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Eliminate a key phrase from your website

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It was recently revealed that Taiwan had signed an agreement with the United States so that His army stayed two years on the island training their troops. Days later, it was learned that The island had activated an unpublished security plan to preserve your submarine cables. The maneuvers, without saying it, had a clear recipient. China’s response was A simulation “of war”. Now the United States has raised the tension a little more. And all for a simple phrase. A subtle but significant change. The United States Department of State He has eliminated from his website the phrase that explicitly pointed out that Washington “does not support Taiwan’s independence”. No doubt, this adjustment in the language, which maintains the opposition to any unilateral change of the status quo On the part of China or Taiwan, it has been interpreted in Taipei as a support signal. In addition, the updated document Mention Taiwanese cooperation with the pentagon in technology and semiconductorsand reaffirms the support of the United States to the inclusion of Taiwan in international organizations “where it is applicable.” China’s response has not been waiting. What does Taiwan say. Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung described the change as A “sample of support and a positive posture” in bilateral relations. We remember that, in 2022, a similar elimination of the same sentence generated controversy and was reversed the following monthreflecting the delicate diplomacy around the status of the island. On the other sidewalk, China, that Consider Taiwan an inalienable part of its territory and its “central interest of interest”he has always reacted with hostility to any gesture of support to the island by Washington. While the Taiwanese government insists that only its citizens can decide their future, Beijing sees any movement in favor of Taiwan’s sovereignty as a provocation. Military movements and regional pressure. We have been telling In recent months. The context of these tensions arises from China’s growing military pressure on the island. If we are going very far, a few weeks ago the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense reported that 24 Chinese military planes made joint combat patrols along with warships around the island. In parallel, The American Navy made its first transit through the Taiwan Strait since the inauguration of President Donald Trump last month, while A Canadian war ship, the Ottawa, also sailed around the areain a sample of support for regional security. The role of the United States. Ironically, The nation does not maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwanbut it is its main international ally and is legally committed to providing the means for its defense. Although Trump’s administration has generated uipei in Taipei with criticism (and tariff threats) about the Taiwanese semiconductor industryhe has reaffirmed his support for the island in terms of regional safety and stability. In addition, the new Trump administration He has generated special concern in Beijing due to the composition of his foreign policy teamin which figures known for their hard position against China stand out. Among them, the new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has been a firm defender of Taiwanpromoting legislation to strengthen ties between Washington and Taipei, including in the equation The speed of arms sales to the island. China’s response. And finally, the response to the Washington movement came. China has issued few hours ago a strong conviction against Donald Trump’s administration after the elimination of the phrase “We do not support the independence of Taiwan” of the website of the United States Department. Not just that. Beijing has described modification as a “serious regression” in the American position and a erroneous signal to Taiwanese independence movements. In fact, the Chinese Foreign Ministry He has demanded Washington “to immediately correct his mistake” to avoid “even greater damage” In bilateral relations, already stressed by the return of that policy that accompanies Trump marked by the AMERICA First. Guo Jiakun, Ministry spokesman, accused the United States of using Taiwan to contain China and warned that these types of movements should be handled with “extreme caution.” In short, China has made clear (once again) that Consider Taiwan an impassable red line and that any support from the United States to the island will be seen as a provocation. Under this scenario, the elimination of the reference to the non -independence of Taiwan on the website of the State Department could be interpreted as another step in the deepening of the American support to Taipei, feeding, if possible, a little plus the tensions in The region. Image | 總統府 In Xataka | China simulated a battle with its 055 destroyer against eight from the Navy east of Taiwan. The US should worry In Xataka | China has been claiming as its islands from Japan 130 years. So he has made a decision: surround them with buoys

Communicating with our cats has always been a complex task. A study has discovered the key: flashing

