This essay was originally published in Design.blog in August 2016

Human values and contrasting conceptions of the good life are too diverse to fit one universal model.

An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.

榴莲价格降低只是阶段性的，国产榴莲的产量也不足以影响市场

对于普通用户来说，改不改对刷视频，能有多大影响呢？

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing.

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction

没有大新闻发生。

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

It's surprisingly easy to hire a blog editor, and it provides tremendous value.

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1.一个美国人在东北散步

好久没有这样体验极好的文学阅读了，我也很喜欢行走，就纯粹的走，不需要什么目的。

2.UI...

See discussion of this essay on the forum, Hacker News (a), Marginal Revolution (a), Andrew Gelman’s blog 1 (a), 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (a), /r/slatestarcodex (a), Twitter (a), listen to BBC interviewing me and Walker himself about it or listen to my interview with…

少数派中的少数派。

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model — and adding new twists — to gain a deeper understanding of animal markings.

Not every platform shift yields a new OS or does it?

In my essay “Just ask for Generalization”, I argued that some optimization capabilities, such as reinforcement learning from sub-optimal trajectories, might be better implemented by generalization than by construction. We have to generalize to unseen situations…