Hammer of Technology

"Huh... so you are so amazing! Our professor said before that the greatest achievement of mankind in the next 50 years is probably to enable machines to generate autonomous consciousness, and you have already done it." Jiang said with emotion.

"This... Your professor is right, but March is far from meeting the standard your professor said. For example, it still lacks the ability to solve problems independently, and it needs to optimize the choice of solutions. Luck is a kind of thing, you say it’s not far off? The training for March will take a long time. For example, I am planning to arrange some tasks for it recently to exercise its ability in formulating the optimal plan. I am not sure if it can It cannot meet the requirements."

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181 How did you do it?

While Ning Wei was explaining March's design philosophy and abilities to Jiang Chenshuang, Emily Ram had already seen Ning Wei's reply.

As the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematics under the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, she is naturally aware of the conflict between Ning Wei and Lucasson Friend.During her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, Lucasson Friend also taught her about partial differential equations, but there was no such thing as a deep teacher-student friendship.

After all, she chose to study group theory in her master's degree, and she also chose another supervisor.So when this matter was revealed, she was on Ning Wei's side.

But as one of the few female editors in the industry, the following messy things made her less interested in Ning Wei.

Especially after being able to say those words at the STOC conference, it added a lot of meaningless content to her daily work.For example, reply emails to enthusiastic students, telling them to rest assured that they can swim in the ocean of mathematics. The old guys in academia will probably not fancy your results, and then think about how to keep them for themselves every day, Lucasson Fur Rand's case was just one example...

God, she's not a teacher? !He even has to give psychological counseling to a group of children.

But what cannot but be convinced is Ningwei's attainments in mathematics.

In fact, after learning of Ningwei's name, Emily Lamb carefully studied all of Ningwei's papers, including the pioneering insights into the NS equation and the proof process of the KLS conjecture.

The mathematical ability shown in it is very strong. Even if she is not convinced, she believes that the 22-year-old Ning Wei must be a strong contender for the Fields Medal.That's why she chose to send relevant papers to Ning Wei for review.

When she read the return and reply email that Ning Wei rejected as a reviewer, her mood was very ups and downs.

In particular, the line "We're all still schoolchildren in a sea of ​​math" offended Emily Ram, which would come off as rude if it was modesty.It even made her want to send a special e-mail to ask Ning Wei, is this another laugh at her for not even reaching the level of a primary school student?

Then she saw Ning Wei's praise for a mathematician named March. A mathematician can make Ning Wei feel admirable in many fields. To what extent can this level go?

As soon as Emily Lamb saw this sentence, she used the paper index to search for the academic papers published by this great mathematician she was extremely unfamiliar with, and found that there was nothing.

She even went to the arXiv website specifically, hoping to find clues about this March, but the result disappointed her again, and there was still no such person.Well, here comes the problem. It is obviously unbelievable that the great mathematician whom Ning Wei praised so much has not left any clues on the Internet.

But then again, there is no shortage of eccentrics and geniuses who are isolated from the world or whose talents have been annihilated by the times.

The former, such as Perelman, ignored the $100 million bonus and didn’t even bother to accept the award; the latter, such as Ramanujan, if he hadn’t met the noble man in his life, his mathematical talent might have been due to various reasons in that era. Buried forever.After all, when he was reborn, the mainstream mathematics community did not recognize many of his advanced mathematical ideas.

So Emily Ram became very curious about this strange name. Could it be that this March is also a temporarily unknown Ramanujan?

Yes, if Ning Wei recommends a mathematician she knows, she may reject it without even thinking about it, or continue to send an email hoping that Ning Wei will accept the review of this paper, or directly send Ning Wei Forget about the emails, and then change to a reviewer. As an associate editor of a top journal, you still need to arrange an interview. How can you follow the suggestion of any reviewer?

But she became curious about a name that Ning Wei admired very much but was completely unfamiliar with.What is the level of this March, is he really a mathematical hermit?Does he really have higher mathematical attainments than Ningwei?

When these questions rose in her mind, she involuntarily chose to send the review invitation for the same paper to March's mailbox.

Not to mention, after doing all this, Emily Ram even began to look forward to getting a reply in March. In fact, the level of her level can often be seen from the feedback from the reviewers.Discovering an anonymous mathematician is also quite an achievement.

It's a pity that Emily Ram didn't know it at this time. The same email was sent to her more than one reply. In fact, there were at least two editor-in-chiefs of top mathematics journals, and six top or at least the top ones in the district. The deputy editor also received an email with the same wording, but she was the first to see this email because of the time difference.