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The Human-Perro communicationand vice versa, it’s really simple. After thousands of years of domestication and coexistence, dogs and humans understand each other almost effortlessly. In fact, they have even Evolved your facial muscles and eyesTo be more expressive and communicate better with us. With cats, the thing changes. We continue unraveling cat domestication And, although they are fully integrated into our homes, it is evident that there are still some Understanding problems. If you have a cat, you will know ‘talk’ with him and read his intentions, but that penetrating look is sometimes a mystery. And that is when we blink slowly. And the cat imitates us. And the magic is done. The reason is that it is the equivalent of the human smile, at least that indicated in a study. The cat smile In 2020, a study called ‘The role of blinking of cats in communication between cats and humans’ explored how this usual gesture in felines is an interspecies communication method. If you have a cat, you will know what we are talking about: that moment in which the cat stares at you and, suddenly, flashes very slowly, as almost falling asleep to, then, to open your eyes fully. He is not sleeping (well, sometimes yes), but trying to communicate with you. Karen McComb is a psychologist at Sussex University and commented that “it is something that many cat owners already They suspectedso it is exciting to have found evidence of it. ” To have that evidence, the team of psychologists did two experiments. The first experiment included 21 cats (11 females and 10 males, aged between four months to 16 years) of 14 different homes. Its owners – 14 humans participated and the instruction was clear: when the cat had eaten in their family environment, the owners had to sit a meter away and slowly blink when the cat stared at them. In the second, another 24 cats of eight different homes were included and there were two differences. The first and most obvious is that the owners were not on this occasion those who performed the flicker: it was the researchers. In addition, after blinking, they extended their hand towards the cats. The tests were recorded, analyzed and the researchers They concluded that cats slowly blin into the initial flickering of humans and, in the case of flickers by the researchers, after the same, they used to approach them to interact with their hand. If they did not blink first, they were less likely to approach in a friendly way. In addition, in the analysis of the recordings, they realized that the cats did not blink in the same way when they were alone or between them and when they were with a human who has slowly blink first. McComb’s conclusion is that it is something we can try with our cats at home, since “it is a great way to improve the link you have with it.” But … why? Three reasons are considered. The first is pure and hard survival: a fixed look is a symptom that it is alert. The cat can also consider that you are, or you can be a threat, if you stare at it, without blinking or flickering quickly, so a slow blink interprets it as you are relaxed and, at the same time, he also lowers his guard. It’s like a friendly smile. On the other hand, the researchers considered that it could be a form of imitation. It is not a secret that cats often imitate their owners and have actions that we consider funny, but that it is simply an attempt to copy human movements and actions. There are always doubts when it comes to animals such as cats and, above all, domesticatedbecause it is always possible that cats have developed that expression because humans respond emotionally when they do. The third reason is that it may have been a technique that cats themselves have perfected to cut an intense, penetrating and potentially threatening look. If they blink slowly and returned the gesture, they interrupted an awkward situation. Whatever, the researchers affirm that, whether it works as if not, it is interesting game hours or petting. And, evidently, it also has practical implications. If we know that cats feel more comfortable in environments in which they feel that the human is not a threat, it is easier to work with them in shelters or veterinary centers. Although, of course, this depends a lot on the character of each feline. As a contribution: I’ve been trying with my three cats for years. None have even paid me. Of course, as soon as I open a little latically, they magically communicate perfectly Images | Nature, Sabri Tuzcu In Xataka | Cats are not as apathetic as we thought. This is what demonstrates its wide repertoire of facial expressions

We have a new “theory of all” to understand Alzheimer’s. Your key is in small granules

