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Atlas Hugged posted:I heard it was three months. only if the baby is a hybrid. the dirty foreign blood sucks up more of the mother's qi. very dangerous. EDIT - it feels like I've been at the top of a bunch of pages. it's totally not intentional.
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nickmeister posted:Do Chinese people actually like bitter melon, or do they just eat it out of national pride? Bitter melon strikes me as one of those things. Like how Mongolian drink that gross horse milk liquor. My old boss loves it. He also forgot that no one else does and once ordered lunch for the entire school that was all fried bitter melon and literally nobody ate it, lol.
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nickmeister posted:Do Chinese people actually like bitter melon, or do they just eat it out of national pride? Bitter melon strikes me as one of those things. Like how Mongolian drink that gross horse milk liquor. Horse milk liquor (Kumis) is pretty weird, but distilled it makes some pretty baller horse milk ... vodka?
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Bajaj posted:Me inviting Mainland friends for thick lentil vegetable soup-- Bajaj you are improving CG, good work. Keep it up.
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Nov 3, 2017 13:29
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I like the bitter melon! It goes well with beef.
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A colleague recently started sharing his office with a guy from China. Everything seemed okay at first and we all thought he got lucky. Turns out he was just waiting for my friend to relax before starting up with the song of his people. *SNIFF* 5 seconds later *SNIFF* 5 seconds later *SNIFF* 5 seconds later *SNIFF* 5 seconds later
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nickmeister posted:Do Chinese people actually like bitter melon, or do they just eat it out of national pride? Bitter melon strikes me as one of those things. Like how Mongolian drink that gross horse milk liquor. in okinawa they make a really good beer from it
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oh also please have some china.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/dndtfk.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/gbfoce.mp4
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Here's a interview by someone who thinks that China is already basically a superpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK0Fuco2oW4 Pretty standard "rising China" rhetoric. I don't remember the details, but apparently China's supercomputers are bullshit face machines? And their AI research as well?
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Their supercomputers are bullshit face machines at the highest levels and at mid to lower levels are just server clusters that nobody but the Chinese submit to the list Their AI research is massively exaggerated and, like in most thing, the height of their ability is to follow trends already established in the West
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I keep seeing people spout off about China's AI capabilities as if it's a forgone conclusion that they have made amazing progress in that field, but I haven't seen a single significant accomplishment from them. I know the PRC has made several announcements about how China is going to be an AI superstar by Their supercomputing capabilities are one thing. Sure, you could argue that their supercomputers are highly specialized just to achieve impressive scores on certain tests, but being able to design a strongly specialized system is often a good thing. Not really when it comes to tests themselves, but if they can port this approach to something practical, it would be a useful endeavor. When it comes to AI, though, they really seem to have nothing to show for it. I've seen people mention Baidu's search engine, but there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about that, other than the fact that it does a decent job of censoring stuff the PRC doesn't want people to see.
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You're not suggesting the Chinese are lying about research or science or anything are you?
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hakimashou posted:You're not suggesting the Chinese are lying about research or science or anything are you? You just don't understand Chinese culture.
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Got frustrated at my Chinese/English (mostly English) club last week. Given how no one speaks Chinese anymore, thinking about taking a break: Anyways, had two of the Chinese members claim that Korean is basically another dialect of Chinese because Korean has so many words that sound just like Chinese! One of them is half Korean and is basically a native speaker in both Mandarin and Korean. He would write a word on the board in Chinese and Korean and go, "They're basically the same in both languages!" "Oh yeah?" I would say. "Say it!" Then he would turn to the Cantonese girl who's only experience with Korean are K-dramas or the white guy with three weeks of Korean under his belt: "Say it!" The Cantonese girl would just say the word in Chinese. The white guy would say the word with what I can only guess is a terrible accent. "No, no," I would say. "YOU say it. I want to hear you say it." He turns to the other two: "Say it!" "No, no, YOU say it." Repeat several times. Then I tried to explain to them that Korean was not actually related to Chinese, they just had adopted Chinese words into their vocabulary because of China's influence. This didn't really seem to make sense to them. "Hey," I said. "Japanese and English are basically the same. Check this out: sushi, sushi! Samurai, samurai! Karate, karate!" "But those words originally come from Japanese..." 
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hakimashou posted:You're not suggesting the Chinese are lying about research or science or anything are you? Obviously they're lying, I guess I'm just wondering why so many people are successfully convinced by it.
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Devils Affricate posted:Obviously they're lying, I guess I'm just wondering why so many people are successfully convinced by it. Asians are good at math
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nickmeister posted:Anyways, had two of the Chinese members claim that Korean is basically another dialect of Chinese because Korean has so many words that sound just like Chinese! much like how english is just a dialect of latin
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ladron posted:much like how english is just a dialect of latin Whoa, to the conquerors go the spoils so English is actually a dialect of Dry Gin.
