A lot of thaler related projects. Nothing wrong with that, but it suggests that something (the EU digital independence drive?) is making people on the board interested in funding digital cash related stuff.
Thaler presumably winds up having to have a clearing house function, which is a public utility question: Maybe NLNet foundation is thinking about the long history of the dutch engagement in fintech, back to the 17th century?
I have a feeling the nlnet fund is bunch of nerds who have autonomy over the budget (ie: they are funding namecoin development). I don’t think they represent either the EU or Netherlands position when it comes to privacy.
there is a dedicated fund for taler, that alone explains why there are so many projects. now why there is a fund for that is the real question to ask. i guess the people behind the next generation internet initiative giving money to the foundation thought it is an important topic.
Unlike those commercial FPGA companies that haven't open sourced their FPGA Architecture source code, VitaSetLLC has, available on https://github.com/VitaSetLLC/VitaOS-Libre under a permissive open source license.
Also the Vita FPGA Architecture Logic and Memory Blocks are bug-free.
Also I have applied to ask them to add my project to their NGI Fediversity Fund. Here's what I entered:
1. Proposal Description:
The Vita FPGA Architecture Subproject is licensed under The VitaSet License.
The VitaSet License is a permissive license which does not offer any implied warranties and patent grants and does not require the inclusion of this license's text on binary and hardware forms of the source code that is licensed under this license.
This is to prevent executables and computer chips from wasting resources on including license text, but for source code to keep copyright attribution, so that when source code access gets interrupted, no claim of copyright infringement can be made towards the developers, as the claimant would have the copyright header of this license.
The Vita FPGA Architecture Verilog files VitaFPGAArchLogicBlock.v and VitaFPGAArchMemoryBlock.v are bugfree.
Any Vita FPGA Architecture Logic Block can act as though it is an Vita FPGA Architecture Interconnect Block. Thus, any possible truth-table can be expressed with enough Vita FPGA Architecture Logic Blocks, Vita FPGA Architecture Interconnect Blocks and Vita FPGA Architecture Memory Blocks. Thus, any integrated circuit could run on the Vita FPGA Architecture, given enough Vita FPGA Architecture Logic Blocks, Vita FPGA Architecture Interconnect Blocks and Vita FPGA Architecture Memory Blocks are available.
2. Proposal Title:
Vita FPGA Architecture Chip and Toolchain Investment Proposition
3. Former Contributions to the Open Source Space:
I am the Founder and CEO of VitaSet LLC.
4. Former and current financial beneficiaries of your project, if any:
Over $400 have been donated by my relatives to me during late 2023. No other funds have been raised.
5. Are there any open source projects that are similar to yours? List any that you know of that exist.
https://github.com/efabless/clear - The Open Source FPGA ASIC. A open source Apache 2.0 eFPGA + VexRiscV CPU Chip that only sold a couple hundred physical computer chips before they stopped selling anymore through Tiny-Tapeout. I did not read their source code, my Vita FPGA Architecture was designed exclusively by me entirely from scratch. I have however read the GitHub Issues of the Clear FPGA Project and I see someone asking about the bugginess of the reset circuitry. My Vita FPGA Architecture is bug-free and permissively licensed under an open source license.
6. What Technical Challenges has your project overcome and might overcome in the future? List all that apply.
Reducing the environmental waste caused by upgrading computer hardware, as simple software updates can be issued to update the FPGA Bitstreams instead of manufacturing new physical computer chips.
Also, people can take advantage of the Vita FPGA Architecture to code up and use Hardware Accelerated Programs when computer chip transistors stop getting smaller.
7. How compatible is your open source project with the open source ecosystem?
The Vita FPGA Architecture is synchronous clocked logic with an synchronous reset, so unlike the incompatibility of asynchronous integrated circuits, it will be compatible with the synchronous clocked ecosystem of commercial integrated circuits.
NLNet is a wonderful organization. They have supported two Pion projects!
I am grateful the code got written, but even better people got careers out of it/learned new stuff. If you are on the fence about taking on a project I encourage you to do it!
i have been considering whether i could apply with my project. i am unsure because until now i am working alone and because of financial difficulties work is stagnating since i need to focus on earning money. i posted about the project here if anyone is curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045
i have difficulty to judge whether this project is suitable for a grant, and i don't know how much effort it takes to apply and whether i can afford to spend that time instead of focusing on finding other paid work.
Maybe you should make a video explaining what you're working on. I spent a few minutes trying to figure it out and didn't get very far. It's a fork of ... looks like Google Docs, but German, and 25 years old?
(Also it looks like most of the repos haven't been touched in a long time. Which repo is relevant?)
ok, getting thousands of euros deserve a little bit of paperwork, but let's not call that form "short".
But what triggered me is the following field of the form:
Which model did you use? What did you use it for? Please submit the dates of the prompts, the prompts themselves and the unedited output in this text field.
