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China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students
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#12Well, you know, it’s not like the USA isn’t luring a lot of Chinese researchers and students already.
Speaking as an American who worked as a researcher in China for almost 9 years, China is way late to the “leveraging global talent” game. They should catch up, it’s only natural.
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#13I've been looking into topic modeling lately. It looks like this is the best library for doing that: https://github.com/baidu/Familia Time to learn Mandarin I guess.
It looks like there are English docs too: https://github.com/baidu/Familia/blob/master/README.EN.md
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Where on earth did you get that from? Which part of the article, or any evidence at all, supports your statement? And in what situation do you think it's acceptable to write in such a way?
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As a Chinese person the thing I find most dispiriting is that, if this comment had been made in a slightly more subtle and polished way (without a Hitler comparison right at the start, for one thing) it would have received a lot more upvotes and given a lot more credence
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#16This is fantastic news. Science will eventually benefit all of mankind even if the benefits are initially felt closer to where they're conducted. I welcome increased science funding regardless of who is doing it, particularly when we're talking about non-military scientific research. If this makes the US feel competitive and they increase funding state-side then so much the better. We'd all benefit from that too.
I agree. An international competition over “who can do the best research” is certainly something to welcome.
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I wish, people would pick their example dictators for internet discussions from the appropriate magnitude of evilness pot. If you would swap "Hitler" with "Honecker" the point would still be terrifying (surveillance state, human rights violations, unjustified killings and imprisonments) but not as over the top and far away from reality (gigantic genocide).
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#18I wonder when will Russia do the same.
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As a Chinese person the thing I find most dispiriting is that, if this comment had been made in a slightly more subtle and polished way (without a Hitler comparison right at the start, for one thing) it would have received a lot more upvotes and given a lot more credence
I agree that the comparison to Hitler is a non sequitur.
However, as a citizen in a democracy, I am pretty sure the writer of that posts intends it to be a criticism of an authoritarian dictatorship and not China's people or people of Chinese descent.
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#20I don't really think China is luring too many U.S. scientists... Most of the scientists I know pretty much ignore research out of China, because a large portion of it is just not replicable (and / or lies).
Well I guess the first step would be luring Chinese scientists currently in US back to China (many of those have US citizenship and would also be counted as US scientists)