Notices by Josh Gay (joshuagay@metasocial.com)

The Anti-DEI executive order is actually a Anti-DEIA executive order that extends to accessibility, as well as rural communities, religious minorities, and others.

Check out this Merge request and upvote this comment: https://github.com/18F/handbook/commit/10710c69a3d23d16b28b8da71f7e5a667ec4594c#commitcomment-151717324

Texas federal court allows an instagram poster/Amazon-seller to proceed with copyright, right of publicity, and DMCA claims against someone who she says dresses similarly to her. Images weren't copied directly -- they merely took similar photos. This is bonkers.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172784295/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172784295.27.0.pdf

(HT to Mark Lemley who shared news about this case elsewhere)

One of my favorite things to learn about others is what the younger version of themself apsired to be when they grew up.

I will go first with some of my favorites from my younger self:

* Karate/Kung Fu fighter (ages 5-6)
* millionaire investor (middle schooler)
* Chef (early teen)
* Poet (late teen)
* Computational neuroscientist (early 20s)

I would love to hear any of yours! Feel free to PM me if you don't want share it publicly 🙂

@lxo one other question. Why are you taking a position when you clearly have absolutely no idea how any of this works? This whole exchange left me feeling gross like after talking to an elected official that is still always campaigning. Just entirely disengenuis.

@lxo

I strongly disagree. It is not opaque enough.

You do not have the freedoms to:

Study and understand: A model's behavior heavily relies on its training data. Without it, fully grasping why the model makes specific predictions is difficult (nearly impossible for sophisticated models).

Improve and adapt: Effective improvements often require retraining with modified or additional data. Without the original training data, replicating or enhancing the model's capabilities is challenging.

@lxo Let's say I have created a cool BigNumber library that performs math functions really well.

So I take my library and generate a lot of small object code blobs. Labels are the function and parameter calls associated with the object code blobs (fft, cosine, lambda, etc).

I train a model with a feed forward neural network so that the function call labels can be used to predict blobs.

My free software programs replace GNU's big number library with this AI model.

If people are on the fence on whether a given AI model use data or object code, then lets just use real example AI-programs and put it through the rigor of real GPLv3 style compliance on real programs.

I did this with my own projects (which now feel ancient being over 20 years old) and this convinced me beyond a doubt that training data needs to be provided to comply with the letter of the GPL. It is robot controller based on an AI model. Corresponding source includes training data.

@kirschner My daughter, Ada (7y/o), read the first half of the hardcover edition tonight and she is absolutely loving it! She is excited to write a review of the book when she is done. :)

https://nostarch.com/ada-zangemann

I love the color palettes used in Andor.