You might like
If you were curious, here are the answers to my river quiz questions posted two days ago: Easy Difficulty 1. Which river is called China's "mother river"? The Yellow River 2. Which river is the longest in China? The Yangtze River 3. Which river is famous for its historic…
Quiz Time! Back when I was researching for this piece about the naming conventions of Chinese rivers, I collected so many fun facts about China and rivers that I made a Chinese river-themed trivia quiz. At the time, a few months ago, with the information fresh in my head, I…
Flock is currently solving 10% of reported crime in the US. My wife was hit in a hit and run last month. (She was injured and is still recovering.) Flock cameras found the drunk driver who hit her. Without Flock, that drunk driver would never be found, and they might have killed…
the idea that you have "a right to privacy" for your car's...license plate...in public...is ridiculous sfstandard.com/2025/12/29/san…
The only thing OP should regret is misleading his followers with his clunky charts and sloppy, unsophisticated analysis. He has sadly ignored more tactful efforts to correct these issues, so enough is enough. Time to be blunt... Let's break it down in a long thread.🧵
One thing I'll regret about 2025 is how many nonsense meetings I had to sit through on how China is becoming the world's "green" super power. Two-thirds of electricity generation in China is from thermal power plants (blue). That's coal. Give me a break... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-elect…
A MASSIVE 303 page study from the very best Chinese Labs. The paper explains how code focused language models are built, trained, and turned into software agents that help run parts of development. These models read natural language instructions, like a bug report or feature…
How transparent are major AI companies? We answer this question each year in the annual Foundation Model Transparency Index. While the AI industry as a whole is quite opaque, we found a huge spread. @IBM scored a 95/100 while @xai scored 14/100. So what's going on? 🧵
The key question is how to make the red line item less supply constrained...
The optimists and pessimists both have a point, to an extent. What I keep coming back to is this chart. Western societies have profoundly buggered up the supply of critical goods and services, whilst at the same time producing a technological cornucopia. Trick is to make the…
With this @wstv_lizzi ups China watching a notch into a meta-cultural, philosophical and delicious experience. Just timely for the binge eating season.
An unusual (and fascinating!) conversation with Chris St. Cavish, a professional chef who has spent two decades eating, filming, and writing about Chinese regional cuisine. When I first came to the states Chinese food was reduced to Americanized staples but it’s now increasingly…
Glad to share my two cents on China’s social credit system in this excellent @Newsweek piece: There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what China’s social credit system is and, I think, just as importantly, what it isn’t. A few thoughts: First, the popular idea of a single,…
This post going viral reminded me of an interesting bit I read recently about "rising superstars" in China among the ranks of young cadres. To be considered a high-flyer superstar, you need to be advancing through China's political ranks at a VERY advanced pace. Let's look. 🧵
Seattle Mayor: 🇺🇸 - 41 yrs old - No college degree - Never had a job, lived with Parents until age 40. Shenzhen Mayor: 🇨🇳 - 54 yrs old - Masters Thermal Engineering from a Tsinghua - 8 yrs Senior level Engineer - Director High tech Center - 17 yrs Government experience
UT now has the most AI computing power of any university. This investment, provided by Dell and NVIDIA, gives our researchers an edge in AI, cybersecurity, health, energy, advanced manufacturing, and more.
The 27th #China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF), one of the country's largest technology exhibitions, opened in Shenzhen. The event has attracted over 5,000 companies and international organizations from more than 100 countries and regions. 🇨🇳💻🧬🔬
Everybody brings numbers... They don't lie, nor get you the sucker votes.
We just published a terrific guest piece from my friend Weijian Shan. I think it is a must read for anyone looking to understand China’s advances in manufacturing. research.gavekal.com/article/unrave… The piece has no firewall and is open to everyone. Incidentally, Weijian Shan wrote one…
🥩A space BBQ party is on! 🌽🍖Grilling kebabs and steaks in space is no longer a dream — the @CNSpaceStation has its own space oven! 😋Check out the astronauts enjoying roasted chicken wings and beef steak. Hungry yet? [📹CMG]
TIL China's urban workers truly have the best pension scheme in the world: retire at 60 (55 for female), net replacement rates (pension/pre-retire earnings) at 88% (70.1%) while OECD retire at 66 on average at 61% replacement rate. Yet they still save 1/3 of disposable income.
🚀 DeepSeek-OCR — the new frontier of OCR from @deepseek_ai , exploring optical context compression for LLMs, is running blazingly fast on vLLM ⚡ (~2500 tokens/s on A100-40G) — powered by vllm==0.8.5 for day-0 model support. 🧠 Compresses visual contexts up to 20× while keeping…
What will be in China's next five-year plan? Next week the CCP will set the agenda for its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) at the Fourth Plenum Our new @AsiaPolicy deep dive previews the signals on growth, tech, politics, and Xi's military purges It's a big deal... 🧵
Maybe nothing maybe something...3-5 years Source: Nature share.google/7Z53ba6U0wkxLD…
In light of all the Golden Week travel, I wanted to post one of my favorite tables that did not really get much airtime when it was originally posted. scmp.com/news/china/pol…
What's the odds @ShunyuYao14 @ShunyuYao12 ?
Yao Shunyu, a Chinese physicist who turned AI scientist, said on social media that he had left @AnthropicAI because of the US AI startup's anti-China statements, which included calling China an "adversarial nation.” Yao now works at @GoogleDeepMind.
United States Trends
- 1. The ARC N/A
- 2. #ODEAI N/A
- 3. #EP_No N/A
- 4. Good Wednesday N/A
- 5. #alert N/A
- 6. #signal N/A
- 7. Custom N/A
- 8. Hump Day N/A
- 9. Anton N/A
- 10. Corey N/A
- 11. Ford N/A
- 12. FINALLY DID IT N/A
- 13. #DRPONGxPERTHSANTA N/A
- 14. AI Summary N/A
- 15. Lord Jesus N/A
- 16. TJ Sabula N/A
- 17. thalia N/A
- 18. Joe Rogan N/A
- 19. Kai Cenat N/A
- 20. Cenk N/A
You might like
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.