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New comment by drdg in "LLM Visualization"

drdg — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:30:20 +0000

Very cool. The explanations of what each part is doing is really insightful. And I especially like how the scale jumps when you move from e.g. Nano all the way to GPT-3 ....

New comment by drdg in "LLMs are a revolution in open source"

drdg — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 23:11:34 +0000

It won the OS wars on the server side, no question there! It works greats, serving all the SaaS platforms out there...

But as a desktop? Most of my colleagues are using apple hardware/MacOSX. Personally, I'm writing this on Ubuntu - I've been on Linux since forever.

Another one: Android. Built on top of Linux, its core is open source, but is it REALLY in the spirit of open source? One most new phones you cannot put LineageOS (I've always checking the list before I buy).

How does it help that I have the source of Linux and Android, but I'm still not able to build the OS for most mobiles?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not disillusioned with open source. Not at all. I love and appreciate the open source I have (this includes e.g. Rust) I'm just cautious about what the author of the article is foreseeing. You might have a vibrant community, doesn't mean its output won't get wrapped inside some SaaS/big corp.

New comment by drdg in "LLMs are a revolution in open source"

drdg — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 23:04:06 +0000

Yes, this was exactly my point. Not sure why I got down voted so much for it. And note what companies such as hashicorp and elastic are doing.

New comment by drdg in "LLMs are a revolution in open source"

drdg — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 20:07:02 +0000

Can you name some examples where open source won?

In the past I wanted to believe this can be the future, where open source will somehow win (at least in some parts). What I see is that even the biggest projects are mere tools in the hands of the big corporations. Linux, Postgres, etc. All great! But have been assimilated. I cannot really consider them a win.

It seems to me that it goes back and forth - it also seems to me that the advancements in LLMs will go a similar route.

New comment by drdg in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

drdg — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:16:02 +0000

Never heard of that one, so I was interested and checked it out. Turns out they do have a github repo but it plainly says: "Since Photopea is not fully open-source, this repository serves as a place for bug reports, feature requests, and general discussion."

Looks like a nice product, but I would not consider it a FOSS alternative to GIMP.