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Upvoting for Europe's best efforts.


That's unfair to Europe. A bunch of AI work is done in London (Deepmind is based here for a start)


That's ok. How could they know that there are companies like Aleph Alpha, Helsing or the famous DeepL. European companies are not that vocal, but that doesn't mean they aren't making progress in the field.

edit: typos


Thats not the point.

Deepmind is not an UK company, its google aka US.

Mistral is a real EU based company.


Using US VC dollars. Where their desks are isn’t really important.


Increasingly where the desks and servers are is critical.

The cloud act and the current US administration doing things like sanctioning the ICC demonstrate why the locations of those desks is important.


That's such a silly argument. X, OpenAI and others have large Saudi investments. In the grant scheme of things the US is largely indebted to China and Japan.


Currency is interchangeable. Location might not be.


An EU Company pays taxes in EU, has a EU mindset (worker laws etc.), focuses more on EU than other countries.

And an EU company can't be forced by the US Gov to hand over data.


London is not part of Europe anymore since Brexit /s


Is it so hard for people to understand that Europe is a continent, EU is a federation of European countries, and the two are not the same?


Europe isn't even a continent and has no real definition (none that would make any sense, anyway), so the whole thing is confusing by design


If Europe isn’t a continent, on what continent are the EU member states sitting on?


Eurasia is the widely accepted answer.


I honestly think it is. The amount of people who thinks Europe and EU are the same thing is really concerning.

And no, it's not only americans. I keep hearing this thing from people living in Europe as well (or better, in the EU). I also very often hear phrases like "Switzerland is not in Europe" to indicate that the country is not part of the European Union.


Switzerland has such close ties to the EU that I would consider them half in.


Isn't London on an island, mr. Pedantic?


So I guess Japan isn't Asian then?


While Japan is part of Asia, and Asia is a continent, Japan is also separated from the Asian continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Japan#Location


What's more interesting is that the comment you are replying to mistakenly asked me instead of asking the parent.


I think you missed the joke


Drifted to the Caribbean.


Deepmind doesn't exist anymore.

Google DeepMind does exist.


Upvoting Windows 11 as the US's best effort at Operating Systems development.


Wouldn't that be macOS? Or BSD? Or Unix? CentOS?


What's the market share of those compared to Windows and Linux?


"best effort at Operating Systems development" doesn't imply anything about the market share.


Ask China, they've been trying for a decade.


Give them enough time and they will. EUV will hit limits anyway in a decade.

For china it's DUV+packaging for now, NIL/DSA mid-term, and MoS₂/2D chips long term. But wafer scale, defect free 2D logic is 20–30 yrs out, so no EUV shortcut anytime soon


Thanks to a combination of espionage and homegrown Chinese technology advancements, they went from "decades behind" to "years behind" quite rapidly on several critical parts of the chip manufacturing process.

China isn't quite there yet, but they will catch up. The question then becomes whether China can surpass the west or if they're stuck in lock-step behind us.


Yeah but China wasn't (and won't be) given the tech. The fastest path for Apple would be to get POTUS a gold iPad in exchange for the US removing exclusivity terms for the EUV tech they gave ASML.

And SMIC is a decade or less behind without any of that.


The number of support requests I got last year because of [hotmail|gmail|msn|yahoo].con > 30


I just auto switch any incoming .con to .com on the back end. 100% of the time it is a user typo


Nice trick! I check on the frontend for all gmal, gmial, etc variations :)


> I check on the frontend

This is the way. The user can benefit from feedback that they got something wrong, in addition to a helping hand.


Just a very small detail, but want to point out the distinction between these two comments. "Revicon" is demonstrating 10x thinking, it's not about being better at rewriting a linked list algorithm or some leetcode challenge.

Player 1 gets the same support request over and over, does nothing about it, ("hey, that's what the user entered, they should be more careful!"), complains about it online, and who knows how many hours are wasted in the back and forth with the customers.

Player 2 simply makes the necessary change on the backend, the users don't even realize they made a typo, totally seamless flow.

Hat tip to you. Hope you screenshot these two comments and bring this up in every interview to exemplify the contrast between "technically correct" and high-efficiency problem solving.


A tasteful post and distinction well highlighted. Humorously, Yvo Schaap is no stranger to 10x thinking. For one thing, Yvo publishes diagrams on SaaS/dev topics that always seem consistently way ahead of their time in terms of their organization and completeness.


A couple of years ago I think I saw a frontend library that warned the user / auto-fixed those typos, but I can't remember its name, and all I can find now are SaaS offers for that kind of service.

Which I'm not entirely enthusiastic about as it leaks all user emails to some random service.



Also tested against more models (OpenHermes, Mistral 7B, Yi, Goliath) with open router: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs...


Mistral 7B also answers with "7 books".



My domain was blocked from serving Adsense (for some a pedantic reason). Fortunate result, if I watch youtube loaded from their own embed script but hosted from my domain there are never ads!


You should offer embedding as a service lol.



Agree. The fine-tuning happens on the base "davinci" (or Curie, Babbage, Ada) and not a specific `text-00x`. At least not as I am aware.


> Immediately we ran into a problem -- to fine-tune an OpenAI model requires a specific format of prompt-completion pairs:

From my understanding, you can leave the `prompt` empty, and just push `completion` with your text. That way you don't need to generate Q&A first.


This is correct from what I've seen, but it's not well documented. Also, that fine-tuning is "better for training " style than knowledge."


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