Wentao Li

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我之前批评某些人还生活在大清朝，后脑拖着丑陋的辫子而不自知。认真想来，批评持前述观念的人是生活在大清朝，很可能是侮辱了清朝人。因为清朝人都不会在对作为“财物”的女性完成所有权转移（借助结婚的形式）之前，就敢于宣示对未婚妻的性支配权。从这个意义上说，那些想当然地宣扬订婚收受彩礼后女方就有配合性交义务的人们，根本是在背离文明的道路上走得太远而不自知。
劳东燕：山西大同订婚强奸案中的众声喧哗
但是，在一个很多人连法律设定的最低标准都无法对齐的社会里，两审法院做出的有罪判决有其积极的意义。每一次正义的审判，都是对文明的用心呵护。
劳东燕：山西大同订婚强奸案中的众声喧哗
But for Kitaev, the biggest impact of awards like the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is on his family. “They don’t really understand what I’m working on,” he says. But thanks to these awards, they at least realize his research is a pretty big deal. “It helps me do more work because they have more respect for it,” he says. “My wife is really proud of me.”
Glitz & Qubits — Caltech Magazine
但是，我不得不承认，山西“订婚强奸案”的出现，再一次扩展了我的学术想象力，这一次，确实是在一个典型的自然犯（强奸罪）的场合，出现了一个值得重视的容许错误。
车浩 | 山西“订婚强奸案”三论 · 徒留一叹
第二次就遇到了意中人准备结婚，加之她所坚持的婚前没有性行为，凡此种种，足可见其所持传统观念之深。这种传统保守型的女生，很可能在心中把性和婚姻紧密链接在一起，强调婚姻的神圣性的同时，也把性行为严防死守在婚姻之内。由此才能理解，为什么两人已是情投意合且正式订婚，但女生仍然无法接受婚前性行为。而由于观念差异，对方终究是未能充分理解和尊重她的信念，在订婚次日就强行求欢。如果换入到女生视角设身处地去想，在那个婚房内的下午，她可能根本没有和男生的冲动同步，没有体会到任何甜蜜，而是感觉遭遇了一场信念摧毁的梦魇。
车浩 | 山西“订婚强奸案”三论 · 徒留一叹
其三，考虑判决释放的信号和后续影响，“订婚强奸”的出罪激励比入罪激励更需要警惕。
车浩 | 山西“订婚强奸案”三论 · 徒留一叹
但是，如果法院判决让“订婚强奸”出罪的话，则后一种“渣男激励”倒是更值得警惕。因为如果订婚给彩礼后就可以强行发生性关系而不受刑法追究，同时又可以单方面解除婚约甚至索回彩礼，那就意味着这种损人利己的道德风险，在民事和刑事上都缺乏制约因素，事前又没有识别机制，因而只要付出道德败坏的代价就可以实现“人财两得”
车浩 | 山西“订婚强奸案”三论 · 徒留一叹
多萝茜回去以后什么都没有说，只是去弹了曲钢琴，给布兰迪打气。这时反而是多萝茜把正在自暴自弃、来自真实世界的布兰迪带到重新生活的状态。我觉得非常动人，她把自己灵魂的感受用音乐给表现出来，而且她做了选择，这是主体性觉醒的标志。她自己选择不去死，而是选择我要活。
独家对话《黑镜》导演王昊鹭：女性自己掌控叙事很重要
这是一个关于一个人要走多么漫长的路才能真正了解自己、认识自己的故事。
独家对话《黑镜》导演王昊鹭：女性自己掌控叙事很重要
很多重要的思想和理论，并不是在诞生的当下就立刻改变世界，而是经过长期积累和潜移默化的影响，才最终塑造了历史。例如，马克思在写作《共产党宣言》时，绝不会预见到20世纪全球范围内的马克思主义实践。而即便他的思想后来影响深远，其中的许多主张也被后来的自称“马克思主义者”大幅改造或误用，甚至与他本人的原始观点存在巨大差异。
专访林垚：美国困局的草蛇灰线，在几十年前就已经埋下了
This preoccupation mirrors a form of fetishism, where the superficial attributes of a document are revered, often at the expense of the substance within. Users find themselves ensnared in a cycle of selecting fonts, adjusting margins, and tweaking layouts, believing that these elements inherently enhance the quality of their work.