And in my modest opinion, that is another perfect example of the bureaucratic stupidity nightmare.
I would understand to ask details about your intended usage of LLMs for the project. Also to ensure that LLMs is only used as an assisting tool but not to do the work autonomously.
But imagine listing the "dates" and "prompts" that you used, for example to ask the llm to correct your badly written sentences to fill the stupid fields of their form?
And then, recording every time you used a LLM (coding or not) for whatever for the project... Assuming that the recipient of the grant will not lie anyway.
This record doesn't give any proof that the code is not "stolen", "copied", or "contaminated".
Just have the delivery evaluated. Independently or by the project receiving the change. Judge on results for once instead of getting orgasms based on the paperwork trail.
In the end, why should we care if the author had to use a LLM, a code editor, a spreadsheet, a marabout, or whatever else? If we can confirm that the result is there, in satisfactory condition (clean and safe code, good performance, ...) and without apparent "copyright violation".
A lot of thaler related projects. Nothing wrong with that, but it suggests that something (the EU digital independence drive?) is making people on the board interested in funding digital cash related stuff.
Thaler presumably winds up having to have a clearing house function, which is a public utility question: Maybe NLNet foundation is thinking about the long history of the dutch engagement in fintech, back to the 17th century?
I have a feeling the nlnet fund is bunch of nerds who have autonomy over the budget (ie: they are funding namecoin development). I don’t think they represent either the EU or Netherlands position when it comes to privacy.
there is a dedicated fund for taler, that alone explains why there are so many projects. now why there is a fund for that is the real question to ask. i guess the people behind the next generation internet initiative giving money to the foundation thought it is an important topic.
I'm sorry, how many??
Unlike those commercial FPGA companies that haven't open sourced their FPGA Architecture source code, VitaSetLLC has, available on https://github.com/VitaSetLLC/VitaOS-Libre under a permissive open source license.
Also the Vita FPGA Architecture Logic and Memory Blocks are bug-free.
Also I have applied to ask them to add my project to their NGI Fediversity Fund. Here's what I entered:
1. Proposal Description:
2. Proposal Title: 3. Former Contributions to the Open Source Space: 4. Former and current financial beneficiaries of your project, if any: 5. Are there any open source projects that are similar to yours? List any that you know of that exist. 6. What Technical Challenges has your project overcome and might overcome in the future? List all that apply. 7. How compatible is your open source project with the open source ecosystem? 8. Upload your PGP Key (optional): Edit: No A.I. was used by me.NLNet is a wonderful organization. They have supported two Pion projects!
I am grateful the code got written, but even better people got careers out of it/learned new stuff. If you are on the fence about taking on a project I encourage you to do it!
i have been considering whether i could apply with my project. i am unsure because until now i am working alone and because of financial difficulties work is stagnating since i need to focus on earning money. i posted about the project here if anyone is curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045
i have difficulty to judge whether this project is suitable for a grant, and i don't know how much effort it takes to apply and whether i can afford to spend that time instead of focusing on finding other paid work.
apply. you have nothing to lose, and the bureacracy/burden is very small. I'm a big NLNet fan.
Maybe you should make a video explaining what you're working on. I spent a few minutes trying to figure it out and didn't get very far. It's a fork of ... looks like Google Docs, but German, and 25 years old?
(Also it looks like most of the repos haven't been touched in a long time. Which repo is relevant?)
I missed seeing DeltaChat on there from past grants, but I'm glad to see new projects I've never seen before.
Mox not there?
European "institutional" projects are always so brain fucked...
If you look "how to apply they say": We've kept the application form short so as not to waste your time.
They you see the form... https://nlnet.nl/propose/
ok, getting thousands of euros deserve a little bit of paperwork, but let's not call that form "short".
But what triggered me is the following field of the form: Which model did you use? What did you use it for? Please submit the dates of the prompts, the prompts themselves and the unedited output in this text field.
Then you can see the "AI" policy that is attached: https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/
And in my modest opinion, that is another perfect example of the bureaucratic stupidity nightmare.
I would understand to ask details about your intended usage of LLMs for the project. Also to ensure that LLMs is only used as an assisting tool but not to do the work autonomously.
But imagine listing the "dates" and "prompts" that you used, for example to ask the llm to correct your badly written sentences to fill the stupid fields of their form?
And then, recording every time you used a LLM (coding or not) for whatever for the project... Assuming that the recipient of the grant will not lie anyway. This record doesn't give any proof that the code is not "stolen", "copied", or "contaminated".
Just have the delivery evaluated. Independently or by the project receiving the change. Judge on results for once instead of getting orgasms based on the paperwork trail. In the end, why should we care if the author had to use a LLM, a code editor, a spreadsheet, a marabout, or whatever else? If we can confirm that the result is there, in satisfactory condition (clean and safe code, good performance, ...) and without apparent "copyright violation".