Comment mtv.ai (Score 2) 67
My conspiracy theory is that some GenAI business plans to monetize the content which nobody else can have now. A lot of money may be changing hands for this.
Comment Rust vs C++ (Score 4, Insightful) 77
I have been teaching Rust to college students since 2020. It gets the pointer concept and uses right, i.e. the right (or best so far) balance between correctness and flexibility. In comparison, C++ is all flexibility and no real correctness guarantee. As a result, parallelization for Rust is a small step. For C++, it is almost impossible.
Anyone who thinks Rust is equivalent to modern C++ is delusional.
Comment AI is too risky (Score 1) 83
Assume the current AI tool is as good or better than human. What happen in the future when an update of the algorithm or tool, an improvement or twist or fix, leaves a corner case terribly wrong for a small group of patients? AI is the ultimate group-think.
Comment Why politics? (Score 1) 289
I think this is dumb, and the world is paying the price for this stupidity.
Comment Peer reviews (Score 3, Interesting) 61
I have done many such reviews. Unlike in math, a reviewer can check the logic and derivation fully. In sciences, one can't check the result of an experiment unless one conducts it, which reviewers typically don't do. What they check is whether there is enough information for someone else to repeat the experiment.
Comment Weapon support (Score 0) 27
makes money from people who use your product to kill other people---and they are of course bad people and deserve to die. Lucrative and one can sleep well knowing he's making the world a better place.
Comment This is insane (Score -1) 86
Sorry I don't see the sanity of cheering on a crowd-funded open-source software used by one people to kill other people. If this becomes acceptable, everyone in the future can be on the receiving end. Am I right or am I insane?
Comment Re:Gain of Function research needs control (Score 0) 248
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to find viruses of pandemic potential to try to then proactively develop vaccines for them. This involved genetically engineering viruses to see how much they would need to evolve to become really dangerous. We know this because of their papers and grant applications, public record.
So far so good.
Reckless experiments, but not actually a bioweapon. And then via sloppy hygiene it leaked. Very simple. Leaks happen all the time in biolabs.
The technology to do this has only been accessible for a few years, and out pops a super virus.
Where is the evidence of this? Do you know how many lives China lost to SARS and if you do, do you still think the Wuhan lab would treat this with anything but the highest level of security and containment? China, if nothing else (lacking creativity, copying etc etc), can get quality control right.
Comment Love to invade? (Score 0) 58
Scanning through comments here and the numerous ones I have seen, there seems to be a predilection to invasion and problem-solving employing war on other countries by the populous here.
We see others not as they are but as we are.
Comment Why not western vaccines (Score 1) 134
Many people here don't see the reason for China not to approve western mRNA vaccine. Think about why US banned Huawei. Do you really think China would allow US bio tech, which it has limited info and doesn't manufacture and can be taken away unilaterally, be injected into its people bloodstream?
Comment Re:The actual risk with self-improving code (Score 1) 153
Throw it away and (online) order the next version.
Comment Re:I'm surprised anybody in China cared (Score 1) 106
Reading the news text, I knew someone would be sure to jump out and write something to make general statements about China and the people there. Here we are.
Comment Re:When measures like this are proposed (Score 1) 138
Politicizing sports and making it serve idealogical zeals? Do you REALLY think that's the Olympic ideal?
Comment The bigger picture (Score 1) 161
Dan Wang 2021 letter at https://danwang.co/2021-letter... is an in depth review of CCP policies of the past year. The shakedowns of Chinese high tech are small potatoes compared to its other actions including decapitation of online tutoring for school pupils, which are full entries that killed off a whole industry. Still the rationales discussed by Wang make sense and make a very interesting read.
Comment Re:Face. Face is always the problem (Score 1) 161
Good discussion. Not much of late, but here is the Chinese version of the Golden Rule stated in writing even before Confucius:
Do not do onto others as you would not like to do onto yourself.
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