What an 18 year old girl is doing...quantum computing logics

 

24 min of what a 18 year old girl was doing at the highest level of computer engineering in the most prestigious institutions and among the brightest brains. I have practically no knowledge of quantum physics and could barely understand anything she was saying and completely blown away by the formula she wrote on the white board. Watching this clip is a humbling experience and a better understanding of what is talent. Our talent scouts are hunting at the wrong places for funny talents.

Many 18 year old are likely to be doing their first undergraduate study in college, some kicking footballs, some trying to make the best char kway teow, fried rice or prawn noodle after graduating with a degree or diploma.

Ewin Tang, at 18, was standing in front of professors and scientists, the best in their fields, explaining and defending her theory and how her paper debunked an existing authoritative quantum theory and made its logic obsolete. Her paper explained how a normal computer can also perform the task like a quantum computer and more.

Not everyone is made equal. People may be blessed with different talents. Ewin Tang is gifted with a talent of another world that humbles even professors.

China selling quality goods and services for the price of dirt

 The scam of branded goods has been completely destroyed by China and people are now smarter, saving a lot of money from not buying branded goods at ransom prices. The people of the world can now afford to buy and use all the good products and services they so desired at a fraction of the prices they used to pay to western brands. China will make the same products, with the same material and selling to the consumers for a song. And if the customers want a brand stitched on, China can also do it with an additional $10. After all, all the branded products are made in China by skilled Chinese artisans, cheaper but not cheap labour. The prices charged by the brand owners were mostly the jacked up prices for obscene profits. 

China has now moved one step ahead, since labour cost is rising, China is moving into robotics. The whole production line can be manned by cheaper robots that worked 24/7 with no extra pay, no time off for lunch break or sick leave, no labour union problems. Just pure productivity and efficiency. China can go on innovating and producing goods and services at very affordable prices. Can you imagine how much a good Chinese EV will be in the market if left to the American and western brands? What Tesla is charging is a good example of the value for money versus Chinese EVs. Soon Tesla too will be priced out of the market, unable to compete in quality, design, technology and price.

China did not capitalise on the quality of its products and services by charging high prices like the Americans and the West. China prices its goods and services for the masses in the whole world. The average consumer in the world is now faced with ample choices of good products and services at very affordable prices which they could not afford if made in the West. 

China is selling its products and services to the whole world and did not demand to be paid in dollars and high prices. China is literally asking countries to pay with dirt. Just give China dirt in exchange for quality high tech products and services. And if countries did not have the capacity and technology to deliver the dirt, China will bring in the equipment to transport the dirt and ship them to China, without overcharging. No money never mind, just dirt will do.

For countries that are able and want to add value to their dirt, China can assist by selling them the technology and equipment as well. China is in a way helping the rest of the world to be richer by making things affordable, give them real value for paying less.

Can you imagine what the world of the average and less developed people be like without the abundance of good quality goods and services from China, clothes costing a few dollars a piece, mobile phones at less than a hundred bucks, EVs for less than US$10k, and efficient infrastructure, highways, high speed trains, ports etc etc to be had by trading their dirt? Many countries are limited by their size, small population, educational and technology level, infrastructure... to make high tech stuffs they need. And China is there to offer them whatever they need, for the price of a song, or some dirt...with no strings attached. The Americans wanted to sell AI only to those with deep pockets. China is offering AI to the man on the street. The average guy have all the AIs they need for free. The Americans cannot stop China from pushing out AI applications for the world cheaply.

Some silly countries still want to buy American and western goods and willing to pay ripoff prices for lower quality goods. It is ok if they have a lot of easy money.

India only has one plan...takeover. India is out to take everything, companies, industries, countries, and there are silly people inviting India to takeover everything

India is in big trouble going forward. India has many issues to take care of besides trying to stay as the sixth biggest economy in the world.

