Notices by Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)

@aral So copyright covers use and not just copying. Good to know.

If you load this spreadsheet into Microsoft Excel, you have placed Excel under the GPL. Good luck with that, it should totally end well for you.

New paper shows that LLMs trained on "A is B" can't infer that "B is A"... Which was a known failure mode of "neural networks" back in 1988.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that

"In math, when one make a conjecture, a simple counterexample suffices. If I say all odd numbers are prime, 1, 3, 5, and 7 may count in my favor, but at 9 the game is over... In neural network discussion, people are often impressed by successes, and pay far too little regard to what failures are trying to tell them."

@Tallish_Tom @arielcg @aral It also grinds up founders who WANT to make a sustainable business but are naieve enough to take VC funding.

You could be profitable at 6 people (like a dental practice) but have to hire 20 in a big office to show "growth". So you overshoot your revenue and must pursue a second and third round of VC funding.

Teaching someone to swim by giving them a 500 pound scuba tank with a second tank on the bottom of the ocean. Keeping your head above water vs go straight down.