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> including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown So you need to be able to turn it off. It should be easy? Still it seems to be a good thing to make sure you can turn it off.
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As I understand this law does not mandate you to ensure anything. It requires you to follow best practices (to be determined), report safety incidents, etc. You are not even liable for safety incidents, you just need to report them, althoug
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I disagree on "Focus on Usage, Not Development". > Regulate the use of AI in high-risk areas such as healthcare, criminal justice, and critical infrastructure, where the potential for harm is greatest This suggests, for example
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2y ago
See "DOS-73 Technical Reference" on the linked page for details. Yes, DOS-73 expansion cards had 8086 CPUs.
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It is not handing over. It is selling for a price. I think there IS a price that ByteDance would sell.
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Yes, see https://github.com/blas-lapack-rs .
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3y ago
Apparently Computer History Museum has one, catalog number 102766595, "Gift of Stan Honey". Stan Honey founded Etak. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10276659...
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3y ago
Nucor exists. US Steel is not #1, even in US.
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I think the critical difference is that Japan is an ally and China is not.
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Falcon also released open dataset.
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Databricks (who also participated in OLMo, it's probably the same codebase) trained on AMD before, see 2023 post https://www.databricks.com/blog/amd-mi250 . It was probably seamless, as any issues were fixed by Dat
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3y ago
The best option is to use GPL.
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WebAssembly is used in the real world and uses are very diverse. I recommend "An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries". (The paper is from 2021, and it would be great to get an update, but I guess academia does not r
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The article uses LLVM Flang from LLVM 18.1.1. pklausler's point is that it is counterproductive and LLVM HEAD should be used instead.
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3y ago
Why so late? I think WebKit had this like five years ago, aka Gigacage.
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I am aware of this paper from National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161
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If you don't want to be leeched, don't contribute to BSD licensed projects.
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AWS and Google contributed those under BSD license , being fully informed that Redis Ltd can commercialize like this. It makes perfect sense for AWS and Google to fork immediately after the switch, but for contributions before the switch,
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3y ago
Why do you think "bubble" will burst?
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Checking for Linux makes sense. Doing the exact same check for Linux five times in a row is mysterious.
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> The first difference is that the script makes sure (very sure!) to exit if not being run on Linux. The repeated check is indeed mysterious. My only hypothesis is that the attacker may have thought that it should look plausible as a tes
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For this reason, maintaining GCC 4.7 is one of long-term high-impact projects of Bootstrappable Builds project. https://bootstrappable.org/projects.html
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Interestingly, The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is now open source. https://tack.sourceforge.net/
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In 2009, 4 million lines of COBOL were migrated to Java using an automatic translator. https://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/cobol-to-java/
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Considering MTOB(Machine Translation from One Book) result, where LLM in-context learns a new language from a grammar book, I wonder how LLMs fare given, say, GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide PDF, which is easily available. It would be an i
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u64 overflows at 16 exabytes, so it sounds plausible. Cool story.
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100% this. I see neither legal nor moral problems.
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> And they lose little by providing those changes to others. I am unsure about this. Some Linux patches can be of high value, say better TCP congestion control. By releasing such patches, others can get them for free while it took you si
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I agree. People seem to be angry that the project which received contributions under BSD changed to the project licensed under SSPL, but this is explicitly what you are doing when you contribute to BSD projects and all contributors should h
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10429 found that people are overweighting Wikipedia and downweighting Wikipedia improves things across the board INCLUDING PREDICTING NEXT TOKEN ON WIKIPEDIA, which is frankly amazing.
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