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nothrowaways

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“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform....” —Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
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nothrowaways··on Pandas 3.0
Very well articulated.
nothrowaways··on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
> Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use
nothrowaways··on Ask HN: Will humans still vote after AI takes over?
What's your take?
nothrowaways··on [dead]
Idiocracy on steroids.

For those who don't know, Idiocracy is a movie title.

nothrowaways··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
I'm glad India is not yet included
nothrowaways··on Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant
My advice, don't be fixated on the MIT part. graduating from MIT doesn't mean anything for 95% of jobs.

First time sucks but it will be better. Been there done that.

nothrowaways··on Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
FAFO, sadly
nothrowaways··on US freezes visas for 75 nations
There is denaturalization FYI
nothrowaways··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
> overweight applicants could be denied

Choosing AI over humanity.

I hope the next step won't be denying the right to life based on certain discrimination factors.

nothrowaways··on The universal weight subspace hypothesis
> Principal component analysis of 200 GPT2, 500 Vision Transformers, 50 LLaMA- 8B, and 8 Flan-T5 models reveals consistent sharp spectral decay - strong evidence that a small number of weight directions capture dominant variance despite vast differences in training data, objectives, and initialization.

Isn't it obvious?

nothrowaways··on The universal weight subspace hypothesis
What if all models are secretly just fine tunes of llama?
nothrowaways··on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
Where do they get the video training data?
nothrowaways··on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
It is interesting to see the consensus that nobody is enthusiastic about meta Ray-Bans except Zuckerberg.

It's creepy.

nothrowaways··on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
3 similar apps already! Apple and big tech UI designers should read this thread.
nothrowaways··on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
"Invest in my startup"
nothrowaways··on Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"
Python is quickly turning into a crowded keyword junkyard
nothrowaways··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
Interesting times
nothrowaways··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
They left out X because he will bitch_ about it to his 600 million followers lol.
nothrowaways··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
Hi X
nothrowaways··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Does speed really matter during python installation?
nothrowaways··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Replace Jassy with AI
nothrowaways··on PyTorch Monarch
FB should create a pytorch foundation and set it free before they fuck it up.
nothrowaways··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
Meta have no idea what they are doing. They try too hard to be cool kids.
nothrowaways··on Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures
I never understood why Tesla valuation is orders of magnitude higher than honda
nothrowaways··on Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
Impressive, congrats.
nothrowaways··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
I also know someone who expects a peace prize after creating a department of war.
nothrowaways··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
Rigged
nothrowaways··on The React Foundation
Multiply this by the number of multi billion mc companies that are built with it
nothrowaways··on The React Foundation
Multiply this by the number of multi billion mc companies that are built on it
nothrowaways··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market
Do you even understand what first class citizen means?
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