Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science, Colorado State University. I hate technology. https://www.nikhilkrishnaswamy.com/ #AI #NLProc Add me to your war planning chats: NikhilKrishnaswamy.77https://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mzjmol4ko22dAnyone with a net worth $1B or over gets to keep either their money or their civil rights. Not both. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2026 00:34 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzjmol4ko22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mzipbx6zes2uNever felt more justified in my Buc-Off shirt [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Nov 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzipbx6zes2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mzhhcqmgn22uThis is a personal victory for me [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Nov 2026 03:53 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhhcqmgn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mzhc7isjxs2uCrazy that John Hickenlooper is the *second* US Senator to be named Hickenlooper04 Nov 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhc7isjxs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mzery2w57k2yI have only one wish for tomorrow and it is that Vivek Ramaswamy be obliterated and sent back to the primordial ooze from whence he came. The reasons for this are personal and should be obvious. #election202603 Nov 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzery2w57k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mymw6fqk4k22This is just the tip of the iceberg. For every one of these obvious cases there's surely 10 where the "authors" at least had the wherewithal to remove the confessional giveaways. And some of those make it to publication due to inattentive reviewers and ACs. The situation is dire. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Oct 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mymw6fqk4k22https://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3myfpkd3vc226Topical and not just because I currently have a raccoon in my garage [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Oct 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfpkd3vc226https://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mxqa3sxkxk2uStarted the weekend thinking I had 4 papers to write. Ended the weekend having submitted 6.13 Oct 2026 04:47 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqa3sxkxk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mwotsjyv2k2kI hate this timeline so much [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwotsjyv2k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mwcku743vc2y(Not so?) hot take: requiring evaluation on the largest (i.e., most expensive) "frontier" models is irresponsible reviewing. It implicitly requires giving money to large corporations in order to do research and explicitly disadvantages entire regions without the financial resources to do so25 Sep 2026 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwcku743vc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mvup444mmk2kThe public sees the corporatization of universities as a leading problem but the public also routinely gets snookered into thinking that public institutions should be run by businessmen 🤷‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Sep 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvup444mmk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mvsfxwcek22pWatching your neighbors and all your friends have a killer party over the fence that they only held just to not invite you. This post is about geopolitics.18 Sep 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsfxwcek22phttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mvm3lu55dk2aAka why the Democratic Party should've been listening to me for the past six funking years [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvm3lu55dk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mvfqmbvamc25Great, who watches the watchers? https://apple.news/AcevYvT_7Ru2A5TRjtkiV8A13 Sep 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfqmbvamc25https://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mv4ohag3ws2fReal frustrating when you work the math out right but you still have to do hyperparameter tuning...09 Sep 2026 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4ohag3ws2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mv2lgbhzjk2c"Corporate Lysenko" is the name of my new band. Why that? No reason.09 Sep 2026 03:21 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2lgbhzjk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mv2l6ulaks2cNew plan: keep the big AI labs distracted with whether the proof of Navier-Stokes is real or not while the rest of us do the rest of science09 Sep 2026 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2l6ulaks2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3muzcr6nnxc2aThere are a number of ideas going around in AI that are inherently very interesting but unfortunately not many that stand a chance of extricating us from our current scientific and socioeconomic predicament08 Sep 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzcr6nnxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mtkehzbgr22pMy 3yo is getting very good at identifying aspen trees. Unfortunately his way of doing so is "the trees have eyes"20 Aug 2026 23:09 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkehzbgr22phttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mpz6wfwh6s2mSpain beat Portugal so I guess they get control of Asia now #worldcup #treatyoftordesillas06 Jul 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpz6wfwh6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mpnyziqqk22f12 years of school, 4 years of college, 6 years of grad school, 3 years of postdoc, 6 years on the tenure track, all for a job title that can still be abbreviated Ass. Pro.02 Jul 2026 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnyziqqk22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3moqcdi3yrk2lYard sales are just trick-or-treating for adults20 Jun 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqcdi3yrk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3moeiwhxmfs2hWant to beat China in the "AI era"? Invest in the humanities. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/china-ai-university-arts-degree-b2995940.html16 Jun 2026 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3moeiwhxmfs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mnpywfh4rc2aI've been to 3 #AI conferences in 4 weeks. The one week I wasn't at a conference, it was a project site visit. Turn on @npr.org and they're talking about AI. I'd like to be done now. #LREC2026 #AAMAS2026 #CVPR202607 Jun 2026 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnpywfh4rc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mnhylzaky22sWhen the CSU doing something crappy isn't your CSU [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhylzaky22shttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mn2cczxwtc2qTenured.30 May 2026 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn2cczxwtc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social/post/3mmpedfvtwc2pAI is still just people. When you ask "AI" you're not hearing from "AI", you're hearing from the people who control the AI. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 May 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:jpc7ukh2vroea2zxtfaaci5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmpedfvtwc2p