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Creating “theories of all”, unified models that explain various phenomena associated with a scientific field, is not exclusive heritage of physicists. The fight against some diseases can also benefit from models that help us understand their causes and consequences and the processes that mediate. New model. Now a group of researchers has devised a new modela theory that tries to explain Alzheimer’s disease through a “unified explanation of molecular chaos” that derives in this neurodegenerative disorder. According to this new theory, the disease and its symptoms would derive from a collapse of the transport system in charge of moving molecules between the nucleus and cell cytoplasm. This new theory can help simplify a topic as complex as Alzheimer’s. However, its authors remember that this disruption is still extremely complex, with more than a thousand genes involved in it. “Our proposal, focused on the rupture of communication between the nucleus and the cytoplasm leading to massive disruptions in gene expression, offers a plausible framework to understand the mechanisms that lead to this complex disease,” Explain in a press release Paul Coleman, co -author of the new model. A granular problem The model places the formation of chronic stress granules at the beginning of this process. These are clusters of proteins and RNA chains responsible for generating stress in the cell. Stress granules are usually generated temporarily. Its original function is to respond to cell stress by leaving some processes until the cell can recover. Once its duty has fulfilled and the stress disappeared, they dissolve. The problem unleashes when these granules become chronic, which leads them to catch other molecules, making it difficult for them to move between the nucleus and the rest of the cell. From inside out. The model starts from this trigger to explain with it the disease and its consequences outside the cellular unit. And it is that the changes that occur at the cellular level end up affecting cerebral synapses, metabolism, protein processing and cell survival, as explained by the model responsible for the model. The details of the new model were published In an article In the magazine Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. A disease with many faces. Alzheimer is one of the most intriguing diseases, Explain the responsible team of the new model. In part, they point out, this is because it takes the appearance of various diseases made one, with symptoms that include memory loss and cognitive deterioration, but also changes in personality and in our same internal biology. This complexity, continues to expose the team, is partly responsible for how extremely difficult it is to study this disease. Models like this that schematize their processes, can serve future researchers to find new routes of action that become more effective therapies when facing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s or, even, the same disease. In Xataka | In his tireless fight against Alzheimer’s, scientists have encountered an unexpected ally: coffee Image | Jason DREES/AS

Nuclear energy has given you a key advantage that you are already taking advantage of

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“I have a good friend on the other side of the ocean that says: ‘PERFORA, HAR Emmanuel Macron said this week in reference to Trump’s efforts to increase oil extraction. “But here it is not necessary to pierce. Here is only: ‘Plug, honey, plug!’ Electricity is availableyou just have to connect, ”added the French president during a summit on artificial intelligence (AI) held in Paris. The message is quite clear and reflects France’s intention to take advantage of its energy ecosystem as a strategic advantage to consolidate its role in the development of AI. The European country exported More than 90 Teravatios Hora (TWH) of electricity in 2024, which, according to the Government, allows it not only to cover the current needs of its companies and homes, but also host a large number of data centers. Nuclear energy, the key of France The aforementioned declaration of intentions has come accompanied by two ambitious agreements. As we pointed out at the end of last week, The United Arab Emirates committed themselves to make a multimillion -dollar investment in France to build a data center of 1 Gigavatio within a Largest AI campus in Europe. Yesterday Monday The announcement was formalized From the cloud AI platform Fluidstack. Fluidstack, a British firm with clients such as Mistral AI and Character.AI, plans to establish a 1 gigavatio data center on Gallic floor, completely driven by nuclear energy. It is expected that the first phase of the project, promoted by 10,000 million dollars (10,360 million dollars) to materialize in 2026. The agreement, which bears the signing of several French ministers, leaves the door open to later stages in 2028. As in many parts of the world, building a data center in France implies challenges, including bureaucracy. To facilitate the process, the Government has assured that the National Electric Management Company will guarantee the necessary supply. As a whole, this should be translated not only in a better position in France in the AI ​​career, but also the creation of “thousands of jobs” of research and infrastructure. France’s relationship with nuclear energy has evolved over time. A decade ago, the country announced a plan to reduce its dependence on this source from 70% to 50%, but in 2022 the strategy took a turn and the initiative was discarded. Instead of limiting its use, the government chose to expand it with the construction of new reactors. Currently, France has 57 reactors distributed in 18 plants. These movements are allowing the country led by Macron to gain advantage over other countries in the region and the world. Although data centers can operate with ENergía Solar and Windthe intermittency of these sources raises additional challenges. Nuclear energy, on the other hand, guarantees a stable supply and large scale. In addition, the new generation of small modular reactors (SMR) reinforces this scenario. Images | Heyee | MasterButler (CC by 2.0) In Xataka | Spain plans to close all its nuclear power plants. And the Valencian Community thinks it is a serious mistake

Apple Intelligence needed a Chinese partner and has already found it, according to ‘The Information’. The key is qwen

