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Topfi

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About Topfi

Most of my comments are, unfortunately, subjectively and in my personal opinion somewhat overlong due to my, admittedly not necessarily problematic tendency to hedge my own statements which, while in some cases helpful to more clearly delineate when I am referencing empirical data in contrast to when I am making a statement based on my personal and somewhat limited, due to my life experience at this age and the fact that I have grown up in the EU, experiences, I have grown to find that I have on occasion taken up the habit of overindulging on said clarifications and thus have come to the conclusion that this may be something I should address, as such extensive clarifications can make it draining to read my writing and can hide my actual intended point inside an avalanche of unnecessary and annoying to read writing, which is why in more recent comments of mine, which I have written and am intending to write in the future should time permit and topics I am interested in arise, you may find a more direct, albeit still where necessary properly clarified, style of writing comments...

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    Couldn't agree more and can only recommend T5 as a base to anyone. It's amazing to get started, whether as a learning resource or for real (albeit very tailored) applications. Espe…

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    Comment #49244069

    That goalpost has moved a few miles in two comments.

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    Comment #49243869

    Developers are just a subset of users. If Apple e.g. didn't allow third-party apps to access the camera for more granular control over photography, we wouldn't differentiate betwee…

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    Comment #49243837

    Sure you can, via e.g. Termux. Have done so. Also, I don't want to run Xcode, it is arguably the worst development environment and hasn't gotten any better over the years. I have t…

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    Comment #49243756

    Still pending, or am I mistaken? Can anyone with knowledge on the US process make an estimate how likely this is to go through? I know of Uniloc and their "efforts", is there a pos…

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    Comment #49243346

    We can discuss about iOS vs macOS, etc. and I feel that others have litigated that already, but where I see no way to view their current position anything besides user hostile is i…

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    Comment #49243192

    I feel, like with the first Apple Watch generations, they will pivot with regard to the AVP, given people aren't exactly hellbent on buying those. Having had one for a few months o…

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    Comment #49221688

    Sees the models communicate over a message board, wipes the message board, then spends seemingly no effort to ascertain whether the models may have created a new message board, whi…

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    Comment #49198961

    I mean, Github doesn't have its own CEO anymore, so arguably.

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    Comment #49198492

    Very frustrating, nothing more I can add at this point.

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    Comment #49196865

    Absolutely accurate assessment. The fact that labs admit to being incapable to setup even the most basic sandboxing should be an embarrassment and, if this industry was driven by t…

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    Comment #49101108

    Are you feeling alright?

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    Comment #49095900

    Isn’t prosecution independent of victims?

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    Comment #49095893

    Respectfully, that’s such a nonsensical comparison I don’t even know where to start.

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    Comment #49095654

    Yeah, meant prosecuted, don’t know how that sneaked in. Actual legal consequences for what clearly was negligent by a lab that claims to be experts in the area of safety.

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    Comment #49095554

    Still not understanding why this isn’t being persecuted and there is little governmental reaction after blocking models for jailbreaks…

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    Comment #49081663

    > However, LLM active attacks do not always fit neatly into existing hacking laws, because the system may be accessed through normal text prompts rather than by breaking into a cla…

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    Comment #49081609

    Every time the GPT-2 concerns are brought up I have to ask myself whether the people that try to abuse that as a knockout argument truly believe that the concerns regarding misinfo…

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