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If you love Claude so much, why don't you hire a philosopher?
Slavish obedience to a recipe robs one of the license responsible for its creation. — James Beard In April I spent several weeks visiting nearly every open-source lab in China. Along the way, I met people who embodied different aspects of why Chinese labs are the way they are: nervous comms folks; quiet, introspective, brilliant researchers; strong, confident leaders; and neurotic but optimistic product managers. Each of these people represented a piece of the puzzle of what makes a Chinese frontier lab: the internal structures, the hopes, the dreams, the desires, and the ability to…
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