Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Taking a step back: the point of this exercise is to preserve user
> freedom. That is, a user should be able to make their computer serve
> their interests, and should not be subordinated to upstreams (nor to
> Debian or to one of our derivatives0.
> A user who uses NASA's tables for astronomical data is not subordinated
> to NASA. If for any reason they don't agree with NASA's views on the
> orbits of planets or whatever, then they can put in their own figures.
[...]
> Compare neural networks: a user who uses a pre-trained neural network is
> subordinated to the people who prepared its training data and set up the
> training runs.
> If the user does not like the results given by the neural network, it is
> not sensibly possible to diagnose and remedy the problem by modifying
> the weighting tables directly. The user is rendered helpless.
This is a great argument. I'm convinced.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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