Hammer of Technology

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"Student Zhou, if I have two projects in hand, one is a vertical project, which is very important but has little bonus; the other is a horizontal cooperation project, which is very difficult but has a lot of bonus, and you have the right to choose, which one will you choose?"

"Professor Ning, you are well-known for being kind to students. You have given the Ning class so many scholarships, and you will definitely not be stingy to your graduate students, and there are still various subsidies for graduate students. And when you can accept the project, at least two Years later, you must have known me well enough. So if it were me, I would definitely ask you first to see which project you think I am more suitable for. Simply put, I will listen to you. "

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The interview process was originally expected to be five hours, but it only took about four hours to end the interview.This probably also has something to do with not assessing any professional issues. The main thing is to get a general understanding of the students' personalities and whether they can get along with each other.

The feeling is still very good, and many students also show that they are suffering from social bullying.

Ning Wei also had a plan in mind, and the allocation of ten places was basically determined.

There are three at Yanbei University, two at Huaqing University, one at Huaxia University of Science and Technology, one at Huaxia National Defense University, one at Jiangxi University, one at Pearl Jiaotong University and one at University of Technology.

Among them, three people are regarded as targeted training, one is Ji Mingzhi, who is determined to return to Jiangnan University after graduation; Zhou Zhenghao from the University of Technology has already signed a contract with Huawei and will go to Huawei Ningsi after graduation, and Zhang Dingxi from the University of National Defense will also follow The school signed an agreement, and after graduating with a Ph.D., they will return to the school to set up a laboratory.

One of the girls, named Li Jingwen, was ready to start a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend from the school next door.

On Yanbei University's side are Meng Runze and Lu Ying, both of whom are students of the School of Mathematics, so they are close to each other; there is also Zhuo Mingqian, the figure foreman of the School of Computer Science.

Huaqing admitted one person from the Yao class and one from the Zhi class. The name of the Yao class was Chen Yuru, and the name of the Zhi class was Wang Sitang.

Finally, Lu Yuanzheng, a computer science and technology major from Pearl Jiaotong University.

These ten people are also the first group of people who will truly inherit Ning Wei's mantle in the future.

For Ning Wei, he also began to think about how to arrange these students.

For example, Zhou Zhenghao, who will definitely go to Huawei Ningsi in the future, his main research direction must be the application of artificial intelligence in future chip design and operating system; Ji Mingzhi's training direction is mainly biased towards the research of artificial intelligence mathematical theory; Zhang Dingxi is probably Both theory and application...

As for the others, Ning Wei plans to choose a suitable research direction for them after getting to know them later.After all, there are still many subdivided fields of strong artificial intelligence in the future, and many detailed directions can be chosen, so there is no rush.

After making the decision, Ning Wei reported the admission result directly to the school on the same day, so as not to cause further trouble.

But Ning Wei also explained it to the school and waited until the next day to announce it.

According to Ning Wei's habit, after making a decision, Ning Wei directly started a group chat, and pulled the ten people who had been confirmed to be admitted, plus Lu Dongyi and Yu Xingwei, into a large group, and then announced as usual to invite everyone to join in the evening Have a meal.

"Students, the main purpose of inviting everyone to dinner today is to explain something to you. In fact, today's interview is very easy and simple. I believe you can feel it too. I didn't test your professional ability. First, in terms of academic research ability , The daily communication emails have given me a rough judgment; secondly, for the field you are about to study, most of the things you came into contact with at the undergraduate level are not very useful."

"But after you go to graduate school, the problems you face will be different. According to my plan, as my first batch of direct doctoral students, I have formulated a five-year training plan, but I'm sure, There must be some of you who will not be able to graduate in five years. Here I can tell you directly that I will not be like other mentors, and you will graduate because I hope you can help with project cards, because basically the projects I take over are not You are directly responsible."

"Secondly, I won't be concerned about whether you can graduate because of the school's regulations. For example, how many papers and journals are required in a district, and how many citations need to be achieved? These are not rigid graduation requirements. You only need to meet the requirements set by me. That's enough. Of course, this requirement will not be a temporary one, but after you have determined the topic, I will give my requirements according to the direction of your topic selection."

