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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... If masked group of hooligans approached your vehicle after you had just dropped off one of your kids at school and demanded that you get out, what would you do? Certainly not exit your vehicle! Yet, for that refusal, you die? Who are the terrorists here?

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It may be 39 degrees, but it is a beautiful 39 degrees.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

MJT on CNN: "There's a new Democrat that's been elected that does deserve to be sworn in..." Crazy times it is when I keep going "I agree with MJT."

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

www.newsweek.com/russia-respo... Go, Moldova! The EU will welcome you with open arms. Let's hope Putin and his gang of thugs don't bomb them back to the Stone Age for daring to turn their back on the Russian Empire (maybe using Transnistria as an excuse).

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Russia Responds as Pro-Putin Party Defeated in Moldova Election

"Moldovans should probably resolve this among themselves,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Thank God for Jimmy Kimmel! What a comeback! Makes me almost want to watch network TV. Wait...couldn't watch him in Seattle because KOMO, the local ABC affiliate, is part of Sinclair, and Sinclair decided to censor Kimmel. Pretty easy for me to boycott KOMO since I never watch them anyway.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

www.msn.com/en-us/news/n... "This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote. Checks and balances are regrettably a thing of the past.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Opened for 110 years Kogetsu-Do is one of the last Japanese confectionaries in the West. I always stop by when in Fresno or close by (or not so close). Even when there are years between visits, Lynn still greets me by name when I enter the store. Such a special place. www.sfgate.com/centralcalif...

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A 110-year-old California confectionery is likely on its last owner

"Basically, this is my second home."

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

But, how many Will Lewis's are Yankee Doodle Dandies??

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I've had a picture of the Hubble Deep Field over my desk for years. Other than the sheer wonder of it, it is also a constant reminder of just how miniscule even my biggest problems are. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And now for a waterfall. (Teneriffe Falls near North Bend.)

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Happy to advise. Text is fine. You can also message in Bluesky. I'll send a note to you if you want to go that route.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The upside: you hadn't retired yet. It would suck to retire, then later discover that you have to go back to work.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Unbelievable. And utterly frightening.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A year ago we were enjoying Sakura in Tokyo. This year UW will have to suffice.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The cherry blossoms were peaking at University of Washington today. And so were the crowds!

A panoramic if the Quad, crowds and blossoming cherry trees.

Kelly and Will with cherry blossoms behind them.

A look towards the sun through cherry blossoms.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Of anyone in Congress, she's one who has taken on very difficult problems. Like sexual assault in the military, ultimately changing the law (in an establishment that didn't want anything to change). I think there's such an assault on our system, even she is stymied. @kimiha.bsky.social

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Obama will chime in at some point. Bush probably never will.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have a Maasai name! At our latest camp, I guess the mere fact that I could produce even a little Maasai opened eyes, so much so, that I was given the name Oloshipa. I'm told it means "Happy One". I hope it doesn't mean Fuck Face or Man with Booger on His Face. All the Maasai here are using it now.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me thinks yes, but I am teaching spring quarter. And I have a grant. And some other projects. But if retirement means doing what you want when you want (mostly), then most definitely YES!

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Doing well! We're in Kenya right now. Been wonderful! So beautiful!

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yay!! Congratulations, Kim!!

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mama lion with adolescent male son. I think she's scouting for the next meal.

Female adult lion peering over her adolescent son.

Adult female lion peering into the distance, standing next to her adolescent son.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Of course, big cats claw, just like our friendly domestic variety does, but I was completely stunned when I saw it in the wild.

Adolescent male lion clawing a dead tree in an open field.

Adolescent male lion clawing a dead tree in an open field, looking towards the camera.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It's unbelievable. Trump and Vance acted like a couple of crime bosses.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

An exceptional talk by Kate Starbird at UW. She has worked on disinformation in social media for many years, and she fits this talk well into current events. I have never attended an academic talk before where the audience erupted into a spontaneous ovation at the end. Well worth the watch.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

So awesome! Just saw her in concert last year. Might just have to do it again!

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

You know, Trump strong arming our erstwhile allies and trade partners with heavy tariffs, while at the same time demanding Ukraine fork over its rare earths without offering anything in return, feels a lot like Tony Soprano demanding his money. Or else. Welcome to the land of gangster politics.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Or our privacy, for that matter

The TRO is a good thing. We'll see if there'll be a permanent solution.

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Another great paper by Steven Bird. Well worth the read for anyone working on translation technology, especially for languages that are not written. We tend to (over)concentrate on the technology, e.g., building big multilingual models, LLMs, etc., and forget the human side of things.

I'm not addressing the meat of your paper at all here, just the dynamics of how a device can mediate a conversation between people who don't speak the same language. I like the model you proposed. Take a look at the reference for some additional thoughts (from the user track at AMTA).

One thing that grabbed me in particular (having worked on Speech Translation, i.e. in Skype) was the discussion in the Intro & in Fig 1. Focused only on mediating ST in a call, we struggled with how to structure calls between people to make them natural. I like the model you proposed in the Fig. 1.

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Nice paper, Steven. Follows on some of your recent work (and on some of our discussions over the past couple of years). Thorough and a good read. Let me know when it's ready to be cited. More in the next comment...

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Wasn't there a CW meme about a hammer?

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Hike up Ventana Canyon in Tucson. Been years since I hiked this trail! Didn't make it to la ventana, but did stop where I had a view (the only spot on the trail where you can see it before the top). Beautiful, sunny day, albeit cool, including some not-yet-melted snow. Blue sky everywhere!!! 😉😂

A view of la ventana from the trail, looking up a hillside, and small amount of blue sky embedded in the rocks.

Snow on the trail, amongst some rocks. I almost stepped in it! (You can see my boot at the bottom of the image, just below the snow.)

Aww, a baby saguaro. Less than 2 feet tall. I'd guess ~15 years old. My 10 inch tall water bottle to the left gives perspective.

A view into distant Tucson, between two Saguaros, and the trail between them into the distance.

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Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I can't even tell you how little sleep I got this week over this chaos and the personal effect it's been having on my life (I have a federal grant). I can't imagine 4 years of this nonsense.

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Quick, get your stock market picks!

Will Lewis @wildlewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's unbelievable that he used what should have been a solemn moment for those who perished (it did start that way) to attack DEI. 4,000+ days left of this outage.