> we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
> akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air.
The law is also a sequence of letters available to anyone. Yet you cannot practice without passing the bar exam. And that is not the only example; many professions can only be practiced by licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians...
>The law is also a sequence of letters available to anyone. Yet you cannot practice without passing the bar exam.
You still can be punished for violating a law even if you hadn't passed the bar exam. So even without bar exam, you're supposed to know that sequence of letters and apply in your life exactly because it is available to anyone (until a law is officially published, it usually has no force)
throwaway713 · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
fph · · focus · HN ↗
The law is also a sequence of letters available to anyone. Yet you cannot practice without passing the bar exam. And that is not the only example; many professions can only be practiced by licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians...
trhway · · focus · HN ↗
You still can be punished for violating a law even if you hadn't passed the bar exam. So even without bar exam, you're supposed to know that sequence of letters and apply in your life exactly because it is available to anyone (until a law is officially published, it usually has no force)