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And it does not capture the awe when you notice the constant crackling sounds down there. For which, as the tour guide explained to us, nobody knows the root cause, despite bright minds investigating it.
Sadly, I could not find any sources online about this topic.
Archived: https://archive.ph/UEDWh
Ethically, your work was even lower than that of those who test their AI tools on FOSS code, send in bogus reports and thus waste maintainer's time. Experimenting on unwitting humans and ecosystems is not okay.
> "The reality is that if only a handful of companies and a handful of governments have the resources" to rebuild models, it is not a practical goal for open-source AI.
Any chance one could build a (working) system for training in a distributed way?
Because e.g. Folding@home was able to accumulate quite some computational power this way:
> Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. With heightened interest in the project as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,[8] the system achieved a speed of approximately 1.22 exaflops by late March 2020 and reached 2.43 exaflops by April 12, 2020,[9] making it the world's first exaflop computing system. This level of performance from its large-scale computing network has allowed researchers to run computationally costly atomic-level simulations of protein folding thousands of times longer than formerly achieved.
> Finally, rather than merely be a pundit on this matter, I am instead today putting myself forward to try to be part of the solution. I plan to run for the OSI Board of Directors at the next elections on a single-issue platform: I will work arduously for my entire term to see the OSAID repealed, and republished not as a definition, but merely recommendations, and to also issue a statement that OSI published the definition sooner than was appropriate. I'll write further about the matter as the next OSI Board election approaches. I also call on other software rights activists to run with me on a similar platform; the OSI has myriad seats that are elected by different constituents, so there is opportunity to run as a ticket on this issue.
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> Nor is one necessary, because the original OSD works for AI. You need to treat the training data as source code, and you need to apply the rules to both pieces: the underlying software of the machine learning system, and the training data. This can get complicated because sometimes the training data expands in real time as the system gets more queries.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7254500...
Hampering the productivity:
- Review messages get sent out before review is actually finished. It should be sent out only once the reviewer has finished the work.
- Code reviews are implemented in a terrible way compared to GitHub or GitLab.
- Re-requesting a review once you did implemented proposed changes? Takes a single click on GitHub, but can not be done in Azure DevOps. I need to e.g. send a Slack message to the reviewer or remove and re-add them as reviewer.
- Knowing to what line of code a reviewer was giving feedback to? Not possible after the PR got updated, because the feedback of the reviewer sticks to the original line number, which might now contain something entirely different.
- Too many clicks to review a commit message: PR -> Commits -> Commit -> Details
- Comments on a specific commit does not shown in the commits PR
- Interprets IPv6 addresses in commit messages as emoji. E.g. fc00::6:100:0:0 becomes fc00::60:0.
- Can not cancel a stage before it actually has started (Wasting time, cycles)
- Terrible diffs (can not give a public example)
- Network issues. E.g. checkouts that should take a few seconds take 15+ minutes (can not give a public example)
- Step "checkout": Changes working folder for following steps (shitty docs, shitty behaviour)
- The documentation reads as if their creators get paid by the number of words, but not for actually being useful. Whereas GitHub for example has actually useful documentation.
- PR are always "Show everything", instead of "Active comments" (what I want). Resets itself on every reload.
- Tabs are hardcoded (?) to be displayed as 4 chars - but we want 8 (Zephyr)
- Re-running a pipeline run (manually) does not retain the resources selected in the last run
Security:
- DevOps does not support modern SSH keys, one has to use RSA keys (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/support-non-rs...). It took them multiple years to allow RSA keys which are not deprecated by OpenSSH due to security concerns (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/ssh-rsa-deprecation/), yet no support for modern algos. This also rules out the usage of hardware tokens, e.g. YubiKeys.
Azure DevOps is dying. Thus, things will not get better:
- New, useful features get implemented by Microsoft for GitHub, but not for DevOps. E.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/static-web-app-pr-work...
- "Nearly everyone who works on AzDevOps today became a GitHub employee last year or was hired directly by GitHub since then." (Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/azuredevops/comments/nvyuvp/comment...)
- Looking at Azure DevOps Released Features (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes...) it is quite obvious how much things have slowed down since e.g. 2019.
Lastly - their support is ridiculously bad.
> (89) Third parties making accessible to the public tools, services, processes, or AI components other than general-purpose AI models, should not be mandated to comply with requirements targeting the responsibilities along the AI value chain, in particular towards the provider that has used or integrated them, when those tools, services, processes, or AI components are made accessible under a free and open-source licence. ...
> Article 2, 12. This Regulation does not apply to AI systems released under free and open-source licences, unless they are placed on the market or put into service as high-risk AI systems or as an AI system that falls under Article 5 or 50.
Let's see if the EU AI Act will be adjusted in the same spirit as discussed in the linked discussion.
Because there is an excemption clause in the EU AI Act for free and open source AI.
[1] https://proton.me/about/team
[2] https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/07/27/protonmail-transparenzber...