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  1. Mar 2025
    1. Businesses set their own prices and customers decide what they are willing to pay, so prices go up or down as each side decides what they are willing to charge/spend (no government intervention)

      This statement is rather arbitrary. The fact is that most governments intervene in commodity prices in order to maintain basic social welfare. There is no real free market after Keynesianism has been widely absorbed into economic policy.

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    1. Friedman doctrine. October 2023. Page Version ID: 1181231279. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedman_doctrine&oldid=1181231279 (visited on 2023-12-10).

      This link details Friedman's content on the sole social responsibility of corporations.Friedman's theory as a representative of the Chicago school of neoliberalism is very important. However, this theory has been criticized a lot and there are many unsuccessful cases.

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    1. Rebecca Jennings. Stop canceling normal people who go viral. Vox, October 2021. URL: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22716772/west-elm-caleb-couch-guy-tiktok-cancel (visited on 2023-12-10).

      This article is about people who have been rumored to have committed minor acts of immorality, but with the spread of the Internet have been added to the story, thus far deviating from the truth and receiving cyber-violence. I think the call for this article is excellent. We should be looking for the truth of the matter, not spreading it mindlessly!

    1. A good rule of thumb is to go after groups, but I don’t exempt individuals, especially not if they are politically powerful or sizeably impact society. But we must ask ourselves about the way those individuals are shamed and whether the punishment is proportional.

      This is an excellent way to go. The more power you have, the more responsibility you have, and when you become a public figure but make an unethical impact, it is your responsibility to take on a certain amount of criticism in order to correct the bad influence.

    1. Bullying: like posting public mean messages

      This is probably the most "popular" format of harassment. Considering most social media provide individual message conversation for convenience, this type of harassment is very easy to deploy.

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    1. Doxing. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1189390304. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doxing&oldid=1189390304 (visited on 2023-12-10).

      Doxing is probably the most destructive form of harassment in a person's life, and in Chinese it is also called 开盒. Once a person has finished doxing, he or she tends to disseminate personal information widely, resulting in the majority of people learning about the doxing information extremely quickly, which is very destructive.

  5. Feb 2025
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    1. Quora. URL: https://www.quora.com/ (visited on 2023-12-08).

      Quora is a platform I really like. But I think the Chinese version of Quora, Zhihu has better interaction logic and user experience. But this also leads to zhihu being flooded with a lot of lower quality users resulting in less information density. This is an issue that can be pondered.

    1. This small percentage of people doing most of the work in some areas is not a new phenomenon.

      Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto conclude such principle back in 1906. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.

    1. depth-first search

      Or DFS. DFS is probably the most important algorithm, or idea in graph algorithm. Most other algorithms on trees based on DFS, like tarjan, most Dynamic Programming on Trees.

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    1. Wikipedia. URL: https://www.wikipedia.org/ (visited on 2023-12-08).

      Much of Wikipedia's success comes from his excellent team of administrators and contributors. By way of comparison, Baidu, which employs a similar strategy, often makes errors of a factual nature due to the level of its review team. However, there are exceptions, see “Кашин добыча серебра”.

    1. While there are benefits to venting, there are no benefits to trauma dumping. In trauma dumping, the person oversharing doesn’t take responsibility or show self-reflection.

      In fact it is more difficult to separate the two completely well. One of my very personal tips is to only do negative feelings sharing with close friends, not on a public platform.

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    1. What is self-harm? URL: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/self-harm/about-self-harm/ (visited on 2023-12-08).

      This is an encyclopedia page about self-harming behavior, providing the most fundamental psychological theories and coping strategies. Based on my personal observations, this phenomenon appears to be increasingly common in East Asia. In some cases, self-harm is not entirely caused by psychological disorders. Other possible reasons include proving oneself unafraid of pain, demonstrating ruthlessness (commonly seen in criminal organizations), expressing individuality, and the "landmine girl" subculture.

    1. How can you participate in cultural exchange without harmful cultural appropriation?

      Engaging in cultural exchange respectfully involves actively listening to and learning from members of the culture, ensuring that any adopted elements are shared with understanding and consent.

