Borealid

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by Borealid 1y ago
A Framework Desktop exposes 96GB of RAM for inference and costs a few thou USD.
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by Borealid 1y ago
There is an open-source app ("Casio G-Shock Smart Sync") for syncing time with g-shock BLE watches. Some of them are also compatible with Gadgetbridge (also OSS, but much richer in functionality).
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by Borealid 1y ago
The term to search for is "UKI". A UKI is a kernel+initramfs+boot-arguments bundle all as a single WinPE/UEFI executable using the "EFI Stub Loader". You configure your system firmware to execute it, passing no argu
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by Borealid 1y ago
You can't sell a Harry Potter book, but you can sell any number of Magical School for Wizards books. They can use similar themes to Harry Potter, similar pacing, even similar artwork styles. They just can't copy the characters, si
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by Borealid 1y ago
Let's say I come up with the idea of using a fan to blow a balloon into the air. I get a patent with the claim "a device made buoyant in air and propelled by forced wind". Someone else comes up with the idea of blowing a dust
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by Borealid 1y ago
Copyright and patents are absolutely not the same thing at all. A patent makes it illegal to use a particular idea, by any means. It is a limited-time universal monopoly on a set of specific "claims" (the selected applications of
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by Borealid 1y ago
The burden of proof of infringement is on the plaintiff in either case. If you have an obscure patent nobody has ever heard of, you can win the suit by showing that the defendant had the same idea you did - you don't need to show their
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by Borealid 1y ago
I think it's worth mentioning that with a patent, nobody else is allowed to use the patented idea. This holds even if they have never heard of you before, and were entirely unaware your patent (or your version of the patented concept)
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by Borealid 1y ago
There in an advantage to using UTC: when legislatures change the rules about which time zone is which, or you move your computer while it's off, the time remains correct. Using local time for the RTC theoretically makes it simpler to s
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by Borealid 1y ago
The "clean room" in "clean room reverse engineering" refers to a particular set of trade secrets, yes. You could have a clean room and still infringe if an employee in the room copied any work they had ever seen. The cle
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by Borealid 1y ago
An LLM can be used for a clean room design so long as all (ALL) of its training data is in the clean room (and consequently does not contain the copyrighted work being reverse engineered). An LLM trained on the Internet-at-large is also pre
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by Borealid 1y ago
For the moment, Gadgetbridge also exists if you want a FOSS app that can deliver much of the same functionality Garmin's own app does.
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by Borealid 1y ago
The repository says it's LGPL, not MIT-licensed.
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by Borealid 1y ago
What stops an adult from creating these anonymous tokens and then letting others use them?
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by Borealid 1y ago
Kodi, which is capable of rendering directly to a framebuffer (underlying desktop env not required) is pretty good at media parts.
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by Borealid 1y ago
I think the ethical desire is not to remove bias across all properties. Properties that result from an individual's conscious choices are allowed to be used as factors. One can't change one's race, but changing marital status
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by Borealid 1y ago
Classifying a behaviour into either "dangerous" or "not dangerous" is a perfect example of non-generative AI (what was previously called Machine Learning). The output isn't intended to be a textual description, it&#
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by Borealid 1y ago
I recently heard someone say "I've never had a job that didn't involve at least some Python". I think that's true of almost all computer science jobs in the current market. Python is the primary language for scienti
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by Borealid 1y ago
There's what people think engineers do: building things. Then there's what engineers actually do: deciding how things should be built. Neither "needs to be saved from automation", but automating the latter is much harder
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by Borealid 1y ago
Imagine a Rorschach Test of language, where a certain set of non-recognizable-language tokens invariably causes an LLM to talk about flowers. These strings exist by necessity due to how the LLM's layers are formed. There exists no simi
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by Borealid 1y ago
If you feed Claude you're getting Claude's "system prompt" before the text you give it. If you want to test convolution you have to use a raw model with no system prompt. You can do that with a Llama or similar. Otherwis
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by Borealid 1y ago
I don't see that as a problem. I don't particularly care how human intelligence works; what matters is what an LLM is capable of doing and what a human is capable of doing. If those two sets of accomplishments are the same there&#
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by Borealid 1y ago
Do you believe it's possible to produce a given set of model weights with an infinitely large number of different training examples? If not, why not? Explain. If so, how does your argument address the fact that this implies any given &
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by Borealid 1y ago
I think there's a single definition of AGI that will stand until the singularity: "An AGI is a human-created system that demonstrates iteratively improving its own conceptual design without further human assistance". Note tha
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by Borealid 1y ago
What your parent poster said is nonetheless true, regardless of how it feels to you. Getting text from an LLM is a process of iteratively attempting to find a likely next token given the preceding ones. If you give an LLM "The rain in
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by Borealid 1y ago
You are correct, and that "high enough fidelity" is the rate at which music has been sampled for decades.
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by Borealid 1y ago
Are you familiar with the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem? If so, what do you think about the concept of a human "hear[ing] the steps" in a digital playback system using a sampling rate of 192kHz, a rate at which many high-resolu
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by Borealid 1y ago
No, a block of text that begins "please improve on the following text:" is likely to continue after the included block with some text that sounds like a correction or refinement. Nothing is "recognized", nor is anything
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by Borealid 1y ago
You're still using language that includes words like "recognize" which strongly suggest you haven't got the parent poster's point. The model emits text. What it's emitted before is part of the input to the next
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by Borealid 1y ago
Your parent poster is quite clearly stating that they believe that model weights (ie, the model itself) cannot be copyrighted as it is not a creative work. If the model weights cannot be copyrighted, you are not violating copyright law by d

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