My original comment was poorly worded. Ghana gained independence 69 years ago, not 200.

The kidnapping and exploitation was in full swing 200 years ago, but it started earlier than that and ended way later, if ever.

Plunder a country

Kidnap their people to make slaves

Impose anti-gay laws on them

200 years later: They are expanding the anti-gay laws! Why are they so backward?!

Pay reparations or shut up.

Top tier post. Can't wait for the experts at awful.systems to come explain. The question by OP is a very good question so I am sure we will get expert explanations from users of the awful.systems instance.

1.5 hours runtime for like half a liter of gasoline?? That's unbelievably inefficient. A half-liter of gasoline is like 15MJ, should power a laptop drawing 30W for a week.

Maybe it would be better with a fuel cell.

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I see. Mistral was the favorite in self-hosted LLM circles back in 2023-2024 but general opinion is that they have since been far surpassed by Chinese and American models, hence my question.

Good to know they've found a market with their online offering.

Is there a use case where Mistral still beat Qwen or Gemma? If you're using Mistral, which model and what do you use it for?