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Nobel Laureate Omar Yaghi Leaves US To Lead AI Research Center At Tsinghua

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex#501inTech

I think Omar is almost entirely motivated by a) compensation b) the chance to run a cutting-edge AI+chemistry lab in a place obsessed with AI and chemistry. But the political angle is funny. Could we expect a descendant of Nakba survivors to prefer the US to "communist Chyna"?

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Omar Yaghi, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry, has left the United States to lead a new AI-driven research centre at China’s Tsinghua University. Read more: http://sc.mp/759a48

#omaryaghi #china #us #tsinghua

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

Americans are often in shocking denial about Muslim perspectives on China, they sincerely think their Uighur stuff is going to land, and that the modal result of surveys in the Muslim world ("China is… whatever, otoh death to Israel!!") is a product of bribes or whatever.

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