Education
On the recent college admission scandal, author Michael Locke McLendon (The Psychology of Inequality) argues “the idea that some have climbed to the top through their own merit is an aristocratic ideology, not a democratic one, therefore meritocracy caused the college admissions scandal.” In his article, Mr. McLendon referenced French
Robots
Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance. Aibo, with a hefty price tag at $2,900, announced its envoy to the States and immediately received press attention a niche product can hope for. Two opposite events occuring at
Book
Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes. In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making
Policy
On March 4, Financial Times reported that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommittee, suggested separating social media platforms from selling information and data, or so-called “Glass-Steagall for tech”. (The Glass Steagall Act was enacted in 1933 in the wake of 1929 stock market crash to separate investment
Biotech Drug Anti-Aging
Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Guardian article, it was in in 2008, Novato, CA-based Buck Institute researcher Judith Campisi discovered secretion from senescent cells causes inflammation, the driver of almost every age-related diseases. This discovery shed light on scientists
China
To answer this question, Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management argues GDP, the statistics supposedly able to measure both on growth and ability to service debt, never perfectly achieved so (building a bridge to nowhere counts the same as building a much-needed bridge)
AI
In today’s AI era, I revisited the once-hyped concept Gene and Meme, the idea that we are vehicles driven by these two replicators, who care less about the vehicle’s (ours) own well-being (meaning) but thrive for mere replication. A book called “The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in
Book
Tim Wu’s new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, has stirred up heated debates on corporate’s bigness in today’s digital economy. Here are two different point of views based on his recent op-ed on the New York Times in this subject. Nicole
Energy
[Update] This interview was conducted in August in 2018. On Nov. 1, 2018, we learned Tesla delivered first Powerpack project at tidal power station, which echos the theory in this interview. We will further investigate this topic with follow-on interviews. Earlier this year in June, Wales shelved a plan to
Autonomous Driving Battery EV
When it comes to the sensor technology for autonomous driving, there always seems two schools of thoughts: beliefs in Lidar/Radar OR beliefs in Vision. I asked two startup founders in autonomous-driving to get their point of views: * Amit Steinberg, CTO and co-founder of Innoviz, a leading provider of LiDAR
Autonomous Driving Battery EV
On recent Uber’s driverless car kill, I asked two experts for comments: – Vivek Wadhwa: Author of Driver in the Driverless Car, a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Engineering at Silicon Valley (Menlo Park, CA) – Dr. Qufei Wang: Founder of EVSoft, building sharable driverless car (Guangzhou, China) Both Vivek
Culture & History
My interview on Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TED