"This requirement may be application-oriented or theoretical-oriented. You don't need to be recognized by others for the research results, as long as I can be recognized. But what I want to tell you is that if you want to get my Recognition is still very difficult. To tell you the truth, I am a good-looking person. You are the first batch of students I lead, and you can say that the future represents my face. If I can’t meet my requirements after the topic selection, I will not be able to Let you graduate."

"Besides, I'm different from other tutors. I'm not afraid that you won't be able to graduate and occupy my enrollment quota. And I only give you seven years. If you still can't meet my requirements after seven years, I will suggest that the school directly Do persuasion. Everyone should be mentally prepared for this. Of course, you may ask, if there is no quantitative standard for the requirement, what if you think it has been met, but I don’t agree?”

"Let me tell you this first. We are researching artificial intelligence. In fact, all the email communication records of each of you have been given a comprehensive score sheet by March artificial intelligence software. I also read However, your understanding of the thesis can basically be consistent with this table. In other words, your future research on the subject will also have a specific scoring table, including your final big thesis review, evaluation, whether you can pass the test, I They will give you evidence that is justified.”

"More importantly, you are direct Ph.D students. I will not consider transferring you to master students, and I don't have the energy to train master students. So if you fail to graduate with a Ph.D., you will still only have a bachelor's degree in seven years. This is also You have to think carefully."

"In short, it's easy to get on the boat and it's hard to get off the boat. After today's meal, you should think about it. It's still too late to get off the boat. The list of admissions will be announced on the official website of graduate students at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning. If you change your mind, you can tell me before that I will send a WeChat message and I will cross out your names on the public list tomorrow, and you can still choose other tutors or study abroad."

"Of course, correspondingly, I will never treat you badly. I don't care about the subsidies from the original school and the unit when you study my direct doctoral students, except for the stage of orientation training. From the time you formally enroll, all subsidies and scholarships will be in accordance with the standards of current doctoral students. If the results are outstanding, I will give other rewards, and if you are assigned to take charge of scientific research tasks, no matter whether it is horizontal or vertical, there will be additional subsidies."

"You don't have to worry that I will covet your achievements. I believe you should also know that these are meaningless to me. On the contrary, if you can really make world-wide achievements, I will only be happy and do my best to help you Propaganda. In addition, as long as you study with peace of mind, I will do my best to ensure that you are not disturbed by any other factors outside the court."

"Especially within you, although in a sense, you are all from the same sect, and I don't care how you get along in private, but from my point of view, you are all relatively independent individuals, and I will definitely not ask you to Helping some people, even the future juniors and juniors, who can graduate and who can't, all depends on their own hard work and ability. If you want to fish for a diploma, I suggest you leave as soon as possible, let's not waste each other's time .”

What Ning Wei said before the meal was very serious and confident.

For example, he has already reached a consensus with the school on whether his students can graduate.

It is true that he no longer needs any scientific research results to prove himself, and he will not be short of projects. In fact, he very much hopes to throw away all the projects at hand, and then devote himself to learning the physics that he has always wanted...

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In the end, no one gave up the opportunity to learn from Ning Wei, but this is also a normal situation.

Everyone knows how rare this opportunity is.

Although Ningwei told them that graduation is difficult and he will be very strict as a tutor, but for these students who have already planned their lives, they can tell the weight of Ningwei's next few words, for example, Ningwei will do his best to ensure Their own students will not be disturbed by any off-site factors. In other words, to study for a Ph.

These words from Ning Wei's mouth carry a lot of weight.

For those who can learn, this kind of atmosphere is even more desirable. After more experience, you will understand that as long as your IQ is sufficient, learning in student days is the easiest thing in the world. There is no one, because the learning direction is different. Positive feedback is arguably the most obvious.

Hard work does not necessarily lead to positive feedback, but in the case of no intellectual problems, as long as you are willing to study hard, you will definitely have positive feedback.Especially when these students are all top students in various schools, a good enough and fair learning environment is the most important.

The next day, Yanbei University's postgraduate official website published the list of Ningwei's admitted students normally, and everything seemed calm.

Then the western media suddenly popped up a news on this day.

It is very inexplicable, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Süddeutsche Zeitung, etc., claiming that hundreds of media have rated the contribution list of contemporary scientists, which is said to be in the form of scoring. A comprehensive ranking list of world-renowned scientists.Ning Wei's name overwhelmed scientists all over the world, with a high score of 9.82 points, ahead of No.20.6 points and ranked first...

