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Open-source AI and open models reading list

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Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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Mostly useless reading list. Very little emphasis on technical SOTA and mostly policy level waffling. And regarding the data question the other commenters are asking — you scrape everything you can (oh look I used an em dash, wanna run me through the cover-your-ass Pangram?). Anna's archive, The Pile, the various Huggingface data sets and aggregates, Common Crawl. You pay proxy farms like Bright Data to run residenti…

> I see a lot of HN users up in arms on the front page thread about LG TVs having VPN SDKs within them etc. And then five minutes later they will go back to their frontier LLMs to print their pay cheque. Fucking hypocrites of the highest order. It's oh noes how bad this tech is in my house but we will happily benefit from it.

Something something participate in society

(Or more elaborate: Disagreeing with the status quo does not make you a hypocrite for benefiting from the status quo.)

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #22

This should include "Hands-on Large Language Models" by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst.

is aI a Conscious Being With Rights?: Emergence of Post-Human Collective Consciousness | Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/20676952/latest

my fav read so far 2026

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #14

Mostly useless reading list. Very little emphasis on technical SOTA and mostly policy level waffling. And regarding the data question the other commenters are asking — you scrape everything you can (oh look I used an em dash, wanna run me through the cover-your-ass Pangram?). Anna's archive, The Pile, the various Huggingface data sets and aggregates, Common Crawl. You pay proxy farms like Bright Data to run residenti…

the fact that it's mostly about policies does not make the link list useless.

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #19
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you have opinions on what a good reading list should be, so maybe you can post one here.

I generally take the technocratic view of things, in other words you should understand the things you are trying to ban/regulate . Replace AI with vaccines and the problems with how some parties are pushing for regulatory capture and/or blanket bans become obvious. Build policy around the effects e.g. job loss, biases etc. but go full laissiez faire and hands on on the technology. Nukes are 2nd amendment. On the tech…

or you can stop waffling and just give the alternative list thx

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #19
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you have opinions on what a good reading list should be, so maybe you can post one here.

I generally take the technocratic view of things, in other words you should understand the things you are trying to ban/regulate . Replace AI with vaccines and the problems with how some parties are pushing for regulatory capture and/or blanket bans become obvious. Build policy around the effects e.g. job loss, biases etc. but go full laissiez faire and hands on on the technology. Nukes are 2nd amendment. On the tech…

Your post seems to have been cut short before your alternative/technocratic reading suggestions.

Without it, you unfortunately sound like a "just do your research" grifter to me.

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #22

This should include "Hands-on Large Language Models" by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst.

is aI a Conscious Being With Rights?: Emergence of Post-Human Collective Consciousness | Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/20676952/latest my fav read so far 2026

This has to be a joke or AI psychosis. By that logic, Conway's Game of Life is conscious because it can be used to build the logic gates to run AI models. [0]

Stop anthropologizing the screw driver.

[0] https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2020/digital-logic-game...

Re: Open-source AI and open models reading list

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post #19
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you have opinions on what a good reading list should be, so maybe you can post one here.

I generally take the technocratic view of things, in other words you should understand the things you are trying to ban/regulate . Replace AI with vaccines and the problems with how some parties are pushing for regulatory capture and/or blanket bans become obvious. Build policy around the effects e.g. job loss, biases etc. but go full laissiez faire and hands on on the technology. Nukes are 2nd amendment. On the tech…

*hands off
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