GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data contains spam and porn phrases, causing concerns among users. The tokens used by the chatbot include inappropriate content, affecting its ability to understand Chinese prompts accurately. Experts suggest better data cleaning and filtering to improve the chatbot’s performance.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092649/gpt-4o-chinese-token-polluted
https://gist.github.com/ctlllll/4451e94f3b2ca415515f3ee369c8c374
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092649/gpt-4o-chinese-token-polluted
https://gist.github.com/ctlllll/4451e94f3b2ca415515f3ee369c8c374
MIT Technology Review
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
The problem, which is likely due to inadequate data cleaning, could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and misuse.
Why Is China Producing So Many Export Goods, Anyway?
Theory 1: Economic stimulus
Theory 2: Overcapacity/underconsumption
Theory 3: Comparative advantage
Comparative advantage explains balanced trade — I give you soybeans because I’m good at growing soybeans, you give me cars in exchange for soybeans because you’re good at making cars, and so on. It can’t explain unbalanced trade — you give me cars in exchange for IOUs. Trade surpluses and deficits require ideas that go beyond comparative advantage.
Theory 4: Forced deindustrialization
Theory 5: Xi Jinping’s techno-historical theories
This might sound like a bunch of Marxist mumbo-jumbo, but it’s actually not very different from how other countries think about technology, industry, and the national interest.
Theory 6: War preparation
All of these theories could be true at once. Or perhaps only some subset of them.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-is-china-producing-so-many-export
Theory 1: Economic stimulus
Theory 2: Overcapacity/underconsumption
Theory 3: Comparative advantage
Comparative advantage explains balanced trade — I give you soybeans because I’m good at growing soybeans, you give me cars in exchange for soybeans because you’re good at making cars, and so on. It can’t explain unbalanced trade — you give me cars in exchange for IOUs. Trade surpluses and deficits require ideas that go beyond comparative advantage.
Theory 4: Forced deindustrialization
Theory 5: Xi Jinping’s techno-historical theories
This might sound like a bunch of Marxist mumbo-jumbo, but it’s actually not very different from how other countries think about technology, industry, and the national interest.
Theory 6: War preparation
All of these theories could be true at once. Or perhaps only some subset of them.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-is-china-producing-so-many-export
www.noahpinion.blog
Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?
Six theories.
高华的后二十年(上):《红太阳》是怎样升起的
18 年后,高华在接受独立导演胡杰采访时,披露了彼时心境。「我感觉到,我应该写。第一,我认为这件事很重要。第二,我自己有些想法。第三,我是学历史的研究历史的,似乎也看了很多东西,可以把这部分感受先写下来,至于写得怎么样,将来能不能出版,当时都没有考虑。」
「写这个过程,时间很长。我当时给自己一个想法,就是你应该写,你要摆脱一种内心的恐惧,摆脱各种各样的禁忌。」
这种恐惧,后来被景凯旋称为「一种存在意义和形而上的恐惧」。「这是我们这一代人普遍具有的状态,80 年代我们读卡夫卡,90 年代接触《正午的黑暗》、《1984》之后,就很能够理解这种恐惧感。」景凯旋说。
这是一部后来被海外学者看作「高华教授受个人痛苦经历刺激,以及思考国家巨变有所感触的发愤之作,酝酿二十载,辛勤七个寒暑而成的著作」。该书凡 705 页,参考文献长达 31 页,分档案文献集 6 种,年谱、文集、资料汇编 136 种,报刊、期刊 19 种,著作、论文、传记、回忆亲历资料 338 种,英文论著 6 种,为第一部全部利用大陆公开资料,系统梳理延安整风运动前后过程及其影响的专著。
这本书通过对延安整风运动的起源和过程的深刻剖析,解释了毛泽东如何根据其理念将「马克思主义中国化」:毛泽东在整风中运用思想改造和审干、肃反两种手段,全面清除了中共党内存留的「五四」自由民主思想的影响,彻底转换了中共的「俄化」气质,重建了以毛泽东为绝对主宰的上层结构,奠定了党的全盘毛泽东化的基础,其间所产生的一系列概念、范式,在 1949 年后改变了亿万中国人的生活和命运。
https://dasheng.media/articleDetail?id=72
18 年后,高华在接受独立导演胡杰采访时,披露了彼时心境。「我感觉到,我应该写。第一,我认为这件事很重要。第二,我自己有些想法。第三,我是学历史的研究历史的,似乎也看了很多东西,可以把这部分感受先写下来,至于写得怎么样,将来能不能出版,当时都没有考虑。」
「写这个过程,时间很长。我当时给自己一个想法,就是你应该写,你要摆脱一种内心的恐惧,摆脱各种各样的禁忌。」
这种恐惧,后来被景凯旋称为「一种存在意义和形而上的恐惧」。「这是我们这一代人普遍具有的状态,80 年代我们读卡夫卡,90 年代接触《正午的黑暗》、《1984》之后,就很能够理解这种恐惧感。」景凯旋说。
这是一部后来被海外学者看作「高华教授受个人痛苦经历刺激,以及思考国家巨变有所感触的发愤之作,酝酿二十载,辛勤七个寒暑而成的著作」。该书凡 705 页,参考文献长达 31 页,分档案文献集 6 种,年谱、文集、资料汇编 136 种,报刊、期刊 19 种,著作、论文、传记、回忆亲历资料 338 种,英文论著 6 种,为第一部全部利用大陆公开资料,系统梳理延安整风运动前后过程及其影响的专著。
