"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

She is from a manga / anime called Spy × Family which has 8.3 on iMDb. The best spy on the planet pretends to be a family man for deep cover by adopting the girl (who can read minds, he doesn't know this) and quickly marries a woman (who is an assassin also looking for cover, he doesn't know this). They do their missions in-between roleplaying a perfect family.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13706018

I read this comment and I thought you were upset that it was sexualized, but when I looked, it wasn't at all. It might have well been a cute kitten or puppy doing the pointing, hard to get wound up about.

> I must say the creepy anime young girl in the readme is somewhat off putting.

This statement is simply a variation of an ad hominem attack. It chastises the creator based on appearances that do not align with the niceties that the commenter deems appropriate.

Do you seriously not find this hilarious?

https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch/raw/main/ima...

will not stand this anti-anya slander

If this is the case, I feel as if you will be put off by a significant portion of ML engineers.

Maybe it works for a younger generation of nerds? Don't judge a book by its cover.

Interest to know why it is off putting.

I have found his lack of proper order, grammar, punctuation, etc... is what lost me out there. This style is fine for 3-4 steps tutorial. But if you have something this long, then you need a proper Table of Contents and make sure to make it a professional old-fashioned doc.

I must say I find your comment off putting.

Creepy??

he's using dingboard.com to edit his images. i believe the anime girl is one of the default images (or used to be) on a new canvas.

If young girls are creepy to you, you should stop watching B-tier horror franchises.

It made is 10x better for me. Stop being boring. I like the anime. It's a popular anime. Loads of people like it and think this is funny.

You should be off pudding

It's fun. Not everything has to be dry.

Just treat it as a weird watermark. That's what works for me.

Have you looked at various models on Hugging Face? There are so many anime characters headlining the readme's. I think it's an interesting cultural disconnect to observe in this thread, but at the end of the day, open source projects like this are not obligated to be anything in particular, and entirely subject to the author's tastes.

Well that escalated quickly...

I don't know why this is such a hot take.

Personally, I find it distracting when some devs start to "spice up" their presentation with manga characters, furry characters, memes, or whatever stuff they enjoy.

Shit, I love Zelda - but I wouldn't want Link all over my presentations. It just looks...juvenile and unprofessional. Doesn't mater if you're a beginner or world leading researcher, just keep it simple and undistracting.

EDIT: That said, I'm probably not the intended audience for this piece.

boring...

I didn’t not find it off putting. I found it quirky and less boring.

ok boomer