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“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.
Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?
From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) | TechCrunch
Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app.

I heard from Mohammed today. I wasn't expecting to, I thought they would be entirely cut off, after relocating to the rubble in the west of Gaza with his wife and four kids. But they are miraculously still alive and still able to get some texts out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family From Gaza, he writes, at first about a friend of his who he recently lost: "For treatment after many referrals, in the end he had to pay 10 thousand dollars to leave. I thought he was lucky because he was able to leave before the Rafah crossing was closed, but a few days ago I received news of his death, as his wounds and blood poisoning became infected.
"This morning we received leaflets from the army asking us to leave our residential area and head to western Gaza. West Gaza is a devastated area and has no resources for
life
"The army did not give us enough time. They dropped leaflets at 9 a.m. and began bombing at 12.
"I packed my bags and prepared to leave, and I am now making calls to find a safe place in the western Gaza area.
"Literally, we are living in days that resemble the first days of the war, 7 months ago, very violent bombing in different parts, and people are confused, not knowing what to do."
The final messages today: "I am now in the center of Gaza City. Unfortunately, it is somewhat close to areas where clashes are taking place, but it is a safer place than where I live."
Please donate to help cover their living expenses as they continue to try to survive the genocide.

Online Foundation Model Selection in Robotics
Po-han Li, Oyku Selin Toprak, Aditya Narayanan, Ufuk Topcu, Sandeep Chinchali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08570

Online Foundation Model Selection in Robotics
Foundation models have recently expanded into robotics after excelling in computer vision and natural language processing. The models are accessible in two ways: open-source or paid, closed-source options. Users with access to both face a problem when deciding between effective yet costly closed-source models and free but less powerful open-source alternatives. We call it the model selection problem. Existing supervised-learning methods are impractical due to the high cost of collecting extensi…

🚲 A Survey on the Real Power of ChatGPT
#ai #cs

A Survey on the Real Power of ChatGPT
ChatGPT has changed the AI community and an active research line is the performance evaluation of ChatGPT. A key challenge for the evaluation is that ChatGPT is still closed-source and traditional benchmark datasets may have been used by ChatGPT as the training data. In this paper, (i) we survey recent studies which uncover the real performance levels of ChatGPT in seven categories of NLP tasks, (ii) review the social implications and safety issues of ChatGPT, and (iii) emphasize key challenges…

Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory push to restrict the export of proprietary or closed source AI models to China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-eyes-curbs-chinas-acce…

Case against brother of Zelensky's chief of staff closed, says anti-corruption agency: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/case-against-brother.html

Explaining EDA synthesis errors with LLMs
Siyu Qiu, Benjamin Tan, Hammond Pearce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07235 https://arxiv.org/p…

Explaining EDA synthesis errors with LLMs
Training new engineers in digital design is a challenge, particularly when it comes to teaching the complex electronic design automation (EDA) tooling used in this domain. Learners will typically deploy designs in the Verilog and VHDL hardware description languages to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) from Altera (Intel) and Xilinx (AMD) via proprietary closed-source toolchains (Quartus Prime and Vivado, respectively). These tools are complex and difficult to use -- yet, as they are the to…

Cloud cos should create a joint open source maintainers group, well funded, experienced developers etc. ready to hire long term maintainers
Their remit should be to fork every project who goes source available or closed source at the last FOSS commit and maintain it properly as a going concern.
This will either stop this shit or ensure ongoing stewardship.
Should be trivial budget wise given what they make from these code bases.

Benieuwd hoe het te ontwikkelen GPT-NL zich gaat verhouden tot reeds beschikbare closed source en opensourcemodellen. Wat wordt precies de toegevoegde waarde. Maar sowieso goed dat kennis wordt opgebouwd op dit vlak.
https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/tno-nfi-en

TNO, NFI en Surf werken aan een nationaal open taalmodel voor AI - iBestuur
Komen de woorden ‘nepparlement’ en ‘knettergek’ en ‘wappie’ ook in het model? Het blijft balanceren op een dun koord.

Topological spaces satisfying a closed graph theorem
Dominikus Noll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03904…

Topological spaces satisfying a closed graph theorem
We discuss topological versions of the closed graph theorem, where continuity is inferred from near continuity in tandem with suitable conditions on source or target spaces. We seek internal characterizations of spaces satisfying a closed graph theorem, and we compare closed graph and open mapping spaces.

