Comments by "cdl0" (@cdl0) on "China’s reliance on American industrial software is an extension of the tech war" video.

  1. I am missing Lei's pretty flower arrangements.
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  2. Yes, GNU Octave is good. It is freely available to all without restriction. Also note the role of open source mathematical and parallel libraries for developers, e.g. BLAS FFTW, BLACS OpenMPI, etc., etc.
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  3. Great comment! This is completely correct, and absolutely spot-on. I have also written a long comment from my perspective as a senior, experienced scientist that may be of interest to you.
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  4.  @sb5580  Yes, MC is clearly a special individual.
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  5. This is another excellent thought-provoking video from Lei's Real Talk, most of which is right. However, Lei is incorrect about the need for religion in innovation. As a scientist, it is my observation that the great majority of people engaged in the mathematical sciences and engineering are strongly atheist, myself included. Religion plays absolutely no role in the fundamental sciences. Lei's view is also coloured by her American viewpoint. Science is a global activity. Most of the rest of the free world has a much more secular culture. Nevertheless, Lei does correctly identify the repression of free-thinking and imagination by the authoritarian CCP as a factor leading to lack of innovation. Moreover, one critical point missed here by Lei, but implicit in what she said, is the lack of diversity in China: The CCP has not only crushed free-thinking, it has also created an ecologically dead monoculture, where new ideas cannot evolve.
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  6. GNU Octave is good. Also note the role of open source mathematical and parallel libraries for developers, e.g. BLAS FFTW, BLACS OpenMPI, etc., etc.
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