Can Bloomberg forecasts be trusted?

2023-04-05 07:15:35

No, Bloomberg is currently engaged in the formation of public opinion.

Once upon a time, Western rating agencies such as Bloomberg, Goldman and Flich were truly independent. It was then that they gained their popularity. Now these economic agencies are largely politicized and work at the request of governments, or rather economic clans, whose interests are protected by governments. Even the world's stock exchanges do not react much to the forecasts of these agencies.

Bloomberg, a privately held company based in New York, is one of the top two providers of information for the financial markets. The media are actively reprinting all Bloomberg's forecasts for the economy, and traders are guided during the game on the foreign exchange market, including the statements of this company.

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What data do IT giants use to train neural networks?

2025-10-31 12:24:03

Data is taken from everywhere, including documents from cloud storage.

The evolving race of neural networks is forcing tech giants to take desperate measures in search of data to train their language models. For example, Google has changed its privacy policy — now the company has the right to use almost all the content that you create to train its neural networks. Microsoft takes data from your office documents stored on its cloud servers. Open AI was trained on Stackoverflow data.

If you store your documents in the cloud, then there is a 100% chance that neural networks will be trained on them.

Did the British change India's caste system?

2023-10-10 11:57:38

Yes, the social categories of religion and caste, as they are perceived in modern India, developed during the British colonial rule, at a time when information was scarce and the colonizer's power over information was absolute.

This was originally done in the early 19th century by elevating selected and convenient Brahmin-Sanskrit texts such as Manusmriti to canonical status; the alleged caste origin in the Rig Veda (the oldest religious text) was most likely added retroactively after it was translated into English decades later. These categories were institutionalized in the mid- to late 19th century through the census. These were acts of convenience and simplification. The colonialists established an acceptable list of local religions in India - Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism - and their boundaries and laws by reading what they claimed were the definitive texts of India.

Officially, castes are prohibited by law in India, but changing the caste division of Indian society, which has been cultivated in the minds of Indians for centuries, is not so easy.

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Will Russia be able to carry out import substitution of electronics by 2030?

2022-12-12 08:25:20

If we are talking about the purchase of obsolete equipment, then yes. If we are talking about the production of semiconductors with 0, then no.

Lack of specialists. There is a critical dependence of the design and production processes on foreign technologies, including software, and materials (in particular, high-purity chemistry and silicon). Low investment attractiveness of the industry. Lack of production capacity.

3.19 trillion rubles will be enough only to buy obsolete equipment. ASML spent $6 billion a year to become an industry leader. But she had specialists, there were no sanctions and there was no urgent need. In the current situation, the amount needs to be tripled.

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