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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • There is not strict rules for days off in France.

    It depends mostly of your work. Some work will force you to put your days off in the summer but that’s not super common. Most jobs just let you use your days off however you want.

    And no it’s not a misunderstanding, some employers actually don’t want their staff to work in the summer because all businesses slow down and people are in vacations.

    Basically it mostly depends of your line of work but most people are free to choose when they take their days off. They just happen to often take them in the summer. That way if they have kids they can spend time with them while they are on summer break.

    Some others will on the contrary put their days outside of the school holidays because travelling and tourism is cheaper when most people are expected to be working.

    Basically a lot of it depends if you have kids and when their holidays are. Each region of france has different schedule for school holidays. So it somehow guides a lot of the days off placed by workers.

    Also do waiters eat after lunch and dinner service? or do they shove their faces quickly during meal service?

    I’m not sure but usually it seemed to me like they tend to eat after service but really it all depends of the manager of the restaurant.





  • C’est très grave je trouve.

    Ce mec a probablement été comme ça pendant des années. Tous le monde devait très bien savoir qu’il y avait un mega facho dans cette patrouille de police municipal.

    C’est le laisser faire et l’omerta que je trouve ultra dérangeant dans cette histoire. Pour un policier qui applique son racisme dans son travail, il y a en 4 autres qui sont complices. Qui savent très bien de quoi ils sont témoins.

    Son pote de patrouille a super facho il est aussi facho. Il a rien dit du tout à personne. Il a couvert son pote.

    Et après quand je dis que je n’ai plus confiance dans la police, on me répond “ah mais non, ils sont pas tous comme ça, c’est juste les mauvais policiers”.

    Mais ils sont où bordel les bons policiers qui dénoncent les exactions de leurs collègues ? Qui dans cette brigade de police municipale a dénoncer megafacho ? Personne.

    PS : Il semblerait qu’en plus la police municipale de Carcassonne est armé.

    Donc ce mega facho il avait un gun en plus.

    Imaginez le stress si t’es contrôlé par ce type et que ta peau est trop foncé pour lui.












  • To my surprise almost if not all LLM are set not to be deterministic and have one unique input result in always the same output.

    They all are set to have a “temperature” setting so that they sound more natural.

    Personally I think quality of the output tokens of LLM is surprisingly not as much their priority as the quality and truthfulness of the result.

    I would 100% prefer a LLM that is purely deterministic and repeats the same answer exactly to the same question. Instead LLM are constantly choosing the next likely token more TL appear human rather than being accurate.

    These LLM are designed as sycophants and set up and trained as such.

    So a fingerprinting in the output seems quite realistic. An LLM is not giving you it’s best most likely answer. It’s taking one of the most likely answer and adds a sprinkle of uncertainty and randomness on top of it so it looks natural…


  • I applaud the open source Chinese makers. They might be “distilling” from the closed weights models of competitors but since they themselves pillage the internet with no oversight in my book that’s fine. In some way the Deepseek, minimax and kimi makers are forcing the weights of bigger proprietary open.

    Right now on OpenRouter a large part of the processing goes to Deepseek. Deepseek is still weaker than the Claude “frontier” models but they are way cheaper. Since they are open weights anybody can compete as providers and the cost stays “low”. These AI Chinese makers are a constant threat to the american proprietary models and that’s a great thing for the consumers.