About

一个流放者，文艺老年，伪愤中，业余工程师的个人网站。

This is the website of a long-term exile. I studied engineering in mainland China, worked in IT and as a developer, and then moved to the UK. My exile between fields has been longer. I moved from automatic control to digital music, and did my PhD at a digital music research centre, on low-latency networking for live music. My supervisor works on intelligent mixing, so I learned some mixing and music production too. Then I moved on to cybersecurity, and now to AI. In each new field I arrive as an outsider, and I bring something from the last one. I am also an engineer who now mostly does engineering as a hobby.

My job is officially R&T, research and teaching. I think it should be R&D&T. I used to be a Linux kernel hacker and a semi-professional developer. Academic papers took more of my time, and my coding skills got worse. I still think good engineering experience matters as much as research for teaching most of my students, so I keep the hobby going.

Outside work, I read about cosmology, physics, philosophy and psychology. I am most interested in the point where physics becomes a question about the mind, such as the observer and the measurement problem. I am also interested in Buddhism, especially early Theravāda practice and meditation. I see it less as a religion and more as an experimental science of the mind, and I follow the research in contemplative neuroscience.

I write in Chinese and English. My early essays were literary. The recent ones are more about information, technology and their limits. Now I often write with AI as a thinking partner. It is a good partner, but it also makes things up, so I check everything.