foopod

The answer to many problems is reducing energy usage. Progress often comes from using less energy, whether that’s jamming circuits closer together on a silicon wafer or swapping incandescent bulbs for LEDs. More energy spent doesn’t guarantee a better result.

I don't know if people actually expect the training data to be published. For me its frustration, if its not open - don't call it open-source. It's so easy to continue to use the words the same way as we did before AI.

> you can modify, inspect and make derivative works

Even with a team of researchers inspecting the weights and understanding what is going on internally is a tedious operation. Having the training data doesn't really solve any issues here. But what it it does do is allow for auditability and public scrutiny - which imo is pretty important if you rely on these models.

Completely agree with this, I'm sick of people conflating the two. Open-weight models should be treated no more favourably than proprietary freeware.

Sure you can run tests and benchmarks on open-weight models, but that is the extent - there is no scrutiny, no auditing for bias or copyright contamination - just a black box that you rely on for "intelligence". I'm still shocked the way people can hand over not just huge swathes of data, but also decisions of all shapes and sizes - to AI companies with no way of being able to assess how the sausage is made.

Oh yeah, not suggesting they try to handle everywhere on Earth. But it would be nice if supported countries/regions was listed somewhere.

Americentrism? Code compliant where? I tried my place in New Zealand, but the address isn't recognized. I couldn't find anywhere on the site what countries/regions are accepted.

From my understanding this is the next iteration of OpenX4 E-Paper Community SDK - an sdk made by some of the core contributors of CrossPoint that abstracts the hardware of eink devices.

Huge props to the devs, that haven't just embraced people forking their repo - but have actually put in a lot effort to make it easier for anyone that wants to develop on these platforms.

I like the idea a lot, any effort to spend more time with loved ones and off the phone is a noble pursuit. I think one thing that could add to this and help to habitualize it - would be ongoing statistics.

Something like..

- 3.8 days dedicated since you began in March

- 4.5 hours dedicated so far this week

- perhaps even being able to set up weekly goals could work

You are already using localstorage, so expanding on that sticks to your no account/analytics ethos.

It really bothers me that people refer to open weight models as being open source. They fundamentally aren't and are more akin to freeware than anything else.

Not in Chrome or iOS probably. But Firefox for Android supports extensions.

As a (unfortunately) wordpress dev this seems to solve my single biggest painpoint with WP. Which isn't plugin security, but the overall plugin architecture.

WP treats plugins as content, literally in the same top level `wp-content` directory as uploaded images. This makes CI/CD among other things, a nightmare. But EmDash plugins are just TS modules, which has got to make things easier even if plugin configuration does end up in the db somewhere.

This explains all the crypto shilling.

Your point of view assumes the best of people, which is naive. It may not force you to skip understanding, however it makes it much easier to than ever before.

People tend to take the path of least resistance, maybe not everyone, maybe not right away, but if you create opportunities to write poor code then people will take them - more than ever it becomes important to have strong CI, review and testing practices.

Edit: okay, maybe I am feeling a little pessimistic this morning :)

IMO not significantly. Prior to AI the bulk were tutorial based to-do apps or simple crud things anyway, its still easy to tell the difference between those and something more complex (where AI is less useful - or at least requires more skill to use successfully).

But I don't think the projects themselves really mattered all that much anyway - its the conversations you can have about them. Understanding the driving factors, whether it was solving a problem they have or just working on something they are passionate about, the challenges they overcame in the development process and the considerations/decisions they made along the way.