December 22, 2022 ~ December 28, 2022
December 28 | Today in History
Today is December 28. On December 28, 1966, China successfully tested the hydrogen bomb principle, laying a solid foundation for the successful test of the hydrogen bomb the following year. This is also China’s first thermonuclear weapon test.
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01 Huawei " Genius Boy " Zhihui Jun resigned
On December 27, Zhihui Jun, who joined Huawei as a "genius boy", posted a blog to respond to the previous rumors of "resigning from Huawei", saying that he had indeed resigned from Huawei and was about to start a business.
Zhihui Jun's real name is Peng Zhihui. He studied at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China for his bachelor's and master's degrees. He once worked at the OPPO Research Institute and joined the "Huawei Genius Youth Program" in 2020. This plan generally requires about 7 rounds of processes + a final interview with the president of Huawei. After passing, the annual salary will start at 1 million, and it has long been attracting attention. After joining Huawei, Zhihui Jun became a member of the Ascension Department of the computing product line. His main direction is the field of AI edge heterogeneous computing.
Another well-known identity is that he is a well-known UP owner in the Bilibili Science and Technology Zone, and he once won the title of "Top 100 UP Owners in 2021". His "Iron Man Robotic Arm", "Self-driving Bicycle", "Mini Card Computer" and many other inventions have received over a million views. And because of his hard-core technology, he is also nicknamed "Wild Iron Man" by netizens.
Zhihui Jun’s resignation has also attracted a lot of discussion. An anonymous user of Zhihu broke the news that Zhihui Jun’s goal of leaving his job and starting a business was in the direction of robotics.
02 CNKI was fined 87600,000 and announced 15 rectification measures
On December 26, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced the results of its investigation into CNKI, ordering CNKI to stop illegal activities and impose a fine of 5% of its domestic sales in China of 1.752 billion yuan in 2021, totaling 87.6 million yuan.
Subsequently, CNKI responded through the WeChat public account "CNKI CNKI", announcing 15 rectification measures and saying that it would significantly reduce prices.
03 Musk ’s Twitter CEO successor revealed
Since Musk launched a vote on December 19 on “Should I step down as Twitter CEO”, and 57.5% of the more than 10 million users who participated in the vote approved of his resignation, Musk’s departure and his successor have become a high-profile issue.
On December 24, according to foreign media The Information, Steve Davis, who is currently the CEO of The Boring Company, a subsidiary of SpaceX, and has been serving as Musk’s acting head within Twitter, is likely to be his successor.
This is a 20-year-old employee who joined Musk's SpaceX in 2003 as a rocket engineer. According to Bloomberg, Davis has been working 16 hours a day for many years. Since Musk acquired Twitter in October this year, 43-year-old Steve Davis even slept in the Twitter office with his wife and newborn child for 2 months.
The picture on the right is Steve Davis
... And through a series of assessments, it was proven that this model has almost reached the level of human doctors. The
research team prepared a medical question and answer "question bank" covering medical examinations, medical research and consumer medicine questions, and included two major data sets: MedQA (US Medical Licensing Examination questions) and HealthSearchQA (Google's own heart data set, consisting of health questions searched by users).
anonymized the results of AI answers and those of human doctors and handed them over to nine clinicians from the United States, the United Kingdom, and India for evaluation. The accuracy rate of AI in scientific common sense was more than 92%. In terms of understanding, retrieval, and reasoning capabilities, it has almost reached the level of human doctors, and is slightly better in overcoming implicit biases.
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01 Tesla responds to the Shanghai factory’s one-week suspension of production
According to people familiar with the matter, Tesla suspended production at the Shanghai factory on December 24 (last Saturday), saying that this was an adjustment due to a sharp drop in order volume, and was also part of Tesla’s previous plan to reduce production by 30%.
On December 26, Tesla China insiders responded to a reporter from the Economic Observer Network, saying that the suspension of production was a "normal action" and that there were personnel taking a break during the production line maintenance period, but the charging piles and other workshops were not shut down.
02 California prohibits Tesla from naming its software "fully autonomous driving"
On December 25, the state of California passed a new law prohibiting Tesla from naming its software "fully autonomous driving."
It is reported that this move in California was caused by the owner of Tesla’s latest FSD (Full Self-Driving) technology who filed a class action lawsuit due to “false propaganda”, claiming that Tesla was “allegedly misleading the public on its BAP, EAP and FSD technology.”
Some car owners said that although Tesla claims that the "FSD" name is fully autonomous driving, the company has not reached the level of true autonomous driving. Currently, it can only provide L2+~L3 level assisted driving functions. Even if FSD is turned on, car owners need to be ready to take over the vehicle at any time.
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01 National Health and Medical Commission: Rename new coronavirus pneumonia to new coronavirus infection
On the evening of December 26, the National Health and Medical Commission issued an announcement:
1. Rename new coronavirus pneumonia to new coronavirus infection .
2. With the approval of the State Council, starting from January 8, 2023, the Class A infectious disease prevention and control measures stipulated in the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases" for new coronavirus infections will be lifted; new coronavirus infections will no longer be included in the management of quarantine infectious diseases stipulated in the "Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China".
At the same time, the "Notice on Issuing the Overall Plan for Implementing "Category B and B Controls" for New Coronavirus Infections was also issued, proposing that "After deliberation and approval by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on December 22, it was decided that starting from January 8, 2023, the new coronavirus infection will be adjusted from "Category B and A Controls" to "Category B and B Controls."
02 Domestic oral drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 will be available as soon as February next year
html On December 26, the WeChat public account "Jiangsu Drug Supervision" stated that Simcere Pharmaceuticals , Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Wuhan Virus SIM0417, a 3CL target novel coronavirus treatment oral drug jointly developed by the institute, obtained clinical approval from the State Food and Drug Administration through a special approval process on March 28, 2022, and was included in the key scientific research directory of the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism. Thearticle stated that the Phase III clinical trial of this project has completed the enrollment of all 1,208 patients on December 16. The progress is ranked first among domestic 3CL target drugs and is expected to be launched as soon as February 2023.
03 South Korea reported its first case of " brain-eating amoeba "
According to a report by the Korean media Chosun Ilbo on December 26, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated on the same day that a man who returned from a stay in Thailand died suddenly of meningitis, and the gene of " brain-eating amoeba " was detected in his sample.
"Brain-eating amoeba," also known as Naegleria fowleri , lives in soil and warm freshwater around the world. This kind of The amoeba usually enters the body through the nose and causes a very rare but life-threatening brain infection. This case of
was first discovered in Virginia, USA in 1937. This is the first time that the pathology has appeared in Korea. At present, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not found the exact transmission route of this amoeba, but it also pointed out that swimming in contaminated water or using unclean water to flush the nasal cavity are the main causes of infection.
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01 British experts: Santa Claus The elderly should be responsible for global warming On December 19, a paper published in "The BMJ" magazine stated that Santa Claus should be responsible for global warming .According to the
paper, according to Christmas tradition, Santa Claus will give real gifts to good and obedient children, while naughty children will receive a large piece of coal. Yet burning coal, a non-renewable fossil fuel, not only exacerbates the climate crisis, but its impact on air quality can also be harmful to children’s mental health.
Therefore, the author of the paper from the UK called, considering the urgency of global warming , Santa Claus should be responsible for it, and it is time to gradually cancel this holiday punishment.
Compiled by: Nandu reporter Yang Bowen
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