tariff = (export - import) / (<??? factor> × <another ??? factor that cancels the first one out> × import)

The only times anyone would use the asterisk as multiplication symbol are

• they are doing some fancy math and it’s not the same kind of number multiplication we’re familiar with
• they are on a computer, the keyboard does not have a (×) key, and they don’t know how to typeset it (\times in LaTex), so they just use the asterisk instead

The US government falls in the second category.

It kinda works you just gotta be careful with what you use and keep some human in the loop curating the outputs.

This meme was about training on model outputs. But would be nice if they got some trade secrets as well. Intellectual property is cancer and these IP-stealing Chinese companies, if they exist, are doing god’s work 😊 hope Indian companies steal from China next as well

The ball can quantum mechanically tunnel out to the true minimum. In this sense the local minimum is actually not perfectly stable.