The Unscalable

Embody Yourself in Whatever You Want to Do Well

The effortless embodiment in the physical world and abstract systems, is the unique value that human engineers and knowledge workers can bring in this…

Apr 15 • Forest

March 2026

Reflections of an ICPC World Finalist, 20 Years Later

A personal story of pursuing insights and beauty, and sticking to your own values.

Mar 29 • Forest

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February 2026

Long Live Engineering

The engineering mindset - the relentless pursuit of building useful layers, and the courage and the ability of peering through the complexity of…

Feb 21 • Forest

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What the Brain’s Function Tells Us About Artificial Intelligence (Putnam Series, Pt. 3)

Consciousness, intelligence, and the paradox of prediction.

Feb 1 • Forest

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January 2026

What the Brain’s Function Tells Us About Science and Reality (Putnam Series, Pt. 2)

An old story about mind and matter with modern evidences.

Jan 19 • Forest

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December 2025

The Lone Thinker with a Theory of Human Mind and Society (Putnam Series, Pt. 1)

From the "One Person Game" Theory of Mind to a Theory of Everything: A Glimpse into Peter Putnam's Unread Work.

Dec 27, 2025 • Forest

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November 2025

From Computers to Programmers, to the New AI Architects

What history can tell us about the evolution of the software profession.

Nov 13, 2025 • Forest

October 2025

Generative AI's User Experience Puzzle to Solve

The wisdom from classic user experience design, the challenges of GenAI user experience and a hopeful message for the future.

Oct 26, 2025 • Forest

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The Beauty of Reinforcement Learning (4) - World Model & Planning

How the concept of world model and planning brings new approaches to reinforcement learning, illustrated through AlphaGo & Dreamer agent.

Oct 1, 2025 • Forest

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September 2025

Expert Systems: What Can We Learn from its Rise and Fall

From those rhyming themes of two AI booms lie inspirations and lessons we can draw.

Sep 9, 2025 • Forest

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August 2025

Life through the Eyes of a Bayesian

An invitation to think like a Bayesian.

Aug 23, 2025 • Forest

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The Beauty of Reinforcement Learning (3) - PPO Demystified

Including analogies that give you a vivid idea of how PPO works, and all the maths that you need to know PPO and its history thoroughly, end to end.

Aug 11, 2025 • Forest

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