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Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: Lessons in Industrial Policy

2025-03-24

This article recounts the story of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and his creation of the US nuclear navy, offering valuable lessons for America's current efforts to rebuild its industrial strength. Through rigorous personnel selection, continuous technical training, and strict project management, Rickover built the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the world's largest fleet of civilian nuclear reactors within a decade. His success wasn't solely reliant on legislation or funding, but rather on cultivating highly capable personnel, establishing a high-performance organizational culture, and navigating government bureaucracy strategically. Rickover's story highlights the critical importance of strong leadership and talent cultivation in industrial policy, crucial for America's strategic competition with China.

DeepSeek: The Quiet Giant Leading China's AI Race

2024-12-31

DeepSeek, a low-profile Chinese AI startup, has emerged as a major player, with its R1 model outperforming OpenAI's on multiple reasoning benchmarks. Fully funded by the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek prioritizes foundational technology over commercial applications, committing to open-source its models and sparking a price war in China with its affordable APIs. This is fueled by access to High-Flyer's vast computing resources. DeepSeek's ambitious goal is achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), focusing on groundbreaking architectural and algorithmic innovations like multi-head latent attention (MLA) and sparse mixture-of-experts (DeepSeekMoE), dramatically reducing inference costs. Their success stems from comprehensive model architecture innovation and effective utilization of domestic talent, contrasting sharply with many Chinese companies focused on commercialization and replication. Founder Liang Wenfeng, a technological idealist, prioritizes principle over profit, driving original innovation and aiming to position China as a significant contributor to global technological advancement.