See discussion here. Open Source is a valid term for this. Don't police perfectly innocent and common use of language please.
Oh my god, stop being a proscriptivist about this. Open source is not the same as free software. You're thinking of FLOSS.
no it isn't. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.
Note that
- Permission was attained from contributors, and
- Forks prior to this change are still under GPL naturally.
So what's the controversy, really?
what's underage for hrt? like.. 12?
The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.
You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS
Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there's open source software, and then there's free/libre open source software -- note the distinction.
This I can believe tbh. It's a very useful tool in the hands of an expert. Otherwise it's like giving a chimp a gun.
Maybe this is why I am surprised at people's hatred of ChatGPT. It's borne of misuse of a tool for experts, like newcomers struggling with a C++ compiler error.
like, a video of Tao giving a demonstration?
LLMs are basically just good pattern matchers. But just like how A* search can find a better path than a human can by breaking the problem down into simple steps, so too can an LLM make progress on an unsolved problem if it's used properly and combined with a formal reasoning engine.
I'm going to be real with you: the big insight behind almost all new mathematical ideas is based on the math that came before. Nothing is truly original the way AI detractors seem to believe.
By "does some reasoning steps," OpenAI presumably are just invoking the LLM iteratively so that it can review its own output before providing a final answer. It's not a new idea.
I do agree that grad students don't exactly live in luxury, and frequently develop mental health crises. But their contributions and insight are what power their labs. Profs often have to spend so much time teaching and chasing grants that they can't do much real research. Academia overall is in a sad state.
But Tao is a superstar, and a charismatic blogger. I'd be disappointed to learn he mistreats his grad students. (I don't know if he even has any tbh)
machine learning?
I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research mathematical tasks. Here are some concrete e...
> The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.
If this were true, we wouldn't need the term "FOSS."
You're talking about the OSD presumably. Stallman's definition differs, and I think his terminology seems to be widely used.
U.S. vehicles currently emit 2 billion tons. So that's very bad news.
However -- I think 2030 is waaay too far in the future to predict anything about AI.
I usually use open source to mean open source and free as in lunch, but in this case I assume kovarex is talking about open source but commercial and restrictively licensed. I could be wrong.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the source code of the Java version open for modding?
How many transgender mass-shooters have there even been? Zero? One?
I assume they just spew this fake news in order to make people hear "trans shooter" over and over again until they think it's a pattern.
What do y'all guys use for cloud storage, like DropBox, Google Drive, and so on? Ideally something which works even when offline.
I'd like to de-google of course.
that sure doesn't look like it's been going down for centuries. What about per capita?
The transition requirements are so high
what are the requirements?
i think this is a good idea in 95% of cases. Some jobs obviously require being on call. In some cases, it's necessary to have meetings with people in +/- 8h timezones. there should be appropriate compensation naturally.
(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)
I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.
I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16131303 [https://lemmy.ml/post/16131303] > Dug up their survey for it out of curiosity, you can find their original post here https://hexbear.net/post/2226865 [https://hexbear.net/post/2226865] > > Interesting note on cis women https://hexbear.net/comment/47...
In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:
- engagement of women on Reddit was always low
- fewer women in computer science
- I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.
I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.
Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.
!The fool jingled miserably across the floor
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