Over the past couple of years, I’ve read numerous analysis articles about AI, and I’ve written a few myself. But the more I write, the more I feel the focus of the discussion might be a bit off. Whether it’s computing power, model parameters, or comparisons of AI investment scales between China and the US, these essentially remain comparisons at the “outcome level”: who computes faster, who applies it more, who raises more capital. This way of discussing things isn’t meaningless, but it implies a hidden assumption: as long as you master enough knowledge, data, and methods, wisdom will naturally emerge.

Recently, around the Winter Solstice, the sun rises at its latest time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Almost every morning, I have to “battle” with my two children, trying to get them out of bed while it’s still dark outside to make it to school for breakfast at 7:20. The process is exhausting, and I can’t help but think how difficult it is to raise two kids, let alone three or four. Little did I expect that while driving to school and listening to the radio, I would hear a news report about a “Chinese billionaire going to the US to have 100 children.” My blood pressure instantly spiked. Good grief, ordinary people struggle to raise two or three children, yet these individuals are having 100 at once.

In recent years, I have installed the 1Panel control panel on almost all my VPS instances, mainly because it is simple and easy to use. However, since 1Panel launched its Professional Edition, features like website monitoring are no longer available in the free version.

A few days ago, I came across a tech news article mentioning that 33 years ago, a British engineer named Neil Papworth sent the world’s first SMS—“Merry Christmas”—from his computer. Since then, SMS quickly became a globally ubiquitous messaging tool.

Coincidentally, a few nights ago, my child found one of my long-unused backup phones wedged in the sofa. After plugging it in and turning it on, I was greeted with a barrage of dozens of messages. The vast majority of these were notifications from online services I had previously linked to that phone number, along with some marketing messages for online loans and promotional offers from carriers.

Recently, several articles published by Lao T have drawn questions from readers in the comments section about whether the content was AI-generated. I can definitely answer that: no.

But, to be honest, AI did play a role in the creation process.

Coincidentally, this morning Lao T saw an article titled “Zero AI Writing” on the HN front page. Inspired by it, let’s discuss the flaws of AI writing and how to distinguish it.

The other night, my child refused to do his weekend homework and even questioned it, saying his teacher told him to “study hard when it’s time to study and play hard when it’s time to play.” But since he hadn’t had enough playtime over the weekend, why should he do homework? I was at a loss. I almost blurted out, “You need to ‘fa dian hen’ (exert some effort) when studying,” but then I thought, he’s only seven years old—maybe such words aren’t necessary yet. Instead, I shared my own experience: when I was little, even light bulbs often didn’t work, so I would light a long bamboo strip for illumination to do my homework, and only by ‘ban man’ (persisting through difficulty) could I finish it.

Recently, the clause on “sealing detention records” in the “Public Security Administration Punishment Law” has suddenly become a hot topic of public opinion, with discussions quickly focusing on the “management of drug users.”

I have written several articles recently and mentioned multiple times that after this incident, the legal community has remained largely silent, including the legislative bodies and public security organs at the center of the controversy, who have also maintained their silence. This implicitly suggests to readers that there is clearly an unusual logic behind this unusual situation.

This morning, as usual, Lao T opened his RSS reader and came across three consecutive news articles about mobile phone bans in primary and secondary schools. Surprisingly, they originated from different countries: the United States, France, and Singapore. It’s strange—why does it suddenly seem like everyone is banning phones in schools?

Recently, the clause in the revised draft of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law regarding the sealing of public security detention records has drawn widespread attention and discussion from all sectors of society. An answer by Lao T on a Q&A website also received hundreds of comments, with many netizens raising the question: How is our sense of security guaranteed after records are sealed?

Recently, I stumbled upon a peculiar computer on Hacker News: the ThinkPad X210Ai. The model number immediately struck me as odd—I hadn’t seen such a naming style on ThinkPads in years, as they now typically follow patterns like ThinkPad X13 or P15. The X210Ai looked like a Frankenstein creation, but upon clicking the article, I realized it was actually a modified version of the 20-year-old ThinkPad X200. This got me thinking: why would anyone still mod a two-decade-old computer, outfitting it with the latest laptop CPUs and components?