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WTF, why they have to put a wall at the end of the runway? so sad. that is 170 real lives that could have been mostly saved without that fxxking wall.
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saw a photo with like a dozen PCs running quake on a long table. I guess a recent model of iphone or flagship android phone is more than capable for running 12 instances of quake at 30fps in parallel?
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more photos of the 6th gen fighter jet https://www.zhihu.com/question/7921093124
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China's 6th Generation Fighter Jet Maiden Flight [video]
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there is literally no easy and safe way to actually handle leap seconds. what happens when they need to remove one second? even for the easier case of inserted leap second, you can smear it, but what happens if there are multiple systems ea
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feel free to defend such cancer. the reality is people can use open weight models like Qwen that doesn't come with such left extremists views.
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early version of both Gemini and ChatGPT considered terms like "Dad" and "Mum" offensive to some people and both suggested to use so called more "neutral terms". LLMs telling such nonsense to Chinese and people
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I tried questions like "will it be considered as offensive by some people when using words like Dad and Mum" in some western LLMs, the result is equally shockingly unacceptable by Chinese standard and values. You should be happy f
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thank for the details, very useful.
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for those interested, Chinese laws forbid the export of recommendation systems, unless ByteDance is challenging the Chinese laws here, which is highly unlikely, this simple can not be the recommendation system used in their production. will
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probably because China is a larger market? for example, how many cars are sold in the US? it is a relatively small market compared to the Chinese market.
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Chinese national living in China, I am openly anti-CCP, I don't like Xi. I can write a thesis on this, but let's just cut to the bones - 12 years in power, Xi led China to become the largest industrialised nation on earth with its
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> If you can show evidence of that you should give it to the U.S. government Tens of millions of teenage Americans are addicted to it is the evidence. Chinese don't allow their kids to waste all day long on stupid douyin, Americans
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> has an official policy that it owns another country we trade with, and insists that if we say out loud the other country is a country it means immediate war? there is a cost for maintaining the US hegemony, Taiwan is being used as an e
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> But in US you have elections every 4 years That is why populism is always the winner. I don't like Xi, I won't support anyone to be in power for life. That being said, I'd pick Xi over losers and criminals like Trump at
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and it is the top1 desktop search engine in China, way ahead of baidu.com.
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Microsoft, Apple, Tesla are doing extremely well in China making hundreds of billions. Tesla even got free land and loans, aka Chinese government subsides. Name a few Chinese tech companies doing the same in the US? Maybe you are suggesting
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this is the exact same question being asked around the global - how could you be sure that American made LLMs are not altered in a way to maximize US interests at the costs of everyone else's.
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> Is interviewing 12 people for $870,000 NZD a good use of money? I don't think so. It is called corruption.
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The real issue is beyond the board. If what you described above is true, well, good luck for competing with China's semiconductor sector given the US government is on its all out war with China on semiconductors. Surely the Chinese can
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> Remember that China is not a "free country" indeed, none of them had the freedom to get a full unconditional pardon by their father with terminal stage dementia. I mean freedom of what? unlimited number of genders? fat dude w
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> That said, China has stated that their long-term plan is to overtake our military, economic, and technological dominance. Any source on that? From what I have read, according to CCP's official mouthpieces[1], "China's d
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> If anything, the US-led blockade of advanced chips to China will make it more likely for China to use force. you watched too much MSM 1. the whole taiwan thing is just an excuse to force the united state to waste more resources on a to
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when "alice" and "bob" can become a lawyer to talk their clients into paying some stupid amount, why bother studying STEM.
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> Japanese brands long have and continue to absolutely dominate long term reliability ratings for vehicles such hard earned experience is no longer relevant in the era of EV. > but the European Volkswagen and BMW Groups are still comp
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there are also $1 houses in Japan, it is definitely leading in such affordability race.
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check AI, green energy, EV, mobile computing, cloud computing, quantum stuff, robots etc. it is pretty much China vs US now when it comes to quality. how many people would seriously believe that EU or Japan can possibly compete with China o
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> in China I heard that if you go to hospital in a different household registration, you have to pay the full medical costs. When talking about paying such full medical costs, let me share some concrete numbers with you, all numbers are
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> US has pledged to its security in case of invasion would defend no matter what by borrowing 155mm shells from South Korea? cute.
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you probably didn't read news lately. your CNY deflation theory is no longer being cooked by your MSM for a good reason - if the CNY deflation claim is true, then it means the Chinese economy has probably already surpassed the US econo
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