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Train stations and airports across China saw the biggest peak in travellers on Saturday ahead of the Lunar New Year, as millions of people returned home to spend the holidays with their families in an annual migration that is expected to be a record.

The Chinese New Year, the Year of the Snake, begins Wednesday.

The Chinese enjoy eight consecutive public holidays, an opportunity to share festive meals with family, attend traditional performances or set off firecrackers and fireworks.

At Beijing West Station, an AFP journalist saw thousands of travellers Saturday wrapped up in parkas, many wearing face masks to avoid catching anything on packed trains, dragging their suitcases through the hallways before boarding the carriages.

During the traditional 40-day period that runs before, during and after the holidays, some nine billion interprovincial passenger trips, on all forms of transport combined, are expected to be made, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

Train and air travel are expected to "hit record highs" during this year's migration, Xinhua said.

The transport ministry said it expects 510 million train trips and 90 million air trips during the period.

According to the national railway company, which has added thousands of trains to meet demand, Saturday is "the main peak" at stations before the holidays.

It said it used data from ticket sales and waiting lists to predict and regulate supply.

With many people working and studying in provinces other than their own because of better opportunities, there is a large population migration around the New Year holiday.

Many factories have already closed for the holiday, with such workers traditionally returning home earlier than the rest of the population.

While train travel was still an epic journey even 10 years ago, sometimes lasting several days, the rapid development of an efficient and comfortable high-speed network has made travel much simpler.

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Planning to visit Japan March 19-30, this is what we planned so far but not sure how hectic it will be and if its worth checking out everything in this timespan, or just adjusting the days in each city. Would love to hear some input and suggestions for things to do/remove. This will be our first time traveling to Japan. Landing in Haneda.

Day 1 (March 19): Arrival in Tokyo

• Land at Haneda Airport at 2 PM.
• Explore Shinjuku for shopping, nightlife, and unique stores.
• Optional: Visit Sky Lounge Stellar Garden.

Day 2 (March 20): Tokyo - DisneySea

• Full day at DisneySea.
• Evening: Relax and rest at the hotel.

Day 3 (March 21): Tokyo to Mt. Fuji

• Morning: Travel to Mt. Fuji. Stay at onsen.
• Activities: Explore the area, enjoy the onsen, rent pedal boat on lake ashinoko, hakone shrine.

Day 4 (March 22): Mt. Fuji to Kyoto

• Travel to Kyoto. Would love to hear recs.

Day 5 (March 23): Kyoto - Temples and Culture

• Morning: Visit Hokan-ji Temple and Fushimi Inari-Taisha (hike the Tori gates).
• Afternoon: Explore Arashiyama Bamboo Forest and Kinkaku-ji.
• Evening: Visit the Gion District and Nishiki Market.

Day 6 (March 24): Day Trip to Nara and Uji

• Morning: Feed deer at Nara Park and visit Todai-ji Temple.
• Afternoon: Visit Byodo-in Temple in Uji, reserve matcha testing.
• Evening: Return to Kyoto.

Day 7 (March 25): Kyoto to Osaka

• Morning: Travel to Osaka.
• Afternoon: Explore Dotonbori for food and nightlife.
• Evening: Visit Osaka Castle.

Day 8 (March 26): Day Trip to Kobe

• Morning: Travel to Kobe. Visit Kobe Harborland.
• Afternoon: Enjoy vegetarian-friendly delicacies in Kobe.
• Evening: Return to Osaka.

Day 9 (March 27): Osaka to Hiroshima

• Morning: Travel to Hiroshima. Check into local hotel.
• Afternoon: Visit Peace Memorial Park.
• Evening: Explore Itsukushima Shrine (Miyajima).

Day 10 (March 28): Hiroshima to Tokyo

• Morning: Travel back to Tokyo.
• Afternoon: Shopping at GU and exploring Shibuya Sky
• Evening: Leisure

Day 11 (March 29): Tokyo - Last Day

• Ginza: Tsukji Outer Market, shop around at GU, Uniqlo.
• Evening: Prepare for departure.

Day 12 (March 30): Departure at 4:30 pm from haneda

I asked Chat-GPT aboout Elon's salute, just for fun, and it replied it could not analyse pictures and I needed to describe it to him. I had pictures analysed before, even traslating and explaining a cartoon joke. I tought it could be caused by the .webp format. So I retried the joke image and it worked fine. I uploaded a png of Elon and it went wrong. Can others repeat the experience or was it just a fluke? I am not angry just let down a little.

that would be so funny

This is a perfect illustration of why government direction of labor towards productive purposes is essential and why this task cannot be left up to the markets.

The government started to crack down on the quant trading industry amid economic slowdown in an effort to move the economy away from the financial sector and towards manufacturing.

High-Flyer was one of the quant traders that was facing extinction. Instead of giving up, they spun out Deepseek, an AI lab using their existing talent and 10k GPUs they were already using for trading. They didn't even need any VC funding.

DeepSeek also proves you don't need billions in funding, as it's being developed on the cheap compared to commercial models like ChatGPT. The team is able to produce a cutting edge model using a fraction of the resources its competitors need.

DeepSeek approach fundamentally changes the economics of the market and makes OpenAI's strategy obsolete.

Scores of projects are starting to use DeepSeek model which leads to an ecosystem being formed around it, turning it into a standard setter. The model is open and free for anyone to use making it more appealing to both public and private enterprise, and it don't require massive data centers to operate. While large versions of the model still need significant infrastructure, smaller versions can run locally and work well for many use cases.

Another aspect of open source nature is that it amortizes the development effort. The whole global community of researches and engineers can contribute to the development of the model. On the other hand, OpenAI has to pour billions into centralized infrastructure and do all the research to advance their model on their own.

The competition here is between two visions for how AI technology will be developed going forward. DeepSeek's vision is to make AI into an open source commodity that's decentralized and developed cooperatively. OpenAI vision is to build and expensive closed system that they can charge access for.

Traditionally, open source projects that manage to gain significant momentum have always outcompeted closed source software, and I don't see why this scenario will play out any different. This calls into question the whole $500bn investment that the US is doing into the company. The market will favor cheaper open model that DeepSeek is building, and it will advance faster because it has a lot more people contributing to its development.

And looping back to the initial point, DeepSeek would not have existed if the government in China didn't crack down on trading industry which redirected labor towards productive endeavours.

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