Mohamed Kafsi

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Engineers and salespeople think in completely different ways. - Engineers: "If you ask them a question, a hundred percent of them will try and think of what is the correct answer to that question." - Salespeople: "If you're a salesperson, your first thought isn't: what's the answer? It's: why are you asking me that question?" "And so if you have an engineer talking to a good sales guy, it's going to upset them. Because they're often not gonna answer the question." "The guys who are good at the job get rejected, because you don't like them. And then the people who are terrible at it, those are the ones that ended up getting hired." "These CEOs just wanna take a guy who failed the engineering test, put a clean shirt on him and make him the head of sales." @bhorowitz with @bhalligan

We've been working on the Waxal dataset project since 2021, aiming to enhance the amount of data available for African languages. This public speech dataset initially covers 27 Sub-Saharan African languages spoken by over 100 million speakers across more than 26 countries. 🌍

“16 million exchanges?!” “This is called open source”

Vibe coders be like 👨‍💻

My PhD thesis is out 🥳🎓 How do LLMs, trained on trillions of tokens, reason? Can they generalise beyond their training data or are they constrained by what they've seen before? My takeaway: they can generalise beyond training in interesting ways, showing genuine reasoning

MCP connects agents to live systems: databases, APIs, external services. It's designed for runtime tool access . But the moment you need to teach your agent how to approach a problem domain, you need something else. Skills aren't about (just) accessing data. They're about embedding knowledge into your agent's reasoning. When your agent needs to understand "here's the right sequence for debugging a data pipeline" or "this is how you validate and process complex documents," skills allow you to bake that knowledge into how the agent thinks. There's then also the whole matter of how they work fundamentally: MCP tools rely on an external connection and API calls. Skills are local.. The issue isn't choosing between them. It's understanding that they kiiinda serve different purposes. MCP extends your agent's capabilities at runtime. Skills shape how your agent reasons about problems. I wrote all about this with @itsclelia in our latest blog: llamaindex.ai/blog/skills-vs…

.@Ahmad_Al_Dahle is joining as Airbnb's new CTO. I’m often asked about our AI strategy. We believe pairing great design with frontier technology will help us improve the way people experience travel. Excited to build!

@mortenjust Great! Did you open source your code. Would love to test and extend

This is fast. Chrome running Gemini locally on my laptop. 2 lines of code.

@maximelabonne Privacy indeed; for certain use cases, you don't want the data to leave the device. I expect next gen of OS to provide a local LLM that you can use.

Cloud models just can't offer some features by design: privacy, low-latency, offline connectivity, free generation, etc. Not every application requires 2T parameters. Probably most don't.

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🇪🇺 EU subsidies are such a massive waste In Portugal for example, I noticed most construction companies from window frames, glass railing, door, balcony doors etc. have a sign in the footer of their website that say they received EU funding You can search their EU funding ID and the reason for funding is always some silly bs like "Project title: Research on how to improve glass railings Project description: Ensure the company’s competitiveness by strengthening its internal competencies to be competitive in the demanding external market, investing in innovation in management processes, distribution, logistics, and work organization practices, as well as in relationships with the external environment" And they always get about €250,000 to €500,000 I even have family who received these subsidies, they got one because they were running a company in a "disadvantaged neighborhood" and had to write a 10 page document and instantly got €250,000, they laughed hysterically cause they definitely didn't need that money, but why not get it if you can, right? Free money! The EU spends hundreds of billions of euros every year from European taxpayer's money on these subsidies that just go nowhere

Congrats @anniehartley_ and hope to see you again in the next edition of @AMLDAfrica @EPFL_en

#OpenAI is opening a new office in Zurich, recruiting 3 engineers from #Google #deepmind — right in the city with Google’s 2nd largest office (~5K employees). The #AI talent war is heating up, but this is great news for the #AI community & #Switzerland’s ecosystem! 🚀

Ce témoignage d’un médecin de retour de mission humanitaire à Gaza doit absolument être entendu.

Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv incidents: The hypocrisy of European media and politicians diem25.org/ajax-maccabi-t…

@asmartbear Depends whether it is consumer or entreprise

Two products, identical in features. One is cheaper. The other is delightful to use. Which makes more money? More profit? More word of mouth? More fun to build? Compete on the right stuff.

Founder & CEO is a common title, especially in tech. It happens to be my title too. I've come to believe it's an impossible title. You're either CEO, or you're Founder. You can't hold both full-time jobs. And unless your company is probably 100+, CEO isn't really a job anyway. It's more of a role someone needs to play occasionally. There simply aren't that many big picture things or decisions to "execute" day in and day out — or even week in and week out — to make it a true full time job. A role yes, a hat to wear yes, a full-time job at a smallish company? No. It's part-time at best, quarter-time even better. Further, the fundamental responsibilities of Founders and CEOs are at odds. Having them mashed up in the same title is as ridiculous as having someone who's a "CTO & Chief Luddite". Why's that? Because a Founder's job is injecting risk into the business. It's flooding it with new ideas, stuff that seems hard to do, ideas that no one else would dare try, placing the kinds of bets that only someone who started the damn thing would be willing to wager. A Founders' job is basically to stay in business by almost always putting it out of business. A CEO's job? Just about the opposite. It's reducing risk, executing diligently to achieve obvious goals, staying in business at all costs. It's primarily about about being conservative, keeping the company's collective cool, and not letting things get out of hand. Just about everything that a Founder isn't doing. A CEO's job is to stay in business by not allowing the company to do anything so stupid that it could go out of business. See? They're such different things. The minds powering the pistons run on different fuel. But I get it. It's a wonderful boost to the ego to hold the top two jobs in a company — especially when the original sin of starting the damn thing was your decision. And yes, someone ultimately has to make the big calls, no matter which side they fall on. And given that you were the first one in the door, you're the natural and convenient standard-bearer. Your skeleton key fits both locks. Founder is a unique position as it's the one job that can't be replaced. It can be eliminated, certainly, as many companies go founder-free after some time. But once the person who started it isn't there, you can't bring someone else in who started it. The closest thing then becomes a CEO. So I've shifted my personal thinking. As long as I'm still here, I'm picking a side. I'm a Founder. That's my strength, that's where I can bring the most. Which means we don't really have a full-time CEO. I'm simply the part time one that fills the void when we need to bridge the gap, make a final big decision, and move on. As it should be.

Too real 😂

The Israeli military just killed an American in the West Bank. Her name is Aysenur Eygi. Remember: when Hersh Goldberg-Polin was killed, Biden said "Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes." We're about to get another demonstration of who can kill Americans with impunity.