> A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”
> Microsoft declined to comment further in response to questions regarding the exact process that led to Khan's email disconnection, and exactly what it meant by “disconnection.”
I think you have described it well. Clear as mud. I think the political impact on Open Source going forward may be very interesting.
Given that the US forced Microsoft to stop providing email services to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands via sanctions, I expect moves like this to become more common across Europe. Bert Hubert is a Euro blogger who writes more about this.
Other comics that have left hiveworks that I know of: Daughter of the Lilies (weird christian fantasy, currently on hiatus) In Blood We Rise (idk, I don't read it, looks like gay vampires)
There was a rumor going around that Hiveworks is having financial issues, linked to a post that was then taken down and vagueposting from the DotL person. When I saw DotL move, I figured it was personal drama, and when I saw the one rumor post get taken down, I figured it was inaccurate to the point of being lawsuit material, but SMBC is kind of a big deal. If the rumor is anything, I wouldn't be surprised if SMBC is causation instead of response though and the SMBC move is driven entirely by the annoying ads / shop issues mentioned in their post. Most webcomics do not make a profit.
I'm still getting dopamine off getting a team member promoted, two years later. Every success they make reminds me that I helped them build that confidence and those skills. Manager-side successes might not be obvious and daily, but they have staying power like you wouldn't believe.
* The use of tree-based knowledge extraction with manual review + the graph of the resulting information by principle component extraction demonstrates the effective base of the context.
* The use of a Sentence-BERT model specifically for tool matching avoids the hallucination problem of LLMS offering fake solutions/diagnosis steps.
* The tree-based multi-LLM-expert diagnosis by vote system also addresses hallucination and failures like looping through the same solutions over and over in complex cases, and is reminiscent of the monte-carlo advance for AlphaGo and paxos consensus protocols. AND it provides output in an auditable way, which is important for incidents.
When testing, they evaluate against a human DBA with two years of experience, which seems kind of junior to me. Notably, in the results the D-Bot usually (9/12 cases) comes close to the junior DBA, but does not exceed it. However, the D-Bot definitely exceeds the results of raw LLM prompting and it has the obvious speed advantage over a human.
Overall, this gives me confidence that some of the LLM projects at my own company can be useful, since auditability + specific knowledge extraction are relevant to our work.
> A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”
> Microsoft declined to comment further in response to questions regarding the exact process that led to Khan's email disconnection, and exactly what it meant by “disconnection.”
I think you have described it well. Clear as mud. I think the political impact on Open Source going forward may be very interesting.