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Luca Soldaini 🎀

@soldaini.net

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I like tokens! Lead for OLMo data at @ai2.bsky.social (Dolma 🍇) w @kylelo.bsky.social. Open source is fun 🤖☕️🍕🏳️‍🌈 Opinions are sampled from my own stochastic parrot more at https://soldaini.net

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 22d

best commute on earth

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 26d

which one of you im gonna have the pleasure to see at COLM???

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Aug 20

my keystrokes go though light-up starry cable

OF COURSE my code is better than yours

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Aug 5

12+ years in this country, first time I get to wear this sticker 🗳️

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jul 18

wearing italian camo* at ICML

*ordering an ice lattes rather than espressos at coffee shops

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 23

new @ai2.bsky.social office has something for everyone: stunning views for the outdoorsy kind, 2.5 Gbps connection at every desk for the indoor nerds

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 18

Waymo is cool but BART from SFO to downtown SF is cooler

101 can be as dark red as you want on google maps!

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 9

babyyyyy

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 9

text classification at scale, works great on 70TB of text

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 9

scales just fine to 70TB of text, supports subword embedding, someone made rust bindings 😌

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 9

no reason to switch just because the software is no longer updated. compile from scratch, works great!

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 6

2025 AI hot take: everyone should use FastText more. Word embeddings are awesome.

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 6

congratulations!!

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 6

Reddit also has deals with OpenAI and GDM. Maybe negotiation stalled with Anthropic.

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Jun 3

they are a joy to type with our loud mechanical keyboards

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · May 31

today might be rainy, but PNW summer is already here

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · May 17

if soldering skills become critical i’m gonna be soon out of a job 😅

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · May 15

I've silenced all notifications on all my devices and it's truly the best thing ever

...I am considering allowing calendar notifications tho cuz I almost missed 3 meetings already 😅

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Apr 27

two weeks traveling and I miss my mechanical keyboard so much

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Apr 23

MANGO SMOOTHIE

don’t forget da smoothie 🤤

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Apr 22

when someone says they wanna bring me to their favorite italian restaurant

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Apr 2

I am still perpetually in awe that skill emergence exists in language models

million of caveats but we have models that pick up capabilities from plain text???

it's so magical, I can't believe we got such treat

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Mar 27

congrats!!! amazing news 🥰

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Mar 26

PAWS!

Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · Mar 26

mittens!