Just reminded me of his stupid line: A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Or whatever it was from a few years back.
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Just reminded me of his stupid line: A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Or whatever it was from a few years back.
Scene from a cartoon version of Water Margins with a line of Classical Chinese written on the wall. 杀人者武松也。
Possibly Conrad’s first bit of Classical Chinese. Knew it on sight. Knew it was from Water Margins.
Grok on the other hand thinks this is from 红楼梦.
Outsmarted by a kindergartner.
Lemon Squeeze by Harbin.
New Beer in Northeast Asia. Reaching the World from Northeast China.
Lemon Squeeze by Harbin.
New Beer in Northeast Asia. Reaching the World from Northeast China.
I think Harbin has some sort of new lemon beer.
Soup turtle making a run for it down the side wall, and soon after heading into traffic where it almost takes out a delivery guy.
Random Turtle escaped. Almost caused a traffic accident.
US says it struck vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three men reut.rs/3MpFREZ
This is all a bit mental. Dude has hijacked both your guy’s brains, if only for a bit, with a stupid but sticky take.
Don’t you worry about these constant distractions? The constant pilfering of attention? Given what your write about, you must think there is some merit in engaging.
In a lot of cases units would leave their natural village and go to another natural village in the same administrative village to basically meet their quotas.
Just mentioning the book on the off chance it is of interest.
Wondering if you have read Civil War in Guangxi by Walder? If I recall, it‘s a bit of an anomaly because there is this discrepancy between how killings take place within natural villages and administrative villages.
The American Reichstag
Column of 20ish tank like things using an express way.
Randomly came across a column of “tanks” on a trip not too long ago.
The Neighbourhood Party Organizations and Mobilization of the Grids While the residents’ committees focus on managing the horizontal relationships between different interest groups in grid governance systems, local Party organi- zations mainly deal with the vertical relationships that strengthen its top-down political and social controls. The CCP has attempted to develop a pervasive organizational structure where Party sub-branches at the grassroots level serve as the foundation of the CCP’s political apparatus. In the reform era, the CCP’s organizational reach has extended to non-state sectors.30 Since the 1990s, establishing branches at the grassroots level within urban residential com- munities has been a key Party strategy.31 Following the principle of “Party organ- ization built in grids” (dang zuzhi jian zai wangge shang 党组织建在网格上), the local state expects to strengthen the leadership of neighbourhood Party branches centred around residents’ committees.32 As such, resident Party members are encouraged to establish Party branches within their assigned grids. In Dongcheng district in Beijing, 822 grid Party organizations were established among its 589 grids.33 In the field sites I studied, the grid Party organizations were supervised by the Party organizations of the residential communities and were expected “to ensure there is Party organization in each grid, and to ensure all CCP members serve as pioneering models for the core leadership of the grid Party organizations.”
Maybe it is just some random pilot.
A new statement from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula elevates China from a peripheral target to a declared enemy. Beijing’s global footprint could now carry sharper security consequences.
I think the buildings where registrations are most out of whack were made to post their membership lists in the lobby.
I think it is a grid governance thing. Wife joked about it being more about tracking down unpaid party dues.
Basic story is that buildings are being remodeled. As they are remodeled, local police and grid office come around to check registration.
And then in some of the buildings the 党小组 are sort of being publicly shamed.
There are several important commonalities in the grid governance schemes across China. First, local governments aim to use the grid governance network to obtain first-hand information and gain a clearer understanding of the local situation in order to monitor more effectively certain groups of residents. These groups vary according to different types of neighbourhoods and the gov- ernance priority in the particular neighbourhood. For example, in residential communities which accommodate a large number of rural-to-urban migrants, neighbourhood security and management of the migrant population are the local government's main concerns, and the migrant-residents are likely to be the "targeted" group. In middle-class neighbourhoods where residents' collective interests and disputes associated with property rights are the governance priority, the residents involved in such disputes are considered to be the targeted group.
I suspect the target is renters in our grid.
Anyone have recommended reading on grid management? Some interesting happenings in the compound.
Windmills on a ridge line in northern Guangdong.
Oh look China does have windmills.
“While many militaries are investing in AI-DSS, these systems are of particular importance to the PLA, which views them as a means of compensating for perceived weaknesses in its officer corps.”
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Happy New Year’s! Hope everyone is healthy and well.
VPN was so useless I just gave up on it for half a year.
hell could a normal human being be born in the sea? Just being underwater half a minute's enough to finish you off. And there ain't a speck of carbon in my body. Muscles and bones, that's what people are made out of. Anybody can tell you that. I don't know anything about capitalists. If my old man dies before I do, I get twenty-three and a half acres of real shitty land. I'm that much of a capitalist. Don't think I'm particularly submissive, though - let whatever capitalist you want come up to the edge of our field. I'll just walk right over with my hands in my pockets and give him a good, long spit. That's what I'd do. Lahtinen spoke again quietly, carnest as ever, which suited him really - he who never took anything lightly. Assessing the loneliness of his position all too well, he was a little uncomfortable. He certainly didn't want to get into a fight, but he couldn't just drop the issue, so he said in his defense, 'You can be underwa-ter, if you have gills. Man began as a fish. Even the capitalist scientist has recognized that. Now Hietanen wasn't laughing any-more. He sat up and looked straight at Lahtinen, his eyes wide, blazing with astonishment. 'Hey guys, listen to this! Listen to what our boy Yrjö has to say! Well_1211 he damned. Now
Looking like it is going to be an amusing book. Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna.
Just saw the opening scene of Snow Crash in real life. Dude is bookin it. I’m like wtf is his problem as he disappears into the subway station. Then he sprints back my direction. McDonalds bag in hand. Someone did him dirty. But the algo has him praying he can be the deliverator.
Sad.
Conrad: 我要看唐人街！
Me: Tom and Jerry?
Conrad: No! Candy Man Street!
That would be nice to see! I guess I will have to dip back into it.
Lots of businesses remodeling but not so many apartments.
The foreign bookstore, New Pages, has been turned into a noodle place. Russian and fake Russian stores popping up in almost every mall except Taikoo.
Staff in gold shops seem a little too happy. But a new bar is about to open.
My convenience store closed on me. And my favorite bakery. And one of the morning baozi places.
The nearest 美宜佳 has sort of introduced a store without a clerk.
They can’t quite do it, because of the alcohol and cigarettes, but poor dude has no counter, no little office, just has to camp out.
Yes, but you weren’t making just that argument in your piece were you.
I take the article to say AI is like VR or something. They keep trying to force it on us but there is no genuine demand for it.
Second. I don’t get the dig on LLMs being based on probabilities. All neural networks are based on probabilistic. At least all artificial neural networks m.
And we know from AlphaGo and now AlphaEvolve with matrix multiplication that neural networks are capable of actually surprising us.
I’m not sure I get this piece. First, it’s not like VR or even atomic power in the west; there is demand for it. Gemini has 400 million active monthly users. OpenAI more. Being based in China m, I mostly know people that use Kimi and DeepSeek. This is, apparently, something people want.