This tax is not well thought but we need to tax those companies that evade taxes. Let's be creative and strong.

Evading taxes is criminal in most places I can’t imagine France allows it

Did the website crash ? Goes directly to an about:blank. Maybe the author wanted to protect the website from a hug of death.

Opening the url without referrer works : https://melaniekat.com/blog/public-on-pds/

It's in the list for the /code tab.

Well he'd be proud to see the extend of the fixed routes network in France today : https://cartes.app/?style=transports#6.32/47.811/2.097

Each blue polygon is a network. Zoom to see the lines.

Of course we should do way better, and unify all that with a single ticket and single website for route planning.

The site seems to be under heavy load, so I couldn't see it all. But it seems this map only contains city networks, and not regional networks. The regional bus networks in France are really quite weak, infrequent and don't connect well, even with the now larger régions.

Yes it's almost constantly under heavy load from illegal LLM indexers.

You can see regional coach networks by clicking "car", it means coach bus in French.

I knew that last bit, but somehow missed the selector, large as it is. Being Dutch, I am used to regional and local buses/coaches being more integrated (we also only have a single word for them both),[0] so it didn't immediately cross my mind. Very nice site, you do seem to have most of those regional cars!

[0] We do have touringcars, but those are more used for private rentals, not public transport, except for Flixbus etc. and a handful of longer-distance lines, and then we usually call them a bus again.

Thanks ! Yes, the French system is strange, it's a mess. Regionalised.

Being in the US, I feel mildly annoyed when the French complain about their public transit.

Related, though less artistic. See this French LIDAR data visualisation of buildings : https://batiment3d.ign.fr, and this other visualisation that shows France in 3D, measurable (measure heights, distances) : https://julesrumeau.github.io/Scopus

So... models built by humans prefer to belong too ?

That's why Mistral is even more important than just being the only competitive european LLM builder : it's on the French grid.

Because people acclaim European competition on the LLM scene, I guess. We don't have much to show.

Even as someone happy of seeing Mistral still trying to compete, I would wait at least for the final release and weights before talking again about it, to have a definitive opinion on it.

It's well known that every Mistral employee is a fonctionnaire. No.

What's more impressive is the datacenter used for training. It shows you can get "sub-SOTA" for one tenth of the resources of SOTA.