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Essays and conversations on AI, products, and communities, alongside records of teaching, starting a venture, and everyday life.
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I usually begin with an event, a product question, or something I experienced firsthand.
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A conversation with Bai Shuang, CEO of Leapility, about expert agents, drawing out tacit knowledge, turning personal judgment into a repeatable product, and building a business around value you want to create over the long term.
Read the articleEssays and conversations on AI, products, and communities, alongside records of teaching, starting a venture, and everyday life.
A conversation with Bai Shuang, CEO of Leapility, about expert agents, drawing out tacit knowledge, turning personal judgment into a repeatable product, and building a business around value you want to create over the long term.
Read the articleAfter putting 31 agents into real daily work, I began rethinking how tasks are understood, how information flows, and which rules need to be made explicit.
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During the 2026 Lunar New Year, I joined a meditation retreat at Zongtong Temple in northern Thailand. These notes record Venerable Ani, a pigeon caught in a typhoon, the temple's dog sanctuary, and what those days taught me about impermanence, suffering, and non-self.
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A field note from visits to universities, open-source communities, and AI companies in Hangzhou and Shanghai, and what those conversations revealed about cross-border technology exchange.
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Looking back on a year of entrepreneurship, community events, and nonprofit collaboration, alongside a search for inner steadiness and the hopes I held for 2026.
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Darren Su on founding AGI Villa: a community-driven venture studio where products are built with users from day one—not alone for six months behind closed doors.
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A 2024 technical note on conversational compression, external storage, and memory extraction and search in Mem0, preserving the original historical version, prompts, and code examples.
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A conversation with MyScale co-founder and CTO Linpeng Tang about vector databases, RAG and long context, combining SQL with vector queries, open source, commercialization, and technological ideals. The discussion retains its 2024 context.
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How Datawhale, Stepping Stones, and Jiuqian came together to offer six AI classes for young people, and what the experience taught us about unequal access to information and learning resources.
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A 2024 paper review of RAG and external-data augmentation, covering four kinds of query: explicit facts, implicit facts, interpretable rationales, and hidden rationales, with their challenges and approaches.
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