# Random thoughts on research and life

Date: 2026-08-06

Author: Zhenzhao Tu

I write, unevenly, in English and in Chinese. The pile includes technology notes, notes on AI, and the odd personal fragment that does not belong anywhere else.

I grew up in Guangdong, in a family that is more Chongqing than the map would suggest. This has consequences for [hot pot](/hotpot/). Away from a desk I take [photographs](/photography/), and I like walking through mountains and cities until they start to make a kind of sense.

The research is supposed to be the center of the page. It is not always the center of the day. Both of those sentences can be true at once.

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