Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Right, what could a distinguished professor of computational linguistics possibly understand or have to say about large language models? Journalists should only listen to people who work at companies selling the technology. 000
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I saw the first graph and was like yeah yeah ok, it's probably just a sample composition changing over time. Then I saw the second graph 😬 www.glassdoor.com/blog/how-wor... 120
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The new Claude Fable model found an error in my 2024 NeurIPS paper (jk) by constructing a counterexample DAG with a "direct edge from A to a grandchild" -- which my wife immediately named the Woody Allen DAG 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 27/07/2026My wife suggested the perfect actor for an Odysseus that would be true to the original, especially going by mood 0100
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Celebrating drinking (a tiny bit of) caffeinated coffee for the first time in a while 000
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 08/06/2026One of the funniest "AI" fails I've seen A benchmark where humans score ~90% and the current top frontier lab models max out at ~50% Billions of dollars worth of compute on top of stealing the entire internet, and they still can't read clocks clockbench.ai 120
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 31/05/2026First time I can see definition of my cactus lateral is (that’s autocorrect for outer quads) 010
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026the more I use AI the more baffled I am that people want to trust it and put it into everything 010
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Obama had such an aura of decency… it really let you just ignore that he was caging and deporting families, bombing 7 countries, expanding fossil fuel extraction, assassinating US citizens, letting lobbyists shape Obamacare, bailing out and not investigating Wall Street, imprisoning whistle blowers 150
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The bird whisperer (screamer actually) has entered the chat 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 01/02/2026trump is still slandering Alex Pretti while the New York Times runs propaganda pieces trying to reconcile him with centrists 010
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Lazily googling to find the title of a Poe story instead of going to my bookshelf Instead of directing me to A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (good), google generates an imitation of a Poe story (🫥) 030
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Tired half the time and have headaches most days And honestly, don't mind it at all because of this guy's smile 070
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 07/12/2025After a month in Sicily My stomach just texted me this??? how 050
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 24/11/2025This is so much more scandalous than some UCs offering remedial math courses But somehow I won't be surprised if the same journos and pundits who're so concerned about "woke" lowering standards are silent about this www.nber.org/system/files... 070
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I'm getting cautiously optimistic that the AI insanity will be ended soon by (1) a deluge of lawsuits and (2) society in general learning that it's bullshit on.ft.com/3M4Y61L www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b... 050
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Logging on to X the Everything app™️ and having the audacity to say remedial math classes are good actually and universities should educate and not just select students 0131
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 11/11/2025good it's very important www.hrwiki.org/wiki/The_Poo... 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Me, to the universe: you're welcome. It was easy actually 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Over 300,000 children have died so far as a direct result of trump and musk illegally defunding USAID 021
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Left: The entire British political establishment working diligently to destroy Jeremy Corbyn and keep him out of power by any means Right: Starmer's Labour, in power, manages to become more unpopular than its lowest point under Corbyn 052
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Noahpinion accidentally admitting that the left isn't responsible for cancel culture, but probably doesn't even realize he implied as much 111
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 02/09/2025This is what I've been saying since 2023 (image below) "prediction: use of "AI" [...] will come to be broadly associated with cheating, deception, lack of respect for other people, and low quality work that cannot be trusted in important settings" 1469
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I'm guessing the general pattern is that these DOGE losers asked "grok" to summarize/search documents for them, didn't check any details, then made life and death decisions based on "hallucinations" 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 20/05/2025google AI is like google maps (created >20 years ago) but built on trillions of dollars of intellectual property theft, billions in environmentally costly computation, and also wrong (the A6 connects Belfast and Derry, the M1 does not) 010
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Is this going to work? Adding 5kg some weeks but lowering the reps of intensity day My goal is to hit at least a single with 185kg at the end 100
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Hilariously, this actually shows the insurance industry is still not willing to underwrite the *baseline* risks of "AI" tools It will only cover a drop in performance, e.g. from 5% errors to 15% errors. Hence if it stays constant at baseline those 5% errors won't be covered 000
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 04/04/2025In the 1910 census, my great-grandfather's occupation and business/industry were listed as motorman electric cars(?!) 010
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 04/04/2025when line go down you can still make your own line go up 020
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The White House policy grunts are probably doing their work with AI (This is what Elon and DOGE supporters think we should replace our whole legal system and government with) 110
Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The DOGE "Wall of receipts" was updated yesterday, they now claim $105B 'savings' (cuts) But the receipts only show $19.82B (And there's a new table of "grants" with no description/explanation) github.com/joftius/doge... 110