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making a wild guess on the nationality of every author of this paper (1), and observing the number of authors, and observing the velocity and volume of similar

making a wild guess on the nationality of every author of this paper (1), and observing the number of authors, and observing the velocity and volume of similar papers.. it seems a pattern of "English language as a service to automated programming environments" appears to be very useful and relevant for people (nations?) that are wholly and firmly not English speaking.. (1) is M-A-P or INFtech dot ai a well-known institutional affiliation?

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jstanley 2y ago
What are you trying to say here? I gave it a few tries but couldn't figure it out.
- jannyfer 2y ago
  It seems proofreading-as-a-service would be very useful for mistrial9.
- rnewme 2y ago
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bbor 2y ago
To be clear: INFTech is a for-profit (I think…?) firm out of Shanghai, and MAP is an international FOSS collective (https://m-a-p.ai/about https://m-a-p.ai/about). Speaking generally, a lot of software engineering worldwide is done in English, so it makes sense that they’re training models in English even if some/most of the researchers also speak a Chinese language. Plus, HuggingFace is English-native, and working on FOSS models (FOSLMs?) without targeting that community would be like making a command line accounting tool and not immediately posting it to the HackerNews community. Your comment seems to imply some sort of hidden motivation, but idk, seems pretty straightforwardly benign to me! Plus it’s hard to say how many papers are published in other languages about LLMs, considering we wouldn’t read them.
swyx 2y ago
someone on twitter once referred to these as "wechat papers" and i cant get it out of my head
- ein0p 2y ago
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