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Apple needs a local partner to offer Apple Intelligence in China, where regulations demand that AI services pass through national companies. We knew that Apple had been looking for the ideal partner for some time, according to The Informationhe has found it in Alibaba. Why is it important. The absence of Apple Intelligence in China has weighed iPhone sales in the largest smartphones market in the world. The agreement could reverse this trend just when Apple plans to launch its AI in simplified Chinese in April, the same month in which It will arrive in Spanish. In Xataka Apple’s metamorphosis: from the minimalist catalog to calculated maximalism What has happened. Apple and Alibaba have jointly presented their AI functions for approval by the Chinese regulator. The alliance comes after Apple will rule out collaborating with Baidu for not reaching the required standards. Between bambalins. Apple was also probing possible alliances with Bytedance, Tencent and Deepseek Before opting for Alibaba. The choice was based on the robustness of the model Qwen from Alibaba and its ability to process personalized data thanks to its experience in electronic commerce. Also, Ahem, in Your alignment with socialist values required by the Beijing government. The latest. Alibaba’s actions They have triggered 3.5% After the publication of the news and accumulates 8% in two days. The market trusts the fruit of this operation between both companies. Alibaba’s Qwen model has gained reputation in recent months. Its potential was demonstrated when Stanford scientists managed to train a new reasoning model for less than $ 50 using Qwen as a base. S1 marked a before and after for the model. Outstanding image | Xataka with Midjourney In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

Saudi Arabia has sealed a key pact to dominate the AI

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Saudi Arabia is launched into the conquest of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)entering fully into the battle to lead one of the most promising businesses of the moment. The country, whose economy continues to depend largely on oil, has been looking to diversify its sources of income for years. A key piece of this ambitious plan is neom, A futuristic city that, for now, resembles more an industrial estatebut that aspires to become a luxury tourist destination and an innovation center. Oxagon, the city’s industrial center, will be the headquarters of a huge 1.5 Gigaw Data Center. Until now, most of the language models we use have been trained in infrastructure that operated on the megawatt scale, but the industry is stepping on the accelerator towards the gigawatts. There are the projects announced by goal and Oracle To prove it. This runaway growth is also exerting pressure on the energy sector of many countries. A “sustainable” project raised in several stages According to a statement released this weekthe Saudi Datavolt company will be in charge of leading the works. It is not yet clear if they will begin this year, but it has been confirmed that the data center will be built in phases. The initial investment, of 5,000 million dollarswill allow operations to start in 2028. From then on, the capital flow is expected to continue and that the works continue to advance until reaching the expected power, all under a “sustainable” approach. The announcement indicates that the data center will have “an integrated high density computer ecosystem and an energy efficient infrastructure.” One of the promises of the NEOM is sustainability. The government has promised that it aims to produce “100% clean” energy from sources such as solar energy, wind energy and the largest hydrogen plant in the world. It is no secret that they will need a lot of energy to boost this and other AI data centers in the place. The International Energy Agency (AIE) He has indicated thatin 2022, the global electricity consumption of the data centers was between 1 % and 1.3 %, and everything indicates that it will continue to increase significantly in the next decade. This scenario is promoting a Resurgence of nuclear energya source capable of satisfying the needs of large data centers and doing it stable. Now, it remains to be seen if Saudi Arabia, that still does not have nuclear plantsHe will advance in his plans. As Datavolt has pointed out, the project aims to turn Saudi Arabia into a regional reference in digital innovation and artificial intelligence. However, it is not the only country in the Middle East that aspires to lead this technological career. United Arab Emirates is also betting strongly in that regard, and proof of this is its recent multimillionaire investment To lift in France a 1 Gigavatio AI data center, part of the largest AI campus in Europe. Images | Neom | Datavolt In Xataka | Neom seems crazy, but Saudi Arabia does not take the brake and begin to build a cube in which 20 Empire State fit

In the war between communities of neighbors and tourist floors there is a key date, on April 3. And favors the first

