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Tagged Chinese · 4 guides

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AI & ML 8 min

Do DeepSeek and Qwen need different prompts from ChatGPT

"Avoid adding a system prompt" is the most-repeated rule about prompting Chinese models, and DeepSeek's own current docu...

Maya Lin

Pub. 27 Sep

A developer's desk at night: two monitors filled with coloured code, two keyboards and a small desk clock reading 12:32, lit red and blue

AI & ML 8 min

How many tokens is a Chinese character, and what Chinese AI companies call things

Four Chinese model vendors publish the same ratio in their own documentation: a Chinese character is about 0.6 of a toke...

Maya Lin

Pub. 25 Sep

A Hong Kong road sign giving the same directions twice, in English and in Traditional Chinese.

AI & ML 14 min

Using AI in Your Own Language — What the Machine Can Actually See

The same sentence costs seven tokens in English and fifteen in Malay. That gap is usually explained as a money problem;...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 2 Aug

Woodblock-style line illustration on aged ivory paper: a bundle of blank bamboo slips bound with vermilion cord, laid open on a low table beside a writing brush.

AI & ML 19 min

The Chapter Everyone Skips: 孫子兵法 and the AI Capital War

Business writing quotes 知彼知己 and misquotes it — the received text reads 百戰不殆, not the 百戰百勝 that Sun Tzu expl...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 26 Jul