Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?

Posted by vessenes 2 days ago

I was thinking about hooking up Karpathy’s autoresearch tool to Lucidrain’s repositories as a way to let someone smart pick what’s interesting and new in ML research, and I learned that he is off github, says his account was canceled and is ‘pretty sure there’s something wrong at github.’

Any backstory / information on this?

Comments

Comment by byschii 2 days ago

Lucidrains (Phil Wang) GitHub account has been suspended

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009749

Comment by vessenes 2 days ago

Thanks. Similarly no comment there. Weird.

Comment by segmondy 2 days ago

AI probably flagged it or someone made a bogus request. I have seen this happen numerous times, it takes folks having to fight it to get their accounts back. If the person has no strength or interest in fighting it as in this case, then there it goes.

Comment by runjake 1 day ago

According to Phil's GitLab page, GitHub suspended his account "without warning or reason".

https://gitlab.com/lucidrains

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