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Yu Chengdong responds to the transfer of the Wanjie trademark and reveals new car brand#
Last night, Yu Chengdong, Huawei's executive director and chairman of the Intelligent Car Solutions BU, revealed some new information about Huawei's Hongmeng Smart Travel and mobile phone products in the "Walking with Hui" live broadcast hosted by Dong Yuhui.
Regarding the transfer of the Wanjie brand to Sailis, Yu Chengdong said that due to relevant regulations, the brand owner and manufacturer must be the same, and the brand must be owned by the manufacturer, so all four "Jie" brands were transferred to the car factory.
Yu Chengdong revealed that Wanjie has invested a lot, and the brand is worth at least billions of yuan. It was difficult to register the name AITO, and it has already been transferred.
In the live broadcast, Yu Chengdong also mentioned that the brand name for the cooperation between Hongmeng Smart Travel and JAC Motors is "Zunjie", which will target ultra-luxury brands such as Maybach and Rolls-Royce, positioning itself as a high-end brand with a price range in the millions. It is expected to be released in the first half of 2025.
Yu Chengdong also admitted in the live broadcast that although the Smart Jie S7 is a very good product, it did not sell well, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in marketing. The brand has not taken off.
In addition to Hongmeng Smart Travel, Yu Chengdong also revealed the next generation of new foldable screen mobile phone products, stating that this product has been in development for 5 years and other manufacturers "cannot make it even if they want to".
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"JAC" and "million-level", why are these two together so funny
Movie "Alien: Covenant" confirmed to be imported into mainland China#
20th Century Studios announced that the science fiction thriller movie "Alien: Covenant" will soon be released in mainland theaters, with the schedule yet to be determined.
The film is directed by Fede Alvarez and stars Carly Spaiy, Isabella Mosed, and Archie Reno. It tells the story of humans once again becoming the prey of alien creatures on a ghostly space battleship, as they search for allies and escape in despair.
The film was released in North America on August 16 and is rated R. The poster for the domestic version also includes a reminder for minors to watch with caution.
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I searched on Douban, it seems to be a closed science fiction horror film similar to Alien 1, not like the previous Prometheus with a deep extended world view film.
But it's interesting to return to pure horror, I hope it won't be censored in China.
News: EU member states vote on "imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles", 12 votes in favor, 4 votes against, 11 abstentions#
Sources said that 12 EU member states voted in favor of imposing tariffs, 4 member states voted against, and 11 member states abstained. This result will be a factor to consider when deciding whether to impose final tariffs.
The report said that the large number of abstentions reflects the indecisiveness of many EU member states. Sources said that in the vote, France, Italy, and Spain supported the imposition of tariffs, while Germany, Finland, and Sweden abstained. The complete voting results have not been announced.
Insiders also said that the European Commission has signaled Volkswagen and BMW that it is considering reducing the tariffs on imports from China for these two car manufacturers. The European Commission is willing to classify these two car manufacturers as so-called cooperative companies, and impose a tariff of only 20.8%, lower than the planned 37.6% tariff.
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Haha, giving the green light to EU cars made in China separately, huh?
Trump reiterates support for TikTok: Zuckerberg annoys me#
On July 17th, former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump expressed his support for the short video app TikTok.
"I support TikTok because we need competition. Without TikTok, you can only choose Facebook and Instagram," Trump said in an interview released on Tuesday. Trump had previously viewed TikTok, which has 170 million US users, as a threat, but he himself registered a TikTok account last month.
Trump had criticized Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta, for suspending his account for two years after the deadly riot on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. In an interview in June, he said that he would never support a ban on TikTok, even if ByteDance failed to divest TikTok's assets in the United States.
TikTok has not responded to this. (Source: Netease Technology)
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I wonder how much time TikTok has left in the United States...
WeChat Mini Games have 500 million monthly active users, with over 240 games generating over 10 million yuan in quarterly revenue#
The WeChat Mini Games team announced that the number of Mini Games users has reached 1 billion, with 500 million monthly active users and increasing usage time. In the past year, the platform has served more than 400,000 developers, with over 80% of them being small teams of less than 30 people. Over 240 games have generated over 10 million yuan in quarterly revenue.
Mini Games users spend about one hour online per day, and the 14-day retention rate of the overall market exceeds 50%. Users show characteristics of diversity, maturity, and wide geographical distribution, with the main age group being 24 to 40 years old, a higher proportion of female users, and half of the users from third-tier cities.
According to official sources, more than 60 Mini Games have had over one million daily active users (DAU). The benchmark Mini Games distributed through short video tasks have achieved daily registration of over 100,000 for a single game, contributing over 80% of registered users through short videos.
In addition, the IP cooperation platform launched by Mini Games at the beginning of the year has now attracted more than 200 IPs, including well-known IPs such as "Qing Yu Nian", "Little Yellow Duck", "Douluo Continent", and "Happy Sheep".
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Many of them are clicked on by malicious ads. I almost click on them every day through other apps by mistake.
