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When Worlds Collide was a fun movie that was a double feature shown with the classic War of the Worlds, and had their ship launch via a ramp. The science for such a thing isn't great, but it was the 50s and looked cool then. The biggest problem is the atmosphere thickness at lower levels. During rocket launches you can hear them talk about reaching max q, or maximum dynamic pressure, where the combination of velocity and air thickness puts the most stress on the structure. Above that it gets easier to go faster, and in the end you need to go fast to avoid falling back down.

Saw a Jason Bourne movie, didn't use the right car.

Think of federation as potential redundancy for data and discussion. Individually an instance of whatever platform you're using can be great, bad, or start off nice and get worse, but as long as there is federation of the good parts of communication among the people, there's going to be somewhere else you can go if your first source goes downhill. It's not perfect, but it's far better than a single location where users are at the mercy of whoever runs and controls it.

"You...cannot pass. Sorry. I don't make the rules."

LLMs can be good at openings. Not because it is thinking through the rules or planning strategies, but because opening moves are likely in most general training data from various sources. It's copying the most probable reaction to your move, based on lots of documentation. This can of course break down when you stray from a typical play style, as it has less to choose from in the options of probability, and only a few moves in there won't be any more since there's a huge number of possible moves.

I.e., there's no calculations involved. When you play a LLM at chess, you're playing a list of common moves in history.

An even simpler example would be to tell the LLM that its last move was illegal. Even knowing the rules you just told it, it will agree and take it back. This comes from being trained to give satisfying replies to a human prompt.

I've heard the only way to win is to lock down your shelter and strike first.

It can be bad at the very thing it's designed to do. It can repeat phrases often, something that isn't great for writing. But why wouldn't it, it's all about probability so common things said will pop up more unless you adjust the variables that determine the randomness.

There's some very odd pieces on high dollar physical chess sets too.

And unmonitored? Don't trust anything from Google anymore.

What makes this better than Ollama?

That's even more why it feels like someone new in the company stepping in and questioning why there isn't something in play officially if there's interest in freeware/open source. Someone who talked to the lawyers first to make sure no right were signed away yet. That may be very pessimistic and conspiratorial, but if there isn't any reason to stop someone else's work on something, why would they send one? I don't know a lot about copyrights and trademarks, but I do think there is a point where if you aren't using an asset and others are interested, you shouldn't be able to just hold it under lock and key and do nothing with it. I think patents are like that, you have like 20 years or something protected to do something, and then it's open(?) Again, I'm not sure.

Any reason given? Not that they have to give one, it's still their property to do what they want with it. I would keep an eye on them and if they somehow in the future come out with something very similar, I hope there are good records of the past years of work and discussion. Since it was going to be free and not for profit, not really a case for lost income, but there must be some laws to protect people working in good faith with a trademark knowingly who get their ideas stolen FOR profit. If that happens.

That seems to suggest that the American style is a preservation of the older English format, much like we kept spelling of some words like the original English at colonization while the UK gradually changed with other influences around them.