write it together) lmk

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 5
yours too, "bro"

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 3
if you don't appreciate this joke, please unfollow me

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 3
I thought you were a writer. write it down, no one wants to watch a video

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 3
we wrote this and I think it's part of what you want

arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17301
arxiv.org

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 3
why must millennials put emoji on everything

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Jun 2
RewardBench 2 is here! We took a long time to learn from our first reward model evaluation tool to make one that is substantially harder and more correlated with both downstream RLHF and inference-time scaling.
The RewardBench 2 Leaderboard on HuggingFace.

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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social · Jun 1
I am furious about the news out of Colorado of Jews being lit on fire for the crime of calling for hostages to be released. I am furious at how dirtbag leftists on this website and elsewhere treat this as a game where violence against American Jews is justified if we aren't good tokens.

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 30
not going, I can play music in Seattle without renting a room

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 27
Congratulations to @yizhongw.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Advised by @hanna-nlp.bsky.social and me.

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 21
trying to decide whether to go to Vienna in late July (there's a formerly-AI conference happening there and I might want to see some friends who still go)

maybe you can help me decide

who's going to be there and wants to rent a place and play music together

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 20
saw this in Seattle this weekend, it was great, also recommend

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 14
(I don't know why this will never get old)

*upload photo of anyone at all to Molmo, type "where is the scientist?"*

Molmo: I don't see a scientist here

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 13
give Schumer a break, he's so old he can't remember which party he's in ... ביז הונדערט צװאַנציק, טשוקעלע

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 13
the economist called us losers and we ... rolled our eyes because their argument is behind a paywall

Gen X (at its best) doesn't feed trolls
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
www.economist.com

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 13
it's always glutes

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 10
I doubt surgeons and specialists will be obsolete in my lifetime, but the idea of a "primary care physician" who just punches shit into a computer before writing you a prescription for a common issue, and "insurance company" that stands between you and solution ... probably will

(4/n)

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 10
truly can't wait until the day I can say I helped replace our inefficient, ineffective, and (most importantly) soul-destroying "healthcare" "system"

(3/n)

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 10
can now easily see how the rest of the process (interacting with experts to get the problem fixed, or determine that it can't be fixed and make informed decisions) will be automated

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