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
But even if so (and who knows?), that has to be balanced against the 10,000 horrible things Trump will do. I’m sure there were some bad laws in Weimar Germany that the succeeding administration got rid of. But there’s even a further issue. Namely, while I have trouble predicting exactly what Trump and his cronies will do, I have no trouble whatsoever predicting how the academic left will respond. As Scott Alexander explained in detail, faced with a complete loss of power over the direction of the country, SJWs will respond by consolidating their power over what they still do control (e.g., aca…
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I’m only here today (on planet Earth) because in the 1940s a Nazi bullet missed my father’s head by inches. Odd how life runs in cycles, how history repeats itself, and there is no such thing as “Never again!”. Approaching my own end of life, I too feel I’ll be dodging Nazi bullets in some form…. just in America though, instead of Germany.
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Tragedy in one shitty act
Parmenides told us that at any moment, we are all living in a single “photo” representing the now, and that’s all that exists and matters. Temporal progress just stacks these photos one after the other, and this is how our theories of physics are mostly made up: the kinematics is the photo, the dynamics tells us how the stacks are made up. Heraclitus, living at the same time as Parmenides, conceived the world as in a constantly ongoing flux, or process. There is no “now”, there only is the past, causing the future. You are preparing yourself for some lovely person you met earlier since you wan…
Everyone can learn quantum now, even at a cutting-edge level…and we have the test scores to prove it! | by Bob Coecke | Quantinuum | Medium
Schrödinger added a bit extra to this, in that relationships create entirely new entities that in no way can be reduced to the participants and how they relate, but by putting things together, something entirely new emerges.
Everyone can learn quantum now, even at a cutting-edge level…and we have the test scores to prove it! | by Bob Coecke | Quantinuum | Medium
The 15 to 17 year olds were not selected on the basis of previous achievements, but were chosen at random from around 1,000 applicants who could commit to a 10-week summer course of short lectures in how to use the diagrammatical method for quantum mechanics — and agreed to take an exam at the end. The format of the course was that of a typical Oxford University post-grad syllabus. After the course we asked the young students to take an exam entirely consisting of previous exam questions for Oxford post-grad quantum courses. We stress here again — a post-grad quantum exam. The results — 82% pa…
Everyone can learn quantum now, even at a cutting-edge level…and we have the test scores to prove it! | by Bob Coecke | Quantinuum | Medium
Dubbed “moutons” and represented by the Greek letter lambda, l, these particles are leptons and are close relatives of the muon, but fluffier. The statistical significance of the findings is 4 sigma, which is enough to show evidence of the phenomenon. However, it does not quite pass the baa to be classed as an observation. “More research is needed to fully confirm that this was indeed an observation of ovine entanglement or a statistical fluctuation,” says Ewen Woolly, spokesperson for the HERD collaboration. “This may be difficult, as we have found that the research makes physicists become in…
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep | CERN
但是现在不需要了，过去2-3年这个方向出现了爆炸式的发展，已经快变成理论物理和数学物理中最热的方向了，美国Simons Foundation 自助了两个相关的纯理论方向：Ultra Matter and Categorical Symmetry，可能各有8百万美金的投入。国内外有一大批年轻人涌现出来。比如今年我们online seminar上的speakers大多数都是最近才涌现出来的年轻人，你们可以感受一下有多少。所以已经不需要我去带学生了，也不需要更多的宣传了。如果你还看不出来这是一场革命性的洪流，嗯，可能也说明了些什么。
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skills are only important to the extent that they’re a predictive indicator of what you’ll be able to accomplish
machine learning i - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind
But the final straw was the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He called his wife Leila to pour out his anger then, into a phone he knew was tapped by MI6, in the hope they would want to cultivate him. He had resolved to fight for freedom and democracy, on the side of good rather than evil. That was so strong a duty that he would do it for nothing.
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
Queen Elizabeth gave him the CMG, the same honour granted fictitiously to James Bond. That made a sort of sense.
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
In 1984 he provided briefings to Mikhail Gorbachev about Margaret Thatcher, and vice versa, leading to an amicable meeting.
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
Mr Merz wants defence spending over 1% of GDP to be exempted from the debt brake, a deficit limit enshrined in the constitution. He also wants to create a €500bn ($545bn) debt-financed off-budget fund for investments in infrastructure over the next 12 years. And he proposes to end the requirement that Germany’s 16 federal states must balance their budgets, and allow each state to take on debt of up to 0.35% of its GDP.
The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history
He would like the continent’s officials to support their world-leading companies more forcefully. If they fail to do so, he warns, such firms may not want to remain in Europe.
ASML’s boss has a warning for Europe
If you’ve never been rejected, you’re not asking enough. (The easiest to state, the hardest to practice.)