And the name of March has already given these editors in the mathematics academic circle a vague but rather deep impression. Being praised so much by a young scholar who has achieved many important achievements, the academic level of this March should not be bad. Too outrageous, right?

……

If anyone has the most intuitive understanding of the level of March, it is probably Brother Zhang and his project team members. Unfortunately, they still don't know the existence of March, and they don't know what March has done on this project. Contribution, in Ning Wei's words, is probably the luck of March.

The two batches of samples prepared by the new method completed the most time-consuming annealing process at [-]:[-] p.m., followed by some technical treatment of the material itself. At [-]:[-] p.m., the two batches of samples entered the laboratory Three hours later, a group of people stared at the test report in a daze.

"This, is it successful? Really successful?" Xiao Pan looked at the data in a daze, although some of the tests were done by himself.

"Is it as simple as success? Although it has not reached the performance expressed by the optimal model given by Mr. Ning, it has exceeded our established goals, especially this one. Have you seen it? In the laboratory, the fixed bending radius is 0.8mm. Repeated bending 200 times, the change in conductivity is only 1.9%, this can be made into an excellent flexible material! The scalability is very strong!" Lao Xu touched his bald head and said excitedly, after all, this is his responsibility part.

Yes, everyone was very excited, only Zhang Yancheng was in a daze.

Before the test was successful, everyone was just considering various possibilities, but now according to Ning Wei, the project has really succeeded, so the question has to be posed, how should this result be calculated?If the ranking of the final project team's papers is determined according to the degree of contribution to the entire project team, in this case, he thinks that Ning Wei can be placed as the first author, but their original intention is to hope that the other party will do some auxiliary work ...

Seeming to see Zhang Yancheng's entangled mentality at this time, someone whispered: "Well, this time the laboratory can't be said to be completely successful, right? For example, we have not yet achieved the optimal performance of the theoretical model. It may be that we have not done a good job in EF adjustment. .”

"The difference in data between these two sets of samples presumably expresses the maximum PF that can be achieved by adjusting the EF of the samples. It is shown here that increasing σ does not always lead to an improvement in PF, so the relationship between the two may not be monotonic if we You can also find out the peak value of PF through multiple experiments, this..."

I can't go on talking about it here.

Even if more experiments are carried out in the future and the best solution is found, they all have to be carried out according to the test procedures Ningwei designed for them, and the reference is still the material model given by Ningwei...

"Okay, don't talk about it. I'd better inform the boss of the good news first. After all, he came here for the sake of the boss's face. How to thank him is up to the boss." Zhang Yancheng said.

He didn't bother to think about it anymore. Ning Wei guessed right. The success of this project is really related to Zhang Yancheng's smooth graduation. At present, the most basic condition for him to successfully graduate with a Ph.D. In the name of Peking University, I am the first author or the supervisor. The first author is the second author. I have published more than two papers in important international or domestic journals. That's about it.

But the problem is that if both papers are published only in Peking University Core, there will be a certain standard for their citations, but if they can be published in important international journals, the standard for citations will also be lowered.

According to the model given by the original partner's laboratory, this project can be successfully completed, and the corresponding papers have the potential to be published in international journals. As for the results that appear according to the new material model, it is basically sure to be able to be published in international journals. periodicals.

After all, this new material is much better than traditional materials, especially in terms of scalability. It is useful in many fields, such as aerospace, satellites, new energy vehicles, and even mobile phones and various portable devices. Wear electronic devices, etc.The only thing that restricts this kind of carbon nanomaterials to shine is probably that the laboratory preparation methods cannot be popularized in the basic industrial field for the time being.

So in the current situation, the final ownership of the thesis is probably only decided by Director Tan.

……

"What? The project has been completed? The performance of the material prepared in the laboratory even exceeds the model given on the opposite side? Ningwei has already helped you find out where the problem is? Or have you reopened the experiment to solve the problem?" Tan Dejie who got the call was also very surprised.

This efficiency is too high, so high that he can't believe it.

Finding relevant problems from a large amount of data is a test of basic mathematics skills. Let alone finding out problems in a day, people who are new to the industry are even learning and understanding the meanings of each set of data.

But now Zhang Yancheng called and said that the experimental problem has been solved?But Zhang Yancheng's answer made him believe it.

"Well, Mr. Ning didn't say whether he helped us find the problem through mathematical analysis. He just came to give us some pointers today and asked us to modify the previous preparation plan. The two sets of materials we prepared according to Mr. Ning's plan The performance tested so far has exceeded the performance required by the first-generation material model, especially in terms of flexibility, and I am already considering preparing some materials, making them into TE generators based on this material, and trying to power LEDs."

