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taxiya said:

please stop taking the credit from the SOEs or CCP for your own "hatred" or bias of communism or socialism, please stop exaggerating the "strength", "advantage" or "working ethics of private businessman" at the expense of "stolen" credit of other people's hard honest work.

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Chinese scientists are developing a helmet to enhance brain function through monitoring and regulating brain waves and combining artificial intelligence technology.

Wei Pengfei, of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said his team is developing a brain function enhancement system with the goal of improving the brain's ability to perform complex tasks and regulate abnormal emotions.

The helmet could be applied in the training of special personnel to speed up an increase in memory and skills and to alleviate anxiety caused by tension.

The technology is also expected to help treat children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and people suffering depression, Alzheimer's disease, aphasia and Parkinson's disease, said Wei.

Surgically-implanted deep-brain stimulation technology first emerged in the 1960s. At the beginning of this century, scientists developed electroencephalogram feedback technology and brain-computer interface technology.

In recent years, non-invasive stimulation and regulation technology has been able to intervene in and regulate brain activities more quickly, becoming a new focus in the brain research and neuroscience field.

The helmet is based on non-invasive brain stimulation and regulation technology, said Wei. It uses flexible electrode sensors to identify brain waves when the brain is performing different tasks. Electrodes then release weak current pulses that can reach specific areas of the brain, altering brain waves, and regulating the active state of its neurons.

"Since brain tissue is very complex, we need to build a computer model first, and then determine the target area and parameters for stimulation," said Wei.

An artificial intelligence algorithm reads brain activity in real time and calculates stimulation parameters to achieve precise and personalized regulation.

The research team, based at the Institute of Brain Cognition and Brain Disease of SIAT, has a research platform for rodents, nonhuman primates and humans.

"Through animal experiments, we have analyzed specific brain areas related to attention cognition, emotional regulation, anxiety, drug addiction, stress and epilepsy. We hope we can intervene in these areas effectively," Wei said.

The team has also developed tests for cognitive ability.

For example, trial participants wore the helmet for about 15 minutes, and then were required to quickly memorize a string of numbers, English letters or words. The test found the average accuracy rate of their memories improved within two hours.

But the data is still insufficient, said Wei. Large-scale double-blind experiments among people of different ages and groups are needed to accumulate convincing data.

"We have only tested the short-term memory of those wearing the helmet, and we're planning to test their week-long memory," Wei said.

So far, researchers have developed the prototype of the first-generation helmet, which can implement feedback control on the brain waves of the cerebral cortex. The team is developing the second generation of the helmet, aiming to achieve deep-brain non-invasive stimulation.

They also intend to cooperate with hospitals in clinical tests on patients with autism, schizophrenia and children with ADHD.

The research was recently selected as one of 30 winning projects at a contest of innovative future technologies in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. The contest encouraged young Chinese scientists to conceive groundbreaking technologies and trigger innovation.

The United States, Europe and other countries and regions have launched programs to unravel the secrets of the human brain. The brain research will also help the development of artificial intelligence.

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Jura said:

well now noticed in a major Czech server where I check me emails the link (

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) which leads to
‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
UPDATED : Wednesday, 02 May, 2018, 3:08pm

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taxiya said:

Correction:
The person in the story.

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The company in the story.

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In the youtube video, it does say "民营" which can be loosely translated to "public owned" in English. However, in the company's own introduction it's controlling stake is in the hand of 中国建材集团 CNBM (China National Building Material Group Corp.) See

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Also, see the logo of the two, they are the same.

In Chinese term "民营" is legally "publicly traded cooperate limited". Many of the so called "SOE" are such companies. You can buy 100 shares of ICBC (the largest bank of the world) in open market, but ICBC is still dictated by the state, call it "private" as you wish.

To summarize, the company in the story is a kind of SOE in the modern sense (shares traded in market), the state is the controlling share holder of it. It is an extreme stretch to call it a "private" company and attributing its achievement to a person.

I appreciate your enthusiasm of spreading the achievement of China, I am proud for everything like this, regardless who did it. BUT, please stop taking the credit from the SOEs or CCP for your own "hatred" or bias of communism or socialism, please stop exaggerating the "strength", "advantage" or "working ethics of private businessman" at the expense of "stolen" credit of other people's hard honest work.

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Hendrik_2000 said:

It does not really matter whether the company is now public or private. The initiative goes to mr Zhang Guoliang. He is the driver of the company and he started it to begin with.Without him therre will be no domestic carbon fiber producer in China

I have no bias one way or another.It is a fact that the private company create the wealth in China

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Jura said:

now noticed the tweet

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Le prototype du 2e supercalculateur chinois qui dépasse la barre de l'exaFlop est en cours d'installation à Jinan actuellement. Les premiers projets d'application, notamment dans le domaine océanique, sont en cours d'être passés sur la machine.

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The prototype of the 2nd Chinese supercomputer that exceeds the bar of the ExaFlop is being installed in Jinan currently. The first implementation projects, especially in the ocean field, are being passed on the machine.

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The research and development of the prototype of China's new-generation exascale supercomputer Tianhe-3 is complete, the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin announced Thursday.

Jointly developed by the National University of Defense Technology and the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin,the prototype passed the acceptance tests by the hi-tech center of the Ministry of Science and Technology on July 22.

The final version of Tianhe-3 will be operational by 2020, and will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the Tianhe-1 supercomputer, China's first petaflop supercomputer launched in 2010, according to Liu Guangming, head of the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin.

"The new-generation exascale supercomputer is expected to become irreplaceable technology dealing with challenging problems in the fields of economy and science in China," Liu said.

The supercomputer located at the Tianjin center will be gradually open for application research, Liu added.

"A high-performance computer service platform integrating supercomputing, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence will be built on the basis of the Tianhe-3 supercomputer," said Meng Xiangfei, head of the center's applied research and development department.

"It will play an important role in meteorology, aviation, earthquake research, energy exploration, genetic engineering and handling of big data," Meng added.

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• The event happened on June 1st.
• The architecture is X86 base CPU + GPU. All of them domestically produced. I suspect it is the licenese from AMD purchased not long ago.
• It has a Torus 6D interconnect.
• The chips are 7nm based fabrication.
• The prototyping has already been finished. The meeting is the "certification meeting".
• It is not reported by any news outlet like the other two (Shenwei and Tianhe). Why? However the project's starting was publicly announced by Sugon in 2016.

Jura said:

Tuesday at 9:01 PMand now I read
China's prototype of exascale supercomputer passes tests
Xinhua| 2018-07-26 20:36:25

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taxiya said:

The 3rd E class computer (Sugon) has passed milestone of key tech research and to begin the next phase of "prototype to final product" development.

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• The event happened on June 1st.
• The architecture is X86 base CPU + GPU. All of them domestically produced. I suspect it is the licenese from AMD purchased not long ago.
• It has a Torus 6D interconnect.
• The chips are 7nm based fabrication.
• The prototyping has already been finished. The meeting is the "certification meeting".
• It is not reported by any news outlet like the other two (Shenwei and Tianhe). Why? However the project's starting was publicly announced by Sugon in 2016.

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