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    1. Miles Klee. Tesla CEO Elon Musk stole my meme. SFGATE, April 2021. URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/2021-04-elon-musk-twitter-covid-19-meme-tesla-ceo-16118139.php (visited on 2023-12-08).

      The article talks about in April 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted an image identical to one previously shared by another user, accompanied by suggestive emojis, and later deleted both tweets. This incident highlights how content can go viral on social media, illustrating the rapid spread and influence of shared material. Clearly Elon sometimes do weird behavior on his own twitter.

    1. The flat earth movement (an absurd conspiracy theory that the earth is actually flat, and not a globe) gained popularity in the 2010s.

      I think this is an excellent representation of the Information Cocoons produced by recommendation algorithms. people will continue to deepen their stereotypes and not see the more GENERAL information. This can lead to some social problems.

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    1. Arvind Narayanan. TikTok’s Secret Sauce. Knight First Amendment Institute, December 2022. URL: http://knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks-secret-sauce (visited on 2023-12-07).

      It's a perfect example of how just a small improvement in a recommendation algorithm can make a huge difference in user experience. It's also a motivation for many companies to break the law to violate user privacy.

    1. 10.2.5. Are things getting better?

      From what I have observed in my travels, the extent to which care facilities for the disabled are built depends greatly on the level of economic development. And a rapid economic take-off does not have an immediate response at first. Regions that have been affluent for a long time have a much better infrastructure for facilities for the disabled. The economy is therefore the key.

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    1. How to ADHD. What is ADHD? July 2020. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMWtGozn5jU (visited on 2023-12-07).

      There is some evidence that adults also experience ADHD symptoms, not just children before the age of 12. Individual cases exist where ADHD symptoms were not present in childhood but acquired in adulthood.

    1. How GDPR Is Failing – Wired [i32])

      Lawmakers are generally not the most specialized technicians or front-line experts with the best knowledge of the inner workings of a business. And privacy has a huge impact on revenue methods such as advertising. Making it so that companies always have the incentive and technology to get around some of the legal restrictions.

    1. Mark Johanson. Can your boss read your work messages? BBC, February 2022. URL:

      This is indeed a matter for discussion. Based on my internship experience in a number of organizations, different companies have different requirements for private information management. The strictest require that everything work-related is on company-provided equipment, so that all information cannot be read further after the work is done and can be read directly by the company. Nonetheless, there are some cases where it is too much of an invasion of privacy to view personal messages.

      Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

  12. Jan 2025
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    1. Data can be poisoned intentionally as well.

      It's not entirely bad. One recent tactic to protect the copyright of one's creative content is to perturb the value of each pixel very slightly, a change that seems almost indistinguishable to a human but causes the AI to fail to learn directly.

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    1. Spurious relationship. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1184161183

      Spurious relationship is a frequently encountered problem in the field of data analysis. It requires the researcher to be able to carefully discern whether there is a true causal relationship or whether it is caused by some invisible hidden relationship.

    1. What do you think is the best way to deal with trolling?

      Admit that the trolls have won, but do not acknowledge any specific points. Stop all further responses, and report any comments containing personal attacks.

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    1. 4chan. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1187992915. URL

      Like I said before, 4chan is a very aggressive social forum, so trolls are very common and exist in almost any case of conversation. It's a very valuable reference for researching troll.

    1. How do you think about the authenticity of the Tweets that come from Trump himself?

      I believe in the trump specific case, due to his social status, it is impossible for himself to handle all social media. This happens to all huge celebrities. They will have specific employee to help them maintain social medias. But I believe himself should be responsible to all content even though he didn't post them by himself.

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    1. Peter Aldhous. At First It Looked Like A Scientist Died From COVID. Then People Started Taking Her Story Apart. BuzzFeed News, August 2020. URL:

      Personally, I find this practice of creating social hotspots and mobilizing social sentiments through fictional stories, fictional characters and fictional social identities unacceptable and unethical. But I am equally opposed to the idea that social media should be completely real-name. My idea is that we must get the real-name measures right, and be able to allow people to focus on stories while effectively getting proof of their identity.

