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by ninjin 4y ago
From what I understand, at least two OpenBSD developers have their hands on PinePhone Pro devices. Not sure about any progress, but at least it shows that there is interest from the developer base.
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by ninjin 4y ago
Probably [1], but it certainly needs more hands on deck last time I talked to Crystal. [1]: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd
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by ninjin 4y ago
Ted Unangst’s “Developing Software in a Hostile Environment” talk from EuroBSDcon 2019 is a good start. Controlling malloc(3) behaviour with malloc.conf to catch initialisation and Use After Free bugs is a great example from there. Personal
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by ninjin 4y ago
“Open”AI blocks ChatGPT access from the PRC last time I checked.
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by ninjin 4y ago
Most document cameras come with their own stand. I have an IPEVO VZ-R [1], which you can route through your capture card with an HDMI switch if you already have that kind of setup. Being able to draw on a piece of paper to explain a concept
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by ninjin 4y ago
Previous Hacker News discussion regarding the letter itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353
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Letter signed by Elon Musk demanding AI research pause sparks controversy(theguardian.com)
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by ninjin 4y ago
I am actually not quite sure what would be best to recommend, as the pandemic has seen me lag behind the zeitgeist somewhat. A recent favourite would be the Toolformer paper [1], that I intend to read in detail later today. If an LLM would
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by ninjin 4y ago
> We have artificial intelligence that is general and above average human intelligence for the vast majority of tasks it can perform. Even when I give it the benefit of the doubt, this sentence makes no sense to me. Do we have a list of
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by ninjin 4y ago
Obviously not. If we had a general solution to language intelligence we would have artificial intelligence at the level of at least human intelligence – which we do not . Rather, the right question to ask is which language intelligen
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by ninjin 4y ago
> Actually this is the first time you’ve mentioned masks, or different closing times. You did mention countries being different but never expanded on those differences, in any of those replies. Okay…? So you claim that you were unaware o
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by ninjin 4y ago
> You just kept repeating “a range of tools were used” but didn’t mention one. Hogwash! I and many others have repeatedly pointed out to you that there was a spectrum of measures with and without legal consequences. Recommendations, lock
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by ninjin 4y ago
I have tried to get through to you and clearly failed. You still keep repeating the same points: “no other tool” and “no other option”. I and others have demonstrated to you that far more lenient measures than those used in the PRC were a
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by ninjin 4y ago
> …your response can be read as… You are entitled to your subjective interpretation. But my own reflection was that I perceived 1996 to be closer to the present than 1969 would have been in 1996. Thus I wanted to state a bias that I had
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by ninjin 4y ago
Your response feels largely tangential to the point I was making: That the 90s feel closer in history than they really are (especially to those of us that “were there”). It also feels like a borderline attack, implying that I and others are
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by ninjin 4y ago
> Their vaccine (sinovac) didn’t work very well… there was no point mandating it. Okay…? How does this address my question about alternative vaccines? Including the fact that the PRC had a local company with an mRNA vaccine license? Was
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by ninjin 4y ago
> I didn't say it was anything to do with being "Morally weak". My apologies, I did not mean to imply that you did. Merely that this is the usual response I hear from those supporting the PRC position. > Lockdowns ended
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by ninjin 4y ago
How about I just leave this link here?: https://1kb.club
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by ninjin 4y ago
> This wasn't autocracy, this was logical health policy: Do you overwhelm hospitals, potentially causing them to fail, or do you limit personal freedom? That's the question that they had to answer. Except, the choice was nowher
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by ninjin 4y ago
It is difficult to get distances in time into my own mind. But for those other than me reading this and having trouble with this mentally. The first democratically elected president in Taiwan in 1996, which was arguably a high point in the
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by ninjin 4y ago
BLOOM is not open in the usual sense of the word as it has an ethical license (I wrote a longer comment about this way back [1]). I doubt that this is an issue for academic usage, but I am not sure how comfortable one should be basing a com
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by ninjin 4y ago
#openbsd on Libera is unofficial last time I checked. The only official communication channel would be misc@ for a question such as this.
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by ninjin 4y ago
It is more open than most of the competition. The “ethical” licensing they opted for however makes them incompatible with both FLOSS and open science definitions of open. Models that are open and true to the name would for example be GPT-
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by ninjin 4y ago
Yes, I would tend to agree that delivering a tirade of ad hominem attacks does not qualify as providing a solid argument to a fellow man. =) I hope Adams’ comes around eventually. Until then, we will always have the good old times: https:&
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by ninjin 4y ago
> [H]e was so insecure and petty that he would argue with complete “nobodies” like myself for extended periods of time if you tried to be reasonably persuasive. I do appreciate Adams’ work, although I think he has “gone off the deep end”
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by ninjin 4y ago
Facebook continues to appropriate the word “open” [1], which is sad really. There are plenty of good words they and others could use instead. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079558
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by ninjin 4y ago
Apparently George RR Martin, from A Clash of Kings. Edit : Apologies, should have been in response to the sibling, rather than the parent.
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by ninjin 4y ago
Firstly, thank you for engaging in a discussion. Secondly, I am not an expert in image processing, rather my focus in on language. Thus my intuitions will not work as much in my favour in this domain, although the models do have similarit
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by ninjin 4y ago
Honestly, can people stop speaking in absolutes regarding these systems? We (researchers and non-researchers alike) are gradually trying to comprehend exactly how much they generalise and memorise, but this is darn hard work and it is not o
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by ninjin 4y ago
> …I suspect more external impact will be felt as a result of them firing the head of Open Source who's been there for 19 years. :/ Tech press hasn't picked that up yet though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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