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This week the new Trump administration announced new tariffs on key trading partners, Canada and Mexico. Both countries vowed to retaliate, and tensions are high: “Canada imposes 25% tariffs in trade war with US” Living in Canada, I am obviusly curious about the impact this will all have both both sides of the border. I am a self-described economics nerd: having never studied economics, I try to read and listen about when I have spare time. One other topic that’s been on my mind recently is the recent release of the DeepSeek R1 model and the the release of the OpenAI O3 model that followed. Both are SOTA (as of Feb 2025) LLM models that were trained to “reason” before providing an answer through a chain of thought Reinforcement Learning: ...