Anon84

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My name is Bruno Goncalves bgoncalves AT data4sci DOT com Twitter: @bgoncalves @data4sci

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Anon84on Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

Wasting two generations of some of the most brilliant physics minds isn’t exactly a good thing

Anon84on Brown, MIT professor shootings linked, suspect found dead, officials say

https://archive.md/ShO4E

Anon84on How the Brain Parses Language

Me too! Babies and toddlers brains are like sponges. We started teaching my baby 3 languages since birth (essentially I always spoken with her in my native language, my wife in hers and gets English from living in the US). She’s not even 4 yet an fully fluent in all three and seemlessly jumps back and forth between them. (To my surprise, she doesn’t mix words from the different languages in the same sentence)

Anon84on Transformer Paper Authors at AI Startup Debut Open Source Model

https://archive.md/E99dW

Anon84on Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero

Exactly. “Tracers in the Dark” (https://a.co/d/aos3Nka) does a good job of telling that story and a couple of others from the early days of blockchain analytics

Anon84on How stealth addresses work in Monero

#1 and #2 are public results by market leading blockchain analytics companies that have an alphabet soup of agencies as their major clients.

Do you think they published their current state of the art?

Anon84on How stealth addresses work in Monero

What makes you think Monero is untraceable?

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.05332

- https://darkwebinformer.com/chainalysis-successful-deanonymi...

-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266628172...

Anon84on Subtle Signs That You Are Ready to Retire

https://archive.md/QOE5i

Anon84on Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

Not that different. In fact, you can use Markov Chain theory as an analytical tool to study LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

You could probably point your code to Google Books N-grams (https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv3...) and get something that sounds (somewhat) reasonable.

Anon84on Yann LeCun Has Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong

https://archive.md/eioxY

Anon84on Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots

https://archive.fo/rj33c

Anon84on BERT is just a single text diffusion step

The trick is to always put the [MASK] at the end:

"The [MASK]" "The quick [MASK]" etc

Anon84on Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

https://archive.md/9VycM

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

  Location: NYC

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs

  Résumé/CV: By request

  Website: https://www.data4sci.com

  GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/

  Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/

  Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Ur-Fascism – Umberto Eco

https://archive.md/v21DZ

Anon84on Tyler Robinson and America's Lost Boys

https://archive.md/5iOUT

Anon84on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

So… when can I expect my cheque?

Seriously, how will this money propagate to the authors (if at all) or will it just stay with the publishers?

Anon84on Do Hangover Supplements Work?

https://archive.md/SHZdk

Anon84on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

Banks are already using stable coins internally (case in point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPM_Coin) it just hasn’t been made available externally yet.

Anon84on The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking

https://archive.md/4zon2

Anon84on The wall confronting large language models

There definitely is, but Marcus is not the only one talking about it. For example, we covered this paper in one of our internal journal clubs a few weeks ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)

Location: NYC

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs

  Résumé/CV: By request

  Website: https://www.data4sci.com

  GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/

  Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/

  Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Are Saunas Good for You?

https://archive.md/aRRVl

Anon84on Who Invented Backpropagation?

Can we back propagate credit?

Anon84on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

If you're looking for a physical version, the latest translation by Eric Purdue is exceptionally well researched and documented: https://amzn.to/4ly4wTf

Anon84on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

If you're looking for a physical version, the latest translation by Eric Purdue is exceptionally well researched and documented: https://amzn.to/4ly4wTf

Anon84on Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

Words of wisdom:

    There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the
    open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding
    revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything.
    Trust yourself. You are enough.

    Oh, and don't scroll LinkedIn. Or Twitter. Ever.

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

  Location: NYC
  
  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs

  Résumé/CV: By request

  Website: https://www.data4sci.com

  GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/

  Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/

  Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Can men and women be just friends?

https://archive.md/lNbEX

Anon84on On The Meaning of Ritual

There is an argument to be made that the current loss of a sense of community and the meaninglessness epidemic can (at least in part) be attributed to a lack of shared rituals. S. Junger (https://amzn.to/4nSaxfY) and M. P. Some (https://amzn.to/4eB5sUW) do a great job of making this point from somewhat different (and non-eastern) perspectives.