Topic
China
- Kowloon Walled City
Cross-section of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City.
- Bailong Elevator
Bailong Elevator , also known as the Hundred Dragons Elevator , is a glass elevator located in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China. It is considered to be the world’s tallest outdoor elevator, standing at a heig…
- BuzzFeed's Analysis of Xinjiang Camps
This is a wild story and an incredible piece of investigative journalism from the folks at BuzzFeed. The CCP reportedly operates hundreds of camps across the Xinjiang autonomous region for re-education of Uyghur musli…
- Dan Wang's COVID Observations from Beijing
An interesting post from China analyst Dan Wang, who lives in Beijing, on the current state of the city in the throes of response to the coronavirus response and containment: I see quarantine enforcement. One day in e…
- The Magic of Hong Kong
This footage really makes Hong Kong feel like it's from the future:
- Hong Kong Is Fast Becoming an Also Ran
I don't follow international markets closely enough to keep up with this, but interesting to see this take on Hong Kong's relative stagnation in recent years, especially as compared to other nearby mainland China citi…
- Dan Wang's 2019 Letter
Interesting thoughts in Dan Wang's annual letter. On China, trade, and tech. These are not trivial achievements. But neither are they earth-shattering successes. Consider first the internet companies. I find it bizarr…
- The Greening of the Earth
In the category of good news, this study from NASA using MODIS satellite data shows trends of re-greening happening in countries like India and China. Surprising given the media attention on overexploitation of land:…
- Weekend Reading: The Worst Year to Be Alive, Chinese Sci-Fi, and Slack Networks
🌋 Why 536 Was the Worst Year To Be Alive You may have thought the entire 14th century was pretty bad, or maybe 1918 with its flu pandemic and millions of war casualties, but how about the 6th: A mysterious fog plunge…
- Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells
🕹 How Figma’s Multiplayer Technology Works An interesting technical breakdown on how Figma built their multiplayer tech (the collaboration capability where you can see other users’ mouse cursors and highlights in the…
- Weekend Reading: Ancient Text, StarLink, and Chinese Origins
📜 Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy A project from DeepMind designed to fill in missing text from ancient inscriptions: Pythia takes a sequence of damaged text as input, and…
- Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work
🏰 The Empty Promise of Data Moats In the era of every company trying to play in machine learning and AI technology, I thought this was a refreshing perspective on data as a defensible element of a competitive moat. T…
- Weekend Reading: Shanghai, Basecamp, and DocuSaurus
🇨🇳 195-Gigapixel Photo of Shanghai Shot from the Oriental Pearl Tower, the picture shows enormous levels of detail composited from 8,700 source photos. Imagine this capability available commercially from microsatell…
- China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
Part of Vox's Borders video series. Hong Kong is such a fascinating and unique place, as is today's China, though for massively different reasons. How China treats HK will be one of the indicators of the wider Chinese…
- China's 10,000,000 Eyes
China installed more than 10,000,000 surveillance cameras in 2010. Talk about a stream of "big data": In May, Shanghai announced that a team of 4,000 monitor its surveillance feeds to ensure round-the-clock coverage.…