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@ThierryBreton Seems there are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU

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@AutismCapital This is a Singaporean answer, they deeply believe they can still be neutral after China invades Taiwan.

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@FinanceLancelot They are ready to take it all the way to Weekend at Bernie's level if needed

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@AvaSantina The eyebrow move is too good

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@MichaelAArouet Deutsche Mark stop appreciating against other currencies (joined Euro), no need to improve productivity to run large exports

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I am glad we decided to stay in Singapore for xmas, Sentosa island is beautiful

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Have been playing around with document embeddings on @pinecone and @LangChainAI . Picking the right documents to feed into the LLM context is not quite solved by a vector store search for anything beyond a demo use case. Domain-specific metadata filtering engineering should help

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@AporiaMatt Reality is that the Magnificent 7 probably account for 90% of the difference

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@KatLoughrey Black cash economy is understated in Germany and Switzerland

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@EmeiMarkus @RaiDue Telecronaca assolutamente inaccettabile e imbarazzante. La "brutta figura" è solo loro. Fanno finta di non sapere, clown totali.

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@nw3 @growing_daniel Aura > Aureum

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@tim_cook From the other side of the bay. Instant classic.

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@sindap Unbelievable story. Also, who would ever consider selling their business to Kingswood private equity in the future? Is this their last deal?

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@visegrad24 I am surprised the president has the power to get all of this done. In most countries all these initiatives would get stuck in the swamp

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@chhlss Conceptually yes, but in practice...

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@amasad You are describing the social security system

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@ThierryBreton @DigitalEU I don't see one supportive comment to this post, hopefully a reason for pause.

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@ArmandDoma The Harvard vs Harvard Extension debate highlights that Ivy League education is an expensive exclusive club and its core value is a low acceptance rate.

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@sole24ore L'antidoto ai prezzi alti è i prezzi alti

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@psychosort Seems an applied version of CIA's sabotage manual

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@pmarca 10% to the big guy!

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@Kounkuey @LADOTofficial The grift is strong with this one

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@tomaspueyo Very interesting thread. In my opinion urbanization despite remote work has quite some room to grow even further. I think real estate pricing will experience extreme polarization. Beachfront properties and city center high-quality apartments in Manhattan, Paris, London,

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@iocmedia Seems the AI missed this

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Algeria‘s biological man Imane Khelif has beat Italy’s Angela Carini after only 45 sec in 66 kg boxing preliminaries at the #Olympics . What a disgrace! What about the rights of biological female athletes? Where are all the feminists when you need them?

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@MacroAlf The German urge to self-destruct once a century

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@OurielOhayon @samczsun Cat and mouse race is pretty fast. I also noticed that hitting "retry" sometimes it just overrules without further prompt.

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@CXGonzalez At times, the fact that rules are "flexible" and most people are allowed to use common sense, is a strength of the Mediterranean system

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The Mixtral 8x7B DPO model by @NousResearch addresses hallucinations, repetitiveness, adherence to system prompt very effectively

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Mixtral model is great, but it really doesn't listen to the system prompt

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@CryptoTurkweb3 @BoredApeYC Doesn't look like a great crowd

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@MichaelAArouet Unaffordable housing (80%) and daycare (20%)

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Burger King at YUL airport ran out of burgers. Chicken it is. @BurgerKing you had one job!

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@lopp When the lawyers stole more money than SBF

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@AlecStapp Seems accurate, EU burocracy apparatus can only deliver additional regulation and failed all strategic objectives of economic growth, energy independence, defense

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@stats_feed Milan has some beauty but maybe a stretch to have it rank above Paris and Florence

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@scsclassics 476 western roman empire (rome), 1453 eastern roman empire (bisantium)

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@CasinoCapital All global trade imbalances (chinese manufacturing exports and petrodollars) need to go somewhere, and that's the US market

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@vestager @X Shameful Ministry of Truth

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Clear week ahead

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@EricTopol @Noahpinion Singapore is still enforcing extremely strict social distancing, contact tracing and quarantine measures that are difficult to execute or even imagine in the west.

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@noampomsky Smart observation. On Spotify a handful of artists make all of the money, same applies to dating apps. The "long tail" dilemma, more access counterintuitively translates into stronger power laws

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@Jason Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman

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@DD_Geopolitics Micronesia got a better treatment

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People often say that China is not very good in soft power but this is an example of something that they unarguably do much better that the West: treating all countries, no matter how small (we're talking Micronesia here, about 100k inhabitants), the same when their leaders visit

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@erikbryn US added about $10T of debt to grow nominal non inflation-adjusted GDP from 2019 to 2022 by $5T

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@fanpage "quasi"

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@theomarcu An incredible team questions their life choices when the main use case of their company is undistinguishable from OpenRouter's billboard

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@alex_avoigt Legacy carmakers should first get bluetooth to work and then try harder things

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@FT Breton had no authority to send that "preventative" veiled threat letter and his work is damaging Europe's reputation

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@AleEquilibrium @Ruffino_Lorenzo La buona notizia è che basterebbe giocare su vantaggi fiscali per nuovi residenti per invertire la tendenza molto velocemente. Si potrebbero portare in italia 2.5 milioni di persone qualificate all'anno da tutto il mondo e aggiungere almeno 2 punti di PIL di crescita.

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Demography is destiny

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@DeItaone Unfortunately he is correct

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@patrick_oshag @balajis I just listened to your conversation with marc andreessen, it was epic! Looking forward to listening to this episode next. You are a fantastic, deep, kind interviewer. Amazing job.

