What’s the best free software you’re using?
OPEN SOURCE
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LLM Datasets Project Reaches 1000 Stars Milestone
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LLM datasets has reached over 1,000 stars It has a ton of high-quality datasets and tools for fine-tuning, data cleaning, generation, and exploration. I've been silently maintaining it over the past months. Special thanks to geronimi73, Bytes-Explorer, and euclaise for their
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Mambaforge vs Miniforge: libmamba now default in conda
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Not too much reason to use mambaforge over miniforge nowadays, since libmamba is default in conda now.
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Open Source Developers Face Legal Risks From State AI Bill
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True, but those behind the bill are claiming it covers anyone doing business in the state. I'm not sure that's true, or legal, but I wouldn't want to be the open source dev that has to deal with that in court.
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SB1047 Blocks Open Source AI Fine-Tuning Development
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I used to be in the "benefit of the doubt" camp, but can no longer — so lemme be clear:
this is quite simply a lie. Those pushing SB1047 *know* that nearly all open source AI devs rely on fine-tuned models, which *are* blocked by this bill. -
Regulatory Thresholds Could Eliminate Open Source AI Models
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Once models have reached the FLOPs threshold in a few years, the mathematically impossible requirements this bill puts on devs means that no open source models could meet them, so we'll all be entirely reliant on big tech's commercial closed offerings.
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Pixi vs Conda: Environment Management for Software Engineers
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pixi seems more focused on specialist software-engineers than conda. It doesn't have the same default global environment feature, which is critical for my work and teaching. You can do a 'global' install of a tool, but they isolated envs.
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Open Source AI Disruption: Regulation Cannot Control Decentralized Tech
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Se puede obligar a las empresas (ya se está regulando y ellas ya se están autorregulado) pero estas imágenes han sido creadas con software open source accesible por todos y controlado por nadie. El genio está fuera de la botella.
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California SB 1047 Bill Raises Concerns About Open Source Innovation
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There is an chorus of voices across academia, business and even government concerned about California's proposed anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB 1047. @martin_casado has a nice thread summarizing some of these. Thank you @russellwald
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Flowise 2.0.4 Release: Bugfixes and Community Improvements
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Lots of bugfixes and small improvements can be found here: https://
github.com/FlowiseAI/Flow
ise/releases/tag/flowise2.0.4
… Big thanks to the open source community