Open-source AI is the data, not the weights. Weights alone isn’t useless, but it’s not a platform to truly understand and modify a network. No one wants to open their data though, because that’s both what gives them a competitive edge and it would be an admission of widespread copyright violations.
I’m surprised they didn’t cancel the project for being woke.
Except Mitch McConnel won. His political project was incredibly successful. Schumer has just failed over and over, losing battles and rights and leading the party to their lowest favorability in decades.
Why do people keep assuming Chuck Schumer is some master tactician when literally all we’ve ever seen from him is failure after failure?
So glad we gave him everything he wanted so now we have no leverage at all. Another masterful play by Chuck Schumer.
It would only be irony if the author thought the media shouldn’t scrutinize the press secretary. Presumably most journalists believe scrutiny of the head spin doctor of the regime is actually exactly what should happen.
Jean-Pirrre also had all that spinning of genocide to weigh on her.
What a joke of a headline. The “mixed” reaction referenced is that they interviewed two residents of Puerto Rico.
Summary of the people quoted in the article about “Gen Z” protests:
They’re just trying to coopt the other successful revolutions by people who are actually protesting for generational change, not just “do Boomer politics for people of means”.
From an Al Jazeera reporter:
Monica Cruz, an AJ+ reporter in Mexico City, said it was likely that the opposition was behind the protests in the Mexican capital.
“We are having a hard time believing that this is an organic protest. Especially from young people. We don’t want to say that Gen Z is a monolith. There are young people in every side of the political spectrum,” she said.
“But there’s not a lot of young people out there on the streets and we are thinking that may be a reflection or a sign that this is not really coming from the young people. Because we’ve seen protests here in Mexico City against the genocide in Palestine, for example, and we’ve seen young people by the thousands marching in the streets.”
Yeah, these numbers don’t really convey much without a family size and location, so they kind of just become engagement bait.
In Honolulu, a family of 4 is considered “low-income” (80% of adjusted median income) at $129k. $76k and they can qualify for housing assistance.
To state the obvious, but Bondi is the one with all the files. If she wasn’t already investigating them it wasn’t because she needed a public leak to know who and what was in them.
That title was really confusing until I realized Trump also had an enemy with the last name James and they didn’t mess up saying James Comey.
AOC will never be Senate Leader. That’s not on offer whatever path she takes.
I don’t think calling for resignation or not has anything to do with the Epstein files, but the same collective action problem that made few people publicly call for Biden to resign even though most Democratic voters wanted change. The people who decide these things aren’t the voters and if you call for an establishment leadership figure to be purged and they aren’t, you’re in for a load of shit from them.
Like with Biden, Bernie and AOC also probably expect any replacement to be the same type of person playing the same sort of games. Schumer is particularly bad at politics, but his replacement won’t be someone who might displease donors.
Using “undercover” as if he’s concealing his employer in order to take on the mob rather than attendants at a carwash.
Immigration enforcement comes AFTER someone has been convicted of a crime. ICE cannot investigate whether a crime has occurred.
Threatening to call the gestapo on anyone is a shit stain act, regardless of whether you’re legitimately angry at their actions. Don’t be a shit stain.
They really aren’t. That’s just something that racist shit stains jump to.
If someone is doing (what you think are) illegal things to you, regardless of their citizenship, you call the police, the organization that deals with enforcing the law.
“When Congress voted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
No, it really isn’t. That’s a press release. Or the Truth post Trump made.
News filters for worthy events, explains mechanics, and adds other context to help its readers understand why this thing is worth knowing and what it might mean.
Addressing Zhou’s allegations that Renner threatened to call ICE on her, Singer alleges Zhou “had been relentlessly harassing and threatening my client with hundreds of unsolicited and unwanted messages.”
In response to an allegation, something that doesn’t respond to the allegation at all. At least unless “she deserved it” is supposed to be a response to threatening to call ICE on a foreign born person.
Using the best models as synthetic data is mostly pointless. You’re just going to recreate all of its biases and failures in a degraded copy. The whole point of open source software is being able to analyze the source code to learn how it works and understand and ideally remove its weaknesses.
Open weights doesn’t let you do that, and what research it enables is mostly just tinkering around the edges. If someone trained a network, but it kept saying racist stuff, you can’t figure out why it’s racist or rebuild it without the racism from weights alone. Just the weights is like having a binary. Maybe nice to have a gratis app to use, but not really open.