Computational (socio)linguist interested in how we co-negotiate meaning during conversation. Because I’ve been working with transformers since 2018, very not into AI hype. https://zaqari.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mlggm6pu4c27This has literally been a part of deep reinforcement learning algorithms since at least 2016/2018ish, and maybe earlier. These folks (OpenAI/Anthropic) are BAD researchers in part because they have no idea what’s actually going on in their own field outside of LLMs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlggm6pu4c27https://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mkvcuwhjrk25Honestly, macOS is built on Unix. And Unix is basically just Linux. As someone who uses both, I actually like my Linux computer more. And the same logic I use to navigate my macOS files and interface apply to my Ubuntu kernel. TLDR; they’re basically the same. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvcuwhjrk25https://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mk7okxy7vs2cI unironically told a student today while talking about an upcoming midterm “don’t believe in yourself, believe in me! Believe in the me that believes in you!” And while they laughed at the excessive amount of cringe in that anime quote, I hope they also understood how much faith I have in them.24 Apr 2026 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7okxy7vs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mjlkylqw222nPost the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (from my partner actually but I love this picture) [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Apr 2026 04:26 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlkylqw222nhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mjl4yoddbs2l@schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov 🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Apr 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl4yoddbs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mj5ttus2uk2e@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, Chuck Shumer, @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov and @congressmin.bsky.social. Not a single person cares about your re-election. Do your job or get tf out of the way for someone who will. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5ttus2uk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3miqwzxoep22mWhat kills me about this too is that under no circumstances would I call this “AI education”. Teach them the math and objective function AIs are trained on. If they can do algebra 1, they can understand it. All this is is “training” new consumers for companies like OAI and anthropic. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3miqwzxoep22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mhgkbujzi22qHey @aflcio.org ask Tegmark how he feels about replacing human workers. Then ask him (after he says he feels positively/that it’s inevitable) whether he supports union members opting not to use tech that employers use to justify paying them less. Go ahead. Corporate sell outs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgkbujzi22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mherook66c22I keep getting notifications about courses on AI for my adjunct job, put on by my school. Mother f*cker, I don’t want your AI courses. If I thought I had a use for it, I’d do it myself. As someone who does AI research, I know more about it than the marketing goons teaching your “training” course. 🧵19 Mar 2026 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mherook66c22https://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mg5zytu7z22oMy thoughts every time Sam Altman speaks: f*ck you Sam. No one needs more SAS bloatware. Least of all from you. Because if you know how these systems work under the hood all the woo woo business-idiot slop just disappears. Heck, here are all the papers that went into developing them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5zytu7z22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mg5xb5qnys2vThis is gross on so many levels, and turning it off for good probably means putting pressure on Grammarly and whatever journal publisher Grammarly bought publication rights from to build this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5xb5qnys2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mffsfugdvk2cMade it up until 1300 without having to relive learning Old English in college. And my OE brain is clearly toast past 1100. Super, super cool! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Feb 2026 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mffsfugdvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mfd74vmju22kI'm gonna be in Tucson for #ICLASP19 and if folks know cool hikes out there while I'm in town please show me! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Feb 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfd74vmju22khttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mf7rokzj3k2xI’d never thought of it like this but oh my god now I can’t unsee it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Feb 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7rokzj3k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mevvz5y77k2sI actually think exams might be dead. I'm grading about 150 bluebook exams right now. And it's striking to me that the reason I'm doing this is because we're now afraid of folks cheating via AI in any other medium. And... y'all class sizes are only increasing. This quarter its 150 exams. Next 🧵15 Feb 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mevvz5y77k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/zaqdelinguist.bsky.social/post/3mdsthlwwgk22Gonna do the exact opposite. @kirbyconrod.bsky.social is a fucking badass linguist and if you want to read some cool work on pronoun usage and gender you should go grab any one of these articles and give 'em a read. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Rghp1EAAAAJ&hl=en [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Feb 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:wcbsl4dkyolu2fokzdepymd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdsthlwwgk22