This is an important piece of advice. You need to try things for yourself and fail to really learn. I'm not talking about failing in production of course. But trying to break something locally to see how it behaves, reading the errors, etc. is part of learning. This is how you will troubleshoot things faster the next time.

If there was still any doubt that the arguments coming from the big model providers were lies... Yes, you can train large models using a corpus of training data for which you respect the license. With the diminish return in performance of the newer families of models, the performance they got from the model trained on that corpus is not bad at all.

Interesting initiative to have DNS servers compliant with GDPR, respecting your privacy and with the filtering you need. Now the real question is how long it'll live by its mission.

A good piece so that the origin of the term doesn't get lost.

Nice to see one more implementation available for the fediverse. This one comes with interesting features actually.

Somehow I missed this paper last year. Interesting review of studies on the use of gen AI chat systems in learning and research environments. The amount of ethical issues is non negligible as one would expect. It also confirms the negative impact of using those tools on cognitive abilities. More concerning is the creation of a subtle vicious circle as highlighted by this quote: "regular utilization of dialogue systems is linked to a decline in abilities of cognitive abilities, a diminished capacity for information retention, and an increased reliance on these systems for information".

This looks like a really fun workshop. Been wanting to run one for a long time now. Somehow I never had the chance.

A personal experience which led to not using ChatGPT anymore. This kind of validates other papers on cognitive decline, the added value is in how it makes it more personal and concrete.

I always find interesting how several math domains have similarities and bridges between them. Here it's about the ties between polynomials multiplications and convolution sums.