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anon373839today at 12:22 PM1 replyview on HN

The antenna firmware is software. Model weights are essentially learned settings, and they are not software.

Note also that software is copyrightable and model weights aren’t (in the US anyway).


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croemertoday at 12:52 PM

Not sure why it matters whether weights are software or not.

One can equally argue that firmware is just settings for the CPU.

If weights aren't copyrightable then doesn't this argue against the idea of them being able to have the quality of open-sourceness? Meanwhile the training code could be copyrightable.

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