The state of openness in the hardware that enables computation is and has been pretty much 'not open' for a long time. The idea that any modern computer is really secure or private only goes so far [0], and generally that's been working fine for most consumers.

With RISC-V, ARM64, and the rising Chinese semiconductor industry, the x86 duopoly is broken up. Economically and in terms of viable IP. With the cost of creating software being driven to 0, maybe there will be real CPU's that are free. Instead of 'security for me and not for thee'.

Ironically, so long as discrete GPU's are available as neutral accelerators for certain kinds of computation, local+open LLM's are actually a reality. Nvidia of any company producing models is probably the very best with Nemotron, which also has had open training data [1]. If the development and release of 120b models of either Chinese or American origin continues into 2027, the capability compared to the cost of hardware is going to be insane.

I don't think it will be possible for the powers that be to manipulate the market in order to make the means of computation, including inference appliances, out of reach financially for average folks indefinitely.

Obviously, I view this all with a very geopolitical bent, because that's what I think is really happening. I can't make sense of the AI build out otherwise. And whatever is going to happen I think most of it will happen in the next 2 years, since the pace of AI research and the next election seem to be on track for a spectacular moment in history.

Not sure I'm making sense but ramble for ramble. :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/topics/ai/nemotron

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So Valve will need to train on descriptions of games and perhaps demand more out of developers who want to sell games on their platform.

All notable app stores face this already or will face it soon. Maybe the apt GUI for your favourite debian derivative won't get too flooded...

It seems like this list also doesn't account for China and state sponsored memory industry (which will be more immune to a downturn)

https://youtu.be/tj1dFIUAs7A?si=a4KYg6QEaxALHnWX&t=207

I've always thought Bill Gates was pretty smart, smarter than me, and has dedicated a lot of his time to researching things like pandemics. More time than I have dedicated to such research.

Seems like Meta's release of Muse Spark Open does not move the needle on things like this, since GLM-5.3 was already released back in August.

2. The opposing springs are normally in equilibrium, so in the absence of forces the center mass moves back to position zero.

3. Think of it like a bridge. The points of contact and support are to the sides and stationary, while the spring mass system is suspended in air or in a vacuum.

4. Is simple enough if you start with two disconnected layers of materials, and then etch the top layer. You could also start with a layer of something like photoresist spincoated on the bottom layer, except for the adhesion points...

An interesting real-life scenario was the possibility of helium atoms being able to get inside the MEMS clock of some smartphones and cause the phone to stop working until enough helium can escape.

Which is fair, they are very easy to make without the assistance of an LLM, and I don't hear about that kind of thing in the news.

I was talking about biological weapons like gain of function and that kind of thing.

The implied question was 'Should companies like Meta publish open weight models when they could theoretically be subverted by malicious users?'. So far as I'm aware there are few people worrying about this kind of thing. Bill Gates for one. But apparently it's off topic and/or not interesting, or not welcomed as a discussion point.

The substance is used in space for the construction of temporary habitats. I suppose this is plausible if you manage to find a large source of ice and bring it into a stable orbit. It won't melt into liquid, and perhaps the reinforcing fibers could help prevent sublimation.

A lot of the novel strained my ability to suspend disbelief, but the overall scope and ambition is so awesome I was able to forgive the poor editing. It's attempting to be hard sci-fi, much of the novel is taken up by technical descriptions that could only appeal to an engineer-minded person.

Where I live in Canada, it's extremely unclear whether anyone is making their ROI on solar installations.

I've had issues starting with Debian because it doesn't ship with broad support for wifi hardware, and internet over USB to iphone hotspot also didn't work. The only option was to get wired ethernet to bring up wifi.

Do I have faith in Meta to 'win' in VR or AR commercially? Well... not really, but the technological advancements are real.

Which are not created from nothing. People write characters based on a combination of other fictional characters, real characters, and perhaps some 'RNG'.

Seems the distinction is that the AI generated character can not have any direct bearing on reality, because the LLM never got to know anyone directly. Not derived directly from experiences rooted in reality.