“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War – 5th Century BCE Today marks a significant milestone in the AI as DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, announced the release of its revolutionary R1 Open-Source large language model (LLM) rivalling OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This DeepSeek RI model has been designed to excel in complex reasoning tasks, rivaling the performance of OpenAI’s latest models while reportedly being developed at a fraction of the training & implementation cost. It is being widely reported that this R1 LLM was trained with Reinforcement Learning (RL) for a
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Confrontation with North Korea – Deja Vu?
Published Aug 12, 2017: This week we had another, by all accounts, successful ICBM Test by North Korea aka DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea), which makes it two in a row. This coupled with separate successful Nuclear Tests in earlier years, has “upped the ante” in in the Korean Peninsula and now has the potential to cross some dangerous “red lines”. It can now be surmised that North Korea is probably working on “miniaturizing” the nuclear warheads to mount them on the cone of the ICBM to perform “integrated tests” of the entire ICBM system in coming months. If / when DPRK