Yiqin Fu

I consider myself a sophisticated LLM user.

This post is part of a series on China and AI.

This post summarizes the long lineage of intellectuals in Geoffrey Hinton’s family.

Recently, both Prof.

Jeremy Daum and Changhao Wei are two of a handful of people on this planet most capable of explaining Chinese law to an American audience.1 Both of them have the following set of skills: Native or near-native knowledge of the Chinese language Native or ne…

When local governments in Australia imposed another series of lockdowns earlier this summer, many Americans were alarmed by Australian governments' “authoritarian streak lurking beneath the surface.”

This post summarizes the do’s and don’ts in data manipulation and analysis.

SheIn, an e-commerce company founded in China but sells exclusively to overseas markets, is likely to eclipse Zara (Inditex), H&M Group, and Gap Inc. as the world’s largest clothing retailer as early as the second half of this year.

August 2021 Update: I wrote the following post in November 2018 but updated all charts to reflect the latest available data.

Quadratic Voting (QV) was popularized by Eric A.

This page documents facts and figures I find noteworthy about the world.

On Twitter and in popular academic media circles, many are making the claim that men, on average, have less intimate friendships than women.

Tables and charts have been going around the Internet showing that the Chinese start-up world is no longer producing stars: The country purportedly added 14 unicorns in 2020 (cf. 73 in the U.S.) and a mere three in the first half of 2021 (cf. 126 in the U…

Who are the most influential people in the history of the world?

The World Values Survey has been gathering public opinion since the 1980s.

Much has been said about China leapfrogging ahead of the West in mobile payments and other mobile-first technologies.

Academic Podcasts Capitalism after Coronavirus Host: Luis Garicano (European Parliament) Recent episodes: Dani Rodrik (Harvard) on Globalization John van Reenen (LSE) on Innovation VoxTalks Host: Tim Phillips (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Recent e…

If you’ve spent some time in China, especially as an English teacher, you’d probably know a few Tigers, Luckys, or Pizzas.

Coco Gauff, an American born in 2004, came through the qualifying rounds of the 2019 Wimbledon Championship and advanced to the Round of 16, beating grand slam champion Venus Williams along the way.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the only U.N. body authorized to issue binding decisions, consists of five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.) and ten “rotating” ones elected each year.1 The UNSC holds anywhere be…

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China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported on June 27 that the country’s industrial profits in May surged by 21% year-on-year.

FIFA has published the height, weight, and date of birth of all players in all 32 countries' squads.

At work, I frequently share Chinese-language articles with English-speaking colleagues and English articles with Chinese-speaking colleagues.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the UN’s main deliberative and only universally representative body.

Five years ago, with the help of two wonderful editors, I wrote about the drastic differences in admissions quotas Chinese universities set for different provinces.