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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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago*

    If you can get your reproducer in a one liner, e.g:

    cd builds/bisect && make clean && make -j(nproc) && make run-failing-test

    then it's super easy to pass that to /bin/sh -c "...as above...." to feed to the git bisect command

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  • [–] 0 points 11 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago

    My first professional job was writing FORTH for fruit machines. I'd played with it a bit before on the Jupiter Ace we had which sadly never really took off despite being more elegant than the ZX81.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    The JJ lens flare then made it into DISCO although I think they toned it down a bit for SNW. I checked out of SFA after 3 episodes so I don't know if they continued to be flare happy there.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    What do you need/use that you find in modern editors that you can't get in something like Emacs? While there are AI integrations for Emacs they are all optional.

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