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SouffleHuman

@ SouffleHuman @lemmy.ml

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  • Why China is Hedging Against America's Trillion Dollar AI Buildout

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  • Honestly, even if you believe transformer-based LLMs running on GPUs are the end-all, datacenters are still such a rapidly depreciating asset just with incremental improvements in processing technology. Add in the possibility of ASICs or a different computing substrate entirely, as you mentioned, and you're looking at these multi-billion dollar investments becoming obsolete in a few years.

  • our energy prices are rising thanks to the war on Iran, and I'm not even mad.

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  • Well, as long as he focuses on the actual windmills and not the wind turbines, it’s not too big of a deal. Too bad he doesn’t seem to know the difference.

  • Three more vessels hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, showing merchant ships remain in firing line

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  • Clearly, they just needed to show some guts and everything would've worked out.

  • Another victory for planned economies. This article is from 6 months ago.

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  • You’re telling me they planned a whole two quarters in advance? Impossible!

  • guess it didn’t work then

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  • Well, clearly it protected the rest of the country from at least one drone hit.

  • Trump threatens to cut off all US trade with Spain

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  • Logistically speaking, how would that work? Isn’t the whole point of being in a single market to prevent this exact sort of economic singling out?

  • BREAKING: The US Officials realize they're dumb as fuck.

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  • The US had vastly more competent senior officials during Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam, and were still running around like headless chickens. They now have a cabinet of dunces fighting against an enemy more prepared than any of the previous ones. It appears that they are currently following the hallowed strategy known as not having a plan.

  • How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip?

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  • Llama 3.1 8B Seems like a pretty weird choice to me, given that it's already pretty outdated at this point. I know the Qwen team will be launching a new 9B model soon, so maybe they'll switch to that soonish.

  • How China Is Rebuilding the Material Base for a Post-Carbon World

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  • China grasped early on that if you are going to build a new world, you have to build it with the tools of the old. Decades were spent building a staggering industrial base that is now being replaced piece by piece.

    Pakistanis began to install solar panels on the rooftops of their homes and businesses, prompting a boom in distributed power generation in rural areas. The flood of affordable, high-quality panels allows Global South nations to build a clean electricity grid from the ground up.

    This is something that I have noticed being neglected in mainstream reporting. Outlets touted that Pakistan’s solar boom is an example of the free market doing its thing, focusing on the failure of the national grid and the need for individuals to take matters in their own hands. While not entirely inaccurate, they rarely mention that this is only possible because of Chinese industrial planning, and their state-directed efforts to build a greener industrial civilisation.

  • Why Apple Glues Batteries and China Builds Grids

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  • I think nuclear energy is arguably the clearest example of how the US model fails. Nuclear reactors take over a decade to plan and build, from research to blueprints to approval and finally construction. Corporate strategy and startup culture completely falls apart at these timescales, while Chinese planning enables continuous and sustainable buildouts, leveraging economies of scale and experience to make each reactor less expensive than the last.

  • Cuba makes progress in the assembly of domestic photovoltaic modules

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  • Excellent. I’m guessing they still need to import the cells and/or wafers before assembling the panels, but it’s a step in the right direction for building up domestic industry and reducing exposure to oil.

  • WSJ is pissed that a Chinese company built a factory in the USA

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  • Some administration officials are, in fact, discussing ways to limit Chinese investment in the U.S. on national-security grounds, according to people familiar with the matter.

    This is absolutely comical. They hate China so much they want to stop getting money from them.

  • Chinese EV giant BYD bets on Boonray’s autonomous mining truck

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  • Automating and decarbonising mining should definitely a high priority. It is nearly impossible to eliminate health and safety risks for miners, so any progress in keeping people away from the mines is pretty nice.

  • Flag proposals for the PRC

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  • Hmm, I actually really like Kang Jian's design except for the colour palette. Fits very well for the industrial powerhouse that the PRC is today. I think swaping out green for dark blue and white for yellow might look better.

  • Foreigners flock to Chinese hospitals for 'medical tourism'

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  • Despite concerns about resource allocation, experts note that international medical services are often run separately as "special needs" departments, accounting for less than 10 percent of hospital services and charging higher fees, thus operating as a revenue generator rather than a drain on public resources.

    Well, if the article’s right, it seems like a good thing overall.

  • The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

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  • It’s a stunning visual, but it doesn’t even begin to capture the staggering amount of solar power being produced by the People’s Republic.

    The People’s Republic

    Honestly, sounds like a cool name for a fully unified global communist nation. No need to put 'of X', just call it The People's Republic.

  • I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don’t Want to Buy American Cars Anymore.

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  • Is there a term for an inverse Treatler? Because this fits too well.

  • Survey analysis reveals China as the 'most valued bilateral partner' for small island states; Chinese expert says appeal lies in reliability against global uncertainties

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  • Here's the ODI survey paper in question: https://media.odi.org/documents/SIDS_perceptions_survey_v3.pdf

    Which was found here: https://odi.org/en/publications/how-small-island-developing-states-view-their-development-partners/

    China’s development assistance to SIDS from 2020–2023 was $6.02 billion, outstripping Official Development Finance (ODA plus other official flows) from Australia ($4.78bn), the United States ($3.17bn), Japan ($2.03bn) and UK ($0.42 bn).

    This is probably a big reason why. Pretty surprising how high the UK is though, from this perspective.

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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/
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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/
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    German firms' China investments driven to four-year high by US trade wars

    www.reuters.com /world/china/german-firms-investments-china-boomed-2025-us-trade-war-worries-2026-01-27/

  • American CEO worried about competition and Chinese innovation

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  • It’s mildly amusing how these people speak about Chinese EVs as some kind of unstoppable force running on alien technology, when most are just good cars that are inexpensive and reliable.

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    The Tag Team Fails in Iran – John Mearsheimer

    mearsheimer.substack.com /p/the-tag-team-fails-in-iran
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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    Turkey in 'advanced talks' to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defence pact: Report

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/turkey-advanced-talks-join-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-defence-pact-report
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    The EV leapfrog – how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom

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    The EV leapfrog – how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom

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    U.S. Investors Are Going Big on China AI Despite Concerns in Congress

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    U.S. Investors Are Going Big on China AI Despite Concerns in Congress

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    China draws in Europe’s businesses despite alarm over competition

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    China draws in Europe’s businesses despite alarm over competition

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    2025 National Security Strategy Released

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    2025 National Security Strategy Released

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    2025 National Security Strategy Released

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    Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after cartels: report

    www.the-independent.com /news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-drug-cartels-mexico-plans-military-b2857527.html
  • China @lemmygrad.ml
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    China aims to raise average life expectancy to around 80 years in 5 years