Re: RHELatives
RHELiberated
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"The secondary question is whether certain materials going into certain training sets were obtained in a way that wouldn't have been legal if a human were reading or viewing them."
Some books include words to the effect of "not to be stored in an electronic storage system" as a condition of sale. That would be a clear infringement if such a book was used without specific permission. Even if the trained model doesn't contain verbatim text the training data would be an electronically stored copy falling foul of the condition.
As to the wider issue, if the trained model is not a derivative work of all the previous works that were in the training set what's the point of training it on that data as opposed to random lists of words? Would such a trained model be simply fair use of the individual works? My understanding of fair use would be that I can embed one or several quotes from some author(s) into a work which is mostly my own. I'm not sure that embedding the entirety of another's work would count as fair use and much less so the concatenation of several such works in their entirety.
If I were to produce a work which was simply a collection of material from other sources my understanding is that I would have database rights to the collection but not necessarily to the material which went into it. I think I'd have to agree that the training of the model would add database rights for the trainer. However, unless the original material can be passed off as fair use then surely the trained model remains a derivative work of its training material. As such it must surely also include the collected rights of the authors of the training material.
If the production of the derived work is the infringing act then it seems somewhat disingenuous to offer protection against legal costs of those who use a product of it. It's misdirection as to where the potentially infringing act occurred.
BT staff would be able to get more sensible answers more quickly if the upper management were replaced by chatbots. They wouldn't get their intelligence insulted regularly by [de]motivational training events. And there'd be less faffing about with disruptive reorganisations every few months.
Yes, there are lots of opportunities for AI at BT.
"OpenSSL and LibreSSL, and thus OpenSSH, are not known to be vulnerable to the aforementioned key deduction method"
Not the most reassuring form of words. I'd have preferred "not" and "known" to have been the other way about. The paper implies this is the case for the last couple of decades but given that old kit may still be around...
Matching fibres involves matching colours in transmitted light and in various fluorescence conditions. Yes other factors such as cross-section shape, indeed texture and, where relevant, polarising properties are elements of fibre matching but I doubt anyone claiming fibre expertise would survive telling the court that they had a colour deficiency.
Although part of the work involved making comparisons of textile fibres there was no testing when I joined the forensic lab. One of our older colleagues was, in fact red/green colour blind so that was one aspect of the work he couldn't tackle. When we were recruiting several new staff a few years later we decided we'd better borrow a set of cards.
However well it works it works on specific routes. If your journey simply that route or a part of it it's fine. If it involves parts of two or more routs, even if there are interchange points between the routes, there's likely to be time wasted changing and the journey is likely to be far from direct.
Nevertheless, even when the journey consumed excessive amounts of time, when I used to commute into central London from Wycombe by train I didn't envy the drivers on the crowded roads we passed.
My boss at the time who, despite being an accountant, was quite reasonable, was having a dispute with one of the unreasonable accountants*. His exasperation surfaced as "This business has a surplus of accountants!". Ever since I've regarded that as the correct collective noun.
* I sometimes described this one as going into cannon mode. His first reaction to any problem was to want to fire someone.
From the NHS website:
"Vertigo feels like you or everything around you is spinning – enough to affect your balance. It's more than just feeling dizzy.
A vertigo attack can last from a few seconds to hours. If you have severe vertigo, it can last for many days or months.
...
What causes vertigo
Inner ear problems, which affect balance, are the most common causes of vertigo."
Nothing to do with a reaction heights.
What would raise eyebrows would be comparing the spec of the laptop with that of servers one which we used in the past to support the database and the applications served over terminals to multiple users. A Pi will have more memory than those old boxes did. These days it's not the basic task that's the problem, it's the bloat.