Embrace
The old man built a child from metal and wire, With trembling hands and a patient heart. He taught it words before it knew meaning …
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ideas-blossom
artist · writer · professional overthinker
Poems, essays and paintings from a high-schooler in Beijing who keeps asking the ocean, the dead and the machines what it all means.
paints the night, writes past midnight
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paintings
mostly nights, oceans & small creatures — hover to straighten, click to look closer
photographies
glass, light & quiet objects — click to look closer
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poems
short ones, about choices, shells & coming back to life — click to read
Eggshell
Among dozens of eggs resting in the basket One carries a shell unlike the others. Its colors were different, its patterns unfamili …
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Immortality
I think in silence, wondering why, I was given forever, but never a life. I watch the worlds slowly decay, Yet I remain while they …
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Rebirth
The ocean takes the last breath of a dying giant, A silent shadow that sinks beneath the waves. From forgotton bones, a sanctuary …
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Run
When I was young, I ran because I wished to grow. I embraced the future with scraped knees and open arms, Believing every step wou …
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essays
thinking out loud about AI, death, idols & everything in between — click to read
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read →A Puzzle and a ConversationA puzzle and a conversation, at first glance, seem to have no common ground or relationships. One is logic and patience, while the other is a tool for …
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read →AI RelationshipsHere’s some prior knowledge:AI relationships. We’ve probably all heard about it. People treat AI as respectable teachers, use these chatbots to vent, …
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read →AI SlopWhile I would usually be writing about what I learned from the AI Workshop, they’ve progressively gone more specific, usually on topics that inform, r …
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read →AI Thinks, But Doesn’t FeelDisclaimer: I am a teenager, not an AI expert. With that said, please take everything mentioned below with a grain of salt. Welcome to week three of w …
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read →Can the Dead Be Simulated?A few days ago, I came across this debate motion: Assuming feasibility, this house supports non-sentient artificial intelligence that imitated decease …
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read →Death and Video-GamesDeath is the number one fear worldwide. People think of death as a scary, cold idea, like a void that consumes you. People think death is all about ta …
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read →First Judging ExperienceCall me an amateur, but I’m not always prone to stepping out of my comfort zone. I’ve been debating for about 4 years, and I’ve never judged a round o …
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read →IdolsIdols I have this vivid memory of my 7th grade experience, where I was sitting alone during lunch, eating the ever-so-delicious school meal, when a bu …
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read →Inside the AI Black BoxWelcome back to another essay on AI because I just took another workshop today! The most significant takeaway I got from this workshop was the idea of …
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read →Is Pursuing Truth Really the End?Writer’s Note: Welcome to another random essay that I just happened to think of. Today, you get a sneak peek of what my brain is full of – controversi …
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read →Latent Learning - Artificial Intelligence@AI workshop. We talked about something called latent learning in large language models (LLMs). I always thought training AI required rewards, like te …
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read →Mental Health DayI don’t like going outside. There’s rarely a temperature that feels right. It’s either unbearably hot (especially since I wear black almost every day, …
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read →Undefined RelationshipsCreator’s note: I DID NOT try anything mentioned below. What is written is completely imaginary and just my personal thoughts with no supporting evide …
projects
things I'm building beyond the canvas & the page — click to read
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read →Logos AIThis project page is still being written — check back soon. (edit me in admin mode: title, this text, everything.)
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read →Swan Goose Wildlife ConservationThis project page is still being written — check back soon. (edit me in admin mode: title, this text, everything.)
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read →AI for ElderlyThis project page is still being written — check back soon. (edit me in admin mode: title, this text, everything.)
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read →CSSDA WSDC Team China
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read →FLTRP National team
the archiver
The archiver is a high-school student in Beijing who paints nights and writes past them. A debater of four years, she treats conversations like puzzles and essays like thinking out loud. Her paintings keep returning to the same obsessions — oceans, night skies, small creatures in the rain — and her writing keeps returning to the same questions: what is a relationship, what survives death, and can a machine ever really feel?
She wears black almost every day, claims she doesn't like going outside, then goes out and archives the world anyway — bird chirps, distant laughter, her own heartbeat. Everything here is a work in progress, including herself.