CourseGPT-zh: an Educational Large Language Model Based on Knowledge Distillation Incorporating Prompt Optimization
Zheyan Qu, Lu Yin, Zitong Yu, Wenbo Wang, Xing zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04781

CourseGPT-zh: an Educational Large Language Model Based on Knowledge Distillation Incorporating Prompt Optimization
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated astonishing capabilities in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, sparking interest in their application to professional domains with higher specialized requirements. However, restricted access to closed-source LLMs via APIs and the difficulty in collecting massive high-quality datasets pose obstacles to the development of large language models in education fields of various courses. Given these challenges, we propose CourseGPT-zh, a course-orie…

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Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Adaptive Image Transmission over MIMO Channels
This paper introduces a vision transformer (ViT)-based deep joint source and channel coding (DeepJSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, denoted as DeepJSCC-MIMO. We consider DeepJSCC-MIMO for adaptive image transmission in both open-loop and closed-loop MIMO systems. The novel DeepJSCC-MIMO architecture surpasses the classical separation-based benchmarks with robustness to channel estimation errors and showcases remarkable flexibility i…

AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD

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ChainForge: A Visual Toolkit for Prompt Engineering and LLM Hypothesis Testing
Evaluating outputs of large language models (LLMs) is challenging, requiring making -- and making sense of -- many responses. Yet tools that go beyond basic prompting tend to require knowledge of programming APIs, focus on narrow domains, or are closed-source. We present ChainForge, an open-source visual toolkit for prompt engineering and on-demand hypothesis testing of text generation LLMs. ChainForge provides a graphical interface for comparison of responses across models and prompt variation…

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

Shooting
https://m.ai6yr.org/@easwatch/112384377482462172

Studying LLM Performance on Closed- and Open-source Data
Toufique Ahmed, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Saikat Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15100

Studying LLM Performance on Closed- and Open-source Data
Large Language models (LLMs) are finding wide use in software engineering practice. These models are extremely data-hungry, and are largely trained on open-source (OSS) code distributed with permissive licenses. In terms of actual use however, a great deal of software development still occurs in the for-profit/proprietary sphere, where the code under development is not, and never has been, in the public domain; thus, many developers, do their work, and use LLMs, in settings where the models may…

Soft Prompt Threats: Attacking Safety Alignment and Unlearning in Open-Source LLMs through the Embedding Space
Leo Schwinn, David Dobre, Sophie Xhonneux, Gauthier Gidel, Stephan Gunnemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09063

Soft Prompt Threats: Attacking Safety Alignment and Unlearning in Open-Source LLMs through the Embedding Space
Current research in adversarial robustness of LLMs focuses on discrete input manipulations in the natural language space, which can be directly transferred to closed-source models. However, this approach neglects the steady progression of open-source models. As open-source models advance in capability, ensuring their safety also becomes increasingly imperative. Yet, attacks tailored to open-source LLMs that exploit full model access remain largely unexplored. We address this research gap and pr…

It really bugs me that the main place for 'communities' is closed source or proprietary platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, Discord etc. What if I don't want (or don't have) any of those because of their dirty dealings (looking at you Reddit!)?
I feel this is the reason that people so desperately want to federate with Threads: so they can get all the mainstream content without giving away their ideals.
Where can I find good Trombone community other than the abov…

An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk's changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account.
#Nitter provided an alternative front-end to Twitter but has been struggling for months. Nitter.net, the official Nitter instance, went down a few weeks ago.

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services
Musk's changes kill service that let you view tweets without going to Twitter.

OpenAI says that while discussing for-profit terms, Elon Musk "wanted us to merge with Tesla" or wanted "majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO" (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091773

OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted ‘absolute control’ of the company
OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, saying Musk supported a closed-source, for-profit venture but wanted total control over it.

I remember that back in the day, I've hit a #Python package that would attempt to be closed-source by shipping only a .pyc file… for Python 2.5. As you can imagine, this didn't work out — though it was a bit of a hassle to get a working decompiler back then (we didn't have a Python version older than 2.7.x in #Gentoo at the time). However, I don't really remember what it was and how it worked out in the end.

CourseGPT-zh: an Educational Large Language Model Based on Knowledge Distillation Incorporating Prompt Optimization
Zheyan Qu, Lu Yin, Zitong Yu, Wenbo Wang, Xing zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04781

CourseGPT-zh: an Educational Large Language Model Based on Knowledge Distillation Incorporating Prompt Optimization
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated astonishing capabilities in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, sparking interest in their application to professional domains with higher specialized requirements. However, restricted access to closed-source LLMs via APIs and the difficulty in collecting massive high-quality datasets pose obstacles to the development of large language models in education fields of various courses. Given these challenges, we propose CourseGPT-zh, a course-orie…

Closed source software doesn’t have backdoors.
It does have “undocumented administrative features” and “development tools mistakenly enabled in production”, but not backdoors.

