“ChinAI #239: Tiancheng Lou — China’s No. 1 Programmer” by Jeffrey Ding

Subtitle: A profile of the co-founder of Pony.ai. Greetings from a world where…for the rest of the college football season, this status update will be devoted to tracking the Iowa Hawkeye offense's march to mediocrity…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).Feature Translation: Tiancheng Lou — A ProfileContext: Thanks for engaging with the previous Around the Horn issue. The winning pick was this longform profile of Tiancheng Lou, known as China's No. 1 Programmer. After gaining fame by winning basically every global programming competition, in 2016 Lou founded Pony.ai, an autonomous vehicle technology company co-located in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Guangzhou. This Leiphone article (link to original Chinese), by Caixian Chen, profiles Lou's journey.Key Passages:On [...] --- First published: October 16th, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-239-tiancheng-lou-chinas-no --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.