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Noah A. Smith

@nlpnoah.bsky.social

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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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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.

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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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · Jun 2

A Jewish atheist dies, and to his surprise finds himself standing before God. He steps forward and says "God, in know I haven't been a very good Jew, but since I'm here, can I tell you a joke?"
God shrugs and says "sure, go ahead."

Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · Jun 2

maybe we can bring some Jewish joy to the timeline?

quote with a favorite Jewish joke, I'll go first

Moshe skips temple to play golf on Sabbath, and G-d says he will punish him. Then Moshe gets a hole in one.

Moshe: A hole in one?! This is a punishment?

G-d: Who can you tell?

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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

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

Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 5

yours too, "bro"

Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · Jun 3

if you don't appreciate this joke, please unfollow me

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · Jun 2

Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 13

it's always glutes

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

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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"

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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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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 10

used a LM to diagnose a medical problem, figure out steps to get treatment with minimal phone calls and time wasted waiting for healthcare providers to perform administrative tasks

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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 8

intellectually I get that his name is "Robert Prevost" but in my head I can't not hear it as "Ford Prefect"

Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · May 6

it's a pity, such a lost opportunity for people to think scientifically about language