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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Read and explore this rich interactive of 20 *million* research articles from PubMed, a project we're releasing today with @ritagonmar and @hippopedoid. It's a *beautiful* embedding structure, a fascinating, complete corpus. Some highlights (thread) static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
I'm excited to announce the @nomic_ai has closed it's industry strategic round with participation from @Aurecon and @ArcadisGlobal .
At Nomic, our models and agents work alongside skilled designers and engineers to deliver high quality physical assets like data centers, bridges and critical infrastructure.
Read more: nomic.ai/news/announcing-nom…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
AI systems excel in domains that have abundant coverage in internet data.
Large sectors of the economy are not digital-native. Their data, processes, and workflows are governed by signals that are out of distribution of foundation models.
Introducing the new Nomic Platform
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
We're re-branding! This is now the new official Nomic X account!
Follow us for updates on new open-source AI models and platform developments!
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
hiring an ml intern to work on vlm postraining for a special project, reports directly to me.
must be exceptional.
apply via dms.
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it works
ALT Prompt: Draw a picture of how many 'R's there are in 'strawberry' in studio ghibli style. Photograph: an anime character above the caption 'strawberry' 3
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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/PleI…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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 @huggingface
huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
I created a map for Hub dataset cards using this new connector in less than 5 minutes.
ALT Screenshot of an atlas with highlighted topics
Vector Search Any Hugging Face Dataset 🤗
Introducing the @huggingface Datasets Connector in Nomic Atlas
huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
Vector Search Any Hugging Face Dataset 🤗
Introducing the @huggingface Datasets Connector in Nomic Atlas
huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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/m…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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!
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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.
“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
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
“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
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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!
ALT A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
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/…
More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship
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