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Operational blunders at Asian Games disrupt Korean team - The Korea Times
Japan's organization of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is drawing criticism over a string of missteps, from playing the wrong national anthem to poor...
'Failing, chaotic, musical chairs': Teams slam Asian Games organisers
Several teams rounded on the organisation of the Asian Games in Japan on Thursday, with Thailand likening it to a "chaotic" game of "musical chairs" and South Korea saying...
Asian Games in Japan plagued by troubles | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
The organizers of the 2026 Asian Games currently underway in Japan have unveiled container houses for athletes, amid calls from some overseas participants for improvements to those facilities.
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.
‘String of blunders’ at the Asian Games is drawing growing criticism in Japan…Is the cause ‘ditching big corporations’?
From the ‘Toyotomi Hideyoshi’ controversy to inadequate lodging and meals, misdirected buses, and even the North Korean anthem played instead of the South Korean national anthem. Issues around the ...
ASIAN GAMES: Teams slam Games organizers over ‘chaos’ - Taipei Times
Several teams yesterday rounded on the organization of the Asian Games in Japan, with Thailand likening it to a “chaotic” game of “musical chairs” and South Korea saying “they deserve a failing grade.”The biggest issue at the Aichi-Nagoya Games has been a shortage of rooms for the 17,000 participant
Discovering and transmitting abstract knowledge over generations
The complexity of human culture depends on people's ability to discover and transmit abstract knowledge. Studying this ability is crucial to understanding humans' distinctive place among species, but current experimental paradigms focus on the cultural transmission of specific, concrete facts rather than generalizable abstract knowledge. In this paper, we develop a crafting game paradigm to study how people discover abstract knowledge and transmit it via language. We compared individuals playing this game for 40 rounds to chains of four participants playing for 10 rounds each and passing messages to each other sequentially. The individuals performed significantly better over rounds, but the chains did not. Through simulations with language model agents and a follow-up experiment, we find substantial variation in the helpfulness of participants' messages, which may explain the lack of consistent improvement in chains. The ability to learn selectively from the good messages may be essential for improvement over generations.
Asian Games close in Japan after records, rancour and rain
The Asian Games in Japan closed on Sunday after a fortnight lit up by record-smashing young stars but marred by mishaps, mediocre...
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J Type 101 takes type lovers inside the fascinating mechanics of Japanese typography, revealing the rules, rhythms, and cultural context behind the characters.
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Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs
LLMs have been showing limitations when it comes to cultural coverage and competence, and in some cases show regional biases such as amplifying Western and Anglocentric viewpoints. While there have been works analysing the cultural capabilities of LLMs, there has not been specific work on highlighting LLM regional preferences when it comes to cultural-related questions. In this work, we propose a new dataset based on a comprehensive taxonomy of Culture-Related Open Questions (CROQ). The results show that, contrary to previous cultural bias work, LLMs show a clear tendency towards countries such as Japan. Moveover, our results show that when prompting in languages such as English or other high-resource ones, LLMs tend to provide more diverse outputs and show less inclinations towards answering questions highlighting countries for which the input language is an official language. Finally, we also investigate at which point of LLM training this cultural bias emerges, with our results suggesting that the first clear signs appear after supervised fine-tuning, and not during pre-training.
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'Chaotic' Asian Games threaten Japan hopes of hosting Olympics again
Asian Games in Japan Leave Questions of Legacy – Adnkronos English
Asian Games close after fortnight of turmoil and teenage triumph
Accommodation, transportation problems mar 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games - The Korea Times
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アジア大会、深刻トラブルが続発 国歌取り違え、輸送バス到着せず | NEWSjp