Canon releases full-frame mirrorless camera EOS R5 Mark II: capable of generating photos with 179 million pixels, priced at 26,999 yuan#
Canon has released the full-frame mirrorless camera EOS R5 Mark II, with a single body price of 26,999 yuan and a kit price of 34,199 yuan. It will be available for sale in August. The EOS R5 Mark II not only continues the powerful performance of the EOS R5, but also upgrades in terms of image quality, video, autofocus, and continuous shooting, making it a high-performance model suitable for both photo and video shooting.
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It's expensive, but it seems to have powerful functions.
Biden#
😄, the charm of news
Cigarette sales and lung cancer death rate#
The graph below shows two curves, with the purple one representing the number of cigarette sales in the United States over the years, and the red one representing the lung cancer death rate.
It can be seen that the two shapes are exactly the same, indicating a strong correlation, and the lung cancer death rate lags behind cigarette sales by about 25 to 30 years.
In 1964, cigarette sales in the United States reached their peak and then declined year by year; in the early 1990s, the lung cancer death rate reached its peak and then declined year by year.
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📚 Articles#
A Year After Zuckerberg's Surprise Attack on Musk: The Twitter Killer Just Wants Peace#
Anaheim, Southern California, is the location of the first Disneyland. The annual VidCon, a major online video industry conference, is held here, where many YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram executives and top influencers gather. At this year's VidCon, Instagram held a birthday party, inviting many creators to celebrate, with a beautifully made chocolate cake with ribbons to commemorate the one-year anniversary of their social media platform Threads.
This social media product, which Zuckerberg backstabbed Musk with, has been online for a year. Threads, originally created by Meta as a "Twitter killer," was intended to launch a surprise attack in the social media field, targeting Twitter's advertising clients and users in the midst of the platform's chaos.
After a year of being online, how is this "Twitter killer" doing and has it made a substantial impact on the renamed X Twitter?
It's difficult to shake X, the internet is becoming more and more monopolized, and inertia is increasing,
Unless it focuses on the fan circle like Weibo
The Collective "Dementia" of Large Models: Both 9.11 and 9.9 Almost Failed#
Summary of Core Content#
I. Problem Overview
Problem: Mainstream large models collectively made mistakes when answering the simple question "Which is larger, 9.11 or 9.9", including GPT-4o, Google's Gemini Advanced paid version, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, etc.
Error: The large models mistakenly believed that 9.11 was greater than 9.9 and even provided absurd calculation methods.
II. Problem Discovery and Testing
Discoverer: Riley Goodside, a full-time prompt word engineer, discovered the error in GPT-4o and tested other large models.
Testing method: Change the way the question is asked, including limiting it to the "real number" range, but the results are still incorrect.
Attempts by netizens: Changing the order of the options, the AI can answer correctly.
Performance of domestic large models: Testing found a high failure rate, but some models performed well.
III. Analysis of the Causes of Errors
Tokenizer method: Large models understand text in terms of tokens, causing 9.11 to be split into "9", "decimal point", and "11", and the token value of 11 is greater than 9, so the model believes that 9.11 is larger.
Impact of training data: The training data may contain more scenarios similar to book catalogs, where the section 9.11 is indeed larger than section 9.9, leading to a misunderstanding by the model.
Questioning method: When asked in a specific way, the model is prone to errors, but changing the order of the options can avoid errors.
IV. Solutions and Discussions
Identify the type of problem: Explain to the AI that this is a double-precision floating-point comparison problem to avoid errors.
Prompt word techniques: The Zero-shot CoT thinking chain (i.e., "thinking step by step") prompt method can help the model correctly understand the problem.
Research findings: Microsoft and OpenAI's research has found that as large model technology advances, the role of role-playing prompts may weaken.
V. Conclusion
Large models made collective mistakes when answering simple math questions, mainly due to the tokenizer method and the influence of training data.
By changing the way the question is asked and using appropriate prompt word techniques, the model can be guided to correctly understand the problem and avoid errors.
This problem has sparked discussions and research on how to effectively use large models.
This article is very good, phenomenon -> cause -> solution -> further thinking
College Students Turn Driving Schools into Daycare Centers, Even the Most Fierce Instructor Can't Help But Laugh#
Summary of Core Content:#
I. Background Introduction
Summer vacation is the peak season for college students to learn to drive.
Driving instructors used to be known for their strictness, but in recent years, there have been some changes.
II. Changes in the Relationship between Instructors and Students
Driving instructors have started using smiling teaching methods to avoid direct scolding.
Some instructors use sarcastic remarks as a substitute for direct criticism.
Instructors feel helpless in the face of the "naughty" behavior of college student learners.
III. Characteristics of College Student Learners
When bored, learners will look for various ways to entertain themselves at the driving school, such as pulling out weeds, picking at the seat upholstery, etc.
Learners often make mistakes when reversing, but they often rush towards the instructor in unison.
IV. Current Situation of Driving Schools
The driving school industry is highly competitive, and some driving schools are trying to improve their teaching methods to improve their reputation.
Instructors need to deal with the dual pressure of college student learners and their parents.
V. Instructor Mentality
Instructors feel like they are taking care of naughty children and need to deal with various unexpected situations.
Instructors feel helpless in the face of the "naughty" behavior of learners, but they also need to maintain a professional attitude.
Haha, it's true. Our instructors were really...
Fortunately, I didn't experience the era of bribing with red envelopes to have time to practice driving.