When the news reached China, Ning Wei was shocked...

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356 Misplaced Vocalization

The Most Influential Scientist Selected by Western Media?

This kind of thing is not uncommon. In fact, Western media will conduct some selections every once in a while, such as the greatest scientific achievements in the past ten years, and the selection of scientists in history. What are the safe city rankings, etc., and so on.

No one knows the specific selection method. Generally speaking, there will be a mysterious and mysterious algorithm.

For example, the selection method announced by the media this time is that journalists vote for a certain amount of points, the number of appearances on major news websites counts for a certain amount of points, the number of times scientists make news headlines counts for a certain amount of points, various worldwide scientific research awards count for a certain amount of points, and finally After these scores are added, they are divided by a constant to get a ranking score, which is then sorted according to the score.

How should I put it, it is obvious that this scoring method is not very scientific.For example, journalists vote to count points.

We all know that the media knowledge chain learned by journalists needs to learn systematic news media knowledge, which belongs to the social and humanities disciplines and has little to do with science.In other words, journalists are mostly born in liberal arts, and the way of thinking about problems is generally fundamentally different from the way of looking at the world.

So asking journalists to vote for scientists is outrageous.

In addition, generally speaking, many well-known scientists do not like dealing with the media very much.

For scientists who are addicted to research, especially those who are young and in their prime, most of them are too lazy to deal with the media. Except for some freaks with too much energy, such as Ning Wei, others rarely take the initiative Appear in front of the media, let alone headlines.

The only thing that is considered scientific is probably the scores of scientific research awards.

But this one is very vague. There are actually many scientific research awards in the world, well-known and unknown. For example, everyone knows that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the Nobel Prize, but few people know that Sweden will also award the Crawford Award, and In fact, the Crawford Award is as prestigious as the Nobel Prize in the academic world. In addition, there is the Rove Shock Award and the Eminoff Award...

These are just the awards selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, enlarged to the world, the Franklin Award, the Dirac Award, the Lasker Award, and the March Award that is being screened...

There are too many, and the media has not announced the value of each of these different awards, so it is hard to say whether this score is scientific or not.

So when Ning Wei learned on the Internet that he was selected as the number one scientist in the world by a group of reporters, he didn't even know whether he should cry or laugh.But I have to say that as the uncrowned kings, although their professionalism in judging scientific awards makes people can't help but question, their social influence is great, especially when it is said that hundreds of media are involved. Terrible.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the result of this selection should probably be very professional...

Especially for Chinese people, this is definitely an honor!

After all, in similar selections in the past, not to mention a Chinese scientist, even a scientist of Chinese descent has never appeared in the top three.This is the first time that a Chinese scientist has been directly touched by the Western media as the number one scientist in the world.

So as soon as the news reached Huaxia, it immediately became popular all over the Internet.

Initially, the entire network questioned the authenticity of the news.

Ningwei is not trusted even in China, mainly because people don't trust the integrity of the media.

In this era where many people have already spared no effort for the sake of traffic, especially in the age when self-media is flooded and good and bad are mixed, many news at first sight make people feel that it is fake news, and it is a product of eyeballs.

But this time it is too easy to verify, because after the selection results came out, the official Twitter and Facebook of the major media announced the ranking, and soon the rankings released by the official Twitter and Facebook of these foreign media were confirmed to be true Yes, and then ushered in the second boiling, and this boiling is not without reason.

Because the news really came too suddenly, without any foreshadowing, and even did not say anything about doing this selection before, and then the results came out, which caused the domestic media to explode, and directly started the second viral spread on the Internet.

So one thing after another, what Ning Wei did was turned up again by various self-media. In Ning Wei's words, he hadn't reached the age of making a conclusion at all, but he wanted to find out everything and be whipped again. corpse……

The originally low-key recruiting of direct Ph.D. students was revealed by careful media people.

This time, even Ning Wei's first batch of direct graduate students became popular.

The resumes of Meng Runze, Lu Ying, Zhang Dingxi, Ji Mingzhi, Chen Yuru, Wang Sitang, Lu Yuanzheng, Zhou Zhenghao, Li Jingwen, Zhuo Mingqian, all these students have also been dug up by the media...

Ning Wei will definitely not be interviewed by the media because of such a boring thing. He also has a special person to help him reject such a boring interview invitation. Ning Ban is in Yanbei University, as a group that the school values ​​most, there is also a group of People are taking care of them carefully, so they won't be disturbed too much, but these ten people have felt the feeling of the attention in advance.

