philosophy
When I joined my sailing club in Hong Kong, my seconder, when signing my application in support of my membership, said to me "clubs run on trust." He was talking about the fact that good clubs work and continue to exist because there is an element of trust
ai
When asked to pick a random number, humans tend to pick the number 7 more than the other numbers. Because LLMs are trained on human output, they take this bias and turn it into what almost amounts to a rule. Go ask your favorite LLM to pick a random number
hong kong
The SCMP writes: Four Hong Kong franchised bus operators have applied to raise fares by up to 17.7 per cent, citing “significant financial pressure” from soaring fuel prices driven by the Middle East conflict. The bureau said the sharp rise in diesel pump prices triggered by the Middle East
hong kong
I've had at least a dozen landlords over the course of my adult life and I've had a good, or at least amicable, working relationship with all of them. This is because when I'm shopping for a flat, office or house to rent I
china
Two and a half decades ago when I first visited China and the Chinese mainland, the Western-food situation was bleak. Besides a few famous Western-owned global food chains and international hotels, white (or black or brown)-person food was not wildly available, and when it was, usually not
crypto
There's very much an adverse selection problem in the crypto industry. The people that you'd actually want to start a wallet company, a security company or a crypto exchange are very often the least interested in doing it. Take, for example, bitcoin exchanges. There were two
fatherhood
I originally tweeted this a few months ago in the middle of the night and then deleted it, mainly because I sometimes worry about oversharing: There is nothing more peaceful than a house with a newborn baby and first-time mother both sleeping soundly The context: it was the day
ai
It's great that there's so much competition and progress in the generative AI space the past few years, but I can't be alone when I say that I'm getting really sick of the drama coming from US frontier AI labs. It'
china
In case you haven't been following along, I'm in Macau for a few days. Macau was handed back to China 27 years ago in 1999...two years after China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. One would think that over three decades that behavior would
parenting
I'm writing this in a dark hotel room with a sleeping baby. We decided to take a first vacation with our baby across the bridge to Macau as a practice run for future travel. We took advantage of the Macau park and ride scheme for Hong Kong cars
china
"Enshittification" is a sort of "safe horny" term for what is really just outright impoverishment and declining living standards due to economic insolvency from deindustrialization, demographic decline, hyperinflation, etc. You are just de-developing and becoming poor. -Marko Jukic on X "Enshittification" is a
housing
Hong Kong is perhaps most infamous for its high-priced and cramped real estate. And its infamy is well-deserved. Prices are high, quality is low, and, despite that things move very fast. A side effect of Hong Kong's high real estate prices are the efficiency with which