@kirancodes.me really enjoyed your lean bug blog post!

I hate that they use the "safety for children" front to introduce mass surveillance.

If they cared about children, they would cut education costs, increase parental support, introduce healthy,paid-for meals. But they don't. Because that's not what they want.

Is that Sydney?

The health benefits for me being (almost) sober for the last decade or so are counteracted in full by the supply of free redbulls in the office he typed with a racing heart and sweaty hands.

I mean thats not news but Elon Twitter is just a seemingly endless chain of questionable product decisions.

Where is out here?

That's the main thing I took out of that. "We could house everyone, but we don't want to since people who are already housed are proud."

I love working days like these.
So much better than when I used to be a consultant...

Happy i stumbled over this while waiting for GPU tests to green (they didn't).

I thought the same. But they keep running the site into the ground so hard that it's driving me out anyways.

Nikitas own playbook to pump user numbers is to give them an nudge on another platform. My anchor to come here usually is that the X experience is just terrible.

Tell me when you found them.

Makes sense... would be more entertaining though.

You know who

Writing out of distribution will be the defining characteristic. Which for -- the most part -- probably sucks. But there will be rare genius who produces something novel and compelling.

Me whenever I try to keep a clean git history ...

I've visited a farm with an autonomous milking robot once and the farmer said they could see that cows have their milking buddies who meet up to go to the milking robot together.

Spotify is free cloud storage for your audio files (as long as privacy is not an issue).

I made my first OSS contribution in Rust and got a PR merged into ruff 🤩

I indeed churned for a while.

But i’m back.

Oh no, bluesky, i am churning

Is the concentration of money and power in AI (or generally tech) a problem? Yes.

But these datasets democratize development.
And we also don’t hate on conveyor belt workers in the auto industries just because the big cronies pocket the profits.

The librarian is the wrong target.

I demand deletion of this dataset as you have not obtained the consent of the posts author, triple notarized in presence of their legal guardian, a state lawyer, Ayn Rand, and god. Plus a declaration in lieu of oath that they will not revoke this consent.

I am shook to the core about your audacity

I mean things change once you talk about commercial use. But the collection as such is fine if you comply with GDPR stuff about PII in the EU.

The problem here is PII means everything that can identify a person. So would include the posts itself if i can search them on Bsky to find the author.

(Not my personal opinion, but the law if you go by scripture — so it’s insecure to use for Research).

Generally complexity of concepts scales with deprh and knowledge mass with width.

So it’s possible the smaller model is a bit worse (and they just advertise it bc. It has the biggest margin).

Another reason could be reproducibility for research.

But idk, tbh.

Distillation probably.

They use the outputs of a big model as targets for a smaller. Thus you can make it behave the same way but with fewer parameters and thus lower inference cost.

Personally, i think people should stfu about data that they published to the world to be scraped.

But in GDPR everything that can be used to identify counts as PII. That includes pseudonyms and even the post itself if you can search for it to identify the author...

I don’t think that consent makes the data worse.

There are other use-cases in the direction of computational sociology where consent is trickier.

Yet I do believe in the right for privacy. But i find it peculiar to blame someone for compiling posts that were made publicly for the world to see.

Research should follow ethical guidelines. But collecting data people voluntarily published for the world to see is fine.

I think i mainly just disagree. But it's fine. I'll just take your ad hominems.

I don't think that the Librarian did anything bad. I also don't think that is what many here took issue with.

They hate what they call "Tech bro's" and found someone they could torch.