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With the influx of tourists in Historic maximumsthe residential market Tensioning and the price of housing climbing until Nourish With those of the brick bubble, administrations have launched themselves to regulate tourist floors. In Madrid, Barcelona either Valencia The municipalities have moved file to put limits and in Seville they have even considered ending the illegal offer by closing the tap. Literally. From April 3 who want to devote themselves to holiday rental will have to deal with a new challenge: neighborhood communities. If until now they were the ones that suffered the most tourist floors, they are about to become the opposite: a way to stop their proliferation. What happened? That on April 3 a change of the Horizontal Property Law which will fully affect the relationship between neighbors communities and tour floors. And it will also do so in favor of the former, expanding its margin to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals. Legal change is included in the Organic Law 1/2025a rule published in the BOE earlier this year, but which has a period of three months to enter into force. What does the law say? Basically it establishes that anyone who wants to rent their apartment to tourists must get permission from most of its neighbors. And what is more important, has to have that collective ‘ok’ before leasing the floor. “You must previously obtain the express approval of the community of owners”, Clarify the new standardwhich also specifies that the decision must be made with a broad support of the three fifths of the owners. Wasn’t it so far? The legal change gives more tools to neighbors communities when limiting tourist rentals within their block, but that does not mean that until now they have had their hands tied. On the contrary. He Royal Decree 7/2019which entered into force six years ago, already provided that the communities could “limit or condition” the holiday rentals in the building if the three fifths of the owners agreed so. And can they report? Yes. Now the law goes a step further. It speaks of the need to obtain “previously the express approval” of the community and pronounced on the margin of maneuver that the neighbors have, even about the possibility of denouncing in case they detect a rented floor without their placet. “The president of the community, on his own initiative or of any of the owners or occupants, will require those who carry out the activity, without expressly approved, the immediate cessation of the same, under the warning of initiating the judicial actions,” indicates the law published in January. Does it have retroactive effect? No, the legal change will not have retroactive effect on the apartments that are rented respecting the norms. The text Published in January it is quite clear about it: “That owner of a house that is exercising the activity prior to the entry into force of the law, which has previously been accepted to the tourist sector regulations, may continue to exercise the activity with the conditions and deadlines established in it. “ The new law also echoed another of the powers that communities have and appeared already reflected in The 2019 decree: The whole of the neighbors may apply to the owners of tourist floors a “special quota” or “an increase in the participation of the common expenses of the house”. Of course, that increase should never exceed 20% and the decision must also be endorsed by a lazy majority of the three fifths of the owners. Is it a novelty? It is a novelty the entry into force of the law on April 3, but probably caught by surprise a few owners of flats and communities of neighboring. And not only because the regulations have been published in the BOE January 3. The government had been looking for the way to “empower” the neighbors in the face of the proliferation of vacation rentals and months ago he acknowledged that one of the ideas he had in mind was to give communities a veto power. “What we want is that the authorization of the neighbors be necessary, with a major I advanced In July, Minister Carlos Body in RNE. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and Tomáš Gal (Unspash) In Xataka | In Spain, floors are being rented as tourist accommodations without a license. Now also elderly residences

The treasure desired by all nations that China dominates with iron fist can be key in Ukraine: its rare earths

