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Cake day: September 13th, 2024

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  • Let me guess, only the big name authors and none of the countless people posting their writing projects to the internet (which probably accounted for a way higher precentage of the training data than published novels given how much more of it there is) or the people having back and fourth discussions on Reddit (which was likely vital to ensuring the AI responded to technical conversations in a normal sounding way).

    The thing I hate most about the copyright system is how blatantly it helps the biggest creators concentrate wealth while actively excluding smaller and amateur creators. The copyright system is the barrier to entry. You can only exercise the rights theoretically given to every single creator if you make enough money from your art, but to make enough money from your art you need to be able to exercise the rights to it.
















  • Which does cause problems now that Google search is shit.

    Seriously at what point did search engines stop matching results by keyword?! Just a few days ago I tried looking for a quote I didn’t fully remember, but knew the basic thesis and some identifying terms it definitely mentioned and all I got was tabloid articles for pages and pages on end which only vaguely matched the thesis but didn’t mention any of the identifying terms I remember the quote using. It threw me for a loop because I remember being taught in school to search for stuff this way and I don’t know if I’m just stupid or misremembered the quote or search engines don’t actually match keywords anymore. Why would they remove the most basic form of search, literally just regexing for all the strings given?!




  • China is really practicing what they preach by making the fruit of the workers’ labour available for all. They could have made infinitely more money by offering this as a service and that’s what every Western C-suite would do even if every engineer that worked on it wanted it made public. Both Huawei’s co-op leadership and presumably the Chinese government (even in Western “free market” capitalist countries decisions this significant by this big of a company would be subject to government oversight and export control) choosing to make it open source for free is saying a lot. They’re also seemingly not concerned about preventing the West from using their technology in the same way the West denies China use of their tech, despite the obvious strategic and economic benefits of having something the West doesn’t.

    Same with a lot of other Chinese tech investments like Deepseek and RISC-V implementations.

    I wonder if they’re making these things open source to counter the Western propaganda that Chinese tech has spyware or built in censorship. If so, I think they’ve made pretty good faith strides and if they’re hoping for countries like Canada to jump ship and work with them on tech instead of the US, I as a Canadian software developer would gladly work for a Chinese company over a US one.


  • Ironically the US keeps trying to warn that if the world keeps trying to move away from oil, those “money hungry” and “savage” Arab oil producing countries will drag us into the next world war because their investments are threatened by renewables. When in reality the US will probably be the one to do that when everyone else has moved on to renewables and the US has to get a “return” on the obsolete fossil fuel infrastructure only they invested in and nobody wants.