50 BILLION!? Like with a “B”? The highest end 24 port switch and router is around $500 and $300 respectively. Let’s just round that up to $1000 each to make it wven more expensive. Plus $1000 to do the install work for those two devices (which would be highway robbery). Let’s say every single airport needs 100 each of these switch and router sets, which is also a ridiculous number. That is $200,000 per airport of were are overstocking and overpaying for routers and switches. For $1 Billion, then, you could fully supply and install 100 sets of brand new switches and routers to 5000 airports. There are only 3287 airports under the FAA’s National Plan flof Integrate Airport Systems. So let’s say the other 1713 airports worth is used in military airports, even though that is outside the FAA preview. So… where is the other $49 Billion going!?

That is such a ridiculously huge unrealistic number. There is no way that, if granted, this will just be used to line the pockets of some Billionaire donor(s) or friend of Duffy and/or Trump.

NOTE: My wife, who supplies technology needs to law firms for a living said that she might actually estimate the cost to upgrade routers and switches per airport at 500,000 each due to square footage. And maybe double that if they’re upgrading dedicated internet circuits too. So her absolutely highest dollar is $1 million per airport. That’s still only $3.3 billion. $46.7 billion still unaccounted for.

The horse, ignoring physics

So what position in the administration is Trump about to give him? Please tell me it is ambassador to China.

There’s almost certainly no way that LLMs are getting access to copywritten source code that’s not publically available on github or any other public forum. Google is not hacking Microsoft for their source codes for training data. There’s already a ton of training data freely available and accessible online. And the effort to payoff ratio of stealing uncompiled copywritten source code would be fucking massive, even before it get into the much higher legal consequences of corporate espionage and theft compared to copywrite violation.

Fair enough. I’m sure that that will be thrown into the litigation machine over AI copyright with the rest of it. As for new code generated off of it, I would be incredibly shocked to find out that any user ever that didn’t specifically use AI with the actual knowledge and intent of copyright violation would ever have even a little bit of legal consequence from it.

Regardless, that’s my employer’s possible future problem. Not mine. I’m not doing a lot of coding projects in my spare time. Even if I were, I’m not paying for tokens to do what piddly shit I do write.

Data: “Please state your conclusion.”

In your example, you would be taking criticism of your steak from someone who would tell you to serve it with ketchup. If you wouldn’t serve your steak with ketchup, then you don’t need to be concerned that they don’t like your steak. Sometimes people are just incompatible.

This is just the slightly less evocative, “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.” -Rick Sanchez

Speaking as a software engineer, code sits in a weird spot in terms of copyright. The exact code as written can be protected by copyright. But the mechanics of it cannot. Furthermore, code that performs a task that is so generic or even necessary for the mechanism it serves also cannot be protected. I can’t copyright a for-loop that iterates through an array, for example. Nor can I copyright the use of libraries built and freely published by others. Boiler plate code and importance tools are never protected.

There are so many libraries of tools, and fully, freely available code as open source, so much raw code content and understanding in forums and textbooks that, honestly, the only real protection any code has is the actual source code as written for commercial products. And you simply do not need those examples for training. And that is if you can even get direct access to those things. They’re not exposed to the public by design.

I would imagine that little, if any, actually copywritten code was ever used in training LLMs. That isn’t to say that there isn’t an element of use without credit to sources and individuals. But really that problem existed well before LLMs and, again, is morally grey when it comes to matters of mechanics.

Code is a unique beast. It is essentially mechanical. It works or it doesn’t. It is a quantitative measure, not a qualitative one like music, art, film, etc. You can train LLMs not just on code examples, but on concrete outcomes, pass-fail requirement conditions. And it is made of a finite set of operations, like math. It is only in its patterns of these operations that actual meaning and work is derived. LLMs can find such patterns iteratively without copying someone else’s work.

But even for code it has used, to me, coding has always felt collaborative. How many thousands of memes have been made about programmers googling everything in their work. It’s true. Coding has always been community-driven and open-source by default, at least in my academic and professional life, and so training LLMs on this data also feels less offensive to me. And I say that as an engineer who both uses Claude as a tool in my work now, and one who is likely to be laid off in the next year, in part because of this. But I blame corporate greed and lack of integrity for that, not the fact that this tool exists. I have other problems with AI coders, and AI in general, not the least of which is just about every aspect and consequence of these data centers, as you said. But not because of “theft” of freely available code.

Oh it’s going to be a spectacle alright. 👀 🍿

No, I say that as if you are the person who called her brown, not them. They are bigoted fucks, yes. But their bigotry is not exclusive to non-white people as you suggested. That both diminishes their actual bigotry and is so inconsistent with reality that you leave a very obvious defense to your criticism of their bigotry, both of which are counter-productive. They hate brown people, yes. They also hate anybody else that is different, brown or not.

She’s… not brown though. Like you see these two next to each other and can compare their complexions, right? Maybe you mean she’s not European White?

She’s Iranian, born in a Muslim culture, belonged to the family of a Theocratic Dictator, a victim of the Trump regime, and her death will be ignored for all of those reasons. But that girl is white. As was the Ayatollah. As are most Iranians. They are as white as Jews are. Being white doesn’t stop other white people from victimizing you for all your other innate qualities though, nor from pretending you aren’t actually exactly as white at them.

“What really just hits me hard,” she said, continuing, “is when i’m in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it.”

Audible eye roll

Of course he’s totally devoted to him. He isn’t stupid. He knows full well that everyone knows he’s a nazi fuck and absolutely nobody but a vindictive idiot cunt like Trump would ever give him enough power to decide so much as a lunch menu. He also knows full well that this is it. He’s attached to a highly unpopular lame duck president who triggered the biggest political wave in 50 years against his party. Clock’s ticking before he loses every bit of power he’ll every have.

He’ll play the deluded sycophant on tv to appease his boss, but he’s not. He’s an opportunist that is taking advantage of a temporarily powerful egotistical man who is highly susceptible to flattery and personal loyalty to exercise every ounce of his fascist agenda he can.

Things are about to ramp up in the Trump White house. If this new congress does their jobs, they’re about to be very busy fighting back against Miller’s agenda items. If they don’t do their jobs, it’s about to get far far worse in the US before Trump’s time runs out.

So we’re full-on in the Kim Jung Un-style masturbatory lies without even resembling reality stage? Fun.

He learned his lesson though.

Very kind of him to sacrifice for the cause.

I remember a early internet web app that let you customize the oval office decor like a president, choosing from pictures, statues, desks, etc. that the white house has collected over the years from previous presidents and and gifts given to them, and it gave the items history and whatnot. It is such a common part of entering the office that there was a browser game in the 90’s about it.

Listing the similarities between the two shows, the court cited the emergency room setting, the fast pace, the use of medical jargon, graphic depictions of injuries and younger doctors fresh from medical school being trained.

With the exception (maybe) of the younger training doctors, though I imagine doctors gotta learn, everything described there is a definitional part of a medical drama set in an emergency room. I understand the court letting this move forward because there may be good reason to explore the more detailed similarities. But the ones they listed there… that is baseless.

You cannot copyright a real world setting or genre. The subject matter of emergency room medicine is not owned by Michael Crichton, Warner Brothers, or anyone. Would be like saying the creator of Honeymooners owns the rights to domestic abuse. ER’s copyright encompasses its characters, and specific stories. Not the entire concept of an ER or triage medicine. It did not create any of those concepts. It also doesn’t own the style of narrative, pacing, editing, cinematography, etc. used, either.

Honestly, that could be alright.