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Vilson Vieira Jan 2, 2023

Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine Jan 2, 2023

Open-source projects drive decentralized production. Decentralized production leads to local self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency leads to agency. Agency leads to equality. This is the opposite of the global civilization that drives toward monopolization.

Vilson Vieira Jan 2, 2023

Michael Jan 2, 2023

Many famous works entered the Copyright Public Domain today.

Scroll down a ways to see the intriguing story of the Sherlock Holmes copyright litigation.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

#Copyright #PublicDomain #SherlockHolmes

Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law

Tweet By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.

Vilson Vieira Jan 2, 2023

First principles thinking is a powerful tool but it needs to be rooted in battle-tested axioms and used together with pattern matching, otherwise it can fails miserably.

https://commoncog.com/how-first-principles-thinking-fails/

How First Principles Thinking Fails

Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.

Commoncog

Vilson Vieira Jan 2, 2023

https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals

GitHub - bigscience-workshop/petals: 🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading

🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading - bigscience-workshop/petals

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Vilson Vieira Dec 6, 2022

Open source is fast https://github.com/wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension

GitHub - wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension: A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside search engine results

A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside search engine results - GitHub - wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension: A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside search engine r...

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Vilson Vieira Nov 30, 2022

An inspiring presentation by David Ha and the Hugging Face team! Totally agree, we're in the verge of using collective intelligence together with ML models to create incredible creative games/apps.

And everything is happening in the last months, not years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVnETAPIBk

Diffusion Models Live Event (David Ha)

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Vilson Vieira Nov 23, 2022

Really wanna try one of those eventually...

https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards

GitHub - diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards: A collection of ergonomic split keyboards ⌨

A collection of ergonomic split keyboards ⌨. Contribute to diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vilson Vieira Nov 21, 2022

@fchollet your last newsletter article is so 🎯 I couldn't agree more!

"People are not replaceable cogs in service of a codebase. They’re the only real vector of success you have. Certainly, like in the ship of Theseus, you can replace one person or ten without meaningfully damaging the machine. But take away too many, and the stack falls down. All you will be left with is static codebase built for a world that will soon no longer exists."

https://fchollet.substack.com/p/the-machine-that-makes-the-thing

The machine that makes the thing is more valuable than the thing

People, culture, and processes over artifacts.

Sparks in the Wind

Vilson Vieira Nov 17, 2022

forresto Nov 17, 2022

I'm posting #Mastodon meta now.

It's super interesting to see how @opencollective is funding the development of the Fediverse. I feel like I could set up a project there and attract some investment. It's an attention economy, I guess. But one where every hashtag could become a fundable project!

#Mastodon #funding #Fediverse #hashtags

Vilson Vieira Nov 17, 2022

Mark Riedl Nov 17, 2022

If you want a sneak-peak of my portion of the #NeurIPS 2022 tutorial on Creative AI, here it is: https://youtu.be/QBolMllrNp0

It's a 30' primer on story, poetry, and humor generation.

NeurIPS 2020 Tutorial on Creative Generative Language

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