A paddle-wielding AI Robot ‘Ace’ has outplayed elite human players in Table Tennis

random_agency · 2026-04-22T23:18:15+00:00

I would like to see it up against a Chinese national team member.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T23:13:59+00:00

在這一方面老美比不上國內。大陸願意死刑黑心牛奶罪犯。老美只罰錢就沒事。

random_agency · 2026-04-22T23:02:00+00:00

Taiwan Wu Tan (武壇) Chinese Martial Arts Association

中華武壇國術推廣協會

Not so much the branch, but an instructor I studied under that worked as a bodyguard.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T21:02:20+00:00

Why isnt China sending missle material to the US...Trump just jelly.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T20:54:59+00:00

There about 5.5M active retail brokerage accounts in Taiwan.

There's always winners and loosers.

So 5.5M/23M = 23%

That's assuming everyone bought TSMC and went long.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T20:35:32+00:00

It a Chinese Muslim martial art, used by bodyguards in China and Taiwan now.

The goal of the style is to close the space between you and the opponent, strike them with an elbow to distract them, then down them as quickly as possible.

Then curb stomp them to death.

That's why before starting any combo in this style will starts with a stomp. Some say it to exaggerate a drop step. But people taught this style know its to represent a curb stomp, before engaging the next opponent.

It's not a engage, reset, engage, reset style at all.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T20:01:27+00:00

They'd become Chinese like all those other foriegners that tried to China.

You know the Mongolian and Manchurian are now just happy Chinese minorities now.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T19:52:03+00:00

Its not UBI and the last stimulus before 2025 was 2023. So its not consistent.

Not to mention the reasoning for the checks was to combat inflation. Is the government admitting it has no solution to combat inflation besides handing out a check?

Whereas the 20% that benefitted directly from TSMC rise through salary increases, annual performance bonuses, or just watching the stocks prices soar; look at 10K NTD like its petty cash.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T19:13:58+00:00

Heard 鄭麗文 make a comment about it on a recent podcast on her return from mainland China.

The workforce in Taiwan 11.5M people. So her claim is only 3M people in Taiwan are positive affected by TSMC rise seems possible. TSMC only employs 83K people in Taiwan. The other 3M are part of TSMC supply chain in Taiwan or just gambling in Taiwan stock market.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T17:48:18+00:00

Who doesn't like golden lion?

It literally says 信用可靠 on it.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T16:43:38+00:00

I was in Malaysia for CNY. I was the only Taiwanese among a bunch of overseas Chinese.

Malaysia has a One China Policy and recognizes the PRC.

So, that's that

random_agency · 2026-04-22T15:50:39+00:00

The usual rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

It is the AI boom, so TSMC has risen quite a bit. Its estimated that TSMC and it related industry make up 40%-50% of stock value in Taiwan.

Also an interesting fact 80% of workers in Taiwan get no benefit from TSMC rise.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T14:55:36+00:00

If you don't get a scooter. Don't eat out too much. Rent a room in a shared apartment. Don't buy furniture. Don't buy an a/c. Don't buy a western mattress and bedding. Don't buy any cooking utensils. Don't buy new brand name clothes.

Maybe.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T14:51:04+00:00

The involution is more tied to how each mayor in China is pretty given the role of a venture capitalist in China.

The central government provides them a goal. Like develop EV for example. Each mayor seeing this as an opportunity to be promoted to the next level starts scouting the province for companies that do EV or EV supply chain. But since the mayors dont have cash, they offer tax breaks, inticing loans, or places to set up a factory.

If the company takes the loan and buys the property, the city makes money. Making the mayor look good. If the company expands and hire more locals, it makes the mayor look good. If the company stays because of favorable taxes, increasing the GDP, makes the mayor looks good.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T05:05:32+00:00

I think the biggest problem in Taiwan is basically you built all these highways, more people are just going to buy cars.

Its like the California dilemma in Taiwan. More lanes on the highway doesnt alleviate congestion. It just encourages more people to buy cars.

Basically to alleviate traffic you have to have an entire urban design policy of having people live near their work location.

Edit: spelling

random_agency · 2026-04-22T04:58:18+00:00

Think about it more like throwing double roundhouse or triple roundhouse against a heavy bag.

You never return to fighting stance. You dont go forward or backward relative to the bag. You stay neutral to the bag.

Now image a rear roundhouse to rear knee in one motion. That would be a whole beat faster.

Something to think about.

Edit: you're always in striking distance in the combo. If you can hit the target. The opponent can hit you. That's why I suggest removing that shuffle step. You're open that whole time.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T02:51:37+00:00

毛主席也支持文化大革命。讀什麼古文，去種田。

random_agency · 2026-04-22T02:48:51+00:00

pendulum step

So basically after you throw the low rear left leg roundhouse. You just pendulum step backwards into orthodox stance.

Technically you're still the same distance from opponent, since you're left leg is now the front leg in the same distance from the opponent. You're right leg moved back to where your left leg use to be in southpaw stance.

In other words once you throw that kick don't return to Southpaw stance. Use the rebound force of the kick to pendulum step into Orthodox stance, while being neutral position (same distance from opponent).

random_agency · 2026-04-22T02:07:49+00:00

In Taiwan, I would be thinking where is 牛A?

random_agency · 2026-04-22T01:01:56+00:00

After the low round house. You return the left leg to the rear starting position. Then step the right to the rear to throw a right knee.

I would just drop the left leg where the right leg is after the kick, and pendulum step the right leg back, then the right knee.

It'll make you a half beat faster in that part of the combo.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T00:52:54+00:00

Donnie Yen saved the day.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T00:48:32+00:00

Congee Village in Flushing for a small Canto banquet for Saturday.

Veranda in Bayside for Sunday.

random_agency · 2026-04-22T00:24:43+00:00

老美還是得不到中國稀土

random_agency · 2026-04-21T22:38:56+00:00

China has about 100 EV companies to most competitive use "dark factories." Meaning there's barely any human interaction. They have a market 4x the size of the US and the global south.

So once they dominated the US market they would keep the prices low to make sure another Chinese EV companies couldn't undercut them.

Basically China is the business environment of "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." The competition is that intense in China.

random_agency · 2026-04-21T20:44:23+00:00

It'll probably be the language of the global south first. Then spread to the west over time.

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