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Nice post. Relatedly, see also malus.sh and this talk by the people that made it (both of which I posted in this lemmy community here).
A couple of minor corrections to your text:
Blanchard's account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly.
Blanchard doesn't say that he never looked at the existing code; on the contrary, he has been the maintainer (and primary contributor) to it for over a decade so he is probably the person who is most familiar with the pre-Claude version's implementation details. Rather, he says that he didn't prompt Claude with the source code while reimplementing it. iirc he does not acknowledge that it is extremely likely that multiple prior versions of it were included in Claude's training corpus (which is non-public, so this can only be conclusively verified easily by Anthropic).
The GPL's conditions are triggered only by distribution. If you distribute modified code, or offer it as a networked service, you must make the source available under the same terms.
The GPL does not require you to offer GPL-licensed source code when using the program to provide a network service; because it is solely a copyright license, the GPL's obligations are only triggered by distribution. (It's the AGPL which goes beyond copyright and imposes these obligations on people running a program as a network service...)
via https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/picture.html :
An amusing photo
Here's a publicity photo from about 1972, showing Ken and me in front of a PDP-11.
From the right, the major items of equipment are
- At the far right, on the table, are what someone discerned was a VT01A storage-tube display (based on Tek 611) and a small keyboard for it. Slightly hard to make out.
- A main CPU cabinet, partly behind the table. The processor is a PDP-11/20; it must have been our second one, with the Digital Special Systems KS-11 memory management unit. Our very first just said "PDP11," not "11/20." The arrays of distorted rectangles above it and in other cabinets are the labels on DECtape canisters.
- Another cabinet. Careful examination of the image by Steve Westin detects the top of the bezel of an 11/45 CPU barely peeking above the TTY to the right of the one Ken is typing at. A paper tape reader is above it.
- The third cabinet sports a dual DECtape drive at the top.
- A cabinet with another DECtape drive, probably also containing BA-11 extension boxes within.
- A cabinet with RK03 disk drives. These were made by Diablo (subsumed by Xerox) and OEMed to Digital. Digital later began manufacturing their own version (RK05).
- A cabinet containing RF11/RS11 controller and fixed-head disks. By this time / and swap space lived there, while /usr was on the RK03s.
- On top of the machine are what look like magtapes. A probable TU10 transport is barely visible just below Ken's chin, at least if you have the monitor brightness and contrast adjusted favorably.
In front, we have
- Ken (sitting) and me (standing), both with more luxuriant and darker hair than we have now.
- Scientific American March 1999 p. 48 should have checked the IDs; we're interchanged in its caption of this same picture.
- Two Teletype 33 terminals
If you want a giant (2.1 MB) JPEG version at higher resolution, click here.
More pictures of PDP-11 equipment are available in John Holden's collection.
tbh, no, i have never actually used QED. 😢
(i have used ed though...)
i use QED, btw
it's the predecessor to ed:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)
- https://gunkies.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor)
- https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/qed.html
- https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/qed-archive
- https://github.com/phonologus/qed-new is a version with utf8 support which can be built on a modern system
ai;dr
i'm kidding in this case; i actually did read your comment.
but, more and more frequently i do find myself stopping reading something due to suspecting (broadly speaking, because of the "quality of the content") that it is likely to be LLM output.
to be fair, there is a space in the name in this meme.
maybe it's actually referring to one of the many replicas? 🤔
you posted this three weeks early
“Write worse” — sounds like poor grammar to me.
I had the same thought but I'm pretty sure it is actually grammatically correct.
Worse isn’t an adverb.
you are mistaken: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/worse#Adverb
Sparkles? (bookmark groups?)
Sparkles icon means stochastic parrot (already in current Firefox)
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FYI, the day after you published this blog post, a spam blog posted... their AI reimplementation of it 🤦
details:
here is a snapshot of (maybe?) the "original" slop post borrowing from your title; i first saw it reposted on this slightly-more-credible-looking (at least if you haven't seen it in previous search results and already realized it is spam) page:i tried to archive it, to avoid linking to a spam site from this comment, but it crashes archive.org's browser:
i also was curious to see if this spam is in search engines, so i searched for AI reimplementation, and... well, the good news is that your blog post is the first hit and the above-linked spam blog is pretty far down in the results list.
The bad news is that the second hit is to yet another piece of slop/spam evidently also "inspired" by your post: