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Comment · 4 months ago
I do respect your moderation, however I addressed the statement, the choice of words, not the person.
Comment · 4 months ago
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Comment · 4 months ago
`llama-server` looping mitigations --repeat-penalty something greater than 1.0, set reasoning/thinking OFF explicitly, prefer a gguf with more than 4bit quant
Comment · 4 months ago
... support cash, tell your neighbors
Comment · 4 months ago
> I don't know

it is abundantly clear from the post, agree

> Bill Gates

MSFT declared open source a "cancer" and "a threat to American Values" .. later, almost the entire Internet is run fundamentally on OSS.

What motivations might MSFT have had in 1998 ? Are there clear lessons from the extremes of the past that could be applied now?

Do authors have a right to LICENSE software they write? which ones, only Linus or Daniel Stenberg ? are there others? does a LICENSE mean anything ?

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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Microsoft and the Big Lie Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:47:38 -0400 ...

In the last three months, Jim Allchin and Craig Mundie and Steve Ballmer ... have described it (open source code ed.) as "un-American", "a destroyer", and "a cancer". They have deliberately confused the GPL with non-infectious open-source licenses, and they have deliberately confused active combination of code with passive aggregation of data.

Comment · 4 months ago
OK you are right but that is selective for an "overview". The attention to documentation has always been outstanding for substantial packages. The culture is to make many repetitive steps into one liner "magic" that sometimes is very very useful; lastly, the completeness of advanced statistical methods in standard libraries is real. ps- I do not like the R language at all myself, but to be fair there are reasons it is widely used in higher ed.
Comment · 4 months ago
Newsom aside, the idea is to change from oil to non-oil, efficient from mono-industrial.. The US Oil minions claim to be blind to this and cite quarterly profits, again
Comment · 4 months ago
West Texas is also a basket of methane leakage -- see CarbonMapper et al
Comment · 4 months ago
Jobs had some vestige of the value system of Reed College in him - respect for literature, typesetting, fine arts ... which dramatically evolved into a taste for the power-money politics of Silicon Valley, distantly akin to big-business Hollywood at the time.

The "Barbarians of the North of Seattle" had a frat-guy MBA wolf-of-wall-street element that actively mocked and preyed upon artists.. artists were weak and whiny entitled people.. their product was not art with a markup value, but something to be commoditized in the spreadsheet That Must Be Your Master. Bill Gates, after building a what, thirty thousand square foot house? prominantly announced that he had massive digital screens to display art, not purchasing any physical paintings or similar design pieces.. maybe it sounds distant today but at the time it was a specific statement to do that, and announce it.

Comment · 4 months ago
> ~500m .. to 2000-3000m, which is a 4x reduction in noise on the ground.

Radiative power drops by the square of the distance? Does anyone with a real physics background start demanding authority on a soapbox like this?

Comment · 4 months ago
depends on your lawyers.. the reporting requirements in the USA are real. What the report says, who is named.. a much broader topic.
Comment · 4 months ago
Planetwork org (serious,respected,boutique) interviewed with these people and got a sort of snotty frat guy to answer to.. He wanted to know if I had been to any weddings in France recently, as part of the interview. no checks were written
Comment · 4 months ago
great idea to make Gerrymandle! congrats on the alpha

US/California etc gerrymandering is dramatically illegal IMHO. I see the recent gerrymandering in the USA as a kind of political cancer actually....

Comment · 4 months ago
you moved there --to work at google; you reported it --while you worked at google. What is different hmmmm
Comment · 4 months ago
> Most LLMs focus on the English, German, French and Chinese languages, but everything else is... left behind at best.

that is not true, so please read before make an opinion. The French Mistral project shipped seven+ years ago with 140 languages for example.. language translation was the first LLM task from 2015

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