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Yes, source code is special: it's executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. It's an all time new in human history.
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"This way of collecting data is very wasteful."
An Akamai specialist, on how AI crawlers gather material from the web. September 2024.
An Akamai specialist, on how AI crawlers gather material from the web. September 2024.
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Measure what survives without an archive: after five years, 8.5% of one software distribution's sources are gone, and another 1% still download perfectly — but they are no longer the same bytes. 👉 dicosmo.org/good-enough/ #GoodEnoughIsNotGoodEnough #DigitalPreservation
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A distinction I took from Robin Milner in 2007: engineering makes things that work, more or less; science tries to do things right. Thirty years of "more or less" brought us back to the same problem, now at AI-crawler scale. 👉 dicosmo.org/good-enough/ #GoodEnoughIsNotGoodEnough
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Roberto Di Cosmo retweeted
The destination, from the outset: I direct Software Heritage, a non-profit organisation that collects public source code once so that others need not collect it again.
This is my latest effort at a long-standing problem. Follow the full saga on 👉
dicosmo.org/good-enough/
This is my latest effort at a long-standing problem. Follow the full saga on 👉
dicosmo.org/good-enough/
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The destination, from the outset: I direct Software Heritage, a non-profit organisation that collects public source code once so that others need not collect it again.
This is my latest effort at a long-standing problem. Follow the full saga on 👉
dicosmo.org/good-enough/
This is my latest effort at a long-standing problem. Follow the full saga on 👉
dicosmo.org/good-enough/
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