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zonghao commented on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips   japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/artninja1988
notepad0x90 · 3 days ago
Thanks. In my view, the PRC is making a huge strategic mistake. As is Taiwan. The PRC is too focused on full control, normally they're more long-term-minded, but in this case they're rushing it too much. Establishing a trade-bloc and peaceful relations first and then aiming for full reunification would be the smart play, since there isn't anything huge to gain outside of TSMC (that I know of) by way of an invasion.

Taiwan is too dependent on the west, it too should know it can't actually resist an invasion, and that the west won't do much when it comes down to it. Its interests would have been served best if it sought good trade relations with the PRC, so that the PRC will continue to rely on TSMC. it should be providing west-china with all the nice chips the west is forbidding it from having. It should have been more like india and less like south korea.

zonghao · 2 days ago
> there isn't anything huge to gain outside of TSMC (that I know of) by way of an invasion.

The reunification of Taiwan is a fundamental national policy, enshrined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The primary intention behind the desire for national reunification stems from the realization of reunification itself, rather than from other interests. This reflects a complex national sentiment and shared aspiration.

We consider the people of Taiwan to be our compatriots. Therefore, even though our military strength far surpasses that of Taiwan, the mainland is unwilling to resort to force and has always hoped for peaceful reunification. This is because we do not wish to harm or even kill any of our compatriots in the process of achieving it.

Essentially, it has been the United States that has been obstructing this unification process and using propaganda tools to influence public perception in Taiwan. As a result, many Taiwanese people are shocked by the stark difference between the mainland and the propaganda portrays them when they visit. It is truly baffling that, despite living so close to the mainland, their understanding of it is almost in sync with that of Americans.

zonghao commented on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma   github.com/penpot/penpot... · Posted by u/selvan
zonghao · a month ago
They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.
zonghao · 23 days ago
I self-hosted Penpot, and during use I also encountered crashes — but it was my browser that crashed. I’m not sure what caused it (because I was forced to close the page).
zonghao commented on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma   github.com/penpot/penpot... · Posted by u/selvan
Myzel394 · a month ago
I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me
zonghao · a month ago
They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.
zonghao commented on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism   jamestown.org/prc-elites-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
tensor · a month ago
Even the very people driving the AI rush are implicitly showing that they are skeptical: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo

Personally, I think everyone has realized there is a huge bubble, especially the C-levels who've sunk huge amounts of money into it, and now they are all quietly panicking and trying to find ways to mitigate the damage when it finally busts. Some are probably sticking their head in the sand and hoping that they can just keep the scheme going indefinitely, but I get a real sense that the bubble is very much explicitly recognized by many of them.

zonghao · a month ago
This may already be a bubble in social or financial terms, but at least for me personally, my capabilities have been greatly expanded (especially when it comes to coding and accessing information).
zonghao commented on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism   jamestown.org/prc-elites-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
AndriyKunitsyn · a month ago
"Artificial intelligence" in Chinese is "人工智能".

"人" is "human", "工" is "work", so "人工" becomes "man-made". "智" is "wisdom", "能" is "able", so "智能" is "intelligence". Nouns flow into verbs and into adjectives much more freely than in English. One character is one LLM token.

It seems like the perfect language for LLMs?

zonghao · a month ago
I think this might be why, during the reasoning process of GPT and Gemini, even for purely English prompts the model may choose to think in Chinese. That may make it easier for the model to express what it means, and thus be more conducive to its reasoning. Of course, a better way to reason is to think in vector space rather than by producing tokens that humans can read.
zonghao commented on The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends   michigandaily.com/arts/di... · Posted by u/gnabgib
misja111 · a month ago
The writing style of the article reeks of AI. It seems to tell a lot at first but at closer inspection tells almost nothing.
zonghao · a month ago
agree
zonghao commented on Linux desktop on Apple Silicon M1 in practice   gist.github.com/akihikoda... · Posted by u/fanf2
zonghao · 4 months ago
My Mac mini M4 has been sitting idle because I can't install Linux on it, and I don't know how to operate it from a remote terminal in macOS. I'm only familiar with the Linux terminal for things like firewalls, and sometimes I don't even know how to install packages on macOS that work perfectly fine for me on Linux.

I guess this is because I'm not skilled enough, but I really hope Asahi Linux can support the M4 chip soon, or why can't Apple provide a native installation channel? I think many Mac mini owners would love that.

zonghao commented on 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App   offpeaklog.bearblog.dev/l... · Posted by u/speckx
zonghao · 4 months ago
I feel like this learning method has benefited me, but it doesn't seem to be widely supported: I'll work on a project for a while, then realize what knowledge I'm lacking, to the point where I can't even think meaningfully while working on it. Then I'll take courses for a while, which helps me build a "knowledge map." I'll think, "Oh, so that's how it works." Then I'll go back to working on projects.

As for documentation, I see many people recommend reading it directly to learn, but I find it hard to get through, and just reading documentation also makes it difficult for the knowledge to organize itself in my mind (it's like getting lost in a well-made game without map hints) If I watch tutorial videos first, then writing projects or reading documentation becomes more comfortable. I think these things might be mutually reinforcing.

I would binge-watch courses on Coursera for many days straight. I think the problem mentioned in this article seems to be that he didn't actually watch the videos he saved, so even if he were to learn through documentation, the result would be the same. Learning and practice are mutually reinforcing, while learning styles may vary for each individual.

zonghao commented on To Download Adult Mods on Nexus, You Need to Show ID   thegamer.com/nexus-mods-u... · Posted by u/throw7
zonghao · 4 months ago
When it comes to bypassing internet restrictions, the British have a lot to learn from the Chinese (

u/zonghao

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