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by zachguo 8y ago
It's a bit boring TBH. Basically OCR+NER, I guess some journalists have already done similar stuff using Google's NLP API.
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by zachguo 8y ago
Probably EEG headsets.
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by zachguo 8y ago
Actually not. I check Chinese news sites twice a month. Most of the international news is about the success of OBOR and multilateralism blah blah. News about trade war is relatively rare. War metaphors are often used for domestic issues tho
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by zachguo 8y ago
katan.io
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Mars Colony: A City on Mars Could Descend into Cabin Fever and Nationalism(inverse.com)
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Fertility doctors say healthy ‘three-parent baby’ born in Greece(cnbc.com)
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Snowden responds to Assange arrest: 'Dark moment for press freedom'(thehill.com)
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Introducing Currents, the newest G Suite app(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
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State Owned Corporations v.s. Corporation Owned State
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by zachguo 8y ago
I was talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Culture_Movement . It's only possible due to the democratization of the press.
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by zachguo 8y ago
I updated my previous comment before you posted this. The link between the Renaissance and moving type is quite uncontroversial. The impact of democratization of the press is hard to underestimate.
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by zachguo 8y ago
I was talking about movable type rather than printing in general. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type Edit: And an example in 1920 doesn't really apply to the early days of movable type. There's a bi
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They are all about making the transmission and accumulation of information easier.
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by zachguo 8y ago
Because it's much cheaper to build a printing machine for alphabets. Cheap transmission of information caused a grassroot intellectual explosion, i.e. the Enlightenment. While in China only the ruling class could afford a printing mach
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by zachguo 8y ago
Ironically this important piece of technology invented in China 400 years before Gutenberg flourished in the West while made negligible impact in China. The trajectory of history was so carelessly determined by a tiny factor, different choi
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by zachguo 8y ago
It reminds me of the sci-fi novelette Folding Beijing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_Beijing
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by zachguo 8y ago
It's not "civil conflict", it's terrorism led by a branch of Islamic State killing thousands of civilians. Have you wonder why all major media release articles about Xinjiang every week but ignore this important piece of
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5G is still just hype for AT&T and Verizon(theverge.com)
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Before and After: World Nitrogen Dioxide Levels, 2005-2016(airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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by zachguo 8y ago
That photo is priceless.
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by zachguo 8y ago
The US has overwhelming technological advantages over China, breakthroughs in AI still largely come from the US. China has more data and state support though.
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Prevent, the UK’s controversial anti-terrorism programme(ft.com)
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by zachguo 8y ago
Also, instead of a dedicated site, a browser extension allowing you to select text then right-click to get facts would work better. https://web.hypothes.is/journalism/
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Entrenched middlemen become abusive gatekeepers. Is it inevitable across human society? Is there a way to prevent it from happening?
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by zachguo 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19574179 Just curious. What does the Muslim community think is the best way of fighting against terrorism and extremists?
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Freedom of the press doesn't mean there's no media manipulation. Do you see articles criticizing the private prison industry and mass incarceration of black males twice a week?
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by zachguo 8y ago
Have you wondered why Xinjiang is like this now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party
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Social media crackdown: fears new laws will ‘criminalise’ news(theaustralian.com.au)
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MIT cuts funding ties with Huawei and ZTE citing US investigations(scmp.com)
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by zachguo 8y ago
So it seems this is actually done by private companies since they are on the blacklist.

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