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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China.

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