William Yang

Taipei

Freelance correspondent covering the Greater China region for @voanews. Words in @DWNews, @Guardian and @thetimes. tips and assignments to [email protected]

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[2504.03635] Do Larger Language Models Imply Better Reasoning? A Pretraining Scaling Law for Reasoning

3 weeks ago | arxiv.org | William Yang
International students in Australia raise their voice in NSW politics

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | William Yang

International student activists have succeeded in passing anti-transport discrimination motions at NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylens Summer Hill Branch. With the international student cap coming into place alongside the backdrop of increasingly difficult cost of living pressures and housing insecurity - much of the discourse, especially with regard to international students have lacked perspective.
REALM: A Dataset of Real-World LLM Use Cases

1 month ago | arxiv.org | William Yang |Kshitish Ghate |Wenyue Hua |william wang

arXiv:2503.18792 (cs) View PDF HTML (experimental) Comments: Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY) Cite as: arXiv:2503.18792 [cs.HC] (or arXiv:2503.18792v1 [cs.HC] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.18792 Submission history From: Wenyue Hua [ view email] [v1] Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:39:25 UTC (2,227 KB) Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer...
AgentOrca: A Dual-System Framework to Evaluate Language Agents on Operational Routine and Constraint Adherence

1 month ago | arxiv.org | William Yang
China criticizes Trump tariffs, threatens possible retaliation

1 month ago | voanews.com | William Yang

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday criticized the United States for imposing tariffs on Chinese imports and vowed to "resolutely retaliate" if Washington continues to increase pressure on Beijing. Speaking to local and foreign media outlets during the annual meeting of China’s parliament on Friday, Wang questioned the effectiveness of the U.S. government’s tariffs against China and called on Washington to avoid conflicts and confrontation.
Tajvani: investimi i kompanisë “TMSC” në SHBA, “moment historik” në marrëdhëniet mes dy vendeve

1 month ago | zeriamerikes.com | William Yang

Presidenti i Tajvanit Lai Ching-te përshëndeti një investim të planifikuar prej 100 miliardë dollarësh në Shtetet e Bashkuara nga Korporata tajvaneze e Prodhimit të Mikroprocesorëve, “TSMC”, duke e quajtur "një moment historik për marrëdhëniet SHBA-Tajvan". Ai shtoi se investimi nuk ishte rezultat i trysnisë nga qeveria amerikane. Presidenti dhe kryetari i kompanisë “TSMC”, C.C. Wei foli me gazetarët në zyrën e Presidentit të Tajvanit në Taipei të enjten pasdite.
Taiwan lauds TSMC investment as 'historic moment' for relations with US

1 month ago | voanews.com | William Yang

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is hailing a planned $100 billion investment in the U.S. by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation as “a historic moment for U.S-Taiwan relations,” adding that the move is not the result of pressure imposed by the U.S. government. The president and TSMC chairman C.C. Wei spoke to reporters at Taiwan’s presidential office in Taipei Thursday afternoon.
China sets moderate economic growth target amid looming trade war

1 month ago | voanews.com | William Yang

China set the economic growth target for 2025 at 5% on Wednesday, vowing to “rise to the challenge and strive for success” amid a lack of domestic demand and a challenging external environment.
What to expect from China's annual political meetings

1 month ago | voanews.com | William Yang

Thousands of Chinese leaders, lawmakers, and business leaders are gathering in Beijing this week for China’s biggest political meetings of the year. The meetings, which will bring together top party officials, bureaucrats, military leaders and delegates, business heads, academics and others, are watched closely for signs of the Chinese government’s priorities for the year ahead. The gathering is also used to pass instructions down to local officials and party cadres across China.
China hosts political meetings as US tariffs loom

1 month ago | voanews.com | William Yang

China kicks off its biggest political meetings of the year this week as additional tariffs from the United States loom and the leadership in Beijing looks to address what Chinese President Xi Jinping has called “complex and multifaceted” economic challenges. Starting on Tuesday, thousands of Chinese elites and lawmakers will begin gathering in the Chinese capital for the “Two Sessions,” or “lianghui,” which will set and discuss a wide range of policy agendas for 2025.