"It is feasible from the laboratory results, and it has been preliminarily proved that our material can further improve the power factor by increasing the electrical conductivity. If the power supply is successful, it is enough to prove that its weaving under macroscopic conditions is extremely scalable. If The next experiments were all successful, and I think some materials can be prepared for some electronics manufacturers to make concept samples, for example, they can be used to design flexible screens and greatly increase their active cooling and battery life.”

After Zhang Yancheng finished speaking, the other side didn't say anything for a while, and then he said after a while: "Are you all in the laboratory?"

"um, yes!"

"Okay, I'm outside now, and I'll be back in about an hour. You wait for me in the laboratory first."

……

At the same time, Ning Wei had already eaten the love dinner sent by his girlfriend, and continued to popularize important concepts about artificial intelligence with his girlfriend.

"There is a saying in philosophy that difficult problems are simple and simple problems are difficult, which embodies a kind of dialectical thinking. This sentence is put into the field of artificial intelligence and it is the famous Mokvella paradox. This is also in the The most famous paradox in the field of artificial intelligence is that for artificial intelligence, tasks that humans can easily complete are often the most difficult for them. On the contrary, things that humans find difficult are easy for them. "

"For example, logic and algebra are difficult for many people, but very simple for machines. But for humans, we can distinguish things at a glance, such as recognizing faces, recognizing emotions, and actively ignoring surrounding noises. , and so on, these require extremely complex calculations for machines. To be more specific, it is extremely difficult for many people to learn and play Go well, but Google's AlphaGo can easily beat humans However, for the driving skills that most humans can master after repeated training, there are still too many difficulties for machines to overcome.”

"So for March, where it really reflects its ability lies in its basic abilities of discrimination, recognition, and understanding. In these respects, it is still like a child. You can understand it as a kind of The stress response of the program. As you said, when chatting with March, I can still feel that it often responds in a very programmed language, which requires it to continue to learn and continue to optimize its main program to solve it. You can chalk it up to a programming problem, but in the end it’s really a math problem.”

Jiang Chenshuang, who had been listening obsessively, kept nodding, and then asked: "So this is what you said to design the most perfect mathematical theory for March to promote its growth?"

"Well, almost." Ning Wei replied, and then said: "By the way, last time I said that I would invite your classmates to dinner, and I have almost finished my work recently. You can go back and ask when you have time. We have to fulfill this promise first.”

"It's not necessary, in fact, she was joking..."

The two were chatting when the phone rang at an inopportune time. Ning Wei glanced at him, smiled apologetically at Jiang, and picked up the phone: "Hey, Ning Wei, you still know how we make materials. Method? How did you do it?"

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182 Idle and Work More

Look at the question asked, it really caught Ning Wei.

In fact, Ning Wei looks at March like an old father looks at his daughter's mentality. Ning Wei really doesn't mind blowing up March. Even if it is luck, you must have strength before you can have luck.It's just that this girl in my family is quite special, at least she can't boast about it at the moment, so she can only use the most familiar words to deal with it: "Know a little bit."

It’s not too far-fetched for Ning Wei to answer this question. After all, he has supplemented the papers and some common sense for a long time, and has a lot of understanding of various chemical and physical methods for preparing carbon nanotubes and corresponding thin-film materials.

But this answer obviously exceeded the expectation on the other end of the phone. Academician Tan paused for at least two or three seconds before sighing: "This is a good idea to use. I will have to educate the doctoral students under me later. One by one, their eyes are higher than the top, and they are not too happy to ask them to do some basic research, and feel that it is a waste of time. This contrasts sharply. I must ask these prospective Ph.D. students who claim to know materials well how they feel. .”

After sighing, Academician Tan asked again: "Ning Wei, to be honest, are you interested in materials science? If you are interested, you can come to me to minor in a second degree, and wait a few years to get a double Ph.D. How about graduating with a degree? With your level, you can definitely do it without delay. Don’t be afraid that your field director will not agree, as long as you are interested, I have a way to accept it.”

See what this says...

Ning Wei thought of Senior Brother Zhang's face that looked like a bitter melon when he smiled, and then passed over Senior Brother Xu's head that had formed the Mediterranean Sea, and the words that Senior Brother Zhang said were forced to wash every day in order to test the catalyst emerged in his mind. The picture of the bottle immediately felt refreshed.

"Academician Tan, don't be joking. I don't have the energy. To tell you the truth, the top-notch project that director Tian applied for me has already given me a headache. I don't have the energy to do anything else during this time. I don't have the mood to read double-edged books." PhD."