The most difficult problem for India right now is creating jobs for 12 million new university graduates coming onstream into the job market every year, without the corresponding mass job creation afforded by manufacturing. India is still largely an agrarian society, with more than 40% of its population still engaged in agriculture cum husbandry activities. The rise of AI and the Middle East war have added further pressure on India. Much of India's service industry that had been catering to Western companies using Indian workers for back-office jobs, have now been replaced by AI. The Iran War has also added another layer of problem for India, with Indian workers returning home to compete with new Indian graduates for jobs. These returning workers are educated and experienced, fighting for the tight job opportunities available. Therein lies the massive problem for India.

Of course, India can do what China did, albeit in 30 to 50 years' time optimistically speaking, but foreign direct investments have dried up from USA and the West. The USA, under Trump has classified India as a shithole, so think about that. The Europeans are no rich uncles themselves, already devastated by the Ukraine War and energy problems. Now, Europe is fighting a tariff war against the USA, so forget about European investing big in India.

The only source of investments for India is China. Chinese investments worldwide had been reported to be around US$130 billion annually, but in the face of the problems between India and China, it is unlikely to attract Chinese FDI into India. After all, the Chinese Government has warned Chinese companies to stay away from India. India wanted to please the USA by biting the hand that could help it with good investments, but India bit the hand of the Chinese over and over again.

Another big problem for India going big into manufacturing is the lack of infrastructures. There is no high-speed rail or even up-to-date rail network, roads are just pot-hole tracks, movement of raw materials and finished goods takes ages, and the supply chain for manufacturing is still largely outside the country. Moreover, the whole country is still highly corrupted, from the top Government leaders to the foot soldiers carrying out the duty of administrating policies. It is always the outstretch hand for bribes in order for things to be allowed to be done.

As I said before, all that hype about India's big expanding population as a dividend to be reaped is all hubris. It is more a massive liability for India to have a bursting young population without jobs. An expanding population is a boom for advanced countries like Japan and some European states, but not in a country as poor as India, whatever the showboating about a young population is trying to sell.


Anonymous

China building more pipelines overland

Russia now has oil pipelines to move oil to China, and this is no longer a problem for both countries trying to evade choke points nor sanctions.

If a push comes to a shove, China and Iran too, may find it feasible to have similar pipelines to facilitate the movement of Iranian oil to China. There was already a proposal to build a pipeline from Gwadar Port in Pakistan to Kashgar, China, for Middle East oil, to avoid the Straits of Malacca, but which due to geological constraints, has been mothballed. Those constraints involve building the pipeline across mountainous terrain thousands of meters high. But China is fully capable of building at such heights, such as its high-speed rail construction in freezing conditions and low oxygen environment.

When situations become untenable due to the Middle East war prolonging and for future proofing, killing two birds with one stone may take place, which means constructing the Iran link to connect to the resurrected Gwadar Port line running towards Kashgar, China. This is just my thinking, and I am sure the Chinese are also looking forward as well to such a possibility.


Anonymous

China is dominating in every sectors, including scientific paper. India can print fake degrees but not fake scientific papers

Weaponization of the US$ provided a means for the USA to punish other countries for a period of time, but the effect is waning as countries found ways to get around those sanctions. Needless to say, no country had ever collapse due to USA sanctions, and sanctioned countries are learning from the experience of those who would not fall. Hyping gloom and doom as a consequence of those sanctions is no more a fear factor to threaten countries today.

De-dollarization must be seen as a godsend as countries can now trade outside the US$ and avoid the sanctions, even as they are asking - who is next. The Iran War is going to see de-dollarization up a notch with Russia and Iran now selling oil in Yuan. This move by Russia and Iran is no small potato, as both are major oil producers. Other Gulf oil producers will in time have to consider accepting Yuan, (if they have not done so already), as a currency for settlement when selling oil to China, the biggest market by far.

I have been watching videos of the changing landscape around the world regarding who is dominating in which sector. There are indeed somewhat of a surprise for me that China has grown to dominate in so many sectors of the global landscape which is fermenting a natural worrying reaction by the USA. China's domination in churning out scientific papers in chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering and construction, which were the monopoly of the USA before, is now turned on its head. China has dominated the registration of patents (which is about new inventions) and is the top dog in this sector. China has stamped its domination in EVs, drones, shipbuilding and renewable energy harvesting, leaving the rest of the world fighting for runners-up position.


Anonymous