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你可能会说，他们都是这个糟糕体制的受害者，这不是他们的错呀。没错，但只是一方面。他们不仅是受害者，也是共谋。
最会“算帐”的中国精英们，吃了最大的亏 - BirchTree’s Substack
And that’s why it is so, so critically important to be wary of the fantasy games: every day you spend completely absorbed in the fantasy games, is another day you could have used in learning how to ride the real rollercoaster better.
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然而，如果观众只看到这个层面，我只能说太遗憾了，你把杨德昌与那些心灵鸡汤作家划了等号。其实，杨德昌的迷人之处，恰恰在于他用对白消解对白，用说教抵抗说教。当每个人物滔滔不绝的讲着人生哲理，众多声音被并置于一处，最终就只留下一样——寂静。
他这部片，在华语电影已经到顶了
比如对艺术的态度。「电影发明以后，人类的生命比起以前至少延长了三倍，在电影里面得到的生活经验至少是我们自己的生活经验的双倍」。迷影青年很容易在这句话里找到共鸣。但其实杨德昌是带有讽刺意味说出这句话的。说出这句话的人物胖子，最终用电影中的方式——杀人，来解决自己的情感问题。这让人想到张爱玲写的，「生活的戏剧化是不健康的。像我们这样生长在都市文化中的人，总是先看见海的图画，再看见海；先读到爱情小说，后知道爱」。试图通过电影中的经验来替代人生的经验，就会产生一种反讽效果。
他这部片，在华语电影已经到顶了
One thing is certain: Mr Trump and his Russian-influenced minions want to see the back of a man whose stubbornness is getting in the way of a quick deal. The galvanising effect of their disgraceful treatment of him means—for now—they won’t be getting much help from within Ukraine.
The Economist
The resolve in the trenches is mirrored in the mood of the country at large. Prior to Mr Trump’s pivot to the man in the Kremlin, Mr Zelensky had been losing support, tainted by accusations of his team’s corruption and over-centralisation. Polls indicating trust in him had fallen from 90% in the early days of the war to 57% now. But the Oval Office ambush does now appear to be rallying Ukrainians around their wartime leader. Some of Mr Zelensky’s most vociferous critics have taken to social media to voice support.
The Economist
When we began, there was no existing solution that met our requirements for a persistent database, so we had to build one from scratch.
Why the database version and how it's going? - Announcements - Logseq
敏感的你能捕捉到我的任何一丝逃避和保留，你痛苦地追问并要求我的坦诚。
致一个轻灵而孱弱的灵魂：江绪林
但是，总有一个问题在我心头挥之不去：“朋友”意味着什么？对绪林究竟意味着什么？为什么通常所说的友谊最终不足以帮助绪林应对内心的绝望？此刻，这个未解之谜变得如此沉痛。
纪念江绪林先生逝世六周年丨刘擎：追忆与启迪——江绪林博士告别仪式的悼词
在过去的一个多月里不断回忆起你，我常常想起张国荣（他也是哥哥）在《阿飞正传》里说起的那只不死鸟：生来就没有脚，一辈子不停地飞翔，但也有停下来的一天，因为停下来，就意味着不再飞翔。你也仿佛是一只不死鸟，我或是你飞过的某个枝桠，曾想栖息休憩，但终究无法全然委身。后来有人评价你：“所唯一匮乏的是意志”，尽管尖锐，却也是事实。只是我们都愿原谅你的这一匮乏，因为深知背后是沉重的命运：它既先天地缺失在你细腻敏感的天性中，又未在你艰难悽苦的成长过程里得到滋养。你的可贵之处正如崇明所说，过往的艰难并未将你压进汲汲营营的功利市侩；而是让你对正义、自由、良善、救赎生成了更瞩目的渴求。然而，正是在这样的升华里，你把自己的生命锻造成一缕轻烟，再无法回到健全的现实世界里。
致一个轻灵而孱弱的灵魂：江绪林
Therefore, the sequences form a partition of the (disjoint) union of A and B. Hence it suffices to produce a bijection between the elements of A and B in each of the sequences separately
Schröder–Bernstein theorem
第一代人觉得什么都比在乡下挨饿强，但第三代人从出生起就没干过农活，也不认为自己天生就该挨饿。整个社会对贫困的忍耐度变低了。这是第一点。
沦为法西斯，只需要几年？ | 青年维也纳
对人民来说做什么都比在乡下挨饿强，所以也是一个良性循环。对整个世界的秩序来说其实也是一个良性循环，因为新型工业国的产能微不足道，能够被轻易仿造的商品技术含量也不会太高，初步的工业化还能让新型工业国的人民产生更多的消费需求，对引入传统工业国的高附加值商品有好处。后发国家的工业化让这些国家的制造业需要借助传统工业国的航运、金融、保险服务，也让传统的工业国从中受益，所以传统的工业国即使受到了一些冲击，还是愿意看到后发国家的这种工业化。
沦为法西斯，只需要几年？ | 青年维也纳
这样的农业社会里，农民大体上占据总人口的90%。但因为日本是幕藩体制，存在着大批脱产武士，同时幕府又用种种方法，不管是大名的“参觐交代”还是旗本的“交代寄和”，总之用政治手段把大批武士聚集在江户城下。这就产生了大量的消费需求，同时江户时代频繁的火灾（“惟有大火和夫妻吵架不可避免”）又导致城市需要大量劳动力，所以幕藩体制催生了江户这个超级城市。所以实际上幕府时代的日本已经是一个农民占80%的社会。
沦为法西斯，只需要几年？ | 青年维也纳
Numerous guest professorships have taken him to all major centers of physics throughout the world.
