Differential geometers

Wang Qiming

Wang Qiming (simplified Chinese: 王启明; traditional Chinese: 王啓明; pinyin: Wáng Qǐmíng; June 4, 1941 – April 7, 1989) was a Chinese mathematician who was known for his work in differential geometry. He was considered as one of the best differential geometers in China of the time. (Wikipedia).

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The Story of Chinese Character : 玉

玉 depicts a string of jade pendants. After symbolization, 玉 looks the same as 王, so a dot is added to distinguish 玉 from 王, but when 玉 acts as an radical, the dot is omitted.

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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The BuShou of HanZi :心

A brief description of the BuShou of 心.

From playlist The BuShou of HanZi

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The Story of Chinese Character : 坐

坐 depicts two men(人) sitting on a mound(土).

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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The Story of Chinese Character : 女

女 is the picture of a woman, she lays her hands and sits solemnly, listens carefully what her husband says.

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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How to Train a Robot Arm - A New Method

In this video, I discuss the paper "Asymmetric self-play for automatic goal discovery in robotic manipulation," which describes an effective reinforcement learning method for training robots in simulation by using self-play (robot vs robot). One robot's goal is to move the objects around i

From playlist Machine Learning

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The BuShou of HanZi :广

A brief description of the BuShou of 广.

From playlist The BuShou of HanZi

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The Story of Chinese Character : 艱

艱is composed of the variant of 堇(the picture of a man who wears jade ornaments walking in mud) and艮(the picture of a man twisting has neck and staring back), both actions are not easy to be done.

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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Remembering WANG COMPUTERS & WORD PROCESSING 1973-1981 Office Automation Minicomputers

A short non-technical look back at some of WANG's early computers and Word Processors 1973-1981. From the 1970’s to the mid 1980’s, Wang Laboratories was a global leader in word processing and office automation. Founded in 1951 in Massachusetts, it established headquarters in Cambridge,

From playlist Word Processing, Office Automation, Electronic Office Tools

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The Story of Chinese Character :姓

姓 composes of a 女 (woman) and 生 (birth). In the past, when China was matriarchal society, surname was given by mother since everyone was bred by mother only. Although now we inherit the surname from our fathers, 姓 is still used to represent the meaning of surname.

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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The Story of Chinese Character :黃

黃 depicts a man who is wearing a string of big jade pendants on his neck, those jade pendants are yellow in colour. The meaning about those jade pendants is then replaced by 璜, now 黃 solely means yellow.

From playlist The Story of HanZi (Chinese Characters)

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Wangwriter Pt.3 – It Runs Zork!

This is bananas, I thought it would be months before we had something usable happening with the Wangwriter, but 256byteram is an absolute legend and got some really special stuff cooked up for us in this episode! But, there’s a few things we gotta fix first, so let’s hop into and get this

From playlist Wangwriter

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61st Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture: A Kite Flies Against the Wind

The Council is pleased to present the 61st Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies. Rana Mitter (Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford) presented "A Kite Flies Against the Wind: Internationalism, identity, and ideology in the shaping of post

From playlist Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS)

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Wangwriter Pt.2 – It’s Alive!

This Wang never ceases to be utterly awesome! We’re still shy a system disk, but that isn’t stopping us from doing some really tricky stuff with the system. In this episode, we fix the problems we discovered in the last episode (it really just needed a quick clean is all), and then we star

From playlist Wangwriter

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SBF Is Going to Jail For A Long Time

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From playlist Law Review News!

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Exploring the Latest Trends in Neuroscience | Big Think

Exploring the Latest Trends in Neuroscience New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neuroscientist Sam Wang on the nexus between genetics

From playlist Going Mental II | Big Think

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How to Write a Movie Script in 1981 on a Wangwriter!

We found it y’all, we found the system disk, and it’s glorious! Seriously though, Wang’s word processing software for this Wangwriter is brilliant. But, what are we going to write with it? What better than a Christopher Walken speech! So come on along as we type up a script as if though we

From playlist Wangwriter

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Say Hello to my New Wangwriter 5503!

Sometimes, lady luck shifts the winds in your favor and a chance encounter can end up with some of the coolest stuff coming home with you, and this Wangwriter is exactly that! Colin is an absolute legend and we met through vacuum tubes actually, but it turns out his mother bought this Wang

From playlist Wangwriter

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The BuShou of HanZi :行

A brief description of the BuShou of 行.

From playlist The BuShou of HanZi

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