Ruby MacDougall

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Ruby MacDougall

Ruby MacDougall

@ruby_macdougall

PhD in Asian Languages in Cultures @Umich; senior analyst @IthakaSR ; modern Chinese studies, dance, art history, open source, + patterns

Ann Arbor, MI Beigetreten Mayıs 2022
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Yuen Yuen Ang
Yuen Yuen Ang@yuenyuenang·
Congrats to AJR! 🌟 They are brilliant. But I don't agree with their idealized portrayal of institutions in Western development It is historically inaccurate, if not ideologized Thus, not only do they struggle to explain China, they also can't explain why Western economies like the US prospered despite being as corrupt as China is today
The Nobel Prize@NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” #NobelPrize

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Paul Triolo
Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech·
China-EU cross-border data flow exchange mechanism officially established and first meeting held via video. Presided over by Wang Jingtao, CAC, deputy director, and Sabine Weyand, EU’s Director-General for Trade. Also included MOFA, MOFCOM, MIIT, NDA. cac.gov.cn/2024-08/27/c_1…
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Ithaka S+R
Ithaka S+R@IthakaSR·
Just a few weeks left until our leadership program for #librarians, in collaboration with @chronicle! Sign up to join a professional development program designed to empower participants to develop their leadership skills and drive institutional success: chronicle.com/professional-d…
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Paul Triolo
Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech·
Chinese AI firm iFlyTek says its LLMs are trained completely on Huawei platform At the unveiling of its latest Xinghuo 4 model, iFlyTek chairman Liu Qingfeng said the company is determined to train LLMs on ‘self-developed, controllable’ infrastructure scmp.com/tech/big-tech/…
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Kevin S. Xu
Kevin S. Xu@kevinsxu·
Qwen 72B beats Llama 70B Yi beats Cohere LLMs from China are making big strides
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clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

Pumped to announce the brand new open LLM leaderboard. We burned 300 H100 to re-run new evaluations like MMLU-pro for all major open LLMs! Some learning: - Qwen 72B is the king and Chinese open models are dominating overall - Previous evaluations have become too easy for recent models, much like grading high school students on middle school problems - There are indications that AI builders have started to focus on the main evaluations too much at the expense of model performances on other ones - Bigger is not always smarter Really excited about how the field is maturing on evaluation, let's go!

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Paul Triolo
Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech·
OpenAI has warned developers in China it will begin blocking their access to its tools and software from July Chinese firms like Zhipu announced incentives for switching bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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clem 🤗
clem 🤗@ClementDelangue·
Let’s focus next summits on realistic current risks like concentration of power, biases,… (versus existential risks), be more inclusive of all AI actors, especially open-source, smaller companies and academia, and practical! politico.eu/article/rishi-…
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Ruby MacDougall@ruby_macdougall·
@__sidelong @__sidelong I ordered three copies of kernel #4 to give to friends who will find personal comfort and intellectual inspiration in your essay. Cannot thank you enough for writing it!
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David Attewell
David Attewell@DavidAttewell6·
7/ A quote of his that encapsulated Steve: "The purpose of policy history is not merely to trace where we have come from and why, but to show us the paths not traveled, the tools discarded and forgotten but still useful, so that we can make use of them in the here and now."
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China Digital
China Digital@China_Digital·
Some really interesting papers on China's digital impact on North Africa, Latin America and the Belt-Road countries here: tandfonline.com/toc/utis20/40/2
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Andrea Ruggeri
Andrea Ruggeri@aruggeri_eu·
"As I finished my PhD thesis, I realized that the thesis had actually narrowed my intellectual lens to the point where I had become, if anything, a little stupider than when I began." James C. Scott, 2024 Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast
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Matt Sheehan
Matt Sheehan@mattsheehan88·
This week a group of influential Chinese AI policy scholars released their recommended draft version of 🇨🇳's proposed AI Law. The text is a window into key policy debates, and a potential preview of where Chinese AI governance is heading. Quick 🧵 fxcxw.org.cn/dyna/content.p…
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Kendra Schaefer 凯娜
Kendra Schaefer 凯娜@kendraschaefer·
Finally, finally, finally - China's cyberspace regulator finalizes rules relaxing requirements on exporting data from China. cac.gov.cn/2024-03/22/c_1…
China Digital@China_Digital

The Cyberspace Administration of China has just released regulations revising the data export regime. These came out in draft last autumn and heralded a considerable loosening of strict requirements on security review, standard contracts or certification. A few highlights:

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Rui Ma
Rui Ma@ruima·
Just talked to someone from a listed Chinese software co (not on any list, not in a sensitive industry) who attended Nvidia GTC. 10 out of 14 of their Chinese colleagues were denied visas to the U.S. They applied under business visit and showed their invitation letters from Nvidia. Denied. Another colleague flying in from Singapore but is a Canadian citizen was detained for questioning at customs (this person didn’t need a visa). I didn’t know Nvidia GTC is such a sensitive event lol. But hey at least our borders are secure!
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MMitchell
MMitchell@mmitchell_ai·
If the vast majority of women in tech feel alienated, demeaned, gaslit, disempowered, etc., can we begin to agree that the norms of how to treat people in tech are discriminatory to women? hackernoon.com/gender-bias-in…
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Damien Ma
Damien Ma@damienics·
When I posted the 1st set of Apple supplier charts last wk, many quickly said "see, decoupling." But organizing the same dataset by "firm identity" shows just the opposite (2nd set). This is what I mean when I asked what we care about "made In China" or "made BY Chinese firms"
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Ithaka S+R
Ithaka S+R@IthakaSR·
As part of our collaboration with 29 research universities to coordinate research data services across campus, we’re excited to share a new inventory of research data services at 120 #highered institutions in the US and Canada. sr.ithaka.org/publications/t…
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