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, raising hundreds of millions for fundamental AI research, it's effectively leading social network innovation more than the Bay has been doing for in many years (which is wild), the _only_ aerospace market in europe, it's doubling down on nuclear energy, and just pushing things forward aggressively and boldly
in the meantime germany still thinks the DACH market is enough for venture scale returns, bans nuclear, and thinks that regulation will somehow… save the day?
and italy… oh well, italy has exactly 1 single (albeit extremely impressive) big success story, and the rest is just grifters, or hyperlocal mid stuff
saddened and disappointed w/ my former country, although not surprised, while impressed & def surprised w/ france. kudos to them
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, raising hundreds of millions for fundamental AI research, it's effectively leading social network innovation more than the Bay has been doing for in many years (which is wild), the _only_ aerospace market in europe, it's doubling down on nuclear energy, and just pushing things forward aggressively and boldly in the meantime germany still thinks the DACH market is enough for venture scale returns, bans nuclear, and thinks that regulation will somehow… save the day? and italy… oh well, italy has exactly 1 single (albeit extremely impressive) big success story, and the rest is just grifters, or hyperlocal mid stuff saddened and disappointed w/ my former country, although not surprised, while impressed & def surprised w/ france. kudos to them
Some, like French president Emmanuel Macron, think that the good idea of lifelong education has failed only because it was implemented too pusillanimously. Others, including Paul Krugman[414] (and myself), think that the case for lifelong training has been blown out of proportion, overshadowing the many other problems that explain workers’ difficul
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Here’s the problem with leading the world in regulation: you can only regulate what is built, and the E.U. doesn’t build anything pertinent to technology.
It’s easy enough to imagine this tale being told in a few year’s time:
The erstwhile center of civilization, long-since surpassed by the United States, leverages the fundamental nature of technolog... See more
It’s easy enough to imagine this tale being told in a few year’s time:
The erstwhile center of civilization, long-since surpassed by the United States, leverages the fundamental nature of technolog... See more
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Quand nous avons acheté la filiale européenne du numéro un mondial des centres commerciaux, « Simon Mall », le milliardaire David Simon m’avait expliqué que l’Europe était une zone impénétrable : en dix ans, il n’avait rien pu acheter ni ouvrir de significatif en France. Il nous remettait les clés de ses projets français, pour la plupart échoués de
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