From Translink
🧵/4
King George SkyTrain Station closure begins tomorrow for six weeks
Full closure necessary for essential track maintenance
Starting Saturday, April 27, King George SkyTrain Station will be closed for approximately six weeks to complete essential maintenance work. During this time, there will be no SkyTrain service to or from King George Station. The Expo Line in Surrey will temporarily end at Surrey Central Station.

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Topological spaces satisfying a closed graph theorem
We discuss topological versions of the closed graph theorem, where continuity is inferred from near continuity in tandem with suitable conditions on source or target spaces. We seek internal characterizations of spaces satisfying a closed graph theorem, and we compare closed graph and open mapping spaces.

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

Fascinating story about the XZ backdoor, before people start blaming opensource, these backdoors can be in any closed source component and nobody will know.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about…

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

Germany, Lithuania scouring closed power plants for parts for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/germany-lithuania-scouring.html

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models to let developers use the research that went into its flagship closed Gemini model more freely (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24078610/google-ge…

Google Gemma: because Google doesn’t want to give away Gemini yet
Google’s new family of models, Gemma, will be available to developers for language-based tasks. Unlike Gemini, it will be open source.

🤣 Kauft lieber closed Source, weil das sicherer ist ham sie gesagt … wie falsch sie doch lagen.
#microsoft #software #exchange

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Quadrupolar radiation in de Sitter: Displacement memory and Bondi metric
We obtain the closed form expression for the metric perturbation around de Sitter spacetime generated by a matter source below Hubble scale both in generalized harmonic gauge and in Bondi gauge up to quadrupolar order in the multipolar expansion, including both parities (i.e. both mass and current quadrupoles). We demonstrate that such a source causes a displacement memory effect close to future infinity that originates, in the even-parity sector, from a $Λ$-BMS transition between the two non-…

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Investigating the prompt leakage effect and black-box defenses for multi-turn LLM interactions
Prompt leakage in large language models (LLMs) poses a significant security and privacy threat, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, leakage in multi-turn LLM interactions along with mitigation strategies has not been studied in a standardized manner. This paper investigates LLM vulnerabilities against prompt leakage across 4 diverse domains and 10 closed- and open-source LLMs. Our unique multi-turn threat model leverages the LLM's sycophancy effect and our ana…

Context-Aware Clustering using Large Language Models
Sindhu Tipirneni, Ravinarayana Adkathimar, Nurendra Choudhary, Gaurush Hiranandani, Rana Ali Amjad, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Changhe Yuan, Chandan K. Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00988

Context-Aware Clustering using Large Language Models
Despite the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in text understanding and generation, their potential for text clustering tasks remains underexplored. We observed that powerful closed-source LLMs provide good quality clusterings of entity sets but are not scalable due to the massive compute power required and the associated costs. Thus, we propose CACTUS (Context-Aware ClusTering with aUgmented triplet losS), a systematic approach that leverages open-source LLMs for efficient and…

Closed source software doesn’t have backdoors.
It does have “undocumented administrative features” and “development tools mistakenly enabled in production”, but not backdoors.

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COBRAPRO: A MATLAB toolbox for Physics-based Battery Modeling and Co-simulation Parameter Optimization
COBRAPRO is a new open-source physics-based battery modeling software with the capability to conduct closed-loop parameter optimization using experimental data. Physics-based battery models require systematic parameter calibration to accurately predict battery behavior across different usage scenarios. While parameter calibration is essential to predict the dynamic behavior of batteries, many existing open-source DFN tools lack parameter identification features. COBRAPRO addresses this gap by f…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the "benefit of humanity" over profits (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/elon-musk-sue…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.

Avdiivka defenders forced to leave wounded behind, escape encirclement by foot: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/21/avdiivka-defenders-forced.html

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Look Before You Leap: Towards Decision-Aware and Generalizable Tool-Usage for Large Language Models
Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) are attracting widespread attention when accessing up-to-date knowledge and alleviating hallucination issues. Nowadays, advanced closed-source LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) have demonstrated surprising tool-usage capabilities through prompting and in-context learning techniques. To empower the capabilities of open-source LLMs (e.g., LLaMA) in manipulating tools, current efforts focus on either template-driven or token-triggered tool-usage. However, the former …

