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GitHub announcing a $10M open-source fund
- vincengomes 4y agoDirect Link to the Blog Post : https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-by-developers-for-developers/ https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-...
- whit537 4y agoHrm, it's a $10M venture capital fund, plus a $400k fellows/mentorship program. I thought at first that it was a $10M sponsorship fund like we recently did at Sentry, I was gonna be excited about that. :^)
- 4gotunameagain 4y agookay I will be that guy. funny how it comes right after major rouse because of their ethically murky use of open source code.
- cosmodisk 4y agoI'm with you on this one.
- echelon 4y agoThey're teaching a computer as you would a student or child. The minute you see Linux kernel sources, your future output is not forever tainted by the GPL. It's one thing if they've overfit. But we're still so early in this. It would suck to let the Luddites kill a technological development perhaps on par with or even greater than the Internet itself. Where are these same voices when artists' output serves as the training set? Or novels? Or forum posts? If this lawsuit succeeds, we'll cut ourselves off at the knees too. We won't be able to develop models either due to the mishmash of licenses.
- jrochkind1 4y agoI don't understand, what does training a machine learning algorithm like Pilot have in common with teaching a student or child? Teaching them programming? Don't you teach a student or child with lectures and exersizes and practice, not with trying to simply have them read terrabytes of existing code of varying sophistication and figuring they'll know how to program on the other end? What am I missing?
- echelon 4y ago> Don't you teach a student or child with lectures and exersizes That's not how I learned to program or speak English.
- jrochkind1 4y agoWhat are the ways you believe how you learned to program is similar to training a machine-learning model? Just that they both consist of "looking at examples", in the broadest sense? I learned to program by doing programming exersizes (some self-devised, like making simple text games). To accomplish these exersizes, I read programming manuals (in, say, BASIC or Logo); I also looked at simple examples in the languages I was working in. I did not start by reading huge quantities of source code, including sophisticated programs well beyond my current understanding, in all manner of languages and platforms. This seems very different to training a machine-learning model to me.
- xtanx 4y ago> I did not start by reading huge quantities of source code, including sophisticated programs well beyond my current understanding, in all manner of languages and platforms. This seems very different to training a machine-learning model to me. I don't really see how the complexity (which is subjective) of the source code one reads makes the training different.
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- zamalek 4y agoAnd $10M isn't all that much given the size of OSS.
- prima-facie 4y agoIf greenwashing is a term used for oil companies what would fit here? Opensourcewashing?
- jdcaron 4y agoIt’s all virtue signaling in the end so we could just call it that.
- rglover 4y ago"Just give them some money!" <-- Public relations dingus that came up with this move in response to the Copilot robbery. Nah. Hard pass.
- Mandatum 4y agoFunny. They’ve built their business, just like IBM, and so many others - on open-source tools and libraries. And that’s all they’ll commit? It’s not even annual. And it looks like it’s a “we’re targeting new projects” which means they’re trying to get Microsoft tooling support early.