Film industry divided on Trump’s proposed tariffs for foreign films
17 Oct

Film industry divided on Trump’s proposed tariffs for foreign films

News in Focus
​ Fayetteville, Georgia – The next big drama for Hollywood may not be on the big screen — but in the White House. President Donald Trump is proposing a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films, claiming that movie jobs have been "stolen" by international competitors. The announcement marks the second time Trump has threatened tariffs on films produced outside the United States. "Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing candy from a baby," President Trump said in a Truth Social Post. "California, with its weak and incompetent Governor,…
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Jay Jones, Young Republicans, and the hidden dangers within the mind
17 Oct

Jay Jones, Young Republicans, and the hidden dangers within the mind

Politics
An old saying in the legal profession goes, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want read in court.” The idea is that anything written can be discovered and used against an attorney and his client when it’s time to go to trial. There’s a broader application of that saying that applies to more of us: Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want your parents to read in The New York Times. This came to mind as I read the vile private messages that have been published over the past few weeks, bringing infamy to the people…
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7 Creative Staff Training Strategies to Increase Engagement and Motivation
17 Oct

7 Creative Staff Training Strategies to Increase Engagement and Motivation

Small business
​ In today’s competitive workplace, engaging staff through innovative training methods is vital for nurturing productivity and morale. You might consider implementing interactive team-building challenges that encourage collaboration or hands-on workshops that develop practical skills. Furthermore, structured mentorship programs can support employee growth effectively. Each of these ideas plays a key role in promoting a culture of continuous learning. Explore how these strategies can transform your training approach and lead to significant improvements in employee engagement. Key Takeaways Implement interactive team-building challenges to enhance collaboration, trust, and communication among employees. Offer hands-on workshops tailored to departmental needs, promoting practical skills…
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Sigmoidal Scaling Curves Improve Predictability of RL Post-Training in LLMs
17 Oct

Sigmoidal Scaling Curves Improve Predictability of RL Post-Training in LLMs

AI
Reinforcement Learning RL post-training is now a major lever for reasoning-centric LLMs, but unlike pre-training, it hasn’t had predictive scaling rules. Teams pour tens of thousands of GPU-hours into runs without a principled way to estimate whether a recipe will keep improving with more compute. A new research from Meta, UT Austin, UCL, Berkeley, Harvard, and Periodic Labs provides a compute-performance framework—validated over >400,000 GPU-hours—that models RL progress with a sigmoidal curve and supplies a tested recipe, ScaleRL, that follows those predicted curves up to 100,000 GPU-hours. Fit a sigmoid, not a power law Pre-training often fits power laws (loss…
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Claude just got a skill upgrade and it’s coming for your workflows 
17 Oct

Claude just got a skill upgrade and it’s coming for your workflows 

High Tech News
Model builders are moving beyond simple AI chatbots to creating comprehensive assistants that, in the words of AI dignitary Ethan Mollick, “do real work” in enterprise workflows. Anthropic is continuing its push in this area with a new feature, Agent Skills, which allows Claude to improve its execution of specific tasks. When relevant, the model can automatically access folders containing specific instructions, scripts, and other resources, then act on them with human approval. “Think of Skills as custom onboarding materials that let you package expertise, making Claude a specialist on what matters most to you,” Anthropic said in its announcement.…
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