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1. mavamaarten · 1789718902 · focus · HN ↗

   I'm wondering, is there a tool or something out there that helps me pick a model, in the vast sea of models out there these days? Every time I need a model for something I see the list on openrouter and I'm completely overwhelmed.

   I'd love to be able to explain my use case, my cost preferences and have a tool select a few good models to try.

   E.g. I wrote a tool that cleans out my email spam box. It classifies emails that are already flagged as spam, and if it's very obviously spam it removes it permanently (keeps a copy on disk though). And after x emails, it goes through the list of deleted spam mails and suggests email rules. What model would be best suited? I'd love to be able to explain this use case and get this info served to me. The list of models and the information about what they're good at is just too splintered and spread out. I landed on google/gemma-4-31b for now, because it's cheap and good enough and also supports Dutch and French a bit. But I can't realistically try them all.

   1. rudicjd2747 · 1789740341 · focus · HN ↗

      If you use the Chinese ones at least the energy comes from solar - aside from that, pick one and see if it solves your problems

      1. ezst · 1789799177 · focus · HN ↗

         > at least the energy comes from solar

         If by that you misspelled coal, sure

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;share-elec-by-source?country=~CHN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;share-elec-by-source?coun...

         1. defrost · 1789799775 · focus · HN ↗

            Coal in China: dropping year in year out for past two decades as percentage of total energy consumption.

            1. ezst · 1789804145 · focus · HN ↗

               And yet, the single vastly dominant source of electricity at around 55%. It&#x27;s a long way you go and a long shot to call it clean.

               1. defrost · 1789804660 · focus · HN ↗

                  And yet dropping - by a series of deliberate 5 year plans with the goal of building out sufficient renewable energy to phase out coal use altogether.

                  Kind of like what absolutely isn&#x27;t happening with the current US administration.

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