One comment. The article does not even mention the US in it very much.
Maybe that is the plan.
1. To bait the Americans.
2. To attack the Americans if they show up inside the first chain to fight China. So far, they are a no show.
One comment. The article does not even mention the US in it very much.
Most of Australia's mineral resources are in WA, which is Australia's largest state; it's also like half the country territory wise and Western australians tend to be more independant minded comapred to those in the east coast. WA depends on mining and agriculture to keep itself in the green and Chinese students aren't going to australia anymore hence why victoria (a southern state of australia) is in massive deficit since it pulled out of BRI.Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia for three days from 15th June.
I wonder if there are specific commercial reasons why visits to Perth and Adelaide are part of the agenda, as these are only Australia's 4th- and 5th-largest cities respectively. Canberra is smaller again, but as the national capital there is no mystery there.
I don't get why everyone talks about 1979 like the war just ended between China and Vietnam that year. China literally started attacking Vietnam the next year to pressure it to get out of Cambodia and to punish it for it's arrogance.China already proved it the first time around no?
Vietnam was curbstomped with horrific casualties at minimal losses for China. The goal was never annexation of Vietnam, just the takeover of the disputed border and quite literally to demilitarize an oversized military Vietnam had radicalized after the US-Vietnam war.
The idea was that a military and material loss would undermine Viet confidence in the pro-USSR faction, and at the same time limit the influence of the pro-western southern Vietnamese remnant.
It did succeed in turning Vietnam back to a friendly or at least friendly neutral country, although the southern faction was purged much later and probably not directly due to the war but rather later political plots.
Today, the boat on reintegrating Vietnam has largely sailed. Unless China can purposefully forment a new Vietnamese faction they can drum up as a legit threat, attacking Vietnam today would be tantamount to diplomatic suicide. Vietnam is a nominally friendly communist state with a stance of neutrality in military conflict. China going for them would be like USA attacking Sweden.
One of the guys stabbed was Jewish of Israeli background.This is serious. Attacks like this are rare in China. Hopefully the perpetrator is caught ASAP
4 US college instructors stabbed in Jilin:
Not many details yet but wingnuts on X already calling on State Department to elevate travel advisory for China.
I suspected it was a false flag initially like that knife attack on Israeli consulate worker in China previously, now after this new info I'm positive. Tuvia Gering kvetching about anti-semitism in China in 3.One of the guys stabbed was Jewish of Israeli background.
I think the previous one was real.I suspected it was a false flag initially like that knife attack on Israeli consulate worker in China previously, now after this new info I'm positive. Tuvia Gering kvetching about anti-semitism in China in 3.
4 US college instructors stabbed in Jilin:
Not many details yet but wingnuts on X already calling on State Department to elevate travel advisory for China.
It has an impact in the sense that its a very user friendly way to consult search algorithms.While large language models (LLMs) like those developed by OpenAI are not sentient and do not emulate the biology of a human brain, they are nonetheless extremely useful from a functional and utility standpoint. It is reductive to dismiss them merely as "next word prediction." The transformer architecture, especially with its attention mechanisms, allows LLMs to achieve a level of complexity that makes them generatively applicable to everyday tasks, significantly enhancing productivity.
These models act as intellectual multipliers. Even though they don't experience qualia or solve the hard problem of consciousness, their economic impact is undeniable. LLMs are capable of performing tasks that were once solely within the realm of human creativity and intellectual labor. Their emergent properties allow them to generate content, analyze data, and automate complex processes, effectively displacing a wide range of tasks previously thought to be exclusive to human expertise.
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In conclusion, dismissing OpenAI's technology as a glorified search engine overlooks its profound utility and impact. While not sentient, these models provide substantial benefits, driving efficiency and innovation in ways that were previously unimaginable.