Her name is Katie Bouman, an MIT graduate.
3 years ago she led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole we are seeing today.
#BlackHole #EventHorizonTelescope
Jen Zhu
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Jen Zhu
@jenzhuscott
Cofounder/CEO, Power Dynamics (AIDC cooling tech + ESS BYOE) | Cofounder, Tech Fellowship & Moderator of Socratic seminars @AspenInstitute
- Starting a thread of various videos today in HK and Shenzhen as the worldโs strongest storm #TyphoonManghkut wiping our cities. (Videos are not mine but collected from messages doing the rounds w WhatsApp and WeChat)
00:00 - Beijing - Shanghai distance (1100km) slightly shorter than Boston to Chicago (1300km) Amtrak takes 21 hours 35 mins The High Speed Train ๐ in ๐จ๐ณ takes 4 hours 18 min and costs half. The infrastructure difference between the 2 countries is night and day.
- DeepSeek Principal Researcher: Luo Fuli. Grew up poor in the countryside of Sichuan. Went to Beijing Normal University (not a top tier) to study EE, changed to CS (as โa bad studentโ she claims). Post-graduate at Peking U & thought sheโd be a product manager at one point ๐
00:00 - J10C is a much more profound moment than DeepSeek. Just most people arenโt paying attention, or donโt really understand it.
- Just a gentle reminder that if OpenAI were to fail, the rest of the players would absorb their talents and move on. There would be 0 impact to the overall progress of AI for the mankind.
- The accusations/obsessions over DeepSeek using H100 sound like a rich kids team got outplayed by a poor kids team, who weren't even allowed shoes, and now the rich kids are demanding an investigation into whether shoes were used instead of training harder to improve themselves.
- Turns out itโs Japan selling the bond not China? What?!
- A new phenomenon is that the China side is acing memes and trolling and this trend is extremely concerning. This one is ๐.
00:00 - The Manus team counting down to the launch. Another mostly domestically educated AI team making global waves - Manus CEO Xiao Hong, born after 90โs, educated in Huazhong Univ of Science & Technology - again not Tsinghua or Peking U. Something is shifting w this gen in China.
00:00 - 34 years old Chinese math genius Prof Wang Hong, solved the infamous mathematical conundrum - the dimensional Kateya Conjecture in 3 dimensions, positions her a strong contender for 2026 Fields Medal. Itโd be the 3d female winner of Fields Medal in history.
- - 5G.. a surprise - sanction - HSR.. a surprise - disbelief - EV.. a surprise - tariff - drones.. a surprise - Black Myth Wukong.. a surprise - UniTree robots.. a surprise - Xiaohongshu.. a surprise - DeepSeek R1.. a surprise - advance manufacturing.. a surprise ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