Hearing Ning Wei's answer, he smiled heartily on the other side: "Haha, Ning Wei, Ning Wei, don't talk about your top-notch project in front of me. Lao Tian has already told me that he chose a step-by-step program for you. If you are not satisfied with the simple project, you must do difficult ones. The project has not yet been approved, and you have basically completed it. This obviously has spare capacity. Don’t worry, as long as you are willing to read it, you will be nothing question."

Ning Wei understood, and then sternly refused: "Academician Tan, I'm really not interested in material science, a little understanding is enough."

"Um……"

The other side paused again, and asked: "Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I happen to be at the laboratory right now, and I just read the material test report prepared this time, and it has reached our standard for this material. I look forward to it, and there are even surprises in terms of performance, but you, Brother Zhang, are under a lot of pressure now. What he means is, why don’t you come over and continue to host the experiment, and strive to achieve the best performance of the material before putting it on The project is closed, what do you mean?"

"I'm going to host the experiment?" Ning Wei was a little confused.

"Yes, Brother Zhang wants you to come and accept it, and write your name as soon as the thesis is completed after the project is completed." Academician Tan said.

"Ahem, I really don't need this one. Please help me tell Senior Brother Zhang that the first work belongs to Senior Brother Zhang, and I have only one request. The name of the second work should be written in March. This should be fine, right?" Ning Wei asked. .

"March?"

"Yes, that March of the twelve months of the year!"

"Ning Wei, signing a paper is a very serious matter, why did you come up with a pseudonym?"

"It's not a pseudonym. It's like this. The plan for Senior Brother Zhang was actually guided by a teacher, but this teacher is not very interested in fame and wealth, so he likes to be called Sanyue." In order to make Sanyue Yue's name can appear in the journal, Ning Wei is also fighting.

"Is there such a thing? Our school's new material major still has such an anonymous teacher?"

"Anyway, academician Tan, please don't ask. Teacher Sanyue refuses to reveal his identity. I definitely can't say anything. Anyway, my opinion is that the second author of the paper must be signed in March. In this way, Academician Tan, I still have something to do here Busy, hang up first!" After finishing speaking, Ning Wei hung up the phone without hesitation.

What are you kidding?

Biochemical environmental materials, the legendary four major tiankeng industries, this kind of suffering is enough for him to suffer for three months.Moreover, Ning Wei is not very good at lying, and he also understands the truth that if you talk too much, you will miss it. If he continues to be questioned by Academician Tan, he is afraid of revealing his truth.

……

In the new material experiment building, Tan Dejie held the phone with a heavy face, listened to the "beep" sound from inside, and then said: "Well, since this is the case, I will hang up first!" Move away from ear.

Tan Dejie couldn't remember how long it had been since no one took the initiative to hang up on him. It seemed that he hadn't been there since he was named an academician. Speaking of it, he was really uncomfortable, especially in front of his students, the discomfort escalated to embarrassment.

So after taking the phone away from his ears, he looked at Zhang Yancheng in front of him and asked, "Did you hear everything?"

Zhang Yancheng was taken aback, and murmured: "Well, boss, you didn't turn on the speakerphone, where can you hear it?"

"Oh! If you don't turn on the speakerphone, you can't hear it. It seems that you are not only not good at your own business, but also your ears are not very good!" Tan Dejie said indifferently.

With that being said, several people in the laboratory didn't know where to put their eyes.

Originally the problem was solved, everyone should be very happy today, not to mention anything else, we should go out to have a good meal and celebrate, but how can we feel the atmosphere of celebration now?

Tan Dejie sighed in his heart, and didn't want to see a group of people looking downcast, so he said: "Forget it, I would rather not want your first work, but the second work should leave the name to Sanyue, don't ask me, I will also I don’t know who Sanyue is, just do as he said. But I think that although Ning Wei thinks that he doesn’t need to leave a name, people will look down on your second and third authors of this paper, but I think if you continue to If you want to get in touch with someone, you still have to put his name on it, and where to put it, you can think about it yourself. I don’t care.”

"Also, one by one looks sluggish. After all, the project is about to be successful, and we can be regarded as an explanation to our brother units. In this way, don't work overtime tonight, you all go to celebrate together, and then hurry up Make a good plan and try to finish this project within one month. What do I usually tell you? Basic things will never be outdated, so you still need to learn more and ask more questions. Especially mathematics, it is very important. If you have nothing to do, ask for advice People, it's never a shame to be a scholar and ask more questions. Do you understand?"

"understood!"

