Word embeddings – Part 3: The secret ingredients of Word2Vec
This post will discuss the factors that account for the success of word2vec and its connection to more traditional models. Table of Contents: Excuse the rather clickbait-y title. This is a blog post that I meant to write for a while. In this post, I want to highlight the factors, i.e. the secret ingredients that […]
PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA
Details Published: February 15, 2025
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI
All your thoughts belong to him Elon Musk thinks this is funny: I think it is terrifying. Everyone—and not just The Information—should be genuinely terrified that the richest man in the world has built a Large Language Model that spouts propaganda in his image.1 This isn’t free speech. It’s a massive, massive thumb on the […]
All Kindles can now be jailbroken
After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies. – Isaac Asimov WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude It is based on Mesquito Special thanks to Marek, NiLuJe, Katadelos and all the beta-testers during the development of this jailbreak. RIP […]
Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)
Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don’t work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don’t feel like working on it anymore, let’s just have dark mode. […]
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
Date 2025-02-11 Radar drone ready to take off from snow. I have made several homebuilt radars and done some synthetic aperture imaging testing with them on the ground. I have wanted for a long time to put a radar ona drone and capture synthetic aperture images from air. When I last looked at this few […]
Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)
The “why” behind Hannah on Privacy Your privacy matters. Let me try to convince you. It’s not going to happen with this post alone, but I am hopeful that in time, I can convince you that it’s worthwhile to at least try to protect some of your privacy online. It may feel like a lost […]
Her job is to remove homeless from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary
When Morrisette’s tent site got too messy or drew complaints, she’d let him know he had to move but gave him time to pack up his things, knowing he’d likely find another site nearby. Still, she couldn’t always protect him from sweeps by the environmental services crew. When that happened, she would sympathize with his […]
Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
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Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After ‘Insiders’ Pocket $87M
Argentina’s president Javier Milei has backtracked on a tweet promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4 billion market cap before plunging by more than 95%. In a now-deleted tweet, Milei initially wrote: “This is a private project dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy,” along with a Solana contract address […]