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At least the model weights are open, I’m not American, so to me this is much more trustworthy in every possible way. You’re talking as if US intelligence are the good guys, and to me at least, they are not to any extent.
At the current pace, courses get out of date a bit too fast. I don’t see any reason to take them seriously as long as this dynamic holds. Do a course if you think it has some valuable content or maybe do some and get certificates to get your first job, but that’s the extent of it.
But changing commit author is quite easy with git, just do: ‘git commit -a —author “<name+email>”’
That’s mainly for security reasons, mainly preventing Hash DDoS attacks, therefore a requirement.
I don’t think so, there are some design choices that make the two quite different. This „dictionaries all the way down“ approach has a cost.