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'"It is not humanitarian at all because it only serves one segment of the population there. The hostages there do not receive any humanitarian aid.”

They mean the civilians in Gaza held hostage by the Israeli military, right?

Thanks for the link to Common Crawl; I didn't know about that project but it looks interesting.

That's also an interesting point about heavily curated data sets. Would something like that be able to overcome some of the bias in current models? For example, if you were training a facial recognition model, access a curated, open source dataset that has representative samples of all races and genders to try and reduce the racial bias. Anyone training a facial recognition model for any purpose could have a training set that can be peer reviewed for accuracy.

I mean, thats the way the capitalist, stock-return-driven economy works. The market expects a company to constantly grow to pump their stock price, so they have to find new revenue or cut costs somewhere. But they can't do that forever...

The founders build a great product to pull in users, then they go public, then the MBAs turn to enshittification to drive more revenue and get rich while they can. The rest of us then move on to the next platform, if it even exists....

Yes, and they'll use legislation to pull up the ladder behind them. It's a form of Regulatory Capture, and it will absolutely lock out small players.

But there are open source AI training datasets, but the question is whether LLMs can be trained as accurately with them.

This is awesome, but now we need better battery tech that doesn't rely on lithium and cobalt. Getting that up to this scale will be hard, though.

Check out the Silo series by Hugh Howey. AppleTV's show did the first half of book 1 already, but the books are still better. Great writing and a pretty easy read.

Homer at the bat?

Mr Burns gets a baseball team together to beat another power plant's pickup baseball team, and hires professional players.

And ken Griffey Jr had too much brain and nerve tonic...

His special is possibly the greatest piece of media to come out of the pandemic.

Always check your sources!

So he's saying he'd like to visit Guantanamo? I mean, that is where we send foreign fighters....

It's so sad. Study after study have shown that the ROI on publicly funded research is anywhere from 20% to 100% depending on the industry.

These morons don't understand science enough to even realize how they benefit from it every day.

Because both sides are fighting are major assholes. Hamas does hide arms and fighters in and around hospitals. Israel doesn't hold back attacking the hospitals to get at that gear, because they care more about killing Hamas than saving Palestinians. The civilians in Gaza are surrounded by assholes.