Agreed. One ingredient is the commitment to be an artist in spite of the financial adversities you face, and the hostility from the people who oppose you for the views that you express. Being in that frame of mind unleashes a certain authenticity of expression. The song "La Boheme" by Charles Aznavour comes to mind. Patsies of the government paid to produce stuff approved by a committee made up of people in a sharp departure from that tradition.

We were so busy bashing them then we did not pause to celebrate their massive contribution to the future of AI. Almost nobody outside of the group of people who download models from Huggingface knows about the Llama models and their derivatives. They'll have no trouble making the change because nobody outside of that group will notice.

Yes, and a useful data point also because Android uses Zip/Deflate compression by default.

Why should Apple and Google be able to use their duopoly in smartphone platforms to prevent third parties from bringing up their own app stores? The reason they can charge a hefty 30% is because they have no competition. It's a good thing for other app stores to come up and compete with these guys.

I think what you mean is it still doesn't work for you. Some things suck less than they did in 2003, but not this.

Dumbphones are great, till you've actually used a smartphone. It's hard to convey the smartphone experience to dumbphone users - it's more than just email, web and apps - it's a paradigm change that speeds up your access to information from 10s of seconds to seconds. With this dramatic change, you start going about your business and life differently.

I wish they would apply the same distaste for violence to the sale of real guns and arms - that's what actually hurts people, not the boom and splat of video games.

Why are we hearing about one of the coolest pieces of technology developed in the last 30 years in a tabloidesque news bulletin? Another area that could benefit from wikileaks.

'nuff said

Need I say more.

A very respected psychology researcher recently published a paper producing purported statistical evidence for "psi", i.e. phenomena that cannot be explained by known science. The author carried out a long and detailed study on his students: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html and concluded that the effect of 'psi' was 'statistically significant'. The evidence was severely criticized by his peers - in particular is a dismissive rebuttal to the work cited in the same article. Links to the papers lie therein as well. The outlook I have had, reinforced by these studies is that it doesn't hurt to dab a toe on the other side (i.e., in favor of pseudo sciences) every now and then. It helps you think out of the box of known science and understanding. It's like exploring a landscape by following the stars rather than your GPS and compass. You may venture into uncharted territory more easily with the former.

has been in 3D for centuries.

Maybe one of the cybercriminals he was chasing stole his identity and went into hiding

Great job guys, that posting just took out Betanews.com. Dunno when these news sites'll learn and stop carrying articles on Google... Or maybe they should just block Google articles from Slashdotters - since we get to know everything that happens anyway...