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Maybe at today cost. But this is a lab about AI not just LLM. Also given that French research is underfunded since decades, our researchers are accustomed to pr
by gwervc 3y ago
Maybe at today cost. But this is a lab about AI not just LLM. Also given that French research is underfunded since decades, our researchers are accustomed to producing good results at a budget cost.
- nwoli 3y agoAlso has incredibly good math institutions
- School-Cotton 3y ago“French research is underfunded since decades” is a French-ism, just so you know. Normally native English speakers would say “French research has been underfunded for decades”.
- pokepim 3y ago[dead]
- Obscurity4340 3y agoDepuis ?
- School-Cotton 3y agoThat can be used with either a duration (“depuis des décennies”) or a point in time (“depuis 1995”). English “since” can only be used with a point in time.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoMerci, français ami! Edit: is that correct or is there an apostrophe Im missing? It would better if you were française, n'est-ce pas?
- School-Cotton 3y agoI think “merci, mon ami français” would be more correct, but at any rate, I’m not French!
- trealira 3y agoI've noticed a lot of comments on Hacker News that use this construction. I don't point it out because often people dislike unsolicited advice about their English. Spanish speakers also make this mistake. I haven't met German speakers, but they also say the equivalent of "is (adjective) since (time)" in German. It makes me wonder if English is just unusually strict about this distinction compared to other European languages.
- vunderba 3y agoI am also not a huge fan of unsolicited grammatical advice, because I feel like it's both low effort and derails the conversation. If the grammar error is more syntactical in nature and doesn't obscure the meaning of the thoughts intended to be conveyed, then let's just all move on. This is an international forum, we're well accustomed to being able to parse meaning despite a few inconsequential grammatical issues.
- School-Cotton 3y agoI pointed it out because when I lived in France, I personally appreciated people pointing out grammatical mistakes I made in French. If the OP doesn’t care about sounding more like a native English speaker, that’s perfectly fine and he can just ignore my comment.
- bee_rider 3y agoPeople can just not engage in conversations they don’t like. This forum has a branching structure, it is easy to hide a topic that you don’t like. If someone was to be really odious and hateful, the presence of that sort of thing could be harmful, but this seems like a polite correction of a common problem. And it is an international forum, there are plenty of people who might get something from language-chat.
- lucubratory 3y agoAs someone learning a language that's not my native one, people who correct my Chinese kindly are the absolute gold standard. People who correct it rudely are rare but still more helpful than people who say nothing and just move on. This is very common in language learning communities. My default assumption is that other people who are learning a language that I know natively probably feel similar, and would appreciate kind, contextual corrections. I am happy to adjust if someone lets me know they don't want that or if it's against the rules of a specific forum.
- boisgerault 3y agoA Gallicism :)
- School-Cotton 3y agoThanks, I knew there was a word I was forgetting…