Peter Zoller
Our jewel is located in the bustling city centre of Lucerne – a mere three minutes’ walk from the railway station. Welcome to the museum!
Sammlung Rosengart Luzern - The Rosengart Collection Lucerne – Information & Contact.
He dreams big, which brings me to the other half of 959 East Venice, the part I really want to tell you about. The place where Vic and his movement are inventing something new. Specifically, the other half of this building is going to be a medical clinic, We The People Health and Wellness Center. "We the People," drawn in Founding Fathers cursive on the big glass doors. A clinic that caters to people who did not get the COVID vaccine, who do not trust the medical establishment, and want a place to go where they can be treated by people who think like they do.
805: The Florida Experiment
今年1月，一些网友发现，药监局公开的仿制药一致性评价试验出现了大量数据雷同，多个品种小数点后两位的数据甚至一模一样，网友纷纷质疑数据造假。药审中心于1月24日发布说明，称系编辑错误。但在当晚，药品一致性评价相关的公开文件已经无法下载。
中国集采药争议：被剥夺的用药选择权和信息空白下的担忧 - 端传媒 - 最新 – Telegraph
一些跨国药企在集采早期愿意降价竞争集采名额，在计划中，只要能争抢到庞大且集中的“院内市场”，以自杀式降价换取市场仍能实现薄利多销。但德国药企巨头“拜耳”的惨淡遭遇打破了跨国药企的幻想：2020年，拜耳原研降糖药阿卡波糖“拜糖平”在第二次集采时自降九成药价，以“全球最低价”中选的举动曾引发业内震惊。然而，拜耳随后的半年报却显示，“拜糖平”二季度全球营收下降了74.2%。2022年集采协议到期后，“拜糖平”未再续约。
中国集采药争议：被剥夺的用药选择权和信息空白下的担忧 - 端传媒 - 最新 – Telegraph
药品从药厂到医院、患者的整个流通过程中，往往会滋生层层回扣，引致十分普遍且严重的医疗腐败，而在以公益性为主的中国公立医院体制下，与国际同行相比偏低的收入令医院和医生只能依靠“以药养医”，这进一步推高了药价，也加剧了医患间的不信任。集采制度瞄准的即为此现象。2019年11月20日，中国前总理李克强在国务院常务会议上称，集采为“降低虚高药价、破除以药养医、减轻群众负担”发挥了“积极作用”。这一说法有著数据支撑：今年1月17日，中国国家医保局在新闻发布会上称，2018年以来集采共节约了4400亿元。
中国集采药争议：被剥夺的用药选择权和信息空白下的担忧 - 端传媒 - 最新 – Telegraph
在集采早期，关于它的正面评价并不少，诸如“灵魂砍价”等标签常常作为对其的肯定出现在媒体口中。但它还有更大的作用，集采的建立，其实依附在中国医改的大背景中。
中国集采药争议：被剥夺的用药选择权和信息空白下的担忧 - 端传媒 - 最新 – Telegraph
And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway, wreaking havoc across the academic research community.
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS
But science lobbyists are increasingly worried by whispers that Trump will propose cutting NSF’s spending by up to 66% in his 2026 budget request to Congress, expected to be released in mid-April.
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS
In addition to being “talent scouts” by engaging with scientists at conferences, program officers are also “coaches, working with scientists whose proposals have been declined to help them write a better one the next time,” Long continues.
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS
Hammond believes NSF program managers are risk adverse, that the agency’s peer-review system operates as an old boys’ network favoring researchers at a handful of top-tier universities, and that NSF would do better to rely on artificial intelligence to pick the best proposals.
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS