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AI has been a boon for marketing, but the dark side of using algorithms to sell products and brands is little studiedDonald Trump said Saturday that a surprise meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida was "very productive," days after the incoming US leader rattled Ottawa with a vow to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. Trudeau, on an unannounced visit, had been seen smiling Friday as he exited a hotel in West Palm Beach to head to a dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Afterward, Trump posted on his Truth Social website that he had had "a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau." He said the two men had discussed issues including "the Fentanyl and Drug Crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result of Illegal Immigration." He added, "Prime Minister Trudeau has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. Families." Trudeau told journalists that he had had an "excellent conversation" with Trump, but did not elaborate. Trump has blamed Canada and Mexico for not stemming an influx of undocumented migrants and he blames them, and China, for drug problems in the United States. Trudeau's trip came after Trump sent shockwaves through the region Monday when he announced 25 percent import tariffs against Canada and Mexico and 10 percent against China if they failed to address the drug and migration problems. Such tariffs could have a devastating impact if imposed. More than three-quarters of Canadian exports, or Can$592.7 billion ($423 billion), went to the United States last year, and nearly two million Canadian jobs are dependent on trade. A Canadian government source had told AFP that Canada was considering possible retaliatory tariffs against the United States. Trudeau was the first foreign leader to meet with the US president-elect. But on Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke to Trump by phone and later ruled out a trade war with the United States. "There will not be a potential tariff war," she told reporters Thursday. Trump later said that Sheinbaum had "agreed to stop migration through Mexico... effectively closing our Southern border." But she said that there would be no closing of the border, stating: "Of course we do not agree with that." Some have suggested Trump's tariff threat was bluster, or an opening salvo in future trade negotiations. But Trudeau rejected those views when he spoke with reporters earlier in Prince Edward Island province. "Donald Trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out," Trudeau said. "There's no question about it." amc/jgc/nro/bbk/bfm
To the Editor: This morning as I read the Ukiah Daily Journal, when I came to the editorial cartoon by Stahler calling Trump’s cabinet picks STUPID and showing Trump smirking as if he had gotten one over on everybody I just couldn’t restrain myself any longer and am writing this letter on behalf of the silent minority of Mendocino county and the silent majority who spoke in the recent election. I won’t greatly articulate why Trump was elected and Tommy Hine in his last letter said it well. “Democrats. Party of long noses.” Or for another source from the left speaking to their party, read the recent column by Bill Maher in the New York Times, “There’s no monopoly on stupid” and he states that the Democratic party had become a “Portlandia sketch.” I’m not naive and don’t think that this next four years is going to fix all the problems of our country, especially the economic national debt of 36 trillion dollars. This I know though that the average working class American is sick of woke ideology teaching that there is more than two genders and imposing these values on our children. You claim to believe in science and it doesn’t get more basic than this. We are sick of having these values force fed through our educational institutions on these same children further confusing the difficult transition from childhood through puberty. We are sick that there are puberty blockers being given to children and worse, mutilation of their bodies. We are sick that one penny of our tax dollars is spent to provide this for prisoners. We are sick that men who call themselves women are competing against women in women’s sports. Women have fought too long and hard for their rights to see them stolen by a bunch of cowards. I had a dream about a year ago wherein I remembered the scene from the original Titanic movie that I watched when I was a child. The one where a man disguised himself as a woman to save himself because he was a coward. Unless you think I am exaggerating there are tampon dispensers in the boys room at Eagle Peak middle school. We are sick of parental rights being taken away by the government. We are sick of illegal immigration being called immigration and having a porous border. Are we a sovereign nation or not? We are sick of having electric mandates force fed on us when we are still looking for and trying to find alternative energy sources. The problem with solar and wind without our current carbon and nuclear sources, is storage. That is why the tax incentives for solar have gone away because we don’t need more production as much as we need storage. We understand that electricity to power these vehicles has to be produced by some other source. We are sick of the emphasis on “Climate change” as if it is the greatest threat to humanity. Personally having grown up under the threat of nuclear annihilation and this threat which is still quite alive scares me way more than the idea that we won’t find a way to produce the world’s energy demands. Necessity is the mother of invention, we need to diligently keep working on alternatives, but you can’t stop the means of production in the mean time. That is a major effect of what destroyed the economy during the pandemic as small business was forced to shutdown and it has been a huge contributor to the huge inflation of the last four years. Poor nations are struggling to produce their energy needs with our current technologies so don’t count on them to really be on board to the current solutions that aren’t. I don’t read the UDJ because I like to be insulted but because I like to keep up on local news, events, and obituaries. I am part of this community and have been since 1975. Both of my children were born and raised here and I love this community. If you disagree with me that is fine. I will gladly have a conversation with anyone of opposing