PhD in Asian Languages in Cultures @Umich; senior analyst @IthakaSR ; modern Chinese studies, dance, art history, open source, + patterns

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined May 2022
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China-EU cross-border data flow exchange mechanism officially established and first meeting held via video. Presided over by Wang Jingtao, CAC, deputy director, and Sabine Weyand, EU’s Director-General for Trade. Also included MOFA, MOFCOM, MIIT, NDA. cac.gov.cn/2024-08/27/c_1726…
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Just a few weeks left until our leadership program for #librarians, in collaboration with @chronicle! Sign up to join a professional development program designed to empower participants to develop their leadership skills and drive institutional success: chronicle.com/professional-d…
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Chinese AI firm iFlyTek says its LLMs are trained completely on Huawei platform At the unveiling of its latest Xinghuo 4 model, iFlyTek chairman Liu Qingfeng said the company is determined to train LLMs on ‘self-developed, controllable’ infrastructure scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…
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Qwen 72B beats Llama 70B Yi beats Cohere LLMs from China are making big strides
Pumped to announce the brand new open LLM leaderboard. We burned 300 H100 to re-run new evaluations like MMLU-pro for all major open LLMs! Some learning: - Qwen 72B is the king and Chinese open models are dominating overall - Previous evaluations have become too easy for recent models, much like grading high school students on middle school problems - There are indications that AI builders have started to focus on the main evaluations too much at the expense of model performances on other ones - Bigger is not always smarter Really excited about how the field is maturing on evaluation, let's go!
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Let’s focus next summits on realistic current risks like concentration of power, biases,… (versus existential risks), be more inclusive of all AI actors, especially open-source, smaller companies and academia, and practical! politico.eu/article/rishi-su…
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7/ A quote of his that encapsulated Steve: "The purpose of policy history is not merely to trace where we have come from and why, but to show us the paths not traveled, the tools discarded and forgotten but still useful, so that we can make use of them in the here and now."
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Some really interesting papers on China's digital impact on North Africa, Latin America and the Belt-Road countries here: tandfonline.com/toc/utis20/4…
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"As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began." James C. Scott, 2024 Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast
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This week a group of influential Chinese AI policy scholars released their recommended draft version of 🇨🇳's proposed AI Law. The text is a window into key policy debates, and a potential preview of where Chinese AI governance is heading. Quick 🧵 fxcxw.org.cn/dyna/content.ph…
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Finally, finally, finally - China's cyberspace regulator finalizes rules relaxing requirements on exporting data from China. cac.gov.cn/2024-03/22/c_1712…
The Cyberspace Administration of China has just released regulations revising the data export regime. These came out in draft last autumn and heralded a considerable loosening of strict requirements on security review, standard contracts or certification. A few highlights:
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If the vast majority of women in tech feel alienated, demeaned, gaslit, disempowered, etc., can we begin to agree that the norms of how to treat people in tech are discriminatory to women? hackernoon.com/gender-bias-i… – at Shoreline, WA
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When I posted the 1st set of Apple supplier charts last wk, many quickly said "see, decoupling." But organizing the same dataset by "firm identity" shows just the opposite (2nd set). This is what I mean when I asked what we care about "made In China" or "made BY Chinese firms"
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As part of our collaboration with 29 research universities to coordinate research data services across campus, we’re excited to share a new inventory of research data services at 120 #highered institutions in the US and Canada. sr.ithaka.org/publications/t…
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Many of the most interesting people are a bit shy and introverted, are already happy alone, dislike crowded places and shallow conversations, don't like to promote themselves to get attention, have a lot to share, but are also very selective about who they spend their time with.
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This is what a third tier city in China does
* checks calendar Nope, not April 1. The city with the highest skyscraper in the US will not be New York. Not Chicago. Not Los Angeles. Not Hosuton. This 1,907' tall skyscraper will be in Oklahoma City. Developer has secured $1.5B in financing and now hoping for a building permit.
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