t amazing the level of incompetence from the Biden. The whole Biden situation is just incredible.

Well according to Bloomberg the Trump administration is going to follow up on something that the Biden administration started, which means that it's a bipartisan thing, to go after Microsoft for antitrust. Now I don't know what that includes because Microsoft is such a big sprawling organization but there have always been allegations that they were involved in some kind of anti-competitive stuff. So I don't know what these specific allegations are but it's notable that the Biden administration started it and the Trump administration is going to continue it. So it does suggest that there's something there. We'll find out how much that matters.

According to the Washington Examiner there's a study on Wisconsin that shows that requiring voter ID does not suppress the vote ahead of ballot decisions. Now I don't know that they can really study that but they found out that when they enacted voter ID law in Wisconsin the turnout increased by 1.5 percent. But do you see what's wrong with that? It increased by 1.5 percent. The real question is how much would it have increased by itself. So it's not like voter ID increased it. And if the argument is that voter ID would suppress it then really what you need to know is well if it was 1.5 with voter ID what would it have been without voter ID?

Now since I'm completely in the camp that says voter ID is required and I don't think there's a single person who's a legal resident who wants to vote and can't figure out how to get an ID, I just don't think they exist. So I agree with the conclusion of the study although I don't think they studied it in a way that I find compelling. But I agree there's no way that voter ID is a bad thing.

According to Technical University of Munich some people figured out how to make AI learning a hundred times faster. You've probably heard how many times have I told you a story like that. But this one is instead of using their usual iterative method of training they have some kind of probabilistic scheme and they can get just as good responses by not just doing everything but rather probabilistically knowing what to do to train it. So that's the idiot explanation. Just know that there's something out there that already works. It's not speculative. It already works and it increases the efficiency by 100 times.

Now this is just one of many stories that had that same quality. It's like oh there's a new chip. There's a new DeepSeek. DeepSeek is one of those that's a whole different way to train cheaper. So I've got a feeling that the cost of getting into the AI business is going to drop to the point where I don't even know if the big companies can keep any kind of advantage at some point. Especially if you have AIs that are being trained on other AIs. I feel like it's going to be hard for the biggest AI companies to keep a moat to keep other people from just knocking them off. So we'll see.

There's a story I wasn't going to get into about a specific police chief who happened to be the chief of police in Las Vegas at the same time Stephen Paddock did that mass shooting of the music festival. But then he left that job and he went to Maui where he became the police chief during the Lahaina fire. Now how could anybody be that unlucky? You know imagine being the police chief in Las Vegas. You're thinking ah Las Vegas seems like a pretty good place to be a police chief. And then you have the biggest mass shooting and of course he was blamed for not investigating it enough. And then he goes to Maui. He's thinking to himself nothing ever happens in Maui. I mean it's basically no crime. So and then there's a Lahaina fire and I guess he got some criticism for that. But now he's been named as a codefendant in a lawsuit that involves Sean Diddy Combs. How could one person get in that much trouble? How's it even possible that one person could go from the Las Vegas shooting to the Lahaina fire to getting in trouble with Diddy?

And by the way I don't have a criticism of this police chief. It could be just really bad luck. You know it could be that the Diddy thing is just an association of an association and doesn't mean anything. It could be that the Las Vegas and Lahaina thing everybody's criticizing everybody so maybe it wasn't that bad. But that's a heck of a lot of trouble for one person to be into. Well yeah I see it in the comments somebody saying he's corrupt but really to me that just looks like horrible luck. Whether or not he did a good job in those cases I can't judge but that looks like really bad luck anyway. We'll keep an innocent till proven guilty opinion on that.

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