Realpolitik in Tech by Maggie Xiao
due diligence on innovation amidst geopolitical chaos
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What is China's GDP?
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)
Gene and Meme, a Revisit in the AI Era
The New Gilded Age: Curse of Bigness
Harnessing Energy from Ocean Wave? Let’s Look Further
[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: Lidar, Vision or Fusion?
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
On Uber's Fatal Self-driving Accident, Two Technologists' Diverse Views
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