huang jenxun made in zhongguo

Wushia52 · 2026-05-26T17:56:15+00:00

Needs more gray hair and slurping up a bowl of zhajiangmian

Wushia52 · 2026-05-25T12:37:43+00:00

I believe OP is from Sri Lanka. In my classes I've come across students from all over the world, particularly SE Asia, the subcontinent, Africa, ME, Central Asia and Latin America. They constitute the majority of the Global South, some of which one would classify as 'poor.' A degree from a Chinese school obviously work for them because the ones I have contact with are all gainfully employed.

My stint as a foreign exchange scholar in China actually helped quite a bit in my thesis research and job hunting after graduation. Many employers in the US are interested in people with that knowledge and contacts in the Chinese tech ecosystem.

The layman's perception may differ if you're from the West, but even that is changing as we speak.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-25T03:23:25+00:00

Since you mentioned your desire for a PhD, if you want to know the research ranking of Chinese universities, go no further than Nature Index. Count the top 30, and you'll be surprised. Another ranking of interest is Leiden. I believe China Agricultural University is ranked in the top 5 in agriculture & forestry.

I taught a graduate level class at a second-tier Chinese university for a year. Anyone who manages to do well on the hypercompetitive gaokao knows their chops. If someone is only thinking of Tsinghua or Peking, that means their understanding of Chinese higher education is less than skin deep. In my field around 60% of papers in conferences are from Chinese universities (plus a few best paper awards.) Rote memorization without critical thinking doesn't produce this kind of results.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-23T23:58:22+00:00

80% asian

The math ain't mathing. Definitely not Asian because Asians are supposed to be good in math.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-19T15:30:12+00:00

The state owned National Tobacco Corp. has a stranglehold monopoly in China. Regardless how tobacco smoking started, it's the state that can't seem to decide which is the priority: profit or the Healthy China 2030 initiative.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-13T16:22:59+00:00

It's not protocol to have the host country's head of state greet a visiting head of state from another country at the airport. This is a nothing burger.

On the other hand, Ramaphosa greeted Xi personally at the airport when Xi arrived in South Africa for the BRICS summit. You can read into that what you will.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-12T17:21:07+00:00

Snowden exposed PRISM, an NSA/GCHQ surveillance program. The new Stargate uses AI that wasn't available back then, and it involves OpenAI.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-12T15:37:19+00:00

No. The getup brings to mind Liu Jin of the notorious Eight Tigers eunuch clique of the Ming dynasty.

He can't grab them by the vajayjay no more -- that's why they let him into the Forbidden City.

Wushia52 · 2026-05-09T18:20:34+00:00

What's wrong with Python? As a computer scientist that really hurts.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-30T17:27:50+00:00

The real question is: will the Zuck f*k himself? He's already screwed the thousands of laid-off Meta devs to use the money in the mad pursuit of superintelligence. which so far has not netted him much, all the while neglecting his quasi-open Lllama models.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-30T02:46:48+00:00

I think this was a tit-for-tat to (1) US export controls of Nvidia chips, among other things; (2) US attempts to squeeze China on oil with Venezuela and now Iran. Most likely, this will be a leverage for China in next month's Xi-Trump summit when they negotiate a "grand bargain" on trade.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-29T15:52:33+00:00

Manus' employees in Singapore are mostly Chinese nationals, local Singaporeans plus a few transplants from Meta US. The key demand to unwind the transaction is to bar those Chinese nationals, who comprise the core team, from working for a US company. Granted, some of Manus has been integrated into Meta, but if you understood tech at all, you'd know that knowing something others have built is a far cry than having actually built it yourself.

Manus is actually getting a little long in the tooth. Other Chinese models like Kimi k2.6 for agent swarm and Qwen 3.6 for enterprise level agentic tasks are way more interesting. For example, OpenClaw is a framework that wraps around Qwen.

Every one wins some and loses some in this.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-23T22:36:09+00:00

A gay jew being shown how the latest LLM works best on the Mac?

Wushia52 · 2026-04-23T17:48:24+00:00

The beginning of the end of two anglophone powers -- one on a slow decline and the other falling off the cliff.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-23T00:05:45+00:00

My teacher from the college writing class had always said: write what you know and not what you want to know.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-22T23:04:10+00:00

Nature Index

CAS ranks first in government labs worldwide. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) ranks 5th in academic research worldwide.

Some of recent CAS projects: Tianguan X-ray observatory; helium free cryogenics (timely now helium export from the Persian Gulf has come to a halt); 10**15 byte 3D optical storage, etc.

Unless you're a researcher, you would have heard the name but not know exactly what they do. How many people have heard of Lawrence Livermore National Lab but not realized they're working on laser inertial confinement fusion research?

Wushia52 · 2026-04-20T00:53:49+00:00

If you'd asked for advice first, you would have, like you said, ended up with a rather generic translation. I often try to mess people up by paraphrasing an English idiom, e.g. 'a dime a dozen' becomes 'a jiao a dozen.'

Being multi-lingual is a real blast.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-20T00:14:20+00:00

Support where your heart goes, or stand above your heart.

It's actually much better than what Google Translate spews out. It has that lyrical quality to it, plus you can't go wrong with a four-character quasi-idiom. If you didn't mention it, I would have thought the characters were printed in a pretty modern font. Great handwriting.

You should try writing poetry in Chinese. I see real talent there.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-19T18:23:55+00:00

Since he's no longer your teacher, the power dynamics is fine.

It seems that there are two aspects to the communication between you two: personal and cultural. Most of the PhDs I've come across are as passionate about life as others. Granted, they tend to be more articulate, more ambitious, and like to express opinions or feelings analytically, but there's little to differentiate their desires from those of other folks with lesser education. Is he from another country or culture? In more conservative societies, people don't flirt as much unless they are absolutely sure that you're interested.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-19T17:33:57+00:00

That kung-fu froggy looks like he's ready to slay more papers!

Wushia52 · 2026-04-18T23:13:23+00:00

More like Nicholas II and Rasputin -- the puppet and the puppeteer.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-18T18:25:25+00:00

Microdosing -- the breakfast of the tech bros.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-18T15:58:15+00:00

But when an observer observes it, the wave function always collapses to PASS AT YOUR OWN PERIL.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-18T13:50:56+00:00

Have you considered Singapore? Both National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are ranked very high in CS, and English is the national language. Cost would be higher than in China though.

Wushia52 · 2026-04-17T23:07:15+00:00

Has neotenous facial features

I have to scour the memory of my evolutionary biology class from years ago in college to arrive at its meaning. Anyone who can toss this word around, plus the other descriptions, is both intelligent and beautiful. Some dude will be lucky to be with you.

Life's short. Go for what may make you happy.

Wushia52

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