Xiaoyu Li

Essays & notes

Written in English

  1. Why Don’t We Design Slower Algorithms?

  2. The Universe Did Not Include a Progress Bar

  3. Why I Asked AI to Build a PEFT Atlas

  4. What Changes When AI Helps Us Write?

Essays from Chinese social media

First written in Chinese for my Chinese social media account. Each opens in the language your browser prefers, with a switch to the other.

  1. The New Eight-Legged Essays and the Smiling, Proud Wanderer新八股与笑傲江湖

  2. Why Is the Golden Snitch Worth 150 Points?金色飞贼为什么值150分？

  3. Can't Learn It? Is It the Concept, or the Teaching?学不会，是概念太难，还是讲法错了？

  4. Werewolf with a Million Players: 674 Wolves Are Enough一百万人的狼人杀，674 只狼就够了

  5. You Didn't Learn Badly. You Were Taught Too Well.你不是没学好，是被教得太好了

  6. Why You Always Lose at Tetris俄罗斯方块，为什么注定会输

  7. Chess on an Infinite Board无穷棋盘上的国际象棋

  8. Above Infinity无穷之上

  9. A Question with No Answer一个答不出的问题

  10. Counting Past ω数到 ω 之后

  11. I See It, but I Don't Believe It我看见了，但我不信

  12. Infinities Come in Sizes无穷也分大小

  13. Isn’t It Just Math?不就是数学嘛？十个箭头，和箭头背后的东西

  14. 722 Math Papers Land on GitHub Overnight722 篇数学论文，一夜上了 GitHub

  15. AI Can Prove Theorems Now. Why Are We Still Writing Math?AI 都会证明了，我们还写数学干嘛？

  16. Is English the Best Programming Language?英语是最好的编程语言吗？画家、钟表匠和巫师

  17. Does Dota 2 Armor Really Diminish?DOTA2 的护甲，到底递不递减？

  18. In 48,000 Tang Poems, What Did Poets Write About Most?四万八千首唐诗里，诗人最常写的是什么？

  19. From the Four Color Theorem to Navier–Stokes从四色定理到 NS 方程：机器证明的五十年

  20. Reason and Feeling: Really Opposites?理性与感性，真的是对立面吗？

  21. Hofstadter’s ABCD: Between Creation and Discovery侯世达的 ABCD：在创造与发现之间