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Is China influential or a creator in terms of the underlying tech used around the world? Software, coding languages (or contributions), frameworks?

imron 9y ago
Have at look at most recent CS research papers. There is invariably one or more authors who are Chinese - especially so in the fields of AI and NLP.
- wslh 9y ago
  And cryptography.
- chatmasta 9y ago
  Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English. There are so many Chinese natives compared to the rest of the world. It will be interesting to see in the next decade how the open source community evolves as China grows from 50->100% Internet penetration and some of those users become involved in open source. Anecdotally, you can already see this happening on some fairly popular repos on github that are entirely in Chinese. Will we see two open source communities develop in parallel, one in English and one in Chinese? Will we see more effort at translation of documentation for major software packages?
  - thriftwy 9y ago
    While they keep github blocked (is it?) I doubt we will see so much original content that gets traction.
    - netheril96 9y ago
      GitHub was blocked briefly and then unblocked in China. Other than gist, which remains outside the wall.
  - imron 9y ago
    > Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English. Generally published, so already not always, and I sometimes wonder for how much longer it will be until the ratio flips to the majority of Chinese produced papers being published in Chinese. Currently they need to publish in English for the recognition. As the Chinese tech and software industry grows stronger, that may get less and less necessary. It's likely to be decades away, but it'll still be interesting to watch if it happens. Luckily I can speak/read Chinese :-)

imron 9y ago

Have at look at most recent CS research papers. There is invariably one or more authors who are Chinese - especially so in the fields of AI and NLP.

wslh 9y ago
And cryptography.
chatmasta 9y ago
Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English. There are so many Chinese natives compared to the rest of the world. It will be interesting to see in the next decade how the open source community evolves as China grows from 50->100% Internet penetration and some of those users become involved in open source. Anecdotally, you can already see this happening on some fairly popular repos on github that are entirely in Chinese. Will we see two open source communities develop in parallel, one in English and one in Chinese? Will we see more effort at translation of documentation for major software packages?
- thriftwy 9y ago
  While they keep github blocked (is it?) I doubt we will see so much original content that gets traction.
  - netheril96 9y ago
    GitHub was blocked briefly and then unblocked in China. Other than gist, which remains outside the wall.
- imron 9y ago
  > Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English. Generally published, so already not always, and I sometimes wonder for how much longer it will be until the ratio flips to the majority of Chinese produced papers being published in Chinese. Currently they need to publish in English for the recognition. As the Chinese tech and software industry grows stronger, that may get less and less necessary. It's likely to be decades away, but it'll still be interesting to watch if it happens. Luckily I can speak/read Chinese :-)