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Particle motion in a rotating dust spacetime: the Bonnor solution
We investigate the geometrical properties, spectral classification, geodesics, and causal structure of the Bonnor's spacetime [Journal of Physics A Math. Gen., \textbf{10}, 1673 (1977)], i.e., a stationary axisymmetric solution with a rotating dust as a source. This spacetime has a directional singularity at the origin of the coordinates (related to the diverging vorticity field of the fluid there), which is surrounded by a toroidal region where closed timelike curves (CTCs) are allowed, leadin…

Investigating the prompt leakage effect and black-box defenses for multi-turn LLM interactions
Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Philippe Laban, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16251

Investigating the prompt leakage effect and black-box defenses for multi-turn LLM interactions
Prompt leakage in large language models (LLMs) poses a significant security and privacy threat, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, leakage in multi-turn LLM interactions along with mitigation strategies has not been studied in a standardized manner. This paper investigates LLM vulnerabilities against prompt leakage across 4 diverse domains and 10 closed- and open-source LLMs. Our unique multi-turn threat model leverages the LLM's sycophancy effect and our ana…

Enhancing Fault Detection for Large Language Models via Mutation-Based Confidence Smoothing
Qiang Hu, Jin Wen, Maxime Cordy, Yuheng Huang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14419

Enhancing Fault Detection for Large Language Models via Mutation-Based Confidence Smoothing
Large language models (LLMs) achieved great success in multiple application domains and attracted huge attention from different research communities recently. Unfortunately, even for the best LLM, there still exist many faults that LLM cannot correctly predict. Such faults will harm the usability of LLMs. How to quickly reveal them in LLMs is important, but challenging. The reasons are twofold, 1) the heavy labeling effort for preparing the test data, and 2) accessing closed-source LLMs such as…

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COBRAPRO: A MATLAB toolbox for Physics-based Battery Modeling and Co-simulation Parameter Optimization
COBRAPRO is a new open-source physics-based battery modeling software with the capability to conduct closed-loop parameter optimization using experimental data. Physics-based battery models require systematic parameter calibration to accurately predict battery behavior across different usage scenarios. While parameter calibration is essential to predict the dynamic behavior of batteries, many existing open-source DFN tools lack parameter identification features. COBRAPRO addresses this gap by f…

COBRAPRO: A MATLAB toolbox for Physics-based Battery Modeling and Co-simulation Parameter Optimization
Sara Ha, Simona Onori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10022

COBRAPRO: A MATLAB toolbox for Physics-based Battery Modeling and Co-simulation Parameter Optimization
COBRAPRO is a new open-source physics-based battery modeling software with the capability to conduct closed-loop parameter optimization using experimental data. Physics-based battery models require systematic parameter calibration to accurately predict battery behavior across different usage scenarios. While parameter calibration is essential to predict the dynamic behavior of batteries, many existing open-source DFN tools lack parameter identification features. COBRAPRO addresses this gap by f…

I suppose everyone and their grandmother is now using the xz/sshd exploit to further their own agenda, so I am going to take this opportunity to further mine as well.
1. #Autotools are a bad build system. If configure scripts are completely unreadable, there should be no surprise that people won't notice obfuscated malicious code in there, provided that everything else is obfuscated by design.
2. Static linking and vendoring is bad. Do you know why the prompt #security response was possible? Because we just had to revert to older liblzma. We didn't have to check, patch and re-release hundreds of projects. It wouldn't be this easy with #RustLang and cargo.
3. You can blame #OpenSource for being underfunded and open to abuse in core system packages. However, no IT project can be resilient to a sufficiently powerful bad actor, and that it happened to xz is just an incident. Corporate projects aren't resilient to it, neither is proprietary, closed-source software.
So, embrace #Meson, embrace dynamic linking, embrace distribution packaging and donate to open source developers.
#Gentoo

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Analytical Model for Calculating Gain Pattern of Antennas Implanted in Large Host Bodies
This paper presents a method for the fast and accurate estimation of the gain pattern and maximum gain of an implanted antenna including the effect of the host body, under the assumption that the latter is electrically large. The estimation procedure is based on the radiation of an elementary dipole source placed in a planar body model. The derivation of closed-form expressions is based on spherical wave analysis and the Green's functions for layered media. The validity of this approximation fo…

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Analytical Model for Calculating Gain Pattern of Antennas Implanted in Large Host Bodies
This paper presents a method for the fast and accurate estimation of the gain pattern and maximum gain of an implanted antenna including the effect of the host body, under the assumption that the latter is electrically large. The estimation procedure is based on the radiation of an elementary dipole source placed in a planar body model. The derivation of closed-form expressions is based on spherical wave analysis and the Green's functions for layered media. The validity of this approximation fo…