这本书通过对延安整风运动的起源和过程的深刻剖析,解释了毛泽东如何根据其理念将「马克思主义中国化」:毛泽东在整风中运用思想改造和审干、肃反两种手段,全面清除了中共党内存留的「五四」自由民主思想的影响,彻底转换了中共的「俄化」气质,重建了以毛泽东为绝对主宰的上层结构,奠定了党的全盘毛泽东化的基础,其间所产生的一系列概念、范式,在 1949 年后改变了亿万中国人的生活和命运。
https://dasheng.media/articleDetail?id=72
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Sung, Wen-Ching, Chen-Pang Yeang, and Zhixiang Cheng. 2024. “Demarcating a Pure Land: CFido as a Cyberspace for Computer Amateurs in 1990s China.” Isis 115 (2): 267–91. https://doi.org/10.1086/730229. The bulletin board system (BBS) significantly changed…
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中文互联网正在加速崩塌
1 先问你一个小问题: 如果我们在百度上搜索“马云”这两个字,把时间设定在1998年到2005年,能搜出来的信息,大概有多少条呢?是1亿条,还是1000万条,还是100万条? 我在几个群问过,大家普遍的猜想是,应该是百万或者千万的级别。毕竟,互联网信息如此浩如烟海。马云作为那个时代的风云企业家,在网上留下的痕迹肯定是非常多的。 但实际上能搜出的全部结果如下: 用百度搜索,选定日期范围为“1998年5月22日到2005年5月22日”,含有马云的信息,总共是1条(2024年5月22日数据)。 而仅有的这一条…
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中文互联网正在加速崩塌
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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 (@HistorianZhang)
Destruction of so, so much. I have a feeling one reason we are so deficient in Qing diaries and personal records is because people burned them
Quoting China in Pictures (@tongbingxue)
Today, May 16 in 1966:
China issued the "May 16 Notice", starting a…
Quoting China in Pictures (@tongbingxue)
Today, May 16 in 1966:
China issued the "May 16 Notice", starting a…
Ma, Chicheng. 2024. “Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages.” The Journal of Economic History 84 (2): 395–431. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050724000111.
This paper examines how the worship of ancient wisdom affects economic progress in historical China, where the learned class embraced classical wisdom for millennia but encountered the shock of Western industrial influence in the mid-nineteenth century. Using the number of sage temples to measure the strength of classical worship in 269 prefectures, I find that classical worship discouraged intellectuals from appreciating modern learning and thus inhibited industrialization between 1858 and 1927. By contrast, industrialization grew faster in regions less constrained by classicism. This finding implies the importance of cultural entrepreneurship, or the lack thereof, in shaping modern economic growth.
This paper examines how the worship of ancient wisdom affects economic progress in historical China, where the learned class embraced classical wisdom for millennia but encountered the shock of Western industrial influence in the mid-nineteenth century. Using the number of sage temples to measure the strength of classical worship in 269 prefectures, I find that classical worship discouraged intellectuals from appreciating modern learning and thus inhibited industrialization between 1858 and 1927. By contrast, industrialization grew faster in regions less constrained by classicism. This finding implies the importance of cultural entrepreneurship, or the lack thereof, in shaping modern economic growth.
Cambridge Core
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages - Volume 84 Issue 2
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Qin Hui (秦晖), public intellectual and historian, will give a talk on Tuesday, May 7, titled “启蒙的异化:五四再反思,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alienation-of-enlightenment-rethinking-the-may…
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秦晖教授2024年5月7日演讲:关于五四的再思考(哈佛费正清研究中心)
感谢哈佛费正清研究中心的帮助。转载自Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Harvard University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GhAT63o08
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高华的后二十年(上):《红太阳》是怎样升起的 18 年后,高华在接受独立导演胡杰采访时,披露了彼时心境。「我感觉到,我应该写。第一,我认为这件事很重要。第二,我自己有些想法。第三,我是学历史的研究历史的,似乎也看了很多东西,可以把这部分感受先写下来,至于写得怎么样,将来能不能出版,当时都没有考虑。」 「写这个过程,时间很长。我当时给自己一个想法,就是你应该写,你要摆脱一种内心的恐惧,摆脱各种各样的禁忌。」 这种恐惧,后来被景凯旋称为「一种存在意义和形而上的恐惧」。「这是我们这一代人普遍具有的状态,80…
前几天读到这篇文章,我想起之前读过的一篇博士论文致谢中关于高华的内容,但当时没找到。今天看到这条 Tweet 中「现在的上海展览馆,建造于中苏交好时期」,突然就想起了那篇博士论文《上海中苏友好宣传教育运动研究(1949–1965)》。
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左手墨迹 (@Pandazhq)
讲得太动人了!
