While Meta’s license makes Llama 2 free for many, it’s still a limited license that doesn’t meet all the requirements of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). As outlined in the OSI’s Open Source Definition, open source is more than just sharing some code or research. To be truly open source is to offer free redistribution,...
Yeah, “async is a niche requirement” has long seemed weird to me. Most programs with any degree of interactivity quickly come to a point where they want more than one thing to be happening at once, and they spend some time waiting on external inputs – whether those are network packets or USB events or timers.
Purely synchronous code only suffices for that narrow and most boring category of programs that know all their inputs up-front and don’t accept any other inputs or interactions at all.
Meta’s AI research head wants open source licensing to change (www.theverge.com)
While Meta’s license makes Llama 2 free for many, it’s still a limited license that doesn’t meet all the requirements of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). As outlined in the OSI’s Open Source Definition, open source is more than just sharing some code or research. To be truly open source is to offer free redistribution,...
Why you might actually want async in your project (notgull.net)