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Conor Callanan
@ccallanan.bsky.social
Software Engineer
📍Cork/Limerick 🇮🇪
No major surprise here. >100 distinct car brands competing in basically the same market. Massive subsidies driven by provincial governments’ desires to be *the* automotive manufacturing region.

Will take serious and thoughtful intervention from the CCP to prevent a minor catastrophe here.
China’s EV Market Is Imploding
Beijing’s grand ambitions threaten to take down the global car industry.
www.theatlantic.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
IMO if this doesn't raise >$500m we've passed peak bubble. The "growth" of the last couple of years is only justified by an end-goal of true AGI/ASI. If the industry doesn't jump on this they've given up on that goal and will be judged by the markets accordingly.

www.nasdaq.com/articles/met...
www.nasdaq.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One thing that I think isn’t discussed enough in the context of AI capex spend is the HUGE involvement of private equity/credit. The Hyperscalers ™️ are leaning heavily on joint venture type partnerships to scale up investments without dirtying their balance sheets too much.
November 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Very interesting paper from DeepSeek. In training a 3B OCR model, they discovered that its encoder could be used to “compress” textual information into an image format that the decoder could understand with 97% precision.
https://deepseek.ai/blog/deepseek-ocr-context-compression
t.co
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I know they say history repeats itself but this is taking the piss. MI5 must have seen the 23 year anniversary coming up and had a sudden epiphany for how handle this whole Iran ordeal.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98wjzj4jlpo
UK faces rising and unpredictable threat from Iran, report warns
A wide-ranging report by an intelligence committee has set out the risks Iran poses to the UK.
www.bbc.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is insanely cool. They’re claiming SOTA performance on maths and code with NO LABELLED DATA.

From what I can tell they’re using a sort of GAN-esque paradigm with a “Proposer” (generates tasks) and “Solver” (produces solutions) instead of a generator/discriminator.

github.com/LeapLabTHU/A...
GitHub - LeapLabTHU/Absolute-Zero-Reasoner
Contribute to LeapLabTHU/Absolute-Zero-Reasoner development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Conor Callanan
This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them.

They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps.

Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
May 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Gerry Adams is nothing if not committed to the bit - fair play
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said he never sued over allegations made in the past that he was a member of the IRA because of legal advice given at the time.
Adams says previously advised not to sue over IRA claims
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said he never sued over allegations made in the past that he was a member of the IRA because of legal advice given at the time.
www.rte.ie
May 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Conor Callanan
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Conor Callanan
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reasoning in latent space is one of those things that just *feels* like it should have huge potential - will be interesting to see how larger models based on this approach perform in more general applications
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2502.05171, cs․LG | cs․CL, 07 Feb 2025

🆕Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

Jonas Geiping, Sean McLeish, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Siddharth Singh, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, To...
February 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
For anyone else that likes messing around with potential coalitions - i hacked together a small app

#GE24 #react
coalitionbuilder.ie
December 3, 2024 at 9:38 PM
I have a real appreciation for people that fulfil stereotypes to a cartoonish extent. Pilot with thick moustache and aviators, fireman with Dalmatian, etc. but Willie O’Dea is taking the piss. I have never seen a more brown-envelope-taking-‘90s-Fianna-Fáil politician-looking person in my life. #GE24
Willie O’Dea (Fianna Fáil) elected in Limerick City | Live updates: rte.ie/b/1483874
November 30, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Is there a mainstream “Developer” feed on here that isn’t largely BlueSky/dApp dev focused? I think that stuff is cool and all but feel like it kind of obscures the more general dev discussions you’d see on Twitter.
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM