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can't wrap my head around HOW they did it exactly, and hate to admit this... but French innovation has been truly impressive to say the least

back in 2016, after brexit, everyone was convinced that post-london the capital of european innovation would've been berlin

7 years later, paris is dropping OSS LLMs with torrent links seemingly every day,... See more

France is now:

* one of the leading geographies for AI development

* making the most reliable commercial airplanes in the world

* gearing up for war

Are we going to have to update our stereotypes/jokes now? What’s next? No cheese and wine? 40 hour work weeks?

Open source is voluntary cooperation. Marxism is involuntary cooperation enforced with violence. One leads to better software, the other to oppression and mass murder.

We are not the same.

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because

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People are so used to talking about minimum acceptable outcomes in education that they truly have no idea how high variance educational outcomes can/should be.

The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.

Interesting French SAAS metric

Translating our website into different languages had zero effect on the % of each nationality using the app.

EXCEPT FOR FRENCH - the number of French users doubled now the website is available in French