SU-SOC175 JAN212025
Last edited: January 1, 2026Diminished State Capacity
- China’s central government has very few officials
- Uses a lot of meetings to communicate information from top to bottom.
China is generally more more understaffed because lack of people.
Information Control in China
Information control is required to ensure cohesion in a super decentralized environment; and thus messages deemed divisive or destabilizing are restricted.
China’s restrictions are highly unusual since US trade partner + China + Russia didn’t do this.
China Economy Index
Last edited: January 1, 2026adventuretime
Last edited: January 1, 2026- 1 Executive Summary
- 2 Core Design Principles
- 3 Non-Goals
- 4 System Overview
- 5 Hardware Architecture (Recommended)
- 6 Network & Communication Diagram (Textual)
- 7 Storage Model
- 7.1 Invariant
- 7.2 Checkpoint Flow
- 7.3 Artifacts & Logs
- 8 Unified Checkpointing (JAX Pytrees)
- 9 Repository Structure (Tech Spec)
- 10 Execution Model
- 10.1 Job Lifecycle
- 10.2 Backend Interface
- 11 DAG / “Ray-lite” Model
- 12 Example YAML Specifications
- 12.1 Backend Inventory
- 12.2 Storage
- 12.3 Single Run Spec
- 12.4 DAG Spec (Tokenize → Train → Rollouts)
- 13 Implementation Plan
- 13.1 Phase 0 (2–3 weeks)
- 13.2 Phase 1 (4–6 weeks)
- 13.3 Phase 2 (3–4 weeks)
- 13.4 Phase 3 (optional)
- 14 Cost Estimates
- 14.1 One-Time Hardware (Target ~$50k)
- 14.2 Ongoing
- 15 Risks & Mitigations
- 16 Success Criteria
- 17 Conclusion
After a conversation with an LM https://chatgpt.com/share/697143db-c3e0-8000-b56c-07cf7ca43795 the following proposal was generated.
Medical Ethics Index
Last edited: January 1, 2026Harm Principle in Pediatric Ethics
Only intervene when there’s significant harm.
four pillars of medical ethics
- beneficence: act in the best interest of the patient
- non-maleficence: do no harm
- autonomy: respect the right of people to make decisions for themselves
- justice: seek fairness with what we do
…on children
- autonomy is very adult centric… “substituted judgment is hard”
- altruistic surrogacy: act in the children’ best interest
- altruism: doesn’t require the consent / knowledge of others + doing something for someone else
SU-EALC110 JAN202025
Last edited: January 1, 2026Legends in Classical Chinese
Story of Ch’un-hyang is in essence a story of marvel; i.e. a 传奇—a “legend”. Confucian scholar-officials shun this type of work as a function of it talking about fantastical scenes.
In some sense similar to the online novel scene now: reasonably interesting but not analyzed in serious scholarship.
Joseon period social liberality was largely destroyed by Japanese colonial invasion.
Consider
- who is the narrator?
- when does the narrator sing a song
- what are the function of excessive details?
- where are the puns and why?