In a twinkling of an eye, Lou Tiancheng reached the age of 30.
Despite almost no public appearances on social media, Lou has been a constant source of news. But no matter how magical it was, it’s all over.
His new story is beginning to unfold.
Pony, a Pony
Yesterday, Qubit posted a report about Baidu’s driverless car.
In this report, in addition to the clue of Wang Jin’s work at Baidu, there are many side news, for example, James Peng, chief architect of Baidu’s unmanned car, and Loutiancheng, two gods, both left to start their own businesses.
In Baidu, the technical rank T sequence is divided into 12 levels, and T12 is estimated to be Robin Li himself. And Loutian City is Baidu’s youngest T10. What level is that?
Baidu technology VP Wang Haifeng, Horizon CEO Yu Kai, Toutiao VP Yang Zhenyuan, Jinshanyun SVP Hou Zhenyu, Dumi CTO Zhu Kaihua, JINGdong VP Li Kefeng and so on are all T10.
It is said that Ng was also T10 when he joined, do not know the upgrade now. As for James Peng, he is T11.
The day before yesterday, qubit discovered through industrial and commercial information that Lou Tiancheng and Li Hengyu, also from Baidu, registered a company named “Ma Zhi Xing” on December 19 last year. When we went to probe according to the address, we found that it was a virtual registered address. The qubits are empty.
After another day, the qubit was pulled out of the cocoon, and finally I saw Lou Tiancheng’s AI start-up project:
Here it is: pony.ai
■ Exhibit A: Pony, Pony, Pony
■ Exhibit 2: the suffix ai is a favorite of AI startups.
■ Evidence three: although the floor of the Lord’s effective whereabouts is almost 0, but still be qubit found!
■ Evidence four: Wang Chengu, unexpectedly also joined the company, he is Lou’s classmate!
The above evidence is the qubit with the aid of artificial intelligence big data mining tools, looking for rough from the mass of information, unauthorized misuse, careful qubit to launch a deep mining for you.
Pony.ai’s home page is a short loop video of what appears to be a car crossing a bridge. In its profile, the company claims to be in the heart of Silicon Valley and is building artificial intelligence for robots. And the company is looking for “world-class talent” in machine learning, computer vision, general-purpose software and hardware.
In addition, pony. ai has written the following in a prominent position on the page:
The road is life
– Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac is a representative of the Beat generation in The United States. Kerouac shocked The United States with his unconventional and shocking lifestyle and literary propositions. Author of the autobiographical novel on the Road.
Pony. Ai on the road, previously with about five people of the company scale, get sequoia, IDG investment, valuation reached $90 million. Well, that’s qubit exclusive information, too.
Yao Class, the first phase
Wang chengu left Google on Feb. 9 and joined Pony.ai that month as a senior software engineer.
Wang Chengu and Lou Tiancheng have a similar experience. They were both the first students of Tsinghua’s Yao class, and both worked at Google before joining the new startup. The difference is that Lou Tiancheng works in Google’s driverless car division, while Wang works on behavior recognition on Android devices, such as prompting users to switch their phones to driving while driving.
In fact, Lou also has a student who is more related to machine learning and autonomous driving technology: Wu Jingyue.
According to public information, he is currently building machine learning infrastructure at Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company. Before Waymo, he wrote a compiler for machine learning at Google.
After graduating from Yao class in 2008, Wu jingyue went to Columbia University for a PhD and graduated in 2014.
Wu Jingyue also participated in ACM with the dean, but not in the same team. In 2005, Lou Tiancheng, Bei Xiaohui and Zhang Ning formed the bomber team to participate in THE ACM Beijing Division competition.
Also participating was THU1, another Tsinghua team composed of Wu Jingyue, Li Shi and Jin Kai. The five members of the two teams, except Zhang Ning, became the first students of Yao Class when it was established in 2006.
In 2006, Wu Jingyue’s THU1 went to the World Finals, bomber disbanded, Lou Tiancheng and Li Rong and Hu Weidong formed Mobile Robot. The first thing the team did when it was formed was to work with THU1 to prepare for the finals.
During this period, there was a small episode, bomber won the second place in the preliminary contest of ACM Beijing 2005, which was achieved by Bei Xiaohui through 6 questions on her own.
At that time, Lou Tiancheng and Zhang Ning just ran to participate in the Baidu star program design contest. Finally Lou Tiancheng wrote the program, to lead the second 0.004 seconds advantage, won the championship……
Lou Master in various competitions
Lou Tiancheng recalled the speech part of the award ceremony after the competition: “The contestants could take a step forward and choose the first speech. At that moment, I suddenly felt everyone’s eyes were focused on me. I looked to my right, but I did not notice the situation on my right because I was on the far left. Unexpectedly, all the other players took a step back, leaving me in the position that seemed to be a step forward.”
In 2006, Loutian City won the title of Baidu Star for a second time.
Several of the teammates and classmates mentioned above have taken teaching positions in prestigious overseas universities: Bei Xiaohui, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University; Li Rong is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University.
Question and answer hall dean
Loutian City, despite its many legends, rarely discloses personal information on the Internet. When the founder left Google to join Quora, he made an exception by writing a post called “Why I Joined Quora.”
At best, there are fragmentary reports about Lou Tian Cheng. In the process of collecting the information of Loutiancheng, qubit found that Loutiancheng just joined Baidu, and there was a dialogue and question during baidu American Research. Translation:
Q: Tiancheng, how did you grow into a programmer?
T: First of all, you have to be strong in math. I have had great interest in mathematics since childhood, which has laid a good foundation for me. Second, practice, practice, practice! Over the past 10 years, I have participated in over 100 programming competitions.
Q: Why are you interested in autonomous driving?
A: This is a technology that will have a profound impact. I like the fact that my investment in technology can make a difference in the world. I am good at applying theory to practice. In many cases, the perfect theory and algorithm in the paper may not be applied to practice.
Q: What attracted you to Baidu?
Tiancheng: I believe baidu’s autonomous driving project is at a stage where I can play a significant role. They told me that Baidu has a specific plan and roadmap for autonomous driving technology, not just research.
Q: What advice would you give to kids who like computers? What language should they learn first?
Sky: I think high school is a good time to get into programming if there’s not much pressure from school and other activities. In terms of language, C++ is the most critical. If you want to be a good programmer, don’t skip this section. In addition, Python and Java are also very important.
One tip I have is to learn programming with reasonable expectations. Programming can help you improve your logical reasoning skills, a skill that will help you throughout your life. But don’t think of programming as a shortcut to a better college or company.
Learn to have fun programming! In the process, you will improve your reasoning and problem solving skills.