Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social (@benmschmidt) 's Twitter Profile
Ben Schmidt / @[email protected]

@benmschmidt

VP of Information Design @nomic_ai, building new ways to interpret and shape embedding models. Onetime history/digital humanities prof. @bschmidt.bsky.social

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Nomic AI (@nomic_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What do 3.2 million X posts from Congress show about how US legislators talk? What are they posting about going into the 2024 US presidential election? Learn what we found in 3.2M posts from Congress using Nomic Atlas:

Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social (@benmschmidt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really excited to start rolling out this scrollytelling mode for Atlas maps with an analysis of congressional tweets -- reach out if you have a story you want to tell about a big textual dataset!

Nomic AI (@nomic_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're thrilled to welcome three experts as Nomic advisors, each bringing unique expertise that perfectly aligns with our mission to make AI and the data that goes into it more explainable and accessible.

We're thrilled to welcome three experts as Nomic advisors, each bringing unique expertise that perfectly aligns with our mission to make AI and the data that goes into it more explainable and accessible.
Melanie Walsh (@mellymeldubs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group UW iSchool in 2025-26. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! PhD apps due Dec 2: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/a… More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

Maria Antoniak (@maria_antoniak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in NLP and Cultural Analytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 min from Denver and 1 hr from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by Dec 15!

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in NLP and Cultural Analytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 min from Denver and 1 hr from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by Dec 15!
Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) (@rbthisted) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“BU isn’t accepting new Ph.D. students for the next academic year in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including philosophy, English and history.” bit.ly/4hOyf9T

Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social (@benmschmidt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the last five years there have been a lot of depressing and counterproductive university moves to cut humanities programs. This isn’t one. Middle-tier PhD programs in geographic regions that are already saturated with underemployed humanities PhDs are Bad Things.

Nomic AI (@nomic_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ever wondered what the entire Steam library of 100k games looks like mapped out? In this Atlas data map, you can explore neighborhoods of the landscape of video games and uncover hidden gems with descriptions that are semantically similar to your favorite titles!

Wilson Marcílio Jr (@esteciojunior) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Comparing ModernBERT and BERT embeddings reveals some nice properties. The embeddings from the two base architectures show different features for this dataset in terms of class cohesion. atlas.nomic.ai/data/wilson/mo…

Nomic AI (@nomic_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing Open-Source, On-Device Inference-Time Compute in GPT4All - New : GPT4All Reasoner v1 - Support for Code Interpreter, Tool Calling and Code Sandboxing Inference-time compute is now available to every laptop in the world.

Andriy Mulyar (@andriy_mulyar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hugging Face is the hub for AI datasets and today we bring every dataset to life with Nomic's first-class Hugging Face data connector. With a few clicks, you can now vector search, curate, and collaborate on any dataset in Hugging Face huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic/…

Hugging Face is the hub for AI datasets and today we bring every dataset to life with Nomic's first-class Hugging Face data connector.

With a few clicks, you can now vector search, curate, and collaborate on any dataset in <a href="/huggingface/">Hugging Face</a> 

huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic/…
Alexander Doria (@dorialexander) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Announcing the release of Common Corpus 2. The largest fully open corpus for pretraining comes back better than ever: 2 trillion tokens with document-level licensing, provenance and language information. huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA…

Announcing the release of Common Corpus 2. The largest fully open corpus for pretraining comes back better than ever: 2 trillion tokens with document-level licensing, provenance and language information. huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA…
Nomic AI (@nomic_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing Atlas Analyst: The Data Agent for Data Analytics Ask questions, get answers with references to your data, and immediately take action based on those insights.

Andriy Mulyar (@andriy_mulyar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

hiring an ml intern to work on vlm postraining for a special project, reports directly to me. must be exceptional. apply via dms.