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by kopecs 3y ago
> “Tuition” is teaching. “Tuition fees” are the fees you pay to be taught. Do you have a source for this? I am reasonably sure that in American English "Tuition" can certainly mean the fees you pay to be taught.
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by kopecs 3y ago
A bit late, but I don't find that analogy apt here. Your territory refers directly to the map. And if you don't believe social constructs to be real, then I am confused as to why in your original comment "money" is given
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by kopecs 3y ago
Do you not believe that societal constructs are real? What makes (fiat) money a real resource and copyright an imaginary one? What about this logic: Debt is not a real thing. It's a fiction. Subverting contract law is not like subverti
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by kopecs 3y ago
Yes, I think this is a rather fact-specific inquiry. My main point is that the research/commercial distinction is not the only factor (and not even the most important one). > if you use that data as general background knowledge to s
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by kopecs 3y ago
> I firmly believe that training models qualifies as free use. I think it falls under research, and is used to push the scientific community forward. I don't think this is as cut-and-dry and you make it out here. If I train a model
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by kopecs 3y ago
I would be reasonably confident they mean "fair use" [1] instead. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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by kopecs 3y ago
I also disliked the Dragon Book as a student. I found it to have too much of an emphasis on lexing/parsing and not enough discussion for optimizations/analysis for my liking. I liked Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by
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by kopecs 3y ago
I think it is a bit more complex, since NaN is defined to be "unordered" with respect to all other values (including other NaNs), and so any relation for which unordered values result in true (e.g., compareQuietNotEqual) will retu
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by kopecs 3y ago
Except there are statutory damages for copyright infringement.
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by kopecs 3y ago
Doesn't this violate strict aliasing?
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by kopecs 3y ago
> A chip provides every form of IP protection, all four forms, trade secret, copyright, patent, n even trademark. No other medium has that to my knowledge. IANAL, but I do not believe semiconductor masks are copyrightable under US law (m
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by kopecs 3y ago
Quickselect and non-randomized variations should get you that; no?
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by kopecs 4y ago
Sadly I think SML/NJ has some of the worst messages for SML; Poly/ML and MLton both end up with something more reasonable than the dreaded Error: operator and operand do not agree [tycon mismatch]