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What's the equivalent of closed source?
by gradus_ad 13d ago
What's the equivalent of closed source?
- jegp 13d agoEquivalent? In the analogy of the math or physics results it would be a mental model in someone's brain that you can't access or verify. You just hope it's true
- IanCal 13d agoOpen source is much more than source available though. Its about licensing.
- altmanaltman 13d agoBut that doesn't map to software at all right?
- jegp 13d agoI think the idea does: the point is that closed-source software isn't useful for anyone else than the (copyright)owner. In scientific standards, that is. Similar to esoteric and cryptic theories that resist accessible explanations.
- random3 13d agoIt’s research happening privately without publishing, usually going into products
- Matumio 13d agoLike if CERN published the discovery of the Higgs boson with 99.9997% certainty, but refusing to tell you how they calculated that number, or what equipment they used and how they calibrated it, in order to prevent other labs from copying their methods. Or like a machine learning lab claiming SOTA on a benchmark, beating a well-known method that they re-implemented, possibly with bugs, on their private dataset, for millions of compute. But you don't get the source to check, and they don't release any intermediate results or ablation experiments. Aka, from the outside you can't distinguish it from corporate marketing.