#GPT’s vocabulary behaves the worst: more than 23% long #Chinese tokens (i.e., a token with more than two Chinese characters) are either #porn or online #gambling.
https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17771v1
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#Tether, a company whose capital probably comes from #China and which earns 5% interest on ~$100 billion for doing nothing, has been branching out and investing in:
1. a chinese bitcoin transaction processor (some call them "miners") manufacturer #Bitdeer
2. random agriculture companies in argentina with a sub 3% ROI (less than Tether would get doing nothing and collecting 5%) https://t.co/R15JFCMRhD
3. #Satellogic, a manufacturer of spy satellites that is currently losing $30-50 million per year (much less than the guaranteed 5%)
to say this is shady would be an understatement but it is of a piece with some of Tether's other recent bailouts of allegedly fraudulent companies like #NorthernData
#crypto #stablecoins #stablecoin #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #argentina #SATL #Adecoagro #espionage #satellite #spy #Chinese #JihanWu
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"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
via https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333
#internet #TheWeb #WorldWideWeb #chinese #language #linguistics
'Do you want to show strength here?': russia's ads recruiting #Chinese mercenaries
More than 150 Chinese nationals are fighting for russia in #Ukraine, Volodymyr #Zelenskyy has said, recruited via videos on social media
I noticed this ownership seal said "university" so I was like "oh, I wonder which Chinese university this could be, let me look it up"
... Harvard. It says it's from the Harvard University Library. They have an official Chinese seal for stamping their Chinese manuscripts
