Jenxi Seow

Cyber Alchemist. Using AI to think, learn, and create better. 古为今用

[Jesse Genet @jessegenet]

For every lazy hater saying AI is useless and over-hyped there is a real person making their life tangibly better using AI… choose your team.

Be the broccoli farmer.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

You should want to control and host your own memory

It’s the one thing that you should be able to take to any platform

Watch for this to be a defining battle in the new browser war: the AI harness wars of 2027

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

1,500 days straight on Duolingo. That's over 4 years of opening an app every single day.

Not because I needed to. Because I said I would.

The streak isn't about language learning anymore. It's about keeping a promise to yourself.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

At the Canton Fair, a foreign woman with lower-body disabilities stood and walked on her own using a Chinese exoskeleton. Her family was moved to tears.

Technology is for people, not for show.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn @okaythenfuture And also learning new skills and keeping up with times means more opportunities. When I have a talk on using AI in 2023, I had parents coming up to ask if I do courses for 6-7 year olds because they felt it's an important skill to have.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@manlio0914 @alreadydawn From what I've seen people don't find it weird at all. I can't bring myself to say it so I use 哥/小哥 and 小姐姐. There's also 哥们, 兄弟 etc. 小姐 is a no-no of course.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn https://t.co/rxipQtO67n

[Caixin Global @caixin]

Analysis: China’s driverless taxi industry is gaining renewed momentum, with top players including Pony AI and WeRide reporting improved first-quarter results that reflect rising demand and renewed policy support. https://t.co/aI4bdoKQTQ

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn Search WeChat for 小马智行 or 萝卜快跑. You can book a ride via the mini-program if they operate in the city you're in.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn @growlerowl I see traffic police enforcing daily, the sheer volume tho. Checking for illegal mods, not wearing helmets. Ebikes are not road legal so they are supposed to be on the sidewalks. Hence limited to 25kmph but it's a software limit so it's possible to jailbreak and remove the limit.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn @growlerowl There has been regulation on the ebikes but more for battery size and limiting top speeds for safety. Requirements for registration ie only get a license plate when the bike passes the regulations.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

Here’s why you should Chinamaxx, especially when it comes to the history:

There’s a strong cyclic, almost fractal quality to it. Patterns emerge. Chinese history can seem daunting from afar, but once you get a handle on it, it’s very manageable compared to the shagginess of European history. There is a main line that guides you through 3000+ years of history for an area basically as large as Europe. You’ll find archetypes, characters and tropes emerging again and again.

With the same amount of effort as it would take to understand a minor European country, you can basically grasp everything that was going on for about a fifth of the worlds population for the last 3000 years. There will be always more to learn. Chinese history is something you can dedicate multiple lifetimes to. But I think ppl overestimate how much effort they need to put in to start getting incredible returns.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn Try riding an e-bike if you get a chance to get an idea. Besides being quiet, the other major factor imo is the acceleration. Not defending e-bikes, they are a menace but it helped me see the other perspective.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@ruima @TechBuzzChina I find the 酱板鸭 meme a glimpse at how things would be. It's become relatively accessible for people to prompt their take of the meme.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.

Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.

And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.

As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."

They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.

A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.

Good. Mourn your dead.

But understand what that wall does not say.

It does not say why they died.

It does not say what they were doing there.

It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.

It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.

Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.

For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.

It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.

Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.

Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.

And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.

Still profitable.

Still un-prosecuted.

And yet they send us human rights reports.

They grade our democracy.

They warn us about our behavior.

The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.

Almost.

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn The abandoned ones are the parts that didn't survive.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM
Anon, are you Chinamaxxing?

Well as my friend @w_t_han likes to say, "If you don't understand the history, how are you going to understand anything about China?"

Today William and I went to the National Palace Museum in Taipei and I got a whole-ass education. Honestly, I now understand Chinese History at least 10% better in just one day even though I've been Chinese literally ALL MY LIFE (minus a few misbegotten years when I bought into the Taiwanese-not-Chinese brainworms.)

And here's the Angelica Guarantee to You: If you read this thread illustrated with artifacts we saw at the museum today, you too will understand Chinese history at least 10% better, unless you started as a Chinese history buff. EVEN IF YOU ARE...I guarantee you'll learn something you didn't know before.

China has a long history and we are going to meander all over it so its important to have a decoder ring so we don't get lost. We're going to divide China into 4 periods. It's deliberately oversimplified to keep you on track(ish).

ANCIENT CHINA
夏 - Xia dynasty (possibly mythical)
商 - Shang dynasty (bronze and oracle bones)
周 - Zhou dynasty (mandate of heaven, Confucius)

CLASSICAL CHINA
秦 - Qin dynasty (unification and legalism)
漢 - Han dynasty (identity and bureaucracy formation)
晉 - Jin dynasty (Three Kingdoms and ensuing chaos)

PEAK CHINA
隋 - Sui dynasty (imperial exam and grand canal)
唐 - Tang dynasty (cosmopolitan cultural golden age)
宋 - Song dynasty (economic and technological boom)

LATE CHINA
元 - Yuan dynasty (Mongols)
明 - Ming dynasty (Han restoration)
清 - Qing dynasty (Manchus, last dynasty)

If you speak Chinese then 夏商周 秦漢晉 隋唐宋 元明清 is a super useful little nugget to remind yourself. William memorized it when he was 6 years old and I memorized it today.

Of course, this "decoder" is heavily simplified: we only count the most unified and cohesive dynasties.

OK. Ready? Let's go to the museum!

[Jenxi Seow @jenxi]

@alreadydawn Could've been more of an issue because we were travelling with a toddler and avoid cigarette smoke like the plague. I probably played up the smoke-free image too much as well, based on what I remember of Singapore and reality fell short.