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Noah Smith may refer to:Noah Smith (judge) (1756–1812), judge from Vermont during the early history of the United States Noah… more

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by Noah A. Smith

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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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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.
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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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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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By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.
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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."
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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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by Noah A. Smith

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if a restaurant worker feels the need to tell you the food is fresh ... it definitely isn't
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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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this is not new, it was always tedious
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by Noah A. Smith

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if you find it or write it (or want to write it together) lmk
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by Noah A. Smith

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yours too, "bro"
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by Noah A. Smith

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if you don't appreciate this joke, please unfollow me
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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."
jakei.bsky.social
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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by Noah A. Smith

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I thought you were a writer. write it down, no one wants to watch a video
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by Noah A. Smith

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we wrote this and I think it's part of what you want

arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17301
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by Noah A. Smith

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why must millennials put emoji on everything
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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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jewishwonk.bsky.social
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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by Noah A. Smith

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not going, I can play music in Seattle without renting a room

by Noah A. Smith

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

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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saw this in Seattle this weekend, it was great, also recommend
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by Noah A. Smith

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(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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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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it's always glutes
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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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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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by Noah A. Smith

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

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