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We use Qwen 7B parameter model for this in production. It works quite well.

A part of saying something like um is to continue your speech and prevent the other person or someone else in the group from interjecting.

If it wasn't fun you wouldn't need to have an aphorism against it.

This is largely because states will not cooperate with ICE to help identify criminals among immigrants. ICE is not an issue in states where the police are cooperating with it.

The Islamic system literally permits slavery, including sexual slavery. It is far worse than capitalism any day.

The middle east has the largest concentration of billionaires outside of US/China and huge poverty alongside. It is so grotesque that the rich will often just kill people and casua…

NASA went and turned itself into a gigantic inefficient bureaucracy to the point that SpaceX considers NASA experience a negative.

Dating apps are really good for women, particularly young women. Several of my women friends have said they can have a decent partner for an evening or a weekend with as little as …

I have a friend at Meta. He said he hates every moment of working there but when the sweet RSUs drop every month it makes it all worth it.

Government is not great at picking up or creating ideas. Academia has to lead in that and then show government why it would be best for the nation to fund those. The government is …

I use it, overall, it is not too bad. I wouldn't use it for coding etc, but its access to X means it can answer news related stuff much better. Its guardrails are lower so it does …

'Do the integration' is where all the fun and money is.

It is a different mindset and they are happy with what they are doing. I come from India where there is a ton of that labor. When I lived there, I had a couple of full time house h…

I don't even live in a super rural area, but if you think you could just walk a couple of kms in a couple of foot of snow to get something like a bookcase and bring it over is hila…

Interesting that Kuwait is on the list, it is literally a first world country with very high per capita income. The list seems somewhat arbitrary.

Would be important to see how that number is being computed? If it is the amount of meat sold divided by number of people it may be misleading since there is a fair amount of wasta…

Charlie and Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not. -Michael Lewis, Th…

For all we know, it might have gone supernova in the last few hundred years and we've yet to receive the light from it.

Terrible shitshow all around. They could have just played it cool and waved their hands like they were juts enjoying a show and got a it carried away. Though it might be difficult …

I think all GCC countries achieve this for their citizens, going well above just living wage.