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km3r commented on Introducing Gemma 3n developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/bundie

It's not even clear you can license language model weight though.

I'm not a lawyer but the analysis I've read had a pretty strong argument that there's no human creativity involved in the training, which is an entirely automatic process, and as such it cannot be copyrighted in any way (the same way you cannot put a license on a software artifact just because you compiled it yourself, you must have copyright ownership on the source code you're compiling).

km3r · 2 months ago

Why not? Training isn't just "data in/data out". The process for training is continuously tweaked and adjusted. With many of those adjustments being specific to the type of model you are trying to output.

km3r commented on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits airpass.tiagoalves.me/... · Posted by u/herbertl

ammar2 · 2 months ago

Glad this feature is built into most modern operating systems these days.

For MacOS (Sequoia+) you can just forget the network and reconnect to get a new MAC address [1].

Android's documentation for if it decides to generate a new address per connection is a little vague [2], but I'm guessing forgetting and reconnecting works as well, you may also need to flip the "Wi-Fi non-persistent MAC randomization" bit in developer settings.

On Windows, flipping the "Random hardware address" switch seems to cause it to generate a new seed/address for me.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-euro/102509

[2] https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-mac-random...

km3r · 2 months ago

Yeah I had to flip the developer setting toggle, but worked flawlessly for my flight (American Airlines has a watch an ad for 20 minutes of free internet that only works once per MAC)

km3r commented on The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com/the-ge... · Posted by u/firloop

paxys · 2 months ago

All the significant tech on that list is still "two years away from being two years away".

km3r · 2 months ago

What do you mean? I take a self driving car around every week. I got a mRNA vaccine that enabled us to get out of a pandemic much quicker. You can get fast internet in the middle of nowhere via starlink.

km3r commented on The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com/the-ge... · Posted by u/firloop

paxys · 2 months ago

No we'll totally have flying cars and cure cancer and live life in an AR/VR multiverse and make all knowledge 100% free to everyone worldwide. Meanwhile the only real advancements in tech in the last two decades have been smaller computers (smartphones) and ads.

km3r · 2 months ago

And self driving cars. Real time ray tracing. WiFi. Cloud computing. starlink. Crispr. mRNA vaccines. Blockchain. Voice assistants.

km3r commented on Apple M3 Ultra apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/ksec

hot_gril · 6 months ago

Computers don't usually depreciate slowly

km3r · 6 months ago

Relatively, as in a Mac or a Lexus will depreciate slower than other computers/cars.

km3r commented on TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case vox.com/scotus/393199/tik... · Posted by u/nabla9

t-writescode · 8 months ago

As was repeated over, and over, and over again, the CEO of TikTok is Singaporean.

km3r · 8 months ago

And you are being entirely pedantic or uninformed if you do not understand that the CCP controls TikTok with mechanisms like Golden Shares.

km3r commented on ChatGPT Pro openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

lumb63 · 9 months ago

Famously, the last 10% takes 90% of the time (or 20/80 in some approximations). So even if it gets you 80% of the way in 10% of the time, maybe you don’t end up saving any time, because all the time is in the last 20%.

I’m not saying that LLMs can’t be useful, but I do think it’s a darn shame that we’ve given up on creating tools that deterministically perform a task. We know we make mistakes and take a long time to do things. And so we developed tools to decrease our fallibility to zero, or to allow us to achieve the same output faster. But that technology needs to be reliable; and pushing the envelope of that reliability has been a cornerstone of human innovation since time immemorial. Except here, with the “AI” craze, where we have abandoned that pursuit. As the saying goes, “to err is human”; the 21st-century update will seemingly be, “and it’s okay if technology errs too”. If any other foundational technology had this issue, it would be sitting unused on a shelf.

What if your compiler only generated the right code 99% of the time? Or, if your car only started 9 times out of 10? All of these tools can be useful, but when we are so accepting of a lack of reliability, more things go wrong, and potentially at larger and larger scales and magnitudes. When (if some folks are to believed) AI is writing safety-critical code for an early-warning system, or deciding when to use bombs, or designing and validating drugs, what failure rate is tolerable?

km3r · 9 months ago

Using 90/10 split: that 10% of the time before being reduced to only take 10% of that makes 9% time savings.

160 hours a month * $100/hr programmer * 9% = $1400 savings, easily enough to justify $200/month.

Even if 1/10th of the time it fails, that is still ~8% or $1200 savings.

km3r commented on World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image worldlabs.ai/blog... · Posted by u/dmarcos

Stevvo · 9 months ago

Each frame was between 200 and 300mb, at a much lower resolution than AVP. The storage and bandwidth required is a bit wild.

km3r · 9 months ago

Hey finally a use case (for the masses) for gigabit at home at least.

km3r commented on Hacker Fab docs.hackerfab.org/hacker... · Posted by u/ipnon

ackbar03 · 10 months ago

I don't really know much about ic manufacturing.

Are you sure university labs are really able to to this? If so how come only a few companies like tsmc and that one Dutch company are able to manufacture microchips? Or are those two completely different things and I'm just confusing myself?

km3r · 10 months ago

There is a wide gap between TSMC's cutting edge processes and what a university lab would produce. The features on the microchip go from a couple nanometers (TMSC cutting edge) to tens of micrometers (1000-10000x larger). Large size means less transistors, but million instead of billions still is plenty for large complex chips, just not cutting edge.

km3r commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

beedeebeedee · a year ago

That was not a conflict within a state. No one expected the US military to attack ISIS members within the US- that is clearly a police and judicial matter (and was thankfully treated as such).

km3r · a year ago

Sorry but the failure of the state to contain the terrorist organization within it does not mean Israel should be expected to sit there and be attacked. Any country, when its citizens are attacked, have a right and a duty to respond.

Or maybe you are confused and think some how Israel has security control within Lebanon? Which is clearly not true.