And the answer is none. None more black.

Was Trump doing global worldwide tariffs of 20-300% on almost all imports of every type his first term? Were those the ones kept?

What happened in 2020 and who was President that year?

Also Trump beaten by Obama yet again. Hell yeah.

Yeah, it's not even worth considering for something like 15-20kg. A full pallet in this case is 464kg :) Years worth of supply for me.

The current "AI" is a predictive engine.

And *you* are a predictive engine as well; prediction is where the error metric for learning comes from. (I removed the word "search" from both because neither work by "search". Neither you nor LLMs are databases)

It looks at something and analyzes what it thinks the result should be.

And that's not AI why?

AI is, and has always been, the field of tasks that are traditionally hard for computers but easy for humans. There is no question that these are a massive leap forward in AI, as it has always been defined.

It is absolutely crazy that we are all very very soon going to lose access to electricity

Calm down. Total AI power consumption (all forms of AL, both training and inference) for 2025 will be in the ballpark of 50-60TWh. Video gaming consumes about 350TWh/year, and growing. The world consumes ~25000 TWh/yr in electricity. And electricity is only 1/5th of global energy consumption.

AI datacentres are certainly a big deal to the local grid where they're located - in the same way that any major industry is a big deal where it's located. But "big at a local scale" is not the same thing as "big at a global scale." Just across the fjord from me there's an aluminum smelter that uses half a gigawatt of power. Such is industry.

That "ruler study" was ancient. It's mentioned in peer review at least as early as 2018, and might be even older.

Believe it or not, people in the field are familiar with these sorts of things that you just read about.

Most of these new AI tools have gained their new levels of performance by incorporating Transformers in some form or another, in part or in whole. Transformers is the backend of LLMs.

Even in cases where Transformers isn't used these days, often it's imitated. For example, the top leaderboards in vision models are a mix of ViTs (Vision Transformers) and hybrids (CNN + transformers), but there are still some "pure CNNs" that are high up. But the best performing "pure CNNs" these days use techniques modeled after what Transformers is doing, e.g. filtering data with an equivalent of attention and the like.

The simple fact is that what enabled LLMs is enabling most of this other stuff too.

Jevons Intensifies

I've been thinking about this since Comcast bought NBC. Seemed bullshit that the cable company and the internet provider can also own such a large production that it can isolate for itself (if it wanted to). Really the only consumer upside of that one was the Kabletown jokes on 30 Rock

Cool, then no more LLC, no more C-Corp, S-Corp, all that goes out the window. You have private contracts only and no special legal protections or benefits.

This is not a "socialist" thing this is a human thing and why income inequality in societies is so correlated with other societal problems. But some folks want to make it like saying that violates some inherent law of nature. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's not good!

Sure but these aren't private proprietorships or just a sale of assets. The Clayton Act exists, has precedent and is pretty broad, there is a line and this merger is well over it. The government is fully in it's rights to at the least deny sale to either of these parties (and IMO should)

For all their "losses" they were also able to pay down their debt in 2024 with $4.4B in cash flow (which got Zaslav a big fat bonus). Like all Hollywood accounting the numbers can be suspect.

Of for sure this merger in this admin is gonna be handled totally above board. It's not like David Ellison is at the White House pleading to the admin to please, pretty pretty please let him have this and that Larry Ellison isn't basically the 2nd VP.

The real question is "Will they re-release the roadrunner cartoons?".

Do you really think fiction is a reasonable source of facts?

I've said a for awhile now that in the age of streaming services content owners should *have to license* their content out to other services at a reasonable cost.

Or really just go back to the Paramount Decree style of things and say that you can be a delivery service or a production service but not both.