nothrowaways

3,305 karma · joined May 25, 2021

“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 Coinbase secures Bermuda licence

nothrowaways··on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

I don't know why they don't just put all this LLM feature as beta or "AI".

They should keep google as organic search engine.

nothrowaways··on Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

Good point.

nothrowaways··on Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

> “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,”

Totally agree, no question about that. But data comes from users. Shouldn't they also get paid?

nothrowaways··on Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics

The only limitation of this scientific article is the fact that it is not two-columns format.

nothrowaways··on Top neural net engineers are getting paid $5-20M annual compensation packages

> Only the dumb ones like me are left

It is worse on Twitter.

nothrowaways··on Ask HN: How to deploy LLMs to serve a million users?

I hope the "horse" is not what I think it is.

nothrowaways··on A Baby GPT

No, gpt is generative.

nothrowaways··on 4000x Speedup in Reinforcement Learning with Jax

It is misleading, the speedup is not just because it is Jax. The devil is in the GPU

nothrowaways··on Show HN: Want something better than k-means? Try BanditPAM

>3) doesn't require the means to be datapoints in the dataset.

I actually thought this was a k means strength :)

nothrowaways··on Show HN: Want something better than k-means? Try BanditPAM

>c) doesn't require the means to be datapoints in the dataset.

I actually thought this was a pro :)

nothrowaways··on Perspective: Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI

Same question:)

nothrowaways··on Master Plan Part 3

Glad that master plan does not include mars :)

nothrowaways··on The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

"Of all the documents in the world, why was the Bitcoin whitepaper chosen?" Good question.

nothrowaways··on Brave launches self-serve ads program

If you are privacy driven tech person (class 2) you won't use brave at all.

nothrowaways··on LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round

Things are moving like Crazy!

nothrowaways··on Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

I can agree about the nuke. Physique doesn't really matter

nothrowaways··on Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

Still, China is in much better shape, if you compare general population.

nothrowaways··on Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now

Somebody please teach ggreganov python. I am sure he will create same magic with python.

nothrowaways··on Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

"ChatGPT, a proprietary instruction-following model" pun intended.

nothrowaways··on Ask HN: Year old CS student. Should I continue?

Pivot or double major but not for the reason you mentioned, if you are already a descent programmer you will easily pick what you would gain from a bs in cs.

nothrowaways··on Ask HN: Is SVB collapse orchestrated by crypto bros like Balaji?

Reason?

nothrowaways··on ask HN: How does an LLM like GPT3 perform addition/division?

That's the question.

nothrowaways··on Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

This is pure genius if it works.

nothrowaways··on 10 days fasting and calcium/vit d supplements increases bone mineral density

It looks like body hacking. First gain wait, pause for a while, then fast to squeeze out carb, the remaining mineral sediments in bone.

nothrowaways··on Ask HN: What are some good sites for non tech people to keep up with tech?

Here.

nothrowaways··on Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?

Only If you want to keep doing it the old lematization way.