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The sun is like how spheres are rendered in old games: just a flat texture that’s always facing toward the camera.

Also, if you mistakenly use the wrong pronouns, apologize and respect their wishes.

We’re humans after all, and mistakes happens. No one is asking you to be perfect. People just want you to be a decent person.

There’s usually randomness involved with the initial weights and the order the data is processed.

Ok I understand now why people are upset. There’s a disagreement with terminology.

The source code for the model is open source. It’s defined in PyTorch. The source code for it is available with the MIT license. Anyone can download it and do whatever they want with it.

The weights for the model are open, but it’s not open source, as it’s not source code (or an executable binary for that matter). No one is arguing that the model weights are open source, but there seem to be an argument against that the model is open source.

And even if they provided the source code for the training script (and all its data), it’s unlikely anyone would reproduce the same model weights due to randomness involved. Training model weights is not like compiling an executable, because you’ll get different results every time.

The model is as far as I know open, even for commercial use. This is in stark contrast with Meta’s models, which have (or had?) a bespoke community license restricting commercial use.

Or is there anything that can’t be done with the DeepSeek model that I’m unaware of?

If the installer is open source, then that part is open source. It’s maybe not as useful, because it relies on proprietary software to work. On the other hand, so does emulators like Dolphin.

Windows is not open source just because it’s possible to change dll files. Minecraft is not open source just because it’s possible to modify its textures.

Model weights isn’t the equivalent to a proprietary DLL or GameCube ROM. Anyone is free to modify and distribute the model weights however they like - and people are already doing it. Soon enough we will see variations of the model without the Chinese censor for example.

I agree the bad part is that they didn’t provide the script to train the model from scratch.

Yeah, it’s about as open source as binary blobs.

This is a great starting point for further improvements of the model. Most AI research is done with pretrained weights used as basis. Few are training models completely from scratch. The model is built with Torch, so anyone should be able to fine tune the model on custom data sets.

I think a more appropriate analogy is if you make an open source game. With the game you have made textures, because what is a game without textured surfaces? You include the binary jpeg images along with the source code.

You’ve made the textures with photoshop, which is a closed source application. The textures also features elements of stock photos. You don’t provide the original stock photos.

Anyone playing the game is free to replace the textures with their own. The game will have a different feel, but it’s still a playable game. Anyone is also free to modify the existing textures.

Would you consider this game closed source?

They published the source code needed run the model. It’s open source in the way that anyone can download the model, run it locally, and further build on it.

Training from scratch costs millions.

The least batshit insane thing PragerU has ever said.

There’s a Wikipedia page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi's_series

The correct answer is that the sum doesn’t have a value, but it you must assign a value to it, then 0.5 is the most correct value.

I love Linux as well, but there’s always something you didn’t know about that breaks, and it’s up to you to figure out what broke and how to fix it.

I’ve had the problem for a while now that the audio is set to the wrong output after screen lock, and I have given up on finding a fix for it.

I don’t know. The egg prices are high though.

I’m not sure. For me it showed some dog picture from my album.

This happened to me once (but with some other picture in my album instead of monkey).

Now I know it wasn’t a weird dream I had.

I still haven’t grown out of my ctrl + alt + del habit

True, but I like Transformers so it’s ok

I’m sure most kids know about Skibidi Toilet, the Paul brothers and Mr Beast.

What’s worse, is that the Paul brothers and Mr Beast use their influence to promote products directly to the children. Like Prime.

The demo they showed is mostly a 1 hour cinematic with barely any gameplay. Fancy graphics, but if I want to watch a movie I watch a movie.

Scope creep commonly happens when there’s no clearly defined scope or vision that keeps the scope in place. Star Citizen clearly suffers from this. It’s a space sim game where seemingly anything goes.