viewpoints and do it with respect and kindness. -Randy Dorn, Redwood ValleyEl Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. The pair landed the accolade because they used physics to develop artificial neural networks, which help computers learn without having to program them. These networks form the foundation of machine learning, a computer science that relies on data and algorithms to help artificial intelligence mimic the human brain. Hinton and Hopfield's path to the Nobel began when Hopfield, who is now a professor emeritus at Princeton University, invented a network in 1982 that could store and reconstruct images in data. The Hopfield network uses associate memory, which humans use to remember what something looks like when it's not in front of them or to conjure up a word they know but seldom use. The network can mirror this process because it stores patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method then searches for the stored pattern that is most similar to recreate data. This means if a computer was shown, for example, a photo of dog where only part of the animal was visible, it could use the network to piece together the missing part of the image and recognize it was depicting a dog. Hinton, who was working at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1985, used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network he called the Boltzmann machine. Its name came from the nineteenth-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann machine learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives out the Nobel, likens this to how humans may be able to identify someone as a relative of one of their friends, even if they've never met this person before, because of they share similar traits. The Boltzmann machine works in a similar way, classifying images or creating new examples based on the patterns it was trained on. This kind of technology can help suggest films or television shows based on a user's preferences and past viewing history The Hopfield network and Boltzmann machine are considered to have laid the groundwork for modern AI. Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, went on to win the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, with fellow Canadian Yoshua Bengio and American Yan LeCun in 2018. He is often called the godfather of AI. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press
Bitcoin has surpassed the $100,000 mark as the post-election rally continues. What's next?Trump calls meeting with Trudeau 'productive' after tariff threatINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jarvis Walker's 20 points helped IU Indianapolis defeat Trinity Christian 106-49 on Saturday. Walker shot 7 for 12, including 6 for 10 from beyond the arc for the Jaguars (4-5). Paul Zilinskas shot 5 for 9, including 4 for 7 from beyond the arc to add 15 points. DeSean Goode had 14 points and shot 4 of 5 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line. The Trolls were led in scoring by Tylan Harris, who finished with 11 points. Kaden Eirhart added nine points for Trinity Christian. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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What is the technical outlook for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)? Can I buy now? Maneel ONGC (₹257): The stock has come down sharply from the high of ₹344.60 made in August this year. Support in the ₹250-₹240 region is holding well. However, resistances are at ₹270 and ₹290, which has to be broken to become bullish and clear the way for a rise to ₹430-₹450. On the charts, ONGC is still vulnerable to break ₹240 and fall to ₹220 and ₹210. The region between ₹220 and ₹210 will be a good level to enter the stock. So, if you intend to buy the stock wait for a fall and enter at ₹225 and ₹215. Keep a stop-loss at ₹175. Trail the stop-loss up to ₹240 as soon as the stock goes up to ₹290. Move the stop-loss up to ₹320 when the price touches ₹360. Exit at ₹430. I have shares of Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) bought at ₹79. What is the outlook? Kumar G IEX (₹176): The long-term outlook is very bullish for IEX. There is a huge rounding bottom formation on the chart. Strong support is in the ₹155-₹145 region which can halt the current fall. Resistance is around ₹245. We expect IEX to breach this resistance in the coming months. That break will have the potential to take IEX share price up to ₹370 over the long-term. However, this rally may take a long time, say at least two years. You will now have to protect your profit. Keep a stop-loss at ₹132 and hold the stock. You can even consider buying more at current levels. Move the stop-loss up to ₹220 when the price goes up to ₹270. Revise the stop-loss further up to ₹310 when the price touches ₹340. Exit the stock at ₹360. I have shares of MMTC purchased at ₹102. Should I continue to hold or exit? Reshma, Nagpur MMTC (₹78.60): The stock has declined sharply after spiking to ₹131.88 in July this year. The downside is still open to see ₹63 – an important support. To avoid this fall, the stock has to sustain above ₹72 and rise past ₹90. If that happens, a rise to ₹150 can be seen. Else the stock can fall to ₹63 and then rise back. If you cannot hold the stock for more time, then exit and accept the loss. On the other hand, if you can withstand more loss and accumulate on dips, then wait. Buy more at ₹65. Keep the stop-loss at ₹57. Move the stop-loss up to ₹78 as soon as the stock goes up to ₹93. Revise the stop-loss further up to ₹105 when the price touches ₹120. Exit the stock at ₹150. I bought Swan Energy at ₹262. Should I book profits now or continue to hold? Swadesh Majumdar Swan Energy (₹611): The stock has been very volatile since the beginning of this year. Support is in the ₹475-₹455 region. Below that ₹400 is the next strong support. In the short-term there are good chances to see a rise to ₹750. A break above ₹750 will be bullish to see a fresh rise to ₹1,100 over the long-term. But a reversal from ₹750 can drag the stock to ₹500 again. You can consider exiting 30 per cent of your holdings now. Keep a stop-loss at ₹420 for the rest of the holding. Move the stop-loss up to ₹680 when the price goes up to ₹730. Exit another 20 per cent at ₹750 and move the stop-loss up to ₹730 for the balance holdings. If the stock breaks above ₹750, hold the stock for ₹1,100. Send your questions to techtrail@thehindu.co.in Comments
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