Shirley Li

Los Angeles, New York

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

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Articles

‘Hacks’ Conjures a Cruel Fantasy

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Shirley Li

Hacks paints a deflating picture of what it’s like to reach the top of your field. At the end of the Season 4 premiere of Hacks, Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pose for the cover of a prestigious magazine. Glamorously dressed and impeccably lit, they look ecstatic, beaming in every shot. And why shouldn’t they be thrilled?
When Your Dream Job Is a Lie

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Shirley Li

8 hours agoWhat's fresh on Netflix, Max, Disney+, Prime Video, and more? Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. And that's before you even look at the vast …
DeepSeek-R1: Advancing LLM Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Shirley Li

Shirley Li·FollowPublished inData Science Collective·13 min read·--Image created by author using ChatGPT. This is the seventh article in our DeepSeek series [1], where we will break down how DeepSeek-R1 is trained by exploring large-scale Reinforcement Learning. This marks one of the major paradigm shifts in LLM training to improve reasoning ability, and also shows great potential to improve smaller LLMs through distillation.
What ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Understands About Its Hero

4 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Shirley Li

Listen1.0x0:007:02Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article contains spoilers through Episode 6 of Daredevil: Born Again. For a character whose flagship show ended seven years ago, the blind lawyer Matt Murdock—better known as the vigilante Daredevil—has maintained a steady presence on Marvel’s roster. In the film Spider-Man: No Way Home, he impressed Peter Parker (Tom Holland) with his reflexes.
The Lesson ‘Snow White’ Should Teach Disney

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Shirley Li

Judging by some of the online comments aimed at Rachel Zegler, the star of Disney’s live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you’d think that she had done something unforgivable—set Cinderella Castle on fire, perhaps, or told Mickey Mouse he couldn’t wish upon a star. But Zegler had merely stated her opinion of the original 1937 film: that she finds it “extremely dated” and that, to her, the prince “literally stalks” Snow White.
$320 Million Couldn’t Buy ‘The Electric State’ Relevance

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Shirley Li

Joe and Anthony Russo, better known as the Russo brothers, have enjoyed two of the most lucrative careers in Hollywood. The bulk of their success comes from the features they’ve co-directed for Marvel: Three of those projects, in which they helped turn comic-book characters into icons and “cinematic universes” into a standard practice, are among the 50 highest-grossing movies of all time. Two of them—Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame—made more than $2 billion at the box office globally.
$320 Million Can’t Buy You Into the Zeitgeist

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Shirley Li

1 hour agoGwyneth Paltrow has said she told an on-set intimacy co-ordinator to "step a little bit back" when filming sex scenes with Timothée Chalamet, because she would feel "very stifled" by someone telling them what to do. Chalamet, 29, stars in new movie Marty Supreme as a ping pong protégé, while …
DeepSeek Explained 5: DeepSeek-V3-Base

1 month ago | medium.com | Shirley Li

Innovations in pre-training strategies of DeepSeek-V3. Shirley Li·FollowPublished inData Science Collective·11 min read·--This is the fifth article in our DeepSeek series, and also the first one focusing on the training procedure of DeepSeek-V3 [1, 2]. As we shown in the figure below, DeepSeek-V3 is trained with multiple stages, includingA pre-training stage which produces DeepSeek-V3-Base.
‘Mickey 17’ Is Sad, Strange-And So Much Fun

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Shirley Li

Poor, poor Mickey Barnes. The protagonist of the film Mickey 17 lives a grim existence as an “expendable,” a worker aboard a spaceship whose only job is to die repeatedly for the sake of human progress. Mickey, played by Robert Pattinson, is subjected to lethal viruses, exposed to radiation, and asked to sit in a chamber of nerve gas, just so he can report on his own deterioration until he loses consciousness.
Mickey 17 Is Sad, Strange—And So Much Fun | Flipboard

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Shirley Li

NowTalks about Ukraine. European leaders discussed Ukraine and defense At a meeting in Brussels yesterday, E.U. leaders discussed how to bolster both the continent’s defenses and its support for Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, called it a “watershed …