See here for an Economist special report on the Big Data deluge. Imagine you could observe 100+ million users transacting on a platform with 400 million item listings -- Taobao volume equals about 2 percent of all Chinese retail sales, and growing fast :-)
Yesterday we gave a presentation to about 200 technical staff who were attending a company-wide retreat at a resort outside Hangzhou.
Today I have to turn my physics brain back on as I am giving a talk at Zhejiang University (Zheda). Until now I have been simulating a social / computational scientist :-)
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When you visit China do you eat dog meat?
I hear they eat trolls in China, Hendrik.
Yan Shen, I don't know the Mandarin terms for 'Smackdown!' and 'Bravo!', but consider them said.
Eating dog isn't a mere "cultural difference". It's satanic. Only an inferior culture like that of China, Korea, and Vietnam would countenance it.
Since it is the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.............................................
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