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nickmeister posted:Anyways, had two of the Chinese members claim that Korean is basically another dialect of Chinese because Korean has so many words that sound just like Chinese! One of them is half Korean and is basically a native speaker in both Mandarin and Korean. He would write a word on the board in Chinese and Korean and go, "They're basically the same in both languages! So many questions here. How does he reconcile the difference between the word orders in Korean (subject–object–verb) and Chinese (subject–verb–object)? The lack of tones in Korean? Why are verbs not conjugated in Chinese but conjugated according to tense and social hierarchy in Korean? Is Japanese considered a Chinese dialect since it also has loanwords from Chinese?
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Shanghaiist is shut down?
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big time bisexual posted:So many questions here. How does he reconcile the difference between the word orders in Korean (subject–object–verb) and Chinese (subject–verb–object)? The lack of tones in Korean? Why are verbs not conjugated in Chinese but conjugated according to tense and social hierarchy in Korean? Is Japanese considered a Chinese dialect since it also has loanwords from Chinese? Japanese must be a dialect of chinese since they use chinese characters to write it happy to help.
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big time bisexual posted:Is Japanese considered a Chinese dialect since it also has loanwords from Chinese? I have run into Chinese people who have said this, based on the "Japan was populated by a prison ship / criminal pirate ship consisting of the dregs of Chinese society" myth.
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Imperialist Dog posted:I have run into Chinese people who have said this, based on the "Japan was populated by a prison ship / criminal pirate ship consisting of the dregs of Chinese society" myth. Did you counter with 'You mean you got overtaken by your own dregs?'
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Imperialist Dog posted:Shanghaiist is shut down? The writers voted to unionize, so the owner shut the website down and fired everyone.
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Without the communist party there would be no new china. But without the USA there wouldn't be a China at all, just the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. I bet they leave that out of Chinese history books 
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Imperialist Dog posted:I have run into Chinese people who have said this, based on the "Japan was populated by a prison ship / criminal pirate ship consisting of the dregs of Chinese society" myth. what racist bullshit. it was clearly monkeys, like the koreans say
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ladron posted:much like how english is just a dialect of latin No, nothing like Latin at all. big time bisexual posted:So many questions here. How does he reconcile the difference between the word orders in Korean (subject–object–verb) and Chinese (subject–verb–object)? The lack of tones in Korean? Why are verbs not conjugated in Chinese but conjugated according to tense and social hierarchy in Korean? Is Japanese considered a Chinese dialect since it also has loanwords from Chinese? I brought a few of these points up. They just flew in one ear and out the other. My favorite part was when the Korean-Chinese guy said "identification card" in Mandarin Chinese over and over while claiming to be alternating between Chinese and Korean. "See? They sound the same!" It took me making him repeat about eight times before I finally convinced him he was actually just speak Chinese. "Oh. Well, I guess they don't sound THAT similar..."
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Devils Affricate posted:I've seen people mention Baidu's search engine, but there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about that, other than the fact that it does a decent job of censoring stuff the PRC doesn't want people to see. I use Baidu a lot living here, and it's bad. It's not even an insult about China, Baidu sucks the way every search engine's algorithm other than Google's sucks. Baidu's like Bing. I think the biggest way it's obvious is when you search for anything not in Chinese. Google can handle searches in a wide range of languages and while it works best in English, you can get good results in any of the languages I've ever searched in. Baidu works... tolerably in Chinese, again think like Bing or Yahoo, and literally, absolutely not at all whatsoever in any other language. E: lol at the Korean/Chinese thing. Korean does have a whole lot of Chinese vocabulary, my Korean background was helpful for me in learning Chinese here, but literally everything else is different.
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nickmeister posted:No, nothing like Latin at all. you are wrong and do not understand my people or culture
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Devils Affricate posted:Their supercomputing capabilities are one thing. Sure, you could argue that their supercomputers are highly specialized just to achieve impressive scores on certain tests, but being able to design a strongly specialized system is often a good thing. Not really when it comes to tests themselves, but if they can port this approach to something practical, it would be a useful endeavor. When it comes to AI, though, they really seem to have nothing to show for it. I've seen people mention Baidu's search engine, but there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about that, other than the fact that it does a decent job of censoring stuff the PRC doesn't want people to see. If you steal Google then turn it into a reverse search engine you get a censorship engine. They are two sides of the same coin.
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I'm sure AI is actually being worked on heavily though, unlike some of the other poo poo they claim. It's too useful as a censorship/surveillance tool for the government to ignore.
