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Re:Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size... by uoaei on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:32AM (#37701690)
"Some people are right but if you tilt your head and squint you can almost understand the argument from the others"

I don't know how to respond to these lines of reasoning anymore except to say that words mean things and it's worth keeping definitions consistent for the sake of our common understanding.

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Re:Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size... by gfodor on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:45PM (#37709883)
Machine learning models force us to reconsider the definitions or introduce new ones. A published model has characteristics of open source and closed source software, given the extent to which it can be fundamentally modified, inspected, and used to generate derivative works in a way executable binaries cannot.
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