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They can and they will because they did it once moving to open source in the first place.
>Third, if and when software liability becomes law and covers open source software included in a product, then companies will finally invest substantially in the open source software ecosystem.

This is delusional. Companies will stop releasing open source a software if it cost them money to do it. It is already enough of a fight to just get legal to sign off for ip reasons. If accounting got involved it would simply never happen.

Re:Einsum for Tensor Manipulation on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:58PM (#40183972)
You mean like

    res2 = dumbsum(query, key, 'batch seq_q d_model, batch seq_k d_model -> batch seq_q seq_k')
The idea that you can understand what experiences produce what behaviours is as much crazier than the idea you can manually tune the weights of gpt4 and get better results.
Re:Framework won't be just a laptop company anymore on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:56AM (#40143287)
I've had a framework for 3 years now and it just works.

Higher build quality than think pads and runs Linux perfectly.

This is coming from someone who had a franken 400/420t hybrid until 2019.

Ai in its current iteration is a human enhancement tool, not a human replacing tool. I do not understand how anyone who works for a loving thinks this is a bad thing.

It would be like if the industrial revolution made artisanal weaving a million times more efficient without a giant satanic mill.

Re:What is screen time doing to children? on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:07AM (#40111329)
Suicides are lower than they have ever been.
Re:What is screen time doing to children? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @07:36AM (#40104863)
So enough time to have two generations of people to grow up with them.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:32AM (#40104071)
If the exponent is so small that it's not reached 1 in 100,000,000 years we're safe until humanity goes extinct.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:54AM (#40103686)
This has been going on for 100m years. I doubt we are in any urgent danger.
Re:What is screen time doing to children? on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:34PM (#40101954)
When you have cried wolf dozens of times 'this time it's different' isn't.
Re:What is screen time doing to children? on Saturday April 20, 2024 @11:11AM (#40097979)
If Socrates was wrong about reading you're wrong about whatever the kids are doing today.
Re:What is screen time doing to children? on Saturday April 20, 2024 @08:09AM (#40096755)
I'm old enough to have gone through this about the internet and literate enough to have read about every other time this happened back to the invention of writing which was meant to turn us all into imbeciles according to Socrates.

Leave the kids alone. They will figure it out.

Re:Women Who Code Closing on Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:57PM (#40081990)
From what I've seen of orgs run by the current generation of activists they always spread themselves too thin trying to do everything. This has been an issue in all well funded ngos I've seen from local hacker spaces to Mozilla.

When you inevitably fail because you can't fix everything the activists leave and you're left with a ruin where there used to be a useful civic organization.

If you want a CERN for AI you need to build a fab for affordable graphics cards with good software support and high vram.
Re:The forgotten war on beepers on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:55PM (#40071426)
If you don't see why terrorists getting your location is a bad thing thing... Well it's a problem that will solve itself eventually.
Re:The forgotten war on beepers on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:25PM (#40071189)
If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide.

Just ask the animal libratio armys fringes who think that the death penalty is a reasonable response to eating meat.

Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:40AM (#40066233)
Think of the children has been a rallying cry for this since the 90s.
Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:35AM (#40066181)
Why people want more censorship and surveillance.
Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:33AM (#40066166)
Pedophiles.

Everyone hates the enough to justify anything up to and including public executions.

If no one can afford electricity we can reach 100% renewables easily.
Re:The Great Purge (1933) on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @02:25AM (#40048927)
Is that why the US is the only country to mandate covid vaccines for children when there were no deaths in that group?
Re:The Great Purge (1933) on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:42PM (#40048151)
For certain age groups, against specific variants, with more * than you can shake a stick at.

The fact that the cdc changed the definition of vaccine to one which can apply to injecting raw sewage into people will go down in history as one of the larger mass hysterias.

Re:The Great Purge (1933) on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:39PM (#40048135)
One only need to look at what's happening to biology today to see the same thing repeating itself.
I have llm very patiently explain to me why I crashed prod when I used the wrong conversion factor between ms and mus and us. Thanks SI very cool that one of the more often used units needs unicode to be entered into code.

Llm are absolutely helping with catching buts and code quality already.

Re:When Nostalgia Was Deadly on Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:08PM (#40033528)
The whole article is nothing but presentism.

It projects the values of 2024 coastal America on the 17th century Switzerland of all places. A country so poor and desperate its only export was young men to be canon fodder.

Re:What will humans do if technology solves everything? on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:07AM (#40029817)
Share holder value of course.
The economy is doing great if we ignore the people.
Re:Tinygrad: Hacked 4090 driver to enable P2P on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:58AM (#40020614)
There are developers who have breadth and developers who have depth. He is very much on the breadth end of the spectrum. It isn't lack of intelligence but lack of deep knowledge of esoteric fields you will use once a decade.

That said I find it a bit astonishing how little Ai he uses on his streams. I convert all the documentation I need into a rag system that I query stupid questions against.

You're right it's also torture.

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