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mesebrec

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About mesebrec

Merlijn Sebrechts

Teaching and researching computer science at Ghent University and imec in Belgium

https://merlijn.sebrechts.be

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46124908

    Llama's license explicitly disallows its usage in the EU. If that doesn't even meet the threshold for "terrible", then what does?

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    Comment #41265145

    The video is currently private: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDM8io4lUA

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    Comment #41047659

    Indeed, this is something they changed in the 3.1 version of the license. Regardless, the license [1] still has many restrictions, such as the acceptable use policy [2]. [1] https:…

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    Comment #41047550

    This is like saying any python program is open source because the python runtime is open source. Inference code is the runtime; the code that runs the model. Not the model itself.

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    Comment #41047536

    Regardless of the training data, the license even heavily restricts how you can use the model. Please read through their "acceptable use" policy before you decide whether this is r…

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    Comment #41047506

    Open source requires, at the very least, that you can use it for any purpose. This is not the case with Llama. The Llama license has a lot of restrictions, based on user base size,…

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    Comment #41047452

    You also can't use it for training or improving other models. You also can't use it if you're the government of India. Neither can sex workers use it. (Do you know if your customer…

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    Comment #41047363

    Indeed, fine-tuning is still possible, but you can only go so far with fine-tuning before you need to completely retrain the model. This is why Silo AI, for example, had to start f…

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    Comment #41047328

    Without Meta, you would still have Mistral, Silo AI, and the many other companies and labs producing much more open models with similar performance.

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    Comment #41047158

    Note that Meta's models are not open source in any interpretation of the term. * You can't use them for any purpose. For example, the license prohibits using these models to train …

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    Comment #41017659

    Oh, wow, I came here for the same thing. The tone of the post got more and more annoying as it progressed. Posting quotes from reddit as if they're intellectual discussions was a r…

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    Comment #40737219

    > On the third hand, I can't deny some amount of schadenfreude looking at Apple having to deal with the same "do the work first, we'll judge if it meets our review standard afterwa…

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    Comment #40736937

    The reasoning is that apple's marketplace is such a central cornerstone to digital life that it becomes a public resource.

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    Comment #38494359

    When thinking about what governance structure to use for our hackerspace, we thought about RFCs for a bit, but I'm glad we went with something different. RFCs give way too much pow…

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    Comment #37995858

    Have you tried the latest version of OnlyOffice?

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    Comment #37867513

    You are creating a strawman. The original argument is not "they created encryption that isn't broken before". The argument is "encryption created by competitions that are only refe…

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    Comment #37736997

    Don't quote me on this but I think the limiting factor is that gravitational pull needs to be stronger than the expansion of the universe.

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    Comment #37736977

    Stars are formed when clouds of gas and dust collapse into themselves. Either the cloud is big and dense enough to collapse into a star, or it will remain as a cloud. Our Jupiter w…

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    Comment #37728545

    Interesting how rebuilding the support from the ground up allowed them to find a bug in the existing implementation. It really speaks to the quality of Asahi's work, imo.

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    Comment #37544064

    The original decision to move was discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674413 It seems the practical implementation of the deal has started, with EdX n…

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