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Leanstral 1.5

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Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by make3 »

puppymaster wrote: post #61
Grimblewald wrote: post #33

Got curious, sign up, add money to account, try to use. Can't, it's a labs model. Fine, let's enable labs. Can't, unspecified error. Fine, lets contact customer support as instructed, can't no customer support, just a half-assed FAQ, that seems vibe-coded and searched poorly, totally irrelevant answers coming up for all queries tried. Then it hit me: If AI makes good customer support, then why does no AI company use…

I laughed and cried at this comment. It's so uncannily EU. Just spent 18 months landing an EU enterprise contract. Signed today and sent it back and got an automated message 'sorry will be on vacation til end of July...' This is the fourth vacation emails I got since corresponding with this contact window for the past 1 year.

launches suck in the US too. See: every single AAA game launch ever

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by mike_hearn »

ghm2199 wrote: post #85
mike_hearn wrote: post #77

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Mistral has raised $4B+ which is a decent chunk of change, albeit not in the league of OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI. The hard part is justifying pure LLM development financially. Models are all very similar. OpenAI justified it originally by being a 'charity' dedicated to pure research (not financial). Anthropic justified it by saying OpenAI didn't care enough about safety and splitting from them (not financial). Elon justif…

Someone commented on this page that their main market are long term b2b contracts. If that’s true then what you are saying isn’t a problem.

Right, they pivoted, but originally they were a pure play LLM developer.

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by roysting »

bilekas wrote: post #101
roysting wrote: post #80

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> It’s a common disgusting mentality wide spread across Europe. Yeah it's such a disgusting mentality to appreciate a work life balance and not have work be your entire world. Such a horrible existence. Anyway, I'm off on holidays now, enjoy!

The fact that you ignore the core of what I said and deflected with distraction is quite telling.

I agree with you, but the point was not anything about work life balance; it was about not being selfish, self centered, narcissistic; realizing that others may not have the ability or are not going on vacation at that given time and there should always be someone, especially in a kafkaesque type bureaucracy as Germany, who can assist in accomplishing whatever horrific bureaucratic control mechanism must be suffered to accomplish basic things.

My point was about continuity, not you talking about your vacation to rationalize the abuse of others who are not going on vacation but whose life you impact by your absence and lack of continuity, someone else not being able to competently perform your role in your absence, making them have to wait for your return from your work life balance vacation. It’s just narcissism, the disgusting mentality I called out and you reacted to.

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by roysting »

embedding-shape wrote: post #82
roysting wrote: post #80

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> narcissism and selfishness that is utterly indifferent to the needs of others This has to be rage bait right? What kind of hellscape do you live in where other humans taking vacation and wanting that to be respected is selfish? And how do you not realize the irony in what you're complaining about? Do you never take a vacation where you actually disconnect from your work?

Is not rage bait even if it enrages you to hear the truth. It’s rather funny how the narcissists come streaming out of the woodwork when you call them out. But I understand it, narcissists have no ability to instant their own nature, i.e. they wouldn’t be narcissists. It’s an inescapable conundrum and paradox.

You rather typical deflection and distraction does not change any of what I said and you ignored in typical fashion. Humans taking a vacation is great and I fully support it and wish more Americans could take more vacations, but that’s a different topic you’re distracting with.

The selfish and narcissistic aspect is that of the subject post, lack of continuity, especially in a bureaucracy that affects others’ lives. It’s the simplest and most obvious form of narcissism. The fact that you are either unable to see it and are deflecting from it is rather revealing.

It is abrasive, selfish, and narcissistic to lack all ability to comprehend that other people’s lives should not be made dependent on whether one person is it is not on vacation. Is literally the height of selfishness … “I don’t care about anyone else or my impact on them”

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by roysting »

nok22kon wrote: post #91
nkmnz wrote: post #87

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I am German living in Germany and yes, I think not organizing a holiday replacement when you leave for more than a week is a sign of negligence and indifference; but unfortunately, it becomes more and more common to behave in that way. Many projects don't make any progress between mid of June and late August, depending on the number and diversity of stakeholders. I'd like to declare these ~10 weeks "individual contri…

it's because there is no incentive in general in EU to be excellent at your job. good or bad, you get the same pay, and dont get compensated for bringing extra value to the company so naturally employees have a "fuck you" attitude

I’m not sure if you meant it, but it is indeed the EU, or what it represents and its purpose to suffocate excellence that is at the very core of this matter.

