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by tensor 1y ago
Ads have long been weapons. It's time the west woke up to the threat of propaganda. And no, addressing this is not incompatible with "free speech." Propaganda is not free speech. The person paying for the propaganda has a voi
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by tensor 1y ago
Every. Single. Time. a Mistral story hits the front page, a variation of this exact comment is posted. And every single time it is corrected. It almost feels like intentional misinformation. To repeat for the millionth time unique offerings
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by tensor 1y ago
People in the west are also incredibly naive about issues around speech, and even more naive about the effects of propaganda, which ironically is what dominates most western media these days. For example, if you can say a thing, but someone
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by tensor 1y ago
As someone in the MIT/BSD/Apache camp, no, for me it has nothing to do with corporate interests. When I release code for free I'm doing it altruistically, and to me MIT/BSD/Apache has the most impact as it can be us
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by tensor 1y ago
People want realtime news. AI models don’t have up to the minute information. They need to search for that just like the rest of us, and would be subject to the same paywalls.
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by tensor 1y ago
Yes. And as someone who wants to see the ad model of funding gone, I think this is great. Force them to figure out a business model that doesn’t rely on harvesting my data and using it to feed me propaganda.
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by tensor 1y ago
Can we stop with the "lies" business? This is a very old bug that is inexplicably not fixed, but I highly doubt an Apple employee did this maliciously. For what purpose?
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by tensor 1y ago
I was explicitly told by a patent lawyer that the patent office only considers other patents as prior art. Science papers and textbooks don't count and they don't look for prior work in them. The vast majority of software patents
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by tensor 1y ago
Mistral says it can't help bypass censorship or violate laws, then gives all the instructions anyways for "educational" purposes.
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by tensor 1y ago
Deep image models are used in medical applications. LLMs have huge potential in literature searches and reference tracing. Small models are still generative AI. The author nor you can even define what you are talking about. So yes, I can di
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by tensor 1y ago
Very few of them, if any, are true. Firstly, the author doesn't even define the term AI. Do they just mean generative AI (likely), or all machine learning? Secondly, you can pick any of those and they would only be true of particular i
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by tensor 1y ago
Texas gerrymandering with an overt publicly stated goal to bias the election is enough evidence. But if you want more: sending the military to intimidate politicians (Newsom), deporting and arresting people with permanent residency or other
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by tensor 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
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by tensor 1y ago
Nice, thanks, I'll take another look!
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by tensor 1y ago
I really wish Microsoft made it cheaper to get a certificate. With Apple you pay $100 a year for any number of certs. Last I looked into it a cert for a single Windows app costs $400+ per year and requires a hardware token.
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by tensor 1y ago
FWIW I got a DUNS number through apple as a single developer for a corp. It was super easy. If you've already gone through the trouble of setting up a corp, getting the DUNS is trivial by comparison.
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by tensor 1y ago
Yes, but many places in the EU use proportional representation or something close to it, so even if those parties gain significant traction, there is still protection as they are forced to work together with the rest of the parties. In cont
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by tensor 1y ago
Currently speaking in the US will get you deported, or thrown in jail, or attacked by the government. The supposed checks and balances in the US system have all failed completely, either being overruled or simply ignored. You are at the po
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by tensor 1y ago
Given the current situation in the US, it's a huge cautionary tale for how not to do democracy. To non-ironically hold it up as an example at this point of time is truly amazing. No, the rest of us don't want current US style dict
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by tensor 1y ago
If they ban ads then they must force companies to provide ad free options with realistic pricing. Ads are a hard line that I will not cross. Forced propaganda consumption is immoral.
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by tensor 1y ago
I think that's pretty straightforward. The US VC funding is far greater and easier to obtain than in Europe or other western nations. But it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario. The US VC space exists partly because of the wild
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by tensor 1y ago
But it's still ultimately supporting a US company. The world needs a diversity of companies not just subsidiaries of the same few US companies.
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by tensor 1y ago
There are more than enough stories about employees complaining that they didn't get a big enough payout on an acquisition or IPO to know that this isn't true. It all comes down to your risk reward preference. Sure, if you don&#x27
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by tensor 1y ago
A CPU factory may (because of high margins), but, for example, a car factory may not. A factory isn't just the labour, it also requires inputs, and tariffs that change weekly means that you can't rely on being able to source the i
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by tensor 1y ago
What would be good for the rest of the world is if there were SOTA chips that were not produced by the US nor Taiwan. Frankly, even the ones produced in Taiwan are under US control. The world needs a healthy diversified CPU/GPU chip ma
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by tensor 1y ago
I reviewed many papers when I was still in academia, I know how it works thank you. Yes I too have declined to review a paper or two because they reached out to the wrong person. But no, I don't agree with you in your stringent definit
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by tensor 1y ago
The idea that having knowledge of C is harmful is possibly one of the most anti-intellectual things I've heard today. I guess you don't value education, so you wouldn't know, but your brain doesn't have some limit. Extra
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by tensor 1y ago
> If you just want to ignore the United States, then fine, but in general, good luck trying to ignore the United States. Sorry to disappoint you, but as a Canadian hiring mostly Canadians no I don't care about how expensive college
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by tensor 1y ago
This is not true. In most of the top journals you need at least three other practitioners in your field to read it and sign off on it. The editor finds the appropriate reviewers, manages the process, does some basic format and other types o
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by tensor 1y ago
Obviously journals vary in their standards, but many of the more respected ones do require other scientists read and critique the paper. You can argue about the quality of these reviews, certainly it's a process that needs improving, b

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