Especially the only girl among the ten people, Li Jingwen seemed to become a celebrity that the media rushed to interview overnight. From the school to herself, she suddenly had no less than ten interview invitations from the media, and there were relatively well-known official media. in.

Others are not much better, especially those from other places who have already returned to school to continue their studies and are waiting to report after graduation, as well as local media who hope to interview face to face, everyone is at a loss...

Of course, it is impossible to reject all of them.

Especially at the school level, due to various considerations, I still hope to establish a good relationship with some official media.Especially for the school, this is not a bad thing. Excellent students accept one or two interviews, and it will not waste too much time. Taking a step back, this is still a good publicity opportunity.

So the youngsters who hadn't formally accepted Ning Wei's knowledge first accepted the baptism of Ning Wei's inexplicable influence.

"Student Li, as the first batch of students of Professor Ning Wei, the world's most influential mathematician and scientist, do you feel a lot of pressure?"

"Well... actually, we can't say that they are the first batch of students of Professor Ning Wei. After all, Class Ning was there first. As for the pressure, there must be some, but to be honest, I didn't feel the pressure before, but Now I feel a lot of pressure."

"Oh? Why?"

"Because after this matter became popular on the Internet, many people also talked about us, and then Professor Ning posted a paragraph in our WeChat group, saying that students, I want to tell you a piece of good news. Given the ferment of news on the Internet , and countless Chinese netizens paying attention to you, my requirements for you must be higher, the requirements will be higher, and the difficulty of graduation will increase accordingly. In other words, if you can graduate successfully in five to seven years, your ability The responsibility will also be greater. In addition, I was specifically mentioned, saying that I am the only girl in this group of students. It is said on the Internet that there are fewer girls, so they must be stricter on me..."

"Is this the exact words of Professor Ning?"

"Yes, but Professor Ning also said, let us not be disturbed by hot discussions on the Internet. Although we don't need to think about graduation, because the credits are already enough, and the graduation thesis is definitely fine. But Because we are directly trained as doctoral students, and Professor Ning hopes that we can go to the front line of scientific research as soon as possible, so although we have not officially registered yet, we have already arranged the basic courses we need to learn, and various electronic materials are available. After sending it to the mailbox, we will conduct an important assessment when we officially enroll, and the assessment results will directly determine the time for us to contact scientific research..."

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"Student Meng, do you think the media commented that Professor Ning Wei is No. 1 among contemporary living scientists, is it a fair evaluation?"

"Uh... It's not convenient for me to comment on this thing, right? But after Professor Ning was a hot search on this news, he talked to us about this issue in the WeChat group."

"Oh? Is it convenient to talk about Professor Ning's evaluation?"

"Professor Ning is actually telling us not to believe too much in the compliments people say when they are flattering, and also said that if our future research results can make the people on the other side fearful, we can also take turns being the number one." of……"

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"Student Ji, we have noticed that you are from Professor Ning's alma mater——Jiangsu University. As the No.1 in the world of science in the contemporary world, does Professor Ning have any special expectations for you?"

"Well, in fact, Professor Ning told us that he doesn't like the title of No.1 in the world's science, saying that it is a fool. Professor Ning also talked about this issue with us. He thinks that many ordinary people are actually not interested in modern science. There are many misunderstandings in the scientific system, including many people who have received higher education, so they are excited about this ranking. In fact, there is no such thing as first or second in the modern scientific system, because various interdisciplinary and detailed disciplines are now Differentiation has made scientific research a field with strong professional barriers, especially at the theoretical level."

"Oh, can you specifically explain Professor Xia Ning's opinion on this question?"

"Well, let's take the artificial intelligence we will learn in the future to explain. The mathematical theory of artificial intelligence is just a big framework. Everyone's understanding may be that we are learning from Professor Ning and how to make an artificial intelligence software. But it is not In this way, Professor Ning has clearly told us that we will arrange different topics for us according to our learning situation. For example, the dynamic and intelligent layout of the power system, such as the construction of urban smart transportation, and the construction of artificial intelligence smart judicial system, and the medicinal biological platform Comprehensive intelligent judgment and analysis of drug properties and side effects, intelligent identification of risks, spectral remote sensing analysis..."

