VP of Information Design
@nomic_ai, building new ways to interpret and shape embedding models. Onetime history/digital humanities prof.
@bschmidt.bsky.social
Montclair/Manhattan
Joined December 2010
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Read and explore this rich interactive of 20 *million* research articles from PubMed, a project we're releasing today with
@ritagonmarand
@hippopedoid. It's a *beautiful* embedding structure, a fascinating, complete corpus. Some highlights (thread) static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
it works
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.
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!
I haven't worked on this package in ~8 years, because word embeddings in R is doubly passé… but I wish we were in the alternate universe where tidyverse flows + R's ability to do real EDA syntax won for building ML flows. `v |> reject(king - man) |> arrange(-magnitude)`