Former PKU Supercomputing Captain, Twice Global Top-2, Joins DeepSeek Ranks

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15

X user teortaxesTex shares and translates a personal essay titled "I Have No Choice but to Bury My Talent in Yesterday," highlighting its subject's credentials: the PKU supercomputing team is likely the best university team in the world, and he captained it to #1 and #2 global placements, making him one of the world's top active high-performance computing experts.

The essay opens by noting that DeepSeek v4.1 has raised the ceiling of what small models can do, with AI advancing far faster than anyone expected. The post is essentially a talent-story piece about elite HPC expertise moving into frontier AI work.

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