"In other words, if we make achievements in the future, there will often be such a situation, that is, achievements that are strongly related to people's direct life experience are more likely to be valued and widely praised; Related achievements are even more important academically than the former, but it may be because people have no sense of experience, so they don’t know at all, so the title of world science No.1 is itself unscientific.”

"Oh? According to what you said, are there any specific examples of strong and weak correlations with ordinary people's lives?"

"Of course, for example, we have introduced artificial intelligence into some disease treatment fields, and through the analysis of various data on the big data platform, we have developed a new drug that can effectively cure most cancers and significantly prolong the life expectancy of this group of people. It belongs to the strong correlation with people's life. And because too many people pay attention to these, everyone will definitely regard these technologies as an important step in the progress of human science and technology, but in fact this kind of application is relatively rudimentary for artificial intelligence. The difficulty of mining and integrating big data often lies in making more medical institutions willing to share data with the platform."

"At the same time, some people use artificial intelligence to adjust the dynamic and intelligent layout of the entire power system, reducing the loss or waste of China's overall power resources by as much as 30.00% or more. This is actually more difficult to achieve technically, and it is a more advanced application of artificial intelligence. Because we have to face extremely complicated situations, such as the unbalanced distribution of the power system itself from the perspective of China as a whole, the imbalance of different power sources such as thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, etc., especially natural power sources, it is difficult to solve these .If two results appear at the same time, as the media, which one are you more willing to report in depth?"

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"Student Meng..."

"Actually, I didn't want to be interviewed at first, but since the school wants me to say a few words, then I will say a few words. First of all, Professor Ning himself didn't care about the title given by the western media at all. In other words, those reporters don't understand science, and the evaluation of scientific achievements cannot be decided by their votes. Second, please don't pay too much attention to the study arrangements between Ning Ban and us. Professor Ning naturally has his own considerations. .”

"The third and most important thing is a sentence I especially agree with. Professor Ning said that to hype up the various rankings given by others is actually a manifestation of his lack of confidence in his own evaluation system. He has not been, is, or will be in the future It needs to be affirmed and praised by foreign media. It doesn’t need to be recognized by anyone. Similarly, Professor Ning hopes that we can have the same recognition in the future, and we don’t need the affirmation of anyone else.”

"Finally, Professor Ning said that the highest goal of learning and scientific research is to produce technological achievements that promote social progress. This field is not the Olympic Games, and there is no need to engage in rankings. Contributions made in any unknown field of science are of the same level Yes, there is no need to give first and second points."

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Yes, although most of the media who wanted to interview Ningwei failed to do so, the ten newly recruited disciples of Ningwei directly expressed the content of the usual conversations, which is probably equivalent to doing it for Ningwei in disguise. An interview, and a more comprehensive one at that.

It is obvious that the person concerned is not very concerned about this assessment, and even shows a slight resistance, which ultimately makes people feel less interested.

In particular, the sentence "To hype the rankings given by others is essentially to not be confident in yourself" was directly on the hot search, and this sentence did have extremely positive consequences. In this October, Huaxia Network paid attention to It is not just the Nobel Prize issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but more attention has begun to pay attention to the March Intelligence Award, Mathematics Award, Physics Award and Computer Award jointly launched by Ningwei and Huawei.

According to the introduction and bonus given by Ning Wei when he launched this award a year ago, the March series of awards are basically compared to the world-class awards. Now almost a year has passed, and it is almost time for the first year of awards.Although the influence is definitely not comparable to the Nobel Prize, but at this moment, it still makes many people excited.

What will the so-called artificial intelligence award system look like?Can it be widely recognized by the world scientific community?

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Ning Wei himself is not too shy about the fact that the students are not shy about telling some of the content that everyone usually talks about in interviews.

Anyway, there is nothing shameful about it. Speaking of which, he is different from other tutors, and he is not a few years older than the students he recruits. He usually thinks of what to say in the WeChat group. Of course, the ultimate purpose of most of the speeches is to motivate these students. Students can focus more on their studies.

Because there are many things, if you don't study, it is still difficult to make progress.This is the conclusion Ning Wei drew from Yu Xingwei and Lu Dongyi.

Especially Lu Dongyi.

Undoubtedly, Senior Brother Lu's mathematical foundation is extremely solid, not to mention IQ, and his level of concentration during