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721.
by dwheeler 6y ago
I don't know if hyperparameters count as being adequately creative, and perhaps that is unsettled. I suspect you would have to have an argument about how creative the process of tuning parameters is. It might be very fact-specific, IE
722.
by dwheeler 6y ago
In the US this question is fairly settled. The U.S. Copyright Office has already declared that if it's generated by a machine, without any creative input or intervention from a human author, then the work is NOT eligible for copyright
723.
by dwheeler 6y ago
Copyright has the force of law internationally. Which means that courts, police, and armies back it up. I would agree that copyright has many problems. But "rule of law" also matters. Perhaps more importantly, the Internet Archive
724.
by dwheeler 6y ago
Organizing is not expensive. What is expensive is paying the typesetters to place the movable type in various places, and to create plates with the various graphics. Oh wait, we don't need to do that anymore. At this point, there is no
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Yes, while the future is hard to predict, right now it looks like AV1 is on its way to fixing the world. If anyone can freely create and view videos without paying the endless tolls for permission, that would be a vast improvement.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
They will probably be standardized, but not by ISO. Currently it looks like AOMedia will take over, in part because unlike ISO they are willing to commit to having an open standard unencumbered by patents.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Put another way: The video patent cartels have fragmented due to greed, and so the cartel enablers at ISO have lost their purpose. In addition, organizations are tired of paying bridge tolls. So we can finally have open standards for video
728.
by dwheeler 6y ago
Agreed. Crystal looks like it has many positive characteristics, but having similar syntax has nothing to do with having similar semantics. Without constructs like missing_method, you cannot run practically any of the Ruby ecosystem librari
729.
by dwheeler 6y ago
For countering subverted compilers you can use diverse double-compiling (DDC), see https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
730.
by dwheeler 6y ago
This is very cool. There's similar work that reveals how Byzantine choral work sounded in the Hagia Sophia, which I find to be beautiful in an unearthly way: http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/hear-the-sound-o
731.
by dwheeler 6y ago
A follow-up article should be, "What did older Beethoven sound like to the older Beethoven?" (provides recording of silence)
732.
by dwheeler 6y ago
The number of people in the study is too small to really make much in the way of definitive conclusions. But it is certainly enough that a larger study should occur. In the meantime, since vitamins are cheap and not dangerous at these doses
733.
by dwheeler 6y ago
A company absolutely can sue someone for violating the terms of service. For huge amounts of money, too, and it might be both you and your organization who have to pay. In the US it would probably be at least considered a contract vio
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I think this clause is not reasonable and should not be legal. However, these clauses (they're called "DeWitt clauses") have been around for almost 40 years and they have not gone away. For more, see my essay, "The DeWit
735.
by dwheeler 6y ago
DeWitt clauses (the name for these clauses) have been around since the early 1980s, and have not been struck down yet. I would love to see them disappear, though. For more, see my essay here: https://dwheeler.com/essays&#x2F
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by dwheeler 6y ago
They aren't scared of benchmarks, because they've rendered benchmarks about their products illegal unless they like the results.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I highly doubt Oracle cares about the Steisand effect. Oracle has long been lampooned for its lawyers, e.g., this old Bonkers World cartoon: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts , and people have been complaining
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Oracle may very well want to litigate it. I doubt they care about the optics. This is the well-known DeWitt clause, so named because Oracle crafted it to squelch database research being performed by Dr. David DeWitt. I believe these clauses
739.
by dwheeler 6y ago
It says it only applies to the People's Republic of China, and in the notes above it's only because of the laws of the People's Republic of China. In all practical senses Taiwan is a separate country, but there are reasons no
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Good riddance to proprietary codecs.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
OpenAI has managed to derive a number of Metamath proofs, some of which are smaller than the human-created proofs, using machine learning. Here is a gource visualization of metamath proofs overtime in the set.mm database: https:/&#x2F
742.
by dwheeler 6y ago
If you prefer to use Lisp with a more conventional syntax, check out "readable Lisp: https://readable.sourceforge.io/ It has three levels of notation, depending on what you want. There is even a quick lisp library.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Fizz Buzz rules here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz Rules for actually using this crate: Don't :-). That said, there are legitimate reasons to implement things at compile time. It means that libraries
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by dwheeler 6y ago
That is an endless rabbit hole. In that case, no one owns land or any other kind of property either. Obviously a government entity could take any or all of it away from you if you are in their jurisdiction. And if you do not pay land taxes,
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by dwheeler 6y ago
It's a standard character, it needs a name, the standard name for "\" is backslash. I'm okay with that. The normal and widespread name for "/" is "slash", and I'm fine with that too. Yes, th
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The key part about having your own personal blog site is owning your own domain. As long as you own the domain, you can change your mind. As long as you own your domain name, you can self-host today, host elsewhere, or whatever you want. If
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The primary gopher killer was around February 1993 the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge licensing fees for the use of its implementation of the Gopher server. In contrast, CERN said anyone could implement the WWW. Prac
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The use of the obscure word "solidus" instead of "slash" for the character "/" is absurd. The term "slash" should at least be a formal alias, if it isn't already. This text seems to imply it
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Initial Analysis of Underhanded Source Code [pdf](ida.org)
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by dwheeler 6y ago
The US government also defines the term "open source software" as allowing any use, both in top-level executive branch policies and in law. See my lengthy post elsewhere here for the details.

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