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by j_maffe 2y ago
I agree except for your opinion in the end. But I know you're not alone in this opinion and it has been discussed to death. At this point it's more political than anything else in CS.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
The Llama 3.1 transformer is available. But it does have some minor use restrictions, yes.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
I wonder if OpenAI will stick with the GPT acronym, given that most people don't know what it's an acronym for and it's a bit of a mouthful.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
GPT is not a brand. A court ruling turned down that notion. It's a technology.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
I think text transformation is a sufficiently predictable task that one could make a transformer that completely avoids hallucinations. Most LLMs have high temperatures which introduces randomness and therefore hallucinations into the resul
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by j_maffe 2y ago
LLMs are excellent at text transformation. It's their core strength and I don't see it being used enough.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Minifying includes way more tricks than shorter variable names and removing white-space
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Pedantle – Uncover the Wikipedia Page(cemantle.certitudes.org)
2 points by j_maffe 2y ago|0 comments
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Couldn't they have kept the data stored in the EU? What US law prevents that?
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by j_maffe 2y ago
No, of course not. I should have been more accurate by saying that they were able to do this because there wasn't a monopoly at the time.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Whether something is a monopoly and whether they've abused it in such a way that they should be struck with an antitrust suit are two different things. I don't think many would argue that Steam abused its monopoly.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Yes, that's the effect a monopoly has on the market.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Why would any designer intentionally maximize complexity? It's one of the core tenants of design to minimize complexity.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Yeah but what's the relevance of this statement? You still need an OS at the end of the day, don't you?
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by j_maffe 2y ago
What does being Chinese have anything to do with the ability to set up Linux?
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by j_maffe 2y ago
It's not about having access to more articles, it's about the guarantee of peer-review of whatever you read on PLOS. On Arxiv you could be reading the ramblings of a random person on the internet with zero relevance to the real wo
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Annas-Archive, Nexus/Z-lib
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by j_maffe 2y ago
has 12ft.io even been working anymore? I feel like the only reliable way now is archive.is
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Just to be clear, you're saying that the judge [1], the Justice Department [2], and journalists[3] are all wrong? If you want to be pedantic about it, they have what is called an effective monopoly[4]. [1] https://www.bloomb
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by j_maffe 2y ago
push != force. The definition of the word "forced" (which you used) I gave you is from Merriam-Webster. The definition you're giving is of the word "force" which is different. Google isn't forced to maximize pr
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The Power and Pitfalls of Analogies in Modeling Belief Dynamics(csh.ac.at)
1 points by j_maffe 2y ago|0 comments
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by j_maffe 2y ago
How in God's name can someone be forced (compelled by force or necessity : involuntary) by an incentive? No, your usage of the word is against the one used by the code of law regarding market regulation, simple as that.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Are you really trying to argue that 90% of the internet text search share held by one company isn't a monopoly?
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Nice to have an open-source alternative to TouchDesigner! Hope the transition to Cables isn't too hard.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Of course defaults mean very little for tech-savvy people. An average 50 year old who just got a new laptop isn't going to change the search engine because Bing was the default.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Why is it absurd? If it's still considered the go-to option by most users, they could afford the slightly worse quality for the extra revenue, no? That's the end result of monopolies, the provider starts to compromise on the servi
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by j_maffe 2y ago
No body is forced to do anything. Google can just not pay that money and lose that share of the market. They're not doing that because they want to preserve their monopoly status.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
They're giving themselves money by abusing their monopoly status. Sure, in a totally free market, it looks innocent. There are laws against this because monopolies are damaging to any market it's in and ends up hurting the end use
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by j_maffe 2y ago
> But the definitions are very loose and hard to pin down. So are a lot of laws and regulations. Doesn't make them any less valid.
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by j_maffe 2y ago
Exactly. Google capitalized on its monopoly status. That's what matters.

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