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前几天读到这篇文章,我想起之前读过的一篇博士论文致谢中关于高华的内容,但当时没找到。今天看到这条 Tweet 中「现在的上海展览馆,建造于中苏交好时期」,突然就想起了那篇博士论文《上海中苏友好宣传教育运动研究(1949–1965)》。
姜超. 上海中苏友好宣传教育运动研究(1949–1965). 华东师范大学, 2015.
How China’s New Left Embraced the State
China’s New Left thinkers shifted towards embracing the state, seeing China’s success as a model of advanced socialism. They advocate for the superiority of the Chinese system and engage with Western socialist ideas to rejuvenate Chinese socialism. Despite internal challenges, they align with Xi Jinping’s push for socialism with Chinese characteristics.
https://chinabooksreview.com/2024/05/16/how-chinas-new-left-embraced-the-state
China’s New Left thinkers shifted towards embracing the state, seeing China’s success as a model of advanced socialism. They advocate for the superiority of the Chinese system and engage with Western socialist ideas to rejuvenate Chinese socialism. Despite internal challenges, they align with Xi Jinping’s push for socialism with Chinese characteristics.
https://chinabooksreview.com/2024/05/16/how-chinas-new-left-embraced-the-state
China Books Review
How China’s New Left Embraced the State | China Books Review
China’s leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s, have shifted from their socialist origins to embrace statism and the China model. Where does that leave their thinking now?
Forwarded from 散步中
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
https://kk.org/thetechnium/files/2023/12/howtowalkandtalk.pdf
https://kk.org/thetechnium/files/2023/12/howtowalkandtalk.pdf
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A History of East Asia.epub
These were the critical final years when the Cold War was drawing to a close, and there were nearly simultaneous democracy movements in several other parts of the world. “People power” successfully brought down the Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, student demonstrations in South Korea led to a democratic presidential election in 1987, and in that same year Taiwan repealed martial law and legalized the formation of opposition parties, becoming a genuine multiparty democracy. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, beginning the unraveling of the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China ended very differently.
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These were the critical final years when the Cold War was drawing to a close, and there were nearly simultaneous democracy movements in several other parts of the world. “People power” successfully brought down the Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986…
35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the year.
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.
https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum/112556790042181586
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.
https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum/112556790042181586
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Anne Applebaum (@[email protected])
35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the…
二零二三行香港记
在香港访学时,我认识了一位很可敬的老师,她听到小胡的案子,问我,你明知道没有结果还要撞墙吗?我对她说,因为我觉得我能提供程序价值;因为我觉得有些事,在更远的未来,会开花结果。
https://telegra.ph/%E4%BA%8C%E9%9B%B6%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%89%E8%A1%8C%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E8%AE%B0-05-30
在香港访学时,我认识了一位很可敬的老师,她听到小胡的案子,问我,你明知道没有结果还要撞墙吗?我对她说,因为我觉得我能提供程序价值;因为我觉得有些事,在更远的未来,会开花结果。
https://telegra.ph/%E4%BA%8C%E9%9B%B6%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%89%E8%A1%8C%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E8%AE%B0-05-30
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二零二三行香港记
2023年,我在香港访学了三个月。去报到那天的座谈会上,我向一位同学介绍自己说: 我叫徐凯,内地执业律师,我是来凑数的。 这是我的真实想法,我当时想要更多的个人时间和空间,理清自己来时的路。我后来才知道,这个座谈的主要缘由,就是欢迎我过去。 这三个月过得非常充实。在港岛的街市中,在海边的小径上,在朋友家的餐桌旁,我回想起许多意义重大而暧昧不明的往事,那些害怕面对而刻意回避的事实,每一件都深埋在心底,每一件记得清清楚楚。 2004年来北京读书时,我不会想到要在这个城市住到今天。我从安徽农村来,想要学习法律…
一本关于 Ecology 的书将 Natural 加上删除线,真是很妙的用法。
Harrell, Stevan. 2023. An Ecological History of Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295751696/an-ecological-history-of-modern-china.
Harrell, Stevan. 2023. An Ecological History of Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295751696/an-ecological-history-of-modern-china.
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一本关于 Ecology 的书将 Natural 加上删除线,真是很妙的用法。 Harrell, Stevan. 2023. An Ecological History of Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295751696/an-ecological-history-of-modern-china.
Environment in Asia Series Discussion: Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
05:07 The first thing is we have to remember that China is a repressive regime and is putting innocent people in prison for life sentences. I’m gonna say a lot of good things about China in this talk, but I don’t want people to forget that, especially during the sad time.
05:07 The first thing is we have to remember that China is a repressive regime and is putting innocent people in prison for life sentences. I’m gonna say a lot of good things about China in this talk, but I don’t want people to forget that, especially during the sad time.
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Environment in Asia Series Discussion: Stevan Harrell's "An Ecological History of Modern China"
Panelists:
Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University
Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers University…
Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University
Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers University…