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A Chinese national whose project was backed with US public funds. Triple irony.
by vonnik 8y ago
A Chinese national whose project was backed with US public funds. Triple irony.
- oh-kumudo 8y agoI don't get the irony. Does nationality matter for open source project with a clear license?
- est 8y agoA large portion of US inventions were made by people of different nationals, I don't see the irony here but only narrow-mindedness.
- vonnik 8y agoI'm not objecting to foreign nationals doing publicly funded research in the US. And I was not the first to bring up his nationality. Personally, I don't care what his nationality is. The initial irony I noted was that a US university had produced an open source project that is the chief tool of face detection on the mainland.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThere are (many) more Chinese nobel prize winners who won them for work in the USA than in China. It doesn’t sound like irony.