Saclay has a high concentration of STEM schools/universities and public research labs.
Office space and housing is a lot cheaper there than in Paris.
@ylecun
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Saclay: STEM Hub with Cost Advantages Over Paris
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Learning World Models Beyond PID Controller Tuning
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It's a *lot* more than adjusting the coefficients of your PID controllers.
Building a model of your own dynamics is acquiring a kind of knowledge, but it's relatively simple.
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France Emerges as Europe’s Top VC Investment Destination
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Tons.
Some have even moved their HQ from the US to Paris.
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Open Source AI Accelerator Launched at Station F
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Open source AI is the way to go! Proud to see @huggingface
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Open Source AI Acceleration Program Launches at Station F
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L’IA open source est la voie à suivre ! Je suis fier de voir @huggingface
, @scaleway et @meta unir leurs expertises pour lancer un programme d’accélération de startups à Station F et ainsi matérialiser la vision d’un écosystème de l'IA ouvert et collaboratif ! -
AI Timestamps Disinformation: Assessing Credibility Threats
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Should we be impressed that it can slap timestamps on complete nonsense disinformation like Tucker Carlson videos ?
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Knowledge in Execution: Learning Without Language
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The point is that there is a *huge* amount of knowledge in the execution.
Arguably, almost *all* the knowledge is in the execution.
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Hands-On Experience Essential for Building Complex Systems
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Building rockets, turbojets, neural nets, nuclear power plants, aircrafts, microprocessors,… all of these things require hands-on experience and "black art" knowledge that you can't find written down anywhere.
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Facebook’s Open Source DNA: From React to PyTorch Impact
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It was entirely expected.
Open source was in the DNA of Facebook from the start (e g. React, Open Compute…)
And the creation of FAIR 10 years ago extended that philosophy to open research in AI. I mean, there would be no ChatGPT without PyTorch.