I wonder how much abstraction we need to program in C (or in Oberon without inheritance)...
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
ok, you can question the goals, actually. 😃
which concepts do you think they could not understand or memorize?
can we just omit them and still write useful programs (for them)
Let's suppose you have to teach C to 7yo kids.
Where do you start from?
How do you setup their playground?
(please, don't question the goal in this thread... let's focus on solutions)
Actually C without _any_ allocation is quite simple and secure.
As I look openssl compiling, I wonder if we should surrender to C, and just find a way to teack kids how to program in C.
If you avoid malloc, it's not even such a terrible language...
Or I'm just too old and corrupted?
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Schneier joins the criticism of "Open Source" AI:
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More people in the Open Source community ought to read this: https://archive.is/paD1W
h/t @Shamar (via LWN)
tl;dr: OSI’s behaviour is even worse than we thought
(And apparently Fakebook was one of the driving forces behind this… and still there are idiots on Fedi who want to connect with them. Bah!)
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Latest NASA global temperature data.
Earth has never been hotter since Homo sapiens (we) discovered agriculture in the early Holocene. Likely even since the Eemian interglacial 120.000 years ago.
Fossil coal, oil and gas emissions caused it.
We need to stop making it worse.
Yes, we can if we want to.
The #OSAID is deeply flawed exactly because of two #Meta employees (a Llama developer and a lawyer) that were invited to vote about the requirements and excluded training data.
Without training data, you cannot really modify any AI, just fine-tune them. Which is like saying that Windows is #OpenSource because you can tweak the registry.
And without training data you have no hope of being able to effectively study its bias or to identify backdoors planted in the system: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974
#OSI is serving its sponsors, #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft... opening a loophole in the #AIAct.
Ai miei occhi serve anzitutto per evitare che un giudice possa prendere sul serio la OSAID.
Per altri del gruppo serve a evitare che la OSAID prenda il posto della OSD nella pratica: l'OSI è un gatekeeper per le licenze "open source" che si è rivelato pericoloso.
A proposito: hai visto https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-it-it.html
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Community Commitment to Open Source Definition
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I remember Google+, and the idee fixe and mad hype around it. (Google was afraid of Facebook.) G+ was a ghost town. But for the first year or so the G+ team reported astronomical engagement numbers. Huhh?
Finally we learned they were counting every G+ notification dropped at the top of Gmail as an "engagement."
Anyway, I wonder how they're measuring this...
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-q3-2024-new-code-created-by-ai-2024-10
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Ospedali o cannoni? Scuole o cannoni? Cannoni o democrazia?
"In Cina o Russia l’investimento militare va a cascata su strutture legate allo Stato e al potere. In Occidente invece trasferisce enormi fondi pubblici ai grandi interessi privati. Le multinazionali delle armi hanno tra i principali azionisti le società globali dei fondi: #Blackrock, #Vanguard, #StateStreet, #Kkr. Questi colossi si stanno comprando pezzi d’Italia e sono anche i veri padroni delle aziende di #armi. Anche l’Italia sta finendo in quest’orbita: il governo Meloni ha dato via libera a Blackrock per entrare in Leonardo sopra il 3% senza esercitare il golden power. Così i grandi fondi danno soldi ai governi comprando pezzi di Paese ma poi chiedono un ritorno, fanno affari con le armi e coi guadagni poi comprano altri pezzi di Paese. Entra in casa chi poi comanderà alla faccia della democrazia, come già avviene negli Usa e in Gran Bretagna."
https://archive.is/7r4zT
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#Debian classify the kind of #AI systems that the #OSI's #OSAID defines as #opensource, as #ToxicCandy: https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/-/blob/master/ML-Policy.rst
Without training data you cannot ecercise the freedom to study a #ML system and your ability to modify it is severely limited to fine tuning.
Which is like to say that windows is open source because you can tweak the registry.
For these reasons some open source developers are already moving beyond OSI: https://opensourcedeclaration.org
You are welcome to join!
It's not just matter of securing the #OSD, but to update it with a truly open process, with all developers, artists, musicians, data scientists... who contribute their time and valuable skills to open source: https://opensourcedefinition.org/wip/
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
