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The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for…

# Declaration We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, assert that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9. Any amendments or…

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> Why does open source have to mean that you, the user, are on equal footing with where the copyright holder was before they even started? Where is that written? It's written on th…

The problem with hype around LLM is that people without much experience in the field can't think of anything else. So much they forget the basics of the discipline. What do you thi…

Compiling Emacs on a PDP-11 wasn't cheap either. And by today standards, a PDP-11 is quite comparable with the cost of the server farms used in training. And yet Emacs was released…

It's not just marketing: European AI Act impose several compliance obligations to corporations building AI system, including serious scientific scrutiny on the whole training proce…

> Does this somehow smuggle the training dataset back into the VM? Turns out you were right about this: http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_n... Obviously I …

The term "absorbed" was not for the people in the field, but for people who don't know what folding means. IMHO it's a better metaphor then "learning", because learning is a _subje…

I strongly encourage you to prove your statement with a script that use the logs saved and a random "model" and get back the exact source dataset.

Beyond the global output and error of each sample from the last epoch, the log also includes the weight update of one single (fully connected) node for each layer. During the compi…

It's worth noticing that while they didn't target specific people or made the attack undetectable through cache control trickery, the tools they are looking for can be used to dete…

This is very interesting: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/#tool... Nearly 70% of JavaScript developers have less than 10 years of experience (with an average…

> But what's the point of showing it? To reason about reliability and its impact on costs. > Real systems have 99%+ uptime, or they aren't deployed. Uptime is not correctness. > fa…

> I'm arguing against what that particular graph insinuates. The idea that nothing works anymore when the sum of all unreliable parts creates a completely unreliable result. No. Th…

> The things that don't work, they generally don't work 100% of the time. The things that do work, they generally work 100% of the time. If you exclude the guns that kill, guns are…

> Plus in this case the awake call could be named something more intuitive This is an interesting objection. I find awake/awakened/forgivewkp intuitive names, but I'm not a native …

Jehanne hacker here. > doesn't this suffer from a race condition? This is a good question I should probably clarify in the article as it has been asked before but I can't answer in…