@arstechnica This is why I think digital computers with analog and quantum accelerator chips are the way to go. Especially Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Photonic designs that don't require absolute zero range temperatures.
@arstechnica I view a pay for privacy plan as a farce and I don't trust them to live up to their end of the contract. Maybe they should have a single subscription for all meta services that grants useful features like larger attachments, a badge to prove you are a human, the ability to super like a limited number of posts to support their creators, an ad free experience and personal API access instead.
@arstechnica Remember that the incentives incentivize this kind of behavior. If you want to get tenure you must publish at least seven papers in seven months, which incentivizes you to put quantity and massaging the ears of journal editors and peer reviewers instead of publishing quality papers that inform and inspire. Peer review needs to be replaced with peer replication, and if you want to publish you should have to release your source code and everything needed for a layperson to replicate your experiment with a step by step tutorial if necessary. Then your peers use your instructions to do your experiment exactly how you did it to see if it works, in exchange they get listed in the bibliography and get a thanks for helping prove the experiment worked.
@arstechnica Because it is a more advanced autocomplete algorithm with so much training data that it can autocomplete entire pages and answer questions. If it wasn't trained on something than it can't fully autocomplete it, which is why it can get a perfect score in survey courses but cannot pass more advanced courses with real work involved. It wasn't trained on that.
@arstechnica Remember that the government politely asking is the same as coercion because the government can do all sorts of things that they have the power to do to get you to give in and do something they never had the constitutional authority to legally make you do in the first place, like censoring peoples social media posts or banning some types of video games from your app store. One of the few social media companies that consistently refuses to censor protected speech no matter who is asking is sadly gab, so the rest of alt tech should learn from their example and say no. The sooner you say no and defend your no the sooner people stop trying to walk all over you. Perhaps what needs to be done is a consortium of alt tech companies where alt tech companies pay dues to the consortium and the consortium defends their interests in court, donates to free software projects that they depend on, runs Tor exit nodes, signal proxies, a bitmask compatible VPN and other censorship bypassing technologies, to share technology between alt tech companies along with other forms of collective bargaining to advance the interests of their member because a rising tide lifts all boats.
@arstechnica These record labels are moochers. Make your own AI rather than try to shut down meaningful competition. Training AI for research purposes is fair use and AI training should be fair use period.
@kde Although I am not a fan of KDE I believe that taking proprietary APIs and SDKs and making extensions under extreme copyleft licenses is a good strategy and that KDE was one of the main reasons that QT is released as free software. The KDE frameworks should be licensed under the AGPL v3 or later so that anyone who uses them with proprietary QT modules must release them as free software. Something similar could be used for Apple's Swift programming language, Microsoft's Visual C++ Redistributable, AMD's AOCC, the Oracle Database, Microsoft's DotNet Framework 4.8.1 Devpack, the Unity and Unreal game engines, Google Play Services and other proprietary software. It is time we use embrace extend extinguish against the companies that pioneered the strategy in the cause of software freedom.
@arstechnica He should go ahead and sue. OpenAI hasn't released any free as in freedom anything significant since GPT2. If they want to behave like a nonprofit with a mission of open ai, then they need to act like it or lose the right to present themselves as such.
@arstechnica Get the fda out of my shopping cart. Just because I don't want to microdose random drugs in candy bags doesn't mean I want the government to stop others from doing so.