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Fojar38 posted:Their supercomputers are bullshit face machines at the highest levels and at mid to lower levels are just server clusters that nobody but the Chinese submit to the list Also, most world leaders in technology DON'T have a dedicated branch of their governments tasked with hacking private companies in other nations so they can figure out how to manufacture consumer goods that are not 30 years behind what is currently available on the market. When you're still hacking steel companies in the US/Canada (in TYOOL 2017) to get the recipe for non-pigshit steel, you're ability to claim to be a world leader/innovator is pretty  big time bisexual posted:So many questions here. How does he reconcile the difference between the word orders in Korean (subject–object–verb) and Chinese (subject–verb–object)? The lack of tones in Korean? Why are verbs not conjugated in Chinese but conjugated according to tense and social hierarchy in Korean? Is Japanese considered a Chinese dialect since it also has loanwords from Chinese? LOL! You're wondering why a "Trivia-Nong"* isn't able to understand grade-school level logic and reason? *Chinese men who loudly spout propaganda they have erroneously taken as fact to any foreigner they encounter, and are unable to see that what they are saying is an obvious lie/falsehood, because critical thinking and reasoning skills are literally impossible for them to achieve due to their upbringing and their education (or lack thereof).
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Devils Affricate posted:I've seen people mention Baidu's search engine, but there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about that, other than the fact that it does a decent job of censoring stuff the PRC doesn't want people to see. When I was in studying in Beijing between 2007 and 2008, I and the rest of the foreign students had never heard of Baidu let alone use it until we discovered you could find tons of pirated stuff through it. It had a function whose sole purpose was to search for direct links to mp3 on the web. It wasn't hidden at all but instead was displayed prominently on the homepage  Baidu's video site (along with Youku and Tudou) also had metric fucktons of pirated Western TV shows and movies. This was still the time when pirated DVDs were the primary source of Western video entertainment, so the idea that we could stream TV shows or movies blew our minds. But back then, Google hadn't been banned yet, so whenever we needed to search for stuff we used Google like we normally would outside of China. When we asked our Chinese teachers and acquaintances, they also admitted to using primarily Google to find things and Baidu to pirate things. Whenever I read news about how Baidu beat Google in China, it is always portrayed as if Baidu outwitted Google through innovation or better insight. You rarely hear about how Baidu was a giant piracy search engine or that the Chinese government banned Google and essentially gave Baidu a monopoly. CIGNX fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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nickmeister posted:I brought a few of these points up. They just flew in one ear and out the other. My favorite part was when the Korean-Chinese guy said "identification card" in Mandarin Chinese over and over while claiming to be alternating between Chinese and Korean. "See? They sound the same!" It took me making him repeat about eight times before I finally convinced him he was actually just speak Chinese. Let's test this out. In Mandarin, ID card is 身份证 (shēnfèn zhèng). Here's the pronunciation by a native speaker. In Korean, ID card is 신분증 (sinbunjeung) and its pronunciation can be listened to here. I think it would be apparent to most people that the pronunciation between the two are not exactly the same.
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I don't know why so many tech journalists don't realize how often Chinese companies become monopolies here because the competition is literally just banned. Yeah everyone uses WeChat but Kakaotalk is restricted and Line/WhatsApp are blocked. I don't know of any situation where a Chinese tech company has succeeded in a fair and open marketplace. DJI with drones maybe? I don't know enough about the drone market.
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big time bisexual posted:Let's test this out. In Mandarin, ID card is 身份证 (shēnfèn zhèng). Here's the pronunciation by a native speaker. In Korean, ID card is 신분증 (sinbunjeung) and its pronunciation can be listened to here. It's pretty dumb. But that is a good example of where the Korean vocab can be useful. Another one coming to mind is factory, in Chinese it's gongchang and Korean is gongjang. It's not the same but it's close enough to see they're originally the same word and helps me remember the Chinese one.
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Devils Affricate posted:I keep seeing people spout off about China's AI capabilities as if it's a forgone conclusion that they have made amazing progress in that field, but I haven't seen a single significant accomplishment from them. I know the PRC has made several announcements about how China is going to be an AI superstar by lots of ethnic chinese have fundamental contributions. they're nearly all immigrants to the usa or other western countries or from Good China. case in point: kaimeng he, who invented the resnet. he's from hong kong, I think (or he did PHD in hong kong, I don't remember). ng, who was a big muckety muck in graphical models land and then suddenly switched to being a big muckety muck in neural net land with a lot of the ufldl stuff, was born in london i touched ai poo poo for a living before i moved to a place in computer touching land where i could do things and see the results of them in less than 25 hours. lots of contributions from people who have chinese blood, sure. bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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