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@jsrailton @lcamtuf Real question is how much reach do these bots have. Paid blue checks is in the end a good solution as a simple but effective temporary shortcut for proof of humanity

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@MichaelAArouet Once you remove all of the impossible options, you are left with the only answer: #4

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@adolfo_urso E' positivo che l'inflazione si scesa sotto il 2%. La velocita' della discesa e la traiettoria fa pensare a una frenata estremamente violenta dell'economia piu' in generale.

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@CaroRackete @Left_EU Right decision for the wrong reasons

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@Noahpinion Can't quite tell if satire

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@MarkovMagnifico It's not the average students who build the best tech

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@bgurley Value capture by lawyers keeps growing at an extraordinary pace in the US

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@BrankoMilan Greece can thank Germany and their cult-like belief in austerity (which benefited their own export-driven industrial complex)

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Tricky times to fundraise and invest

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@Bornakang But why

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@paraschopra The sun and the moon appear to be the same size from Earth. By sheer coincidence, sun is ~400x bigger but also ~400x farther away

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@euniceajim It's a consequence of the pecking order of capital markets: when US slows down, Europe/UK is worse and every other geography dries up almost completely, especially at B stage and above where share of global investors on capital deployed is higher.

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@g_sangiuliano @elonmusk Si farà o non si farà al colosseo? Sembra un'occasione sprecata

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There will be exceptions but good mental model on deep tech

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Startups shouldn’t solve technically hard problems. a 🧵

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Reality check: even at the top of a generational bubble, not enough returns were generated even by the most successful companies in the region

ASEAN's VC 'funding winter' worsens on Grab, GoTo slowdown

Wary venture capital investors slash valuations of startups as interest rates rise

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@SejrPedersen @MacroAlf Ozempic

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VC ecosystem going through a real midlife crisis

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I can't stress how important it is for VCs and Founders to internalize that the goal of every business is to create an amazingly profitable and durable cash machine. And the less cash it takes to get there the better. Don't be fooled by the vanity metrics of the past few years.

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@blader Always reminds me of this quote

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Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”

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@ValKatayev Maybe it's not so competitive after all and regulatory capture is real

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@patrickc @mcannonbrookes 2-3% energy losses per 1000km transmission. I guess solar prices are so low that they are still viable even with this level of waste.

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@AFTXcreditor Just saying

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Would be funny if FTX depositors got distributed FTX's @AnthropicAI shares and broke even in the end

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@IvanHong11 People in the US and Europe have forgotten or never experienced what excellence looks like in infrastructure and, more generally, competent long-term planning by the government

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@RassegnataS @simongerman600 Thrift, hard work, manufacturing prowess are all myths. Economy was driven by mercantilistic policies at Euro periphery's expense, cheap energy from Russia and freeriding on US defense.

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@balajis Turkey is fattest and happiest just before Thanksgiving

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@MichaelAArouet Pensioners will sell their house and rent it back

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@paulg @BoyanSlat And, alas, 8 years after the University of Bologna was founded

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@KevinNaughtonJr Ok but also why are they running tap water on pasta

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@Lagarde Case for stability is clear. Sovereignty seems a stretch, given that adopting the Euro by definition means giving up monetary sovereignty. Solidarity, ask Greece.

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@weatherdai To be added to the long list of random subsidies that together with their administration costs should just go towards tax reduction

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@patrickc @ericllam Marina Bay ~2000 vs ~2012

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@paulg I think damage to brand Russia will last for a long time even after any regime change

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@redsteeze Universities should pay via endowment tax

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@GenCar5 All'inizio della mia carriera, ho partecipato da analista in consulenza ad uno studio per una compagnia assicurativa. Mi ricordo che ogni slide portava la nota "esclusa Campania"

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@Mr_Zakka Goodbye!

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@MattMickiewicz Seems an extreme situation, maybe narrative/vertical weakness

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@Noahpinion Little known fact, many chip manufacturing employees are "blue collar" factory workers

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@stats_feed Italy just got a 60pp discount

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@jappleby @Airbnb I had the same experience of a scam villa in Italy, even with broken glass windows. I don't have 5M followers so I was stuck with a 3k euro bill due to no cancellation policy. @Airbnb took the side of the host. I haven't used it since.

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Most successful founders proactively send timely and crisp investor updates. I don't make the rules.

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@Gia_Vang Historically when institutions failed to enforce laws and guarantee safety, organized crime took that role and built an alternative economic system ("mafia")

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@Quirinale Whatever it takes!

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@plebonthecob @EricRWeinstein @DARPA @_whitneywebb Luc Montagnier, who received the Nobel Prize for discovering HIV, talked about this in an interview in April 2020

French Virologist, Who Discovered HIV, Says Coronavirus Originated In...

French virologist & Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier has claimed that Coronavirus originated in a lab. Montagnier's research was based on the fact that COVID-19...

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@AleEquilibrium Il tuo thread suona molto intellettuale. Il punto di Milei rimane che se non vogliamo fare la fine dell'Argentina che negli ultimi 100 anni è passato tra i 10 paesi più ricchi al mondo a uno dei più poveri, si deve abbandonare il miraggio di un economia guidata dai burocrati

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@JulianWaller The first point on "history obsession" cause rather than "nato expansion" seems new and strong information to me @DavidSacks @Jason

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@Rainmaker1973 Southeast Asia data point seems off

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@ThierryBreton @eu2023es @AvHuffelen @FTursky @mariocampolargo @kyranakis @jnbarrot I don't think more enforcement and more regulations help consumers or the economy in any way

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@yarotrof This is the end of the tank as center piece of ground combat

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"I'm asking for one example of a profitable tech-enabled, operationally intensive business in Southeast Asia. Just one example!"

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@PaulSkallas This is an interesting thought. I've always thought of Italy as a relatively anti-fragile nation, trade or financial swings won't affect it all that much in both directions.

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