Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?

Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha... by logicslave on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:34PM (#23481099)

Our code means code written by individuals working within the USA or at an American Institution.

I work in machine learning research and keep up with all of the top papers. I have exited on an ml startup that I founded. Very few coming out of china are top papers. Anyone can publish to arxiv. Measuring whether a model is state of the art is incredibly complex, overfitting to specific datasets is rampant.

Its also ridiculous that I am being downvoted.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha... by eeh on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:02PM (#23484131)

> Our code means code written by individuals working within the USA or at an American Institution.

USA occasionally has a reputation for being insular, but I'm happy to see you bucking the trend and embracing institutes across the continent of America.

I suppose I'm reading too much into why "an American Institute" gets capitalised but "china" or "chinnese" does not?

> overfitting to specific datasets is rampant.

Are your conclusions the result of having overfit to the software/research in your field you've looked at?

I don't know either way, but forgive me if I sense a tiny bit of bias.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software tha... by dt123 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:05PM (#23482105)

you know there are plenty of Hacker News readers in countries other than the US right?...

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