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Comment · 7 months ago
A style of animated TV show from Japan
Comment · 9 months ago
Read the rest of the sentence.
Comment · 9 months ago
Was the lockdown not during the pandemic?
Comment · 10 months ago
Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?
Comment · 11 months ago
Don't the C parts of Linux heavily depend on GCC extensions too? Seems depending on specific compiler features isn't really a blocker.
Comment · 11 months ago
How does OpenAI being liable for reproducing copyrighted material imply that a word processor should be as well? Last time I checked, word processors don't have a black box text generator trained on pre-existing works: a word processor only has the text that the user types into it.

> Not really. Youtube is not liable as long as they remove the content after a copyright complain and other mechanisms.

They have to take action precisely because they're liable for the material on their platform.

Comment · 11 months ago
I take it you think copyright shouldn't exist at all, then?
Comment · 11 months ago
Obviously there's a limit, reproducing a single sentence is unlikely to be copyright infringement just because there are only so many words in a language; but if reproducing some text would be copyright infringement if a human did it, I don't see why LLM companies should get a free pass.

If it's really essential that they train their models on song lyrics, or books, or movie scripts, or articles, or whatever, they should pay license fees.

Comment · 11 months ago
> I don’t think a country’s government can justify no commercial LLMs to its populace

They're not saying no LLMs, they're saying no LLMs using lyrics without a license. OpenAI simply need to pay for a license, or train an LLM without using lyrics.

Comment · 1 year ago
Why would you want to implement an entire typesetting engine yourself?
Comment · 1 year ago
> Meat isn't tasty. If it was you wouldn't always eat it fried almost to a char with salt and spices.

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "steak".

Comment · 1 year ago
That's a good point, I've personally not got much use out of LLMs (I use them to generate fantasy names for my D&D campaign, but find they fall down for anything complex) - but I've also never got much use out of StackOverflow either.

I don't think I'm working on anything particularly niche, but nor is it cookie-cutter generic either, and that could be enough to drastically reduce their utility.

Comment · 1 year ago
But the crust is nice, why would you throw it away just because you're rich?
Comment · 1 year ago
In the first paragraph:

> I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor. Power (or powered) armor – that is, armor that moves with built-in servos and motors, rather than purely under muscle power – is its own topic that we’ll leave for another day.

Comment · 2 years ago
Whether the registrar keeps doing business is irrelevant if the root nameservers stop serving NS for .io.

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