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Trump has had to get there An unexpected negotiating element In the war in Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv have been waiting for the new administration with respect to the conflict for weeks. The answer, unexpected for the majority, is about to see if it is as it seems. If affirmative, the United States would enter fully into the contest to help Ukraine, although in exchange for very precious minerals with incalculable geopolitical value. Rare lands in exchange for support. Donald Trump’s recent statement on a possible agreement with Ukraine, in which The United States would receive rare minerals in exchange for military assistancehas shaken the geopolitical panorama and generated international mixed reactions. The proposal, presented by Trump himself in the Oval office, seeks to condition Kyiv aid, linking it with strategic resources such as lithium, uranium and titanium, fundamental to the technological and military industry. This strategy, which reflects its transactional approach in foreign policy, represents a significant change regarding the unconditional military assistance that the American nation has provided so far, where it was practically reduced to money and weapons. A turn in the relationship. Since Trump’s re -election, uncertainty about American commitment to Ukraine has been a matter of concern for Kyiv. Everything changes, a priori (and being real), with this offer, since Ukraine could ensure Washington’s support when a “strategic interest” In his future. In fact, the answer has not been expected, and Ukrainian officials have explained that The administration of Volodymyr Zelensky would be willing to sign joint agreements with the United States To guarantee the collaboration in the exploitation of these resources, in an attempt to consolidate military support in the middle of the wear of the conflict with Russia. Moreover, Zelensky has warned that Without American intervention, these resources could end up in the hands of adversaries As Iran or North Korea, in case of a Russian victory. Geopolitical impact As we said, the international reaction to Trump’s words has not been waiting. In Europe, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz harshly criticized the proposaldescribing it as selfish and stressing that minerals should be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine instead of being exchanged for weapons. A European diplomat expressed doubts about the viability of the plansuggesting that it is not yet clear if it is a negotiation strategy or a firm demand. In addition, he stressed that European countries have already considered more transactional approaches with the United States, although without compromising essential resources of Ukraine. And from Russia? From Moscow, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov interpreted Trump’s proposal as a sign that the United States will no longer deliver free helpwhat Russia sees as an opportunity to weaken Western support to Kyiv. This perspective coincides with Russian military advances in eastern Ukraine, where many of the rare mineral reserves are found. The minerals. It We have counted before. In the case at hand, the elements of rare earths that Donald Trump seeks to ensure through an agreement with Ukraine in exchange for military aid They are essential strategic metals for key industriesfrom advanced technology to defense. Despite its name, these 17 elements are not particularly scarce, since There are large deposits in China, Brazil, Vietnam and Russia. However, its extraction implies highly polluting and expensive processes, which has limited its production outside of Chinawho dominates the global market thanks to massive investments in refinement and more lax environmental regulation. The importance of rare earths. These metals They are practically irreplaceable in many industrial applications. Neodimium and Disposio, for example, allow to manufacture ultra -policy magnets essential for wind turbines and electric motors, while the Europium is crucial for television screens and the hill is used in oil refining. Besides, They play a key role in the development of modern armamentincluding in the equation guided missiles. Since production is concentrated in China (and therefore, The dependence of most countries), we have the best of the clues for which United States and EU seek to reduce its dependencepromoting new sources of supply and recycling of materials. Trump’s interest. Linking with the above, Trump possibly sees in Ukrainian deposits An opportunity to strengthen US supply and reduce that Chinese influence In the sector, more convulsed than ever with The war of tariffs imposed. In this sense, one of the greatest attractions of the agreement for Washington is Access to lithium deposits of Ukraine, essential for the manufacture of microchips and batteries for electric vehiclesstrategic sectors where the United States competes directly with China. Within the framework of its transactional policy, the tycoon proposes that Ukraine guarantees access to these resources in exchange for military support, An idea previously suggested by Volodymyr Zelensky. The geopolitics of these materials, therefore, is key, since a greater dependence on China could represent strategic risks, as happened in 2010 when Beijing blocked exports to Japan in a territorial conflict. Difference with other critical minerals. Rare earths are just a part of The so -called critical mineralsa broader category that includes tungsten, tellurium and Indian, essential for clean energy and advanced technologies. In fact, China has already imposed export controls of some of these materials In response to American tariffs, reinforcing the need to diversify the global supply. Paradigm change. Be that as it may, Trump’s interest in convert military assistance into an agreement based on resources It represents a fundamental change in the way in which the United States could handle its relationship with Ukraine (or other nations in conflict). While Kyiv sees this as an opportunity to maintain American support, the proposal It has also generated tensions with Europe and criticism about ethics to condition aid to an exchange of strategic goods. On the other hand, and at least publicly, Russia does not see it either bad, but as a chance. In a context of prolonged war and with Moscow gaining ground, this new approach could define the future of the conflict and remodel geopolitical balance in the coming years. Of course, it is about to see if Trumop’s … Read more

