Alex

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Are attacks against logistics supporting your aggressor not allowed? I suspect arms shipments from Iran to Russia are very much legitimate targets.

It's not like Iran have held back attacking fellow gulf states even outside the obvious US bases they host.

On the other hand it's legitimately one of the wonders of the digital world. A communally edited source of knowledge free for all to access. While it's good to scrutinise foundations and how they are run I've not seen anyone propose a better solution so far. The data is freely licensed so forking is possible but it's not really the technical details that make Wikipedia the resource it is today.

I don't begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is "just know".

It's super common if it's any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

I'm sure I've seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

The first red flag is calling it Zelenskyy's regime and the second is defining it as a proxy war. This isn't the West using Ukraine as a way to target Russia - indeed had Russia not invaded there would be no war. The prospects for peace would be much higher is Putin wasn't sticking to his maximalist demands for territory he hasn't managed to take by force. I don't think it's Ukraine that has been slow walking the talks.

I guess it depends if you have a maximum number of kids your planning on. But a family of four is pretty likely to stay put for at least 10 years which should be long enough to iron out any short term fluctuations in the market. I'm not overly worried by the slight dip in valuation since I bought my last house because a) I have somewhere for my family to live that is secure and b) whenever we do eventually sell the capital will cover the next house.

My old bosses dacha sounded nice until he pointed out how cold it could get in the winter as it was essentially only heated by a stove. I guess it's nice for a summer getaway from the big city - a bit better than a tent.

I think the two principle arguements he's making are open weights allow for misaligned models and these models are using distillation to more efficiently train.

I don't really care about the distillation point - it seems it's just hoovering up the internet with extra steps. It's really up to Anthropic to deal with by enforcing their ToS. Sauce for the goose etc...

I can see the argument about alignment but it's not a new problem. In the FLOSS world we generally don't put restrictions on use on the code we release even if it might get used for bad stuff. It certainly wouldn't hurt for the authorities to test open models to find out where the guardrails are but ultimately rather than banning the tech you need to enforce the law against the people that use the tech to do bad stuff.

The more Musk confidently posts bullshit outside of his lane ("Homers original") the more he gets revealed for what he really is. I used to think he was a pretty smart on the spectrum engineer but now I realise he's a rich kid gambler who through doubling down has managed to be lucky at capitalism.

I'm looking forward to seeing the a Odyssey as the Greek myths were a big part of the stories I read as a kid and Nolan generally can be relied on to make good films (Interstellar and Tenent being two of the rare misses for me).

He wrote a two part blog about how he was recruited to direct and working with Ricardo. He did his research and found his "in" for the movie which Rodenburry approved of which iirc was Hornblower in space.