But the pay does not actually matter either, people can and do excel in spite of pay and even time in many places in Europe and the world. What you are probably inadvertently lamenting is the very purpose of the EU, the underlying mechanism that exists in other packaging like “communism”, but whose underlying mechanisms, the machine underneath the cladding is really just management and suppression of the parasitized masses.

They don’t want you to excel, because you excelling scares the ruling class cabal because you may exceed them. That is at least until they can get their own kind into place and control everything like in the US, then they’ll support this fake narrative of excellence that is prevalent in the US, but is really an illusion, a fraud really, like most other things in the U.S. where nothing is what it is said or implied to be.

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by thih9 »

roysting wrote: post #143
bilekas wrote: post #101

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> It’s a common disgusting mentality wide spread across Europe. Yeah it's such a disgusting mentality to appreciate a work life balance and not have work be your entire world. Such a horrible existence. Anyway, I'm off on holidays now, enjoy!

The fact that you ignore the core of what I said and deflected with distraction is quite telling. I agree with you, but the point was not anything about work life balance; it was about not being selfish, self centered, narcissistic; realizing that others may not have the ability or are not going on vacation at that given time and there should always be someone, especially in a kafkaesque type bureaucracy as Germany,…

> the abuse of others who are not going on vacation but whose life you impact by your absence and lack of continuity

That’s the point - this doesn’t matter and work is organized so that people can go home guilt free.

Coworkers should be able to take over; managers are responsible for coordinating vacation time, training and handovers. The customers are free to switch companies.

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by roysting »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #130
embedding-shape wrote: post #95

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Obviously untrue, any place on earth you get rewarded for being better at your job, either directly by being promoted or after asking/getting a higher salary, or indirectly by being able to change jobs by outright being better. This is true in most sectors, especially in software where it's really easy to switch jobs if you have the slightest amount of brain power. Where are all these misconceptions come from? And ho…

As a software engineer that has worked in multiple German companies I can tell you that it’s not the case, or at least in Germany. If you do an amazing job, they would praise you and give you a promotion with 2% salary increase and more work. To add salt to the I wound, your colleague that has been on paternity leave for 3 months and on sick leave for 4 months would get the same salary increase

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Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by FranklinChen »

c7b wrote: post #42

I'm not sure I understand the Weights policy. This site says the weights are Apache-licensed, suggesting it's open weights. But I can't find a download link. Their Huggingface profile seems to only provide an earlier snapshot [0]. Any pointers on whether/where we can or will be able to download the weights? [0] https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-2603

Huh, I haven't found the weights either.

Re: Leanstral 1.5

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Post by roysting »

thih9 wrote: post #147
roysting wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that you ignore the core of what I said and deflected with distraction is quite telling. I agree with you, but the point was not anything about work life balance; it was about not being selfish, self centered, narcissistic; realizing that others may not have the ability or are not going on vacation at that given time and there should always be someone, especially in a kafkaesque type bureaucracy as Germany,…

> the abuse of others who are not going on vacation but whose life you impact by your absence and lack of continuity That’s the point - this doesn’t matter and work is organized so that people can go home guilt free. Coworkers should be able to take over; managers are responsible for coordinating vacation time, training and handovers. The customers are free to switch companies.

Talk about narcissism. You don't want anyone to have any guilt even when they adversely and negatively affect others.

How about this, you don't put others in a bind or adversely affect them if you don't want actual guilt, regardless of whether you want to feel it or not. This is the kind of messed up mentality that I was saying is so prevalent across Europe, if not narcissism, very much narcissistic in nature... I don't care about anything or anyone else but me and my vacation/time off.

And no, please don't try to distract with the red herrings. I am not advocating for employees to be abused; there is in fact a middle ground which I am advocating for, where if you want "guilt free feelings" ... DON'T BE GUILTY of abusing others by not caring about your responsibilities towards them.

It does still apply to companies, which, if you have some standing, let alone paid relationship with; have a duty to engage in that relationship. But I am also mostly talking about the bureaucracy, since that is in fact the OP topic, bureaucratic entitled narcissists simply just leaving others in a lurch because they go on a month long vacation, literally causing and costing damages and financial loss to someone.

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