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this website uses non-free javascript

Interesting

I think the reason that you believe the JS code is obfuscated is because the part of the code that contains the “weights” of the neural network, which contains 4-5 million floating point numbers of an LSTM recurrent neural network.

In fact I trained the neural network using the open source version of Sketch-RNN and encoded the weights using base64 to save you some bandwidth (https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/mo...)

Welcome to “Software 2.0”, I guess!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, although a link to the Stallman article which someone linked below would have been helpful. I've installed LibreJS, I'm curious to see how many things stop working now.

It's a software firm, which do machine learning projects...

Aren't they allowed to obfuscate they're IP?

How so?

Even in the FLOSS world this is a somewhat extremist position - see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html

Interesting, I'm inclined to support some way of removing code obfuscation. I wonder if a neural network could be trained to do that.

It can be done reasonably well without a neural network (look at the '{}' button in Chrome, or Hex-rays for C/C++).

There is some work in applying an NN to make the result look more like "realistic" code samples: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/katz-saner-2018-preprin...

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