Liu Yi Zhou刘亦舟
yzliu@live.com来路Path
路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。The road runs long and far; up and down, I will go on searching.屈原《离骚》
- 1987出生在江西临川，王安石、汤显祖的故乡。Born in Linchuan, Jiangxi, hometown of Wang Anshi and Tang Xianzu.
- 这一年，《悲惨世界》登上百老汇；一封电子邮件从北京发往德国：越过长城，走向世界。That year Les Misérables opened on Broadway, and an email left Beijing for Germany: “Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world.”
- 1993就读临川一小。Started at Linchuan No.1 Primary School.
- 这一年，万维网向所有人开放；北京以两票之差错过奥运。That year the World Wide Web was opened to everyone, and Beijing missed the Olympics by two votes.
- 1998就读临川一中。Started at Linchuan No.1 Middle School.
- 这一年，长江大水，Google 在加州一间车库里成立；一年后，阿里巴巴在杭州一间公寓里成立。That year the Yangtze flooded and Google was founded in a garage in California. A year later, Alibaba began in an apartment in Hangzhou.
- 2004考入浙江大学人文学院，读汉语言文学。Entered Zhejiang University's College of Humanities to read Chinese Language and Literature.
- 这一年，Facebook 在哈佛宿舍里上线，Google 上市，刘翔在雅典夺冠。三年后，第一代 iPhone 发布。That year Facebook launched from a Harvard dorm, Google went public, and Liu Xiang won gold in Athens. Three years later came the first iPhone.
- 2008入职阿里巴巴 B2B。Joined Alibaba B2B.
- 这一年，汶川地震，北京奥运，雷曼倒闭。十月，中本聪发表比特币白皮书。That year: Wenchuan, the Beijing Olympics, Lehman Brothers. In October, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper.
- 第二年十一月十一日，淘宝商城办了第一个双十一，27 个品牌参加。又过两年，微信上线，乔布斯离世；再一年，莫言获诺贝尔文学奖。The next year, on November 11, Taobao Mall held the first Double 11, with 27 brands. Two years on, WeChat launched and Steve Jobs died. A year after that, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2013转岗到淘宝天猫，至今仍在。那一年的双十一，一天成交 350 亿元。Moved to Taobao and Tmall. Still here. That year's Double 11 did 35 billion yuan in a single day.
- 2013第一次现场看《歌剧魅影》。Saw The Phantom of the Opera live for the first time.
- 这一年十二月，4G 牌照发放。手机成了人们进入世界的第一道门。That December China issued its first 4G licences. The phone became the first door to the world.
- 2014翻译的《谷歌和亚马逊如何做产品》出版。My translation of Shipping Greatness came out in Chinese.
- 这一年，阿里巴巴在纽约上市。That year Alibaba went public in New York.
- 2015第一次去了日本，走遍了东京和大阪。First time in Japan. Walked all over Tokyo and Osaka.
- 这一年，“爆买”成了日本的年度流行语；《汉密尔顿》登上百老汇。That year “bakugai”, the shopping spree, became Japan's word of the year, and Hamilton reached Broadway.
- 第二年，AlphaGo 战胜李世石，鲍勃·迪伦获诺贝尔文学奖。The next year AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol and Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2017在天猫正式负责营销产品。路漫漫，从这里开始。Took charge of marketing products at Tmall. The long road began here.
- 这一年的双十一，一天成交 1682 亿元。那几年，整个社会都在消费升级，人们相信下一件会更好。That year's Double 11 did 168.2 billion yuan in a single day. In those years the whole country was trading up, sure the next thing would be better.
- 这一年夏天，一篇叫 Attention Is All You Need 的论文发表。两年后，Google 把从它长出来的 BERT 用进了搜索。That summer a paper called Attention Is All You Need came out. Two years later, Google put BERT, which grew out of it, into Search.
- 2018结婚。Married.
- 2019儿子出生。My son was born.
- 这一年，全国出生 1465 万人。少子化时代，已经开始。第二年，疫情，世界停了下来，消费升级的故事也被打断了。That year 14.65 million babies were born in China. The age of fewer children had begun. The next year came the pandemic: the world stood still, and the story of trading up was cut short.
- 2021–2023在亚利桑那州立大学读在线硕士，教育学。Online MA in Education at Arizona State University, with distinction.
- 入学那年夏天，GitHub Copilot 发布，AI 开始和人一起写代码。The summer I enrolled, GitHub Copilot launched, and AI began writing code alongside people.
- 2022女儿出生。My daughter was born.
- 这一年，全国出生 956 万人，总人口六十一年来首次减少，六十岁以上的人有 2.8 亿。银发时代，已经到来。That year 9.56 million were born, China's population fell for the first time in sixty-one years, and 280 million people were over sixty. The silver age had arrived.
- 这一年的双十一，天猫第一次没有公布成交额。十一月的最后一天，ChatGPT 发布，人们开始换一种方式提问。两个月后，它有了一亿用户。That Double 11, Tmall published no sales figure for the first time. On the last day of November ChatGPT launched, and people began to ask differently. Two months later it had a hundred million users.
- 第二年春天，GPT-4 发布，《歌剧魅影》在百老汇落幕，它在那里演了三十五年。The next spring GPT-4 arrived, and The Phantom of the Opera closed on Broadway after thirty-five years.
- 2024转战电商搜索。上下求索，从此成了本职工作。Moved to e-commerce search. Searching, up and down, became the day job.
- 这一年二月，亚马逊的 AI 导购 Rufus 上线。五月，Google 把 AI 写的摘要放到了搜索结果的最上方。十月，诺贝尔物理学奖和化学奖都落在了 AI 上。That February, Amazon launched Rufus, an AI shopping assistant. In May, Google put AI-written summaries at the top of its results. In October, the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry both went to work on AI.
- 2025修完吴恩达的《监督机器学习：回归与分类》，成绩 100%。Finished Andrew Ng's Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification, with a grade of 100%.
- 这一年一月，杭州的 DeepSeek 发布 R1，英伟达一天跌去近六千亿美元市值。二月，Andrej Karpathy 说出 vibe coding 这个词。原来这件事有名字。That January, DeepSeek of Hangzhou released R1, and Nvidia lost nearly 600 billion dollars of market value in a day. In February, Andrej Karpathy said the words “vibe coding”. So it had a name.
- 2026二月，去美国旅游，线下看了三场百老汇：《汉密尔顿》《狮子王》《Wicked》。In February, a trip to the United States. Saw three Broadway shows live: Hamilton, The Lion King, Wicked.
- 这一年五月，千问与淘宝打通，搜索框之外，人们开始和 AI 商量买什么。九月，OpenAI 发布 GPT-6 Astra，Greg Brockman 说：欢迎来到 AGI 时代。That May, Qwen and Taobao joined up, and beyond the search box people began talking over what to buy with an AI. In September OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman said, “Welcome to the AGI era.”
- 一切都在进行时：生活、工作，还是这个世界。All in the present continuous: life, work, and the world.
盛年不重来，一日难再晨。A day does not dawn twice.陶渊明《杂诗》
同一时刻，已是明天。Same hour, another day.