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Readit Newshereme888 commented on South Korea deploys hologram police officer scmp.com/week-asia/lifest... · Posted by u/amichail
Alright. So there’s proven IP theft by the Chinese companies with completed legal proceedings?
With completed legal proceedings, at least two cases: Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced in 2024 for stealing Apple's AI autonomous vehicle tech for Chinese AI company XPeng. Xiang Haitao was sentenced in 2022 for stealing Monsanto's AI predictive algorithm for a Chinese research institute.
hereme888 commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
If "choosing America" means significantly higher Co2 emissions, then that's not a good strategy for maintaining food supply security. Extreme and more unpredictable weather makes farming difficult, especially without irrigation. Any country that still sees fossil fuels as primary form of power generation is basically risking its (and everyone else's) food supply in the future.
As I understand, CO2 emissions by the US have been decreasing since the year 2000. The US has decreased its emissions by 1.2% in the past year, while China has increased it by 1.9%.
This bill is not increasing CO2 emissions, just creating a more sensible change, and also protecting the American economy.
hereme888 commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
The bill prioritizes use of agricultural land for food over renewables (using just 0.05% of acres vs. biofuels' 30-40% of corn/soy), curbs land cost inflation, and favors U.S. energy.
It also bans Chinese solar panels, ends wind/solar tax credits post-2027, and extends biofuel credits to 2029.
This is common-sense stuff to me. America chooses America and food-supply security. The article is horribly biased.
hereme888 commented on I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead miguelconner.substack.com... · Posted by u/dothereading
No, to be honest I haven't had so much practice with those kinds of cards; I've mostly used it for vocabulary and geography.
How does it change things?
After single-fact memorization, concept-driven cards force retrieval of multiple related ideas and apply them to real-world critical thinking.
Examples:
- Cloze: "Swelling of the optic disc is called [c1::papilledema]"
Concept-based:
- Front: "Papilledema (optic disk swelling) - use the pathophysiology to explain what situations you would see this in generally."
- Back: "Anything causing central retinal vein drainage ↓ (e.g., high ICP or central retinal vein occlusion)."
- Extra field: """ Anything causing central retinal vein drainage ↓ (e.g., high ICP or central retinal vein occlusion) → back-up of blood into the capillaries of the optic nerve/disk → hydrostatic pressure ↑ → transudate of fluid leaking across the capillaries → optic nerve/disk swelling (optic disk swelling = papilledema).
Recall that the optic nerve (and thus the optic disk) drains into the central retinal vein, which ultimately drains into the cerebral circulation. """
Can you contrast this with Western companies? What are the Chinese companies stealing that Western companies aren’t? Do you mean tech or content?
Ethics of Chinese vs. Western companies? Everything. I'm sure you're aware of how many hundreds of $billions of American IP are stolen by Chinese companies.
Reminder that OpenAI is an American company whose headstart is attributed to stealing copyrighted material from everyone else. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
Last I checked, as it concerns the training of their models, all legal challenges are pending. No theft has yet been proven, as they used publicly available data.
Reminder DeepSeek is a Chinese company whose headstart is attributed to stealing IP from American companies. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
hereme888 commented on I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead miguelconner.substack.com... · Posted by u/dothereading
Facts are required for critical thinking.
I wonder if the writer eventually transitioned from fact-memorization flashcards, to concept-based questions (how does it make sense that....?).