• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    15 hours ago

    Still debatable, the weights are the code. That’s a bit like saying “X software is not open source because it has equations but it doesn’t include the proofs that they’re derived from”.

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      4 hours ago

      And LLM is simply such a bad example for Open Source in general. They couldn‘t have chosen a worse example to make their point. That‘s what’s frustrates me.

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      12 hours ago

      the weights are the code

      In the same way as an Excel spreadsheet containing a crosstab of analytics results is “the code.”

      It’s processed input for a visualization/playback mechanism, not source code.