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by echevil 8y ago
I live in SF and go back to China about once a year, and every time I go back, I can always find tons of new stuff. For my hometown, the change from exclusively cash-only to cashless happened in less than 2 years.
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by echevil 8y ago
Many of those Chinese immigrants still go back to China after they get green cards.
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From Zero to Hero: Shaking Up the Field of Zero-Shot Learning(medium.com)
1 points by echevil 8y ago|0 comments
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by echevil 8y ago
With Huawei being the second largest Android vendor after Samsung, there is nothing unnatural if Google wants to collaborate with Huawei to make better phones. They might also want to collaborate with the 3rd and 4th largest vendors, Xiaomi
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by echevil 8y ago
I wonder how did this random post with only 14 points and one comment got to front page
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Baidu’s breast cancer detection algorithm outperforms human pathologists(venturebeat.com)
3 points by echevil 8y ago|0 comments
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by echevil 9y ago
Not only old but also not enough. In areas that population have grown a lot in the past few decades, it makes a lot of sense to build new infrastructure to keep up with the demand
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by echevil 9y ago
China is probably planting more trees than any other country in the world. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20305/20160321/china... “Based on the images captured by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imag
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by echevil 9y ago
Good then. Most of the restrictions mentioned in the article are automatically removed in 1 year.
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by echevil 9y ago
The original announcement all included ways that these restrictions are lifted. Most of them are automatically lifted in 180 days or 1 year.
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by echevil 9y ago
If the author of this article has read the original announcement from either Chinese government or various sources from China, they'll know the so called "people with bad social credit" that'll get these restrictions is
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by echevil 9y ago
Isn't the American credit score more like “once untrustworthy, always restricted”? Most the restrictions announced by China are removed automatically in just one year.
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OpenAI wants to make safe AI, but that may be an impossible task(futurism.com)
1 points by echevil 9y ago|0 comments
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by echevil 9y ago
AI researchers are certainly fully aware of such issues, and there have been various models trying to encode long term dependency information, e.g. LSTM.
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by echevil 9y ago
Indian and Chinese systems certainly have tons of problem themselves, but that's a separate issue. Chinese students need to spend tons of time cracking the college entrance exam (and all exams before that). When the exam focused on mem
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by echevil 9y ago
As an immigrant in America, one of the most jaw-dropping fact I learned about American culture is that kids getting best grades in school are often tagged as "geeks" and often get bullied, and kids all want to be "cool".
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by echevil 9y ago
2015 Macbook pro. I switched to Mac as I was not happy with Windows Vista, and never looked back
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by echevil 9y ago
English is the official language used in formal context in Singapore, not Chinese, Indian or Malay. All the documents you’d sign with a company are in English.
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by echevil 9y ago
I don't know what to say. Believe in whatever you want to believe. I'm glad I can speak more languages than I thought.
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by echevil 9y ago
Please search for "suppression of dialects was never a MAJOR part" in the original article for more details. I copied the exact sentence from there. Yes, there are much less Singaporeans speaking their dialects at home. I've
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by echevil 9y ago
> Mandarin wasn't really written until about 120 years ago. Before people would write classical Chinese. It's a "written vernacular/白話文 This is true, but it's a separate issue from having various dialects. Langua
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by echevil 9y ago
I totally believe that as it’s basically the same situation in China
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by echevil 9y ago
> Only Mandarin and Cantonese even have a fully developed way of writing with characters. Up until relatively recently Mandarin itself was considered a spoken language Native speaker here. I have absolutely no idea where you get that. Ca
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by echevil 9y ago
In fact, it's just called "Chinese" by Chinese speakers. I never heard of the word "Mandarin" before I came to US.
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by echevil 9y ago
Yes, there was a promotion to speak Mandarin, but suppression of dialects was never a major part of the campaign and Hokkien is still spoken by many Singaporean.
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by echevil 9y ago
If you can read Chinese, the Chinese versions of wikipedia page on Mandarin Chinese has a lot more detail on its origination: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/普通话 If you cannot, I found an English article for you: http:&
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by echevil 9y ago
I don't see any part of your comment being correct. First of all, "Mandarin" is spoken not only in China mainland, but also the standard in Singapore and Taiwan. It was a creation by the Republic of China (which later became
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by echevil 9y ago
While this might be true for spoken language, luckily the Chinese writing system does represent how the the words are pronounced. All of these "dialects" share the same writing system. So it's much easier for someone speaking
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by echevil 9y ago
That's more like a common practice of all western media, and it's not just the past few months. I'm glad you noticed.
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by echevil 9y ago
A few decades ago, before China enforced strict gun control laws, gun ownership were also quite common in China, and it was also a big problem. Now China is way more safer than America (in terms of violent crimes) Well, I was being sarcasti

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