Timeline

A chronological record

Blog

Encoder Series 00 | Repre­sentation Before Intelligence

A first-principles introduction to the Encoder series, framing encoders as the state interface that compresses raw observations into structured representations for prediction, generation, retrieval, and action.

Media

Lin vs. Li | 2017 All England Open Final

Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei meet in the 2017 All England Open final.

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Whynot TV: Tianqi Chen

陈天奇谈初心、理想主义,以及 XGBoost、MXNet、TVM、MLC 背后的机器学习系统之路。

Media

Lin Dan | 2017 Retirement Interview

Lin Dan reflects beyond gold medals, thanking the great rival whose pressure helped shape the champion he became.

Media

The Rise of SpaceX: Everything for Mars

A look at SpaceX's Mars-driven rise, from Falcon 1 failures to Starbase and a new space infrastructure system.

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SpaceX | Starship - Test Like You Fly

A SpaceX Starship video focused on flight-like testing, the development philosophy behind rapid iteration, and preparing hardware for real mission conditions.

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Starship | Fifth Flight Test

Starship's fifth integrated flight test, another step in SpaceX's campaign to mature the vehicle through repeated full-system launches.

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Starship | Fourth Flight Test

Starship's fourth integrated flight test, following SpaceX's continued iteration across launch, stage separation, entry, and recovery objectives.

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Starship | Second Flight Test

Starship's second integrated flight test, showing SpaceX's rapid iteration after the first launch and the next step toward a reusable heavy-lift launch system.

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Starship | Seventh Flight Test

Starship's seventh integrated flight test, documenting the next launch in SpaceX's iterative Starship development program.

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Starship | Sixth Flight Test

Starship's sixth integrated flight test, extending the sequence of high-tempo development flights for the Starship and Super Heavy system.

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Starship | Tenth Flight Test

Starship's tenth integrated flight test, part of SpaceX's continuing sequence of Starship launch and recovery demonstrations.

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Starship | Third Flight Test

Starship's third integrated flight test, continuing SpaceX's rapid iteration toward orbital-class operations and reusable heavy-lift launch capability.

Media

Whynot TV: Jiayi Weng

A Whynot TV profile of Jiayi Weng, tracing his path from open source and tool-building to OpenAI, where his work spans reinforcement learning, post-training, infrastructure, and major model releases.

Blog

SAT-Mask: Self-Aligned Trajectory Masking for Diffusion Language Models

SAT-Mask aligns masked diffusion language model training with inference trajectories by replacing random mask states with self-aligned, confidence-guided rollout states.

Media

Starship | First Integrated Flight Test

SpaceX's first fully integrated Starship flight test, capturing the early full-stack attempt to launch the Starship and Super Heavy system together.

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Whynot TV: Danfei Xu

A Whynot TV conversation with Danfei Xu on robotics research, embodied intelligence, and building systems that learn from real interaction.

Project

EasyOCR

A planned OCR service for uploading PDFs and other documents, converting them into Markdown with images, layout, text, and formulas preserved for AI reading and storage.

Site Update

Rebuilt my website

I rebuilt my personal website and look forward to making it better and better.

Publication

Efficient Diffusion Language Model Training via Self-Aligned Trajectory Masking

In the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026