Aaron Olaf Batty
@AaronOlafBatty
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Professor, Keio University. Language assessment, Rasch/IRT, Zotero supremacist. UI/UX whinges aplenty. Curves ahead.
Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa
Joined April 2017
iOS 26.1's "tinted glass" setting is a bit better, but still not as good as just not doing this nonsense. Phone runs hot and battery life is terrible just to make the screen harder to read.
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It looks just as bad—maybe worse—with “Reduce transparency” turned off. It’s simply unbelievable how bad this is.
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Every icon looks like it was designed in 2002. Everything looks cheap.
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I never install a new macOS on my main machines until the x.1 patch at the earliest (usually not until the following summer, actually), but I have a spare MacBook I use as a testbed. I thought iOS 26 was bad, but... Round windows, illegibility, left-justified dialogs... Wow. 😬
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The screenshots did not do justice to just how bad Liquid Glass is. People say it's like Windows Aero, but it's not. That was ugly, but still legible.
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"How are we going to drive sales of the Apple Watch 11 if the SE3 has the only features anyone cares about at barely over half the price?" "I know! Let's only offer it in blue and yellow, two colors no one wants!" "You're a genius! Ka-ching!"
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9月6日にポリグロッツ社のセミナー（Zoom 無料）でCEFRについて深く考察します。2001年公刊されたオリジナル版、2020年の改訂版についても説明します。 https://t.co/lJibXEmePZ
news.3rd-in.co.jp
慶應義塾大学名誉教授田中茂範氏が講師を務める、「英語教育＜ここから＞ゼミ」を通じて英語指導の新たな視点を提供します。
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This is a very polite way of saying, "LLMs are dumb." https://t.co/j21sfJMoPq
LLMs are not like you and me—and never will be. @garymarcus explains that human knowledge is organized by the Kantian frameworks of space, time, causality, and matter (a major theme of my book The Stuff of Thought). LLMs approximate human intelligence in remarkable ways, but
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This is absolutely something that should be done, whatever you think of Sanseito. Japan’s regulations are ludicrously lax and there’s no reason that non-residents should be so easily able to buy property, as I argued a few months ago: https://t.co/dk9uGfdcR0
bloomberg.com
Despite the stereotypes, Japan is one of the most permissive places for non-residents to buy property. That’s a problem when locals are being priced out.
Sankei reports that the DPFP & Sanseito are keen to craft legislation to tighten regulations around foreigners purchasing real estate assets, which could serve as a "litmus test" on how parties view policies related to foreigners. https://t.co/xgb0dvjItc
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LLMs are a very expensive, very complicated parlor trick, not "artificial intelligence" as is popularly imagined. Any perceived "intelligence" is simply pareidolia. They are good at summarizing their training data. That can be very useful, but that's it. https://t.co/zm93HQ2WZx
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When I say that "AI" (read: LLMs) aren't actually coming for your jobs, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. https://t.co/4CHGAkiSzD
I’m the author of the paper @grok describes here. It’s among the most read and cited articles on psychotherapy outcome—required reading in grad programs around the world Grok gets literally everything wrong The paper shows psychodynamic therapy is as or more effective than
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Seeing people ask "Grok is this true?" fills me with crippling existential dread.
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bad take, at multiple levels current AI models don’t have subjective experience; they compute probabilities and can’t even maintain consistent world models. there is no strong argument that they have subjective experience besides that, belittling people based on false
I think that people who assert that current AI models definitely don't have subjective experience are trying to signal that they're 'serious people'. But to me it really just reads as an embarrassing tell that they're completely unaware of the relevant philosophy.
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An observation: Even though my Japanese professor was fluent in English, I never emailed her in anything other than Japanese, because I wanted to demonstrate my ability, and also because I felt it was kind of disrespectful of her effort to teach me. ...Just an observation.
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When I tell people that I don't believe that we're facing an AI apocalypse, this is what I'm talking about. LLMs have no idea what they're saying because they have no ideas. They just predict letters. That's super useful, but it's not "intelligent." https://t.co/0FvyzKBExP
@Grady_Booch @GaryMarcus Yup 💯. For those who prefer visual aid, here’s an infographic explaining why LLM’s architectural constraints make it impossible for pure LLMs to reason and understand.
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Congrats, @apple, you've resurrected Aero from Windows Vista. I guess it's fitting since my Mac now hassles me several times a day for permissions to continue working and is constantly interrupting me with trivial announcements, just like Vista. "I'm a Mac."
Expressive. Delightful. But still instantly familiar. Introducing our new software design with Liquid Glass.
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Sentimentality is decidedly "off-brand" for me, but RIP Mary Smith, the woman who taught me how to write a research paper... in high school. I literally would not be here today without her. She was also absolutely hilarious. https://t.co/ETmwd4JMmt
journal-advocate.com
Mary Eileen Smith, 82, began her walk with the Lord on Monday, 26, 2025 with her husband by her side. A celebration of Mary’s life will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, June 5 at First Presby…
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I used to teach Beat Literature from the 50s and 60s. Part of why I quit was that the students simply could not imagine life 70 years ago, before social media. Yes, that's a huge problem. But asking them to understand the world of *170* years ago is a pretty big ask. 8/8
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Don't get me wrong: It's a major problem when English majors can't read Dickens. But expecting them to be able to without help is as unreasonable as expecting the same of my generation with Shakespeare. When you don't know what any of the words mean, how can you comprehend? 7/
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