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- Ideas cannot be owned,
- Ideas cannot be bought,
- Ideas cannot be sold,
- Ideas cannot be Killed!
- We are one,
- Knower, Knowledge and Known !
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10 Ways to overcome a possessive toddler behavior.. and prevent the child becoming an adult with a pathological selfishness personality trait, which will fetishize property, copyright & secrecy and actively work against the well being & flushing of the human family.
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The CEO of RISC-V says that "possible government restrictions on the open-source technology will slow down the development of new and better chips, holding back the global technology industry"
Future historians will marvel at our era, dubbing it the 'Digital Dark Age', an epoch characterized by rampant closed source systems. They'll muse, in an era where open source is default, how we ever functioned in such a restricted technological and cultural landscape.
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Anticipate a future where machine learning models are 10 to 100 times more data/compute-efficient, enabling any dedicated group of individuals in their bedrooms to train massive, very capable models. It will super-charge the open-source revolution and disrupt everything.
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Open Source MusicLM
Google's MusicLM Demo just dropped! Shoutout to the team. What's even cooler? Open Source MusicLM! Discover one of the first open implementation at https://github.com/zhvng/open-musiclm/ proudly supported by @okio_ai in its training efforts, among other models. The party is just starting 🎶
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The combination of opensource with remote teams is incredibly powerful. It is a glimpse of the future of work in a world beyond artificial borders.
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The equivalent of "Moore's law" but for open-source: Torvalds' law states that the number of software domains in which open-source leads doubles approximately every two years.
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Linus Torvalds has transformed the world more profoundly than any politician, manager, intellectual, banker or priest has in the past 100 years.
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Open-source fundamentally changes the dynamics of competition
Open-source fundamentally changes the dynamics of competition: In the closed-source world, competitor relationships are defined by intense fighting & secrecy. In open-source, competitors can be far more collaborative and transparent, escaping zero-sum game traps.
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Why *nix won
"Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, compact, clear, modular & extensible code that can be easily maintained & repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design"
#Comment: There is a bad tendency in machine learning to build tools that are exactly the opposite of the Unix philosophy.
There are many species specific proprietary tools in nature, such as the human hand. But all essential innovations of nature, such as DNA, are wildly used across species in an open source fashion. This dynamic emerges at all scales of organization, from cells to software & beyond
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Participating in open source culture is a heart warming act of neighbourly love 🥰
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Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
"Rochko is Mastodon’s sole shareholder and, according to its 2021 annual report, he paid himself €2,400 per month last year, a figure he said has since risen by €500."
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Some personal news: I'm leaving @huggingface at the end of this month, where i worked as product designer. Thanks to all the kind people there for the interesting time, best of luck with everything!
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Professional news: I've joined Hugging Face 🤗 as product designer.
This post elaborates a bit on the backstory and reasons for why i have joined Hugging Face.
My journey into the intersection of machine learning, generative systems, open-source, HCI and design started about 10y ago. Coming from the worlds of design, game development and procedural generation - in 2013/14 i found a new home in a small community of researchers, developers and artists that were excited about the crude ML systems of the time. In those years, i realized countless public ML experiments and projects for corporate clients - allowing me to develop intuition for what it means to design products for humans in the age of AI.
Around 2015, two phenomena had captured my imagination: Open source and open knowledge were transforming how science and ML were done. To promote this trend, i launched Gitxiv in 2015 - a site for "collaborative open computer science" which combined open code, open research and community. It was quiet popular for a while. At the same time, machine learning began to transform creativity. Explorations of this trend led me to co-found the startup "Creative.AI" in 2016 and raising €2m+ to execute on a thesis that (generative) ML will democratize creative industries. The startup was premature, but the thesis and concerns from then are still valid.
After many other projects, I joined @GoogleAI in 2018 as part of a team that was strategically situated between fundamental A.I research and product development. I had the opportunity to help design ML-driven products across many of Google's key verticals and got to intimately collaborate with some of the leading people in the ML industry - from science, engineering, design and management. The scale of ambition and operations at Google was truly dizzying. My work on projects such as ██████ and ██████ significantly contributed to ████████ and ████████. After 4 years, i left Google in early 2022.
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Which brings me to the present day: I'm exciting to announce that I've joined @huggingface 🤗 as product designer. Hugging Face - "the AI community building the future" - is a startup I've followed with great interest for the past few years. It's bold mission of "democratizing good machine learning" by "empowering the community through open and collaborative technology building at the intersection of science and engineering" deeply resonates with me. So does the decentralized and nimble approach which is at the heart of this community. Over the years, Hugging Face has evolved into the leading open ecosystem for all one's needs to build machine learning solution and has become a catalyst for open ML science.
In a world where most companies will soon be AI companies, the value of a truly open and community driven innovation ecosystem can not be overstated. I believe that the real "foundation models" of our time will be built together by everyone for everyone, in-order to authentically contribute to the prosperity of all. On this path we face many difficult questions, such as "what does it mean to design products for humans in the age of AI"? I am excited to find answers together with my new colleges and the community at Hugging Face!
Feel free to reach me at any time at samim AT huggingface.co 🤗