Routine is the key to succeed in streaming

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We already have unofficial (but very reliable) annual estimates of the most watched in streaming that Nielsen performs every year. And in 2024, the most seen has been … the usual. What forces us, without a doubt, to reflect: how is it possible that the most viewed series of the year are not the most spoken, and the most viewed platforms are not the ones that receive the most owners? Actually, the explanation is very simple. The most watched programs. According to the reportthe most seen 2024 programs have been the ‘Bluey’ animation series, with 55,620 million minutes in Disney+, and ‘Grey Anatomy’, with 47,850 million minutes (in the US, Hulu and Netflix). More animation, but it is for adults, cup the following positions: ‘Family father’ (44.2 billion minutes) and ‘Bob’s Burger’ (36,800). The top continues with series such as ‘The young Sheldon’, his mother series ‘Big Bang Theory’, some procedures with ‘Law and Order: Unit of Special Victims’ and ‘Criminal minds’, and closing the circle of the series for all public, ‘spongebob’. Ironies of life. A list that undoubtedly attracts attention. Where are that ‘My stuffed reindeer‘, that ‘THE PROBLEM OF THE THREE BODIES‘, those franchises of’Dune‘ and ‘Game of Thrones‘We all talk about? The first place with an exclusive product of a platform (everything on the list above is acquisitions) is’Bridgerton‘From Netflix, in 12th place, with 21,420 million minutes, followed by’ Love Is Blind ‘, also from Netflix. With figures above 10,000 million minutes are ‘The Boys‘. ‘Lincoln’s lawyer’, ‘Fallout‘(This was the new most seen series among the exclusive streaming), ‘Futurama’, ‘DolReacher‘. Simple explanations. This absence in the top 10 of successes of the most media and recent series has a logical explanation: the streaming It has become an active way to fill out leisure hours, but an accompaniment at home, which has replaced options for the past such as radio, music players or linear television itself. He streaming as “background noise” It is no longer a rarity, and therefore, however extravagant that sounds on paper, no one has missed that Netflix looks for series that in his dialogues “Explain what is happening”to be able to follow them without paying them attention. Long series, more hours. And on the other hand, there is the obvious reason that the more available footage, more hours of viewing they can accumulate. ‘Fallout’, in the best case, has eight episodes of approximately one hour: eighty hours per speaker. On the contrary, ‘anatomy of Gray’ cam 21 seasons of around twenty episodes each. And often, they are independent episodes that do not require constant attention. It is normal for these series to attract less attention but accumulate much more robust figures. Children have power. Finally children: the ten most viewed films of the year in streaming They have been almost all of animation: ‘Vaiana’, ‘Super Mario Bros.: The movie’, ‘Trolls 3: All together’, ‘Los Minions’, ‘Chark’, ‘Frozen’, ‘The Canine Patrol: The movie’ , ‘The upside down’ and ‘Baby boss’. The only exception is ‘Red One’, also oriented to the family. If we add to that the privileged position of ‘Bluey’ as the most watched program of the year on any channel and the obvious preeminence of Disney+ among the most viewed platforms, the equation is clear: children send, but not necessarily with productions of latest batch ( ‘The minions’ is from 2015 and ‘Vaiana’, of 2016). Again, figures outside the millionaire media movements of the platforms. La Puntilla, ‘Night agent’. And there is another element that contributes a nuance: the ‘Night Agent’ series, whose second season has debuted with 13.9 million views in its first four days. The monumental success of the firstwhich in 2023 almost reached 100 million views in their first 90 days in Netflix, and became the seventh most viewed of the English platform. And why is one more nuance to what we are talking about? For the surprising “normality” of the series, away from more creative, artistic or risky productions that mediately state on the platform, such as ‘the squid game’. The triumph of Normies. With the success of the first season of ‘Night agent’ there was talk of how surprising that he had razed such an anodine appearance. The critic Miles Surrey has recently defined it As “the Platonic ideal” of a Netflix series, or even refining more, a “hamburger with gourmet cheese”, that is, a series that combines accessibility and quality, a kind of stone Rosetta of success, which he shares with this rest of the series that have triumphed in recent months. And no one can doubt the quality and attractiveness for the masses of ‘Bluey’, ‘Big Bang Theory’ or ‘Grey Anatomy’, those commercial diamonds that, one more year, crowned the most watched lists. In Xataka | After years trying to conquer cinemas, Netflix wants to release only in streaming. And Hollywood didn’t like a hair

Deepseek does the same as Openai’s most advanced models with much less resources. The key: “Reinforcement Learning”