It's not neat, but everyone's very convinced voices sounded in the laboratory, Tan Dejie nodded and said: "It's fine if you understand, I'll go first, you clean up and go to have a dinner together to celebrate."

When Academician Tan left the laboratory, the atmosphere finally relaxed.

Old Xu asked, "Well, should we ask Mr. Ning if he wants to have a meal together?"

In fact, Ning Wei gave up his status as a first author. For the project team, Zhang Yancheng was the one who benefited the most.After all, this project is closely related to whether he can graduate smoothly.For other people, it is not a good thing. If the author of the thesis inserts two people in according to Director Tan's opinion, everyone will be ranked in the back row. I did it, and this time it may be three or even four.

But everyone's needs are different. Don't look at Lao Xu's serious hair loss, but in fact he was admitted to Academician Tan's doctorate a year later than Zhang Yancheng. This time, because the project is more important, he was specially transferred to take charge of this project, but After Zhang Yancheng graduated, Lao Xu would also start thinking about his doctoral graduation.

Why is biochemical ring material called Tiankeng specialty?It is not because the paper is closely related to the results of the laboratory, and it is necessary to soak in the laboratory every day for repeated experiments to produce reproducible results, so that the published papers can be recognized by peers and meet the publication standards.

Now that there is such a big guy who can easily and casually give pointers, the progress of the experiment can be greatly accelerated. Of course, Lao Xu hopes to make friends with Ning Wei more, so that when he presides over the next project, if he encounters What is extremely difficult to overcome, when you want to ask Ningwei for help, it is better to talk, isn't it?

So even though he knew that Ning Wei was really invited to this party, which would only make the atmosphere of the celebration more depressing, Old Xu couldn't help but mention it.

"This is indeed what it should be, but it's all over. Mr. Ning has probably finished his meal, right? Let me ask on WeChat." Zhang Yancheng took out his phone and sent a message to Ning Wei.

After they cleaned up the lab, Ning Wei also sent back a message: "Thank you Brother Zhang, I've already eaten, so I won't go there, you guys go celebrate."

"Hey..." Zhang Yancheng sighed, and then showed Lao Xu the reply on WeChat: "Mr. Ning has eaten, let's go by ourselves. Well, everyone will see Mr. Ning at school in the future. Remember to take the initiative to say hello, in two years I guess it will be difficult for you even if you want to meet Mr. Ning."

Everyone was speechless.

"Actually, now that I think about it, I really hope that Mr. Ning will come and explain the mathematical principles to us. When he came in the morning, he seemed to say that he wanted to explain it to us, but he left after the material was annealed. Hey, if you understand Maybe it will really improve after learning Mr. Ning's mathematical method." Xiao Pan said with some annoyance.

"Thinking too much, Xiao Pan!"

Zhang Yancheng patted the shoulder of the younger brother of the project team, and then said: "Yanbei University never refuses students to take lectures across majors, and everyone is very motivated in this regard. I believe you have also attended lectures across majors when you were an undergraduate." Let’s go through it, you might as well inquire about it, how many of the tens of thousands of undergraduates in the school will go to the mathematics college to attend lectures without incident?”

"This..." Xiao Pan was a little dazed, as if he hadn't heard of anyone who likes to go to the math school to take classes.

"It's nothing like that, you don't understand what they learn at all! Don't talk about going to a math college to attend lectures across majors, even those who major in math colleges, it doesn't matter if you don't miss a class from beginning to end. Two words! You haven’t learned something systematically, you can understand it just by listening to others casually, and your aptitude is not used to learn materials. You are welcome in mathematics and physics! Let me tell you, the place in the School of Mathematical Sciences is an ordinary high IQ It’s not an exaggeration to go into a place where you’ll feel like you might be an idiot.”

"If our school fails five final exams, they will be expelled from school. Do you know how many academic warnings are issued every year because of this? Many of the number one students in the college entrance examination are autistic in the exams. Do you think you will be able to listen to Mr. Ning's analysis method once? Let me tell you, he really told you, I guess you should doubt life. Don't experience the feeling of doubting that your brain may have a pit. Youth hits itself."

"So let's finish the project. Don't be serious. If you really go to Mr. Ning to solve your ideas, they will list out a bunch of formulas for you, and they may make you shut up. Don't be convinced. Go online to read the speeches of the algorithm engineers who participated in the world's top conference on computer algorithms when Mr. Ning was an undergraduate. You can understand the speeches of those algorithm engineers who participated in the conference. They specialize in algorithms, and they must be more solid in mathematics than us. Ning can always make those people lose their brains, let alone us." Zhang Yancheng said earnestly.