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    1. data mining

      Data mining in the Machine Learning field has a broader meaning. In the field of Machine Learning, data mining refers to the process of discovering patterns, relationships, and useful information from large datasets. It serves as a foundation for building predictive models and making data-driven decisions by leveraging algorithms and statistical methods.

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    1. 4chan. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186572457. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4chan&oldid=1186572457 (visited on 2023-11-24).

      I was under the impression that 4chan was a very bottomless internet forum, but it has to be said that due to its lack of moral boundaries, many of the extreme ideas within it have had a great deal of radiation and influence on the popular content of the wider internet forum. I think it's very difficult to maintain a balance between freedom of speech and a broader morality of speech. 4Chan's existence has its own inevitability.

    1. A “floating point” number with a decimal point, called a “float”

      In python we only have float to represent the "number with a decimal point". But in other languages we usually have double type. There difference is the precision of the number. The python float use IEEE 754 standard for double-precision floating-point numbers, which is the double type in C++ or Java.

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    1. Array (data type). October 2023. Page Version ID: 1181744993. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Array_(data_type)&oldid=1181744993 (visited on 2023-11-24).

      Array is probably the most widely used programming data structure. Generously array is a continuous memory space which provide immediate access to specific position data. Because of the advantage of continuous memory, which commonly appear in any programming task, we also usually build other data structure based on array.

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    1. COVID-19 Vaccine Progress [@HeadlinerClip]. COVID-19 Vaccine Progress (@vax_progress). December 2023. URL: https://twitter.com/vax_progress (visited on 2023-12-02).

      It's a twitter bot that automatically tweets vaccination rates across the US. I think this is a extraordinary of good use bot. It is simple, only need to get the data from official website and send a post. But apparently people use twitter in a daily basis, they can get the most recent information through this easily. While sending this message can also helps urging more people to get vaccinated.

    1. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others.

      In fact by the development of Large Language Model, there are many bots that run based on LLM agent. The content they created are much more complicated than traditional bots. Meanwhile, LLM's output sometimes are unpredictable, which makes them sometimes extremely offensive to specific group of people (hell jokes), and very hard to distinguish from actual human.

    1. Python uses an interpreter, so when you run a Python program, the interpreter translates the Python code into binary while it’s running it.

      This design brings several advantages to Python. Since it is interpreted line by line during execution, Python allows for more lenient type checking and requirements, making it easier for beginners to start learning and using the language. Additionally, as long as different platforms implement their own interpreters, the same code can run seamlessly across platforms without worrying about compatibility—something that is often a complex issue for many other languages. The downside, however, lies in some performance limitations. But for our course's purpose it is a perfect match.

    1. Like nihilism, existentialism starts with a claim that there is no fundamental meaning or morality. But in existentialism, people must create their own meaning and morality.

      I personally believe that existentialism is a form of resistance against nihilism. In the Western world, with the advancement of science and technology, the development of productivity, and the rise of capitalism, the old Christian ideological framework gradually disintegrated. Along with it, the moral structure brought by religion began to collapse. "God is dead" is Nietzsche's most powerful summary of this transformation. People need to free themselves from the influence of God to establish their own moral framework, countering the moral collapse brought by nihilism and capitalism. The even greater moral collapse caused by World War I and World War II prompted deeper reflection. Existentialism thus asserts that there are no external, objective moral laws to constrain human behavior, aligning with Nietzsche's philosophy of the Übermensch. However, unlike Nietzsche, who almost entirely rejected traditional morality, existentialism holds that an individual’s actions and moral principles are declarations of how they define themselves in relation to the world. While choices are free, individuals must take full responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This, in fact, places a greater responsibility on each person—a responsibility regarding the meaning of existence and their relationship to the world. Through this process, each individual must assign moral significance (and, simultaneously, self-significance), thereby resisting nihilism and absurdity. But I think this philosophical ethics framework may not enable society to follow approximate moral standards. Therefore there are still some social problems.