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Submission + - How much schadenfreude is bad for me? (bbc.com)

Submitted by shanen on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:16PM

shanen writes: I'm just submitting the story to be part of the rush, but I'm actually not a bit surprised that Zelenskyy told the orange buffoon to take a flying leap. Nor that Cheeto Jesus was caught completely off guard. He wouldn't recognize an actual patriot until one bit him on the arse in his own precious office.

Mostly I just want to add another joke to the melee: How can he change the subject now? But making a new sales pitch for his vanity cryptocoin: "Buy my crypto-coins and the decryption keys for everything are included! What do you mean it doesn't work like that? Elong [sic] told me!"

Submission + - DeepSeek, China and the Japanese art of 'kaizen' (ft.com)

Submitted by berghem on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:20AM

berghem writes: An Article on FT.com (paywalled) reports how behind China’s recent achievements — in LLMs like DeepSeek, electric cars, robotics, electronics, etc — some version of kaizen is at work.

Kaizen is a patient process of iterative improvement of product and process, which Japan made famous in the 70s and 80s.

According to Japanese recruitment agents, China these days employs older and experienced "Japanese semiconductor, railway and robotics engineers as consultants". Japan did not pay these engineers very much, and China has found that they can tempt them away from their own country with better pay and by valuing their expertise. "Kaizen is fundamentally a process of trial and error, and an experienced engineer can impart the invaluable, cost-saving nod on what was tried but didn’t work."

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