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The entire world is wondering how it is possible that the models of AI of Deepseek They have become overnight the great protagonists of today in the field of artificial intelligence. The answer is relatively simple. These models have managed to demonstrate that You can do more with much less. Both Deepseek V3 and Deepseek-R1 are comparable to GPT-4 or O1 OPENAI respectively, but it is estimated that their training has been much less expensive and its inference, of course, is: the prices of the Deepseek API are up to 35 sometimes lower than those of OpenAi, but that makes one wonder how it is possible. The answer is clear, and it is because we have at our disposal the technical reports of these AI models. Precisely his study has allowed us to clarify What are the techniques that this Chinese R&D laboratory has used to develop these models so efficient and capable. Many techniques, a single objective: efficiency There are several differences that make Deepseek’s new model especially efficient. Its creators explain in detail in the detailed Technical Report that is publicly available. Here are the most relevant: Deepseekmoe (“Mixture of experts”): In models such as GPT-3.5 the entire model was activated in both training and inference (when we use it). However, not all model components are necessary for our requests. The MOE technique – already introving with Deepseek V2 – precisely divides the model into multiple “experts” and only activates those that are necessary according to the request. GPT-4 is already a MOE model. But as we said, Depseekmoe even went further and differentiated between even more specialized experts, in addition to using some somewhat more generalist experts that could contribute value in certain requests. Managing all those specialized or generalist experts not only benefits inference, but also the training phase, making it more efficient. This technique is similar to the so -called “Time Scaling test” that also adjusts the size or complexity of a model during efficiency. Deepseekmla (Multi-Head Latent attention): It is another substantial improvement-even more than the previous one, and also introduced with Deepseek V2-that affects the way in which memory is managed in these models. Normally it is necessary to load both the model and the entire context window – the one that allows us to write prompts and include long texts, for example. Context windows are especially expensive because each token requires both a key and their corresponding value. With the improvement introduced with this technique, what was made possible was to compress that warehouse of keys and values, dramatically reducing memory use during inference. Auxiliary -los-Free Load Balancing: If we imagine a model like a great orchestra, each musician is an “expert” within the model. To play a complex piece, not all musicians are necessary all the time. Traditionally the so -called “auxiliary losses” were used to make sure that all musicians played enough, but these losses could interfere with that interpretation of the musical piece (model training), which could degrade general performance. With Deepseek V3 the model is able to balance the work of each expert dynamically. That does the simplest, direct and efficient training by eliminating “auxiliary losses.” In addition, the elimination of interference allows the model to learn better and with less resources … and get better results. Multi-Token Prediction Training Objective: Often predicting the following word depends on several previous words or context. With this technique instead of predicting only the following word, the model learns to predict several words at the same time. That makes more natural and understandable and less ambiguous texts generate, but also accelerates training by reducing the number of steps necessary to generate the complete text sequence. FP8 Mixed Precision Training: The use of Numbers FP8 allows significantly reducing memory consumption and accelerates calculations. Some critical parts of the model continue to use FP32 training to guarantee precision, but there is another additional benefit of FP8: the size of the models is reduced. Other models use techniques such as quantization or parameter pruning. Although Openai does not give data on GPT-4 in this section, the assumption is that it works with BF16, more expensive in terms of memory. Although FP8 theoretically leads to less precise models, other complementary techniques such as fine-grained quantization are used to reduce the negative impact of values ​​that come out of the common, which makes a stable training possible. Cross-Node All-to-Lall Communication: During training it is necessary to constantly exchange information between all nodes (computers) connected in training data centers. That can become a bottleneck, but these new Deepseek V3 techniques include efficient communication protocols, data traffic reduction and efficient synchronization to accelerate training and, once again, reduce the costs of that process. Reinforcement and “distillation” learning as keys But in addition to all these techniques, those responsible for Deepseek V3 explain how they pressed it with 14.8 billion tokens, a process to which a supervised adjustment followed (Superved Fine-Tuning, SFT) and several stages of Reinforcement Learning (Reinforcement Learning, RL). The SFT phase-which is mentioned in the Deepseek V3 report-was completely omitted in the case of Deepseek-R1. However, learning by reinforcement is an absolute protagonist in the development of both models, especially in R1. The technique is well known in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is as if we trained a dog with prizes and punishments. The model learns to respond better by giving rewards if you do well. Over time, the model learns to take actions that maximize long -term reward. In Deepseek, learning for reinforcement is used to break down complex problems in smaller steps. In it Deepseek R1 technical report It also indicates how this model makes use of RL techniques directly on the base model, without the need for supervised training. That saves computing resources. The call also comes into play here Thought chain (chain-of-though)also mentioned in the technical report. This refers to the ability of a language model to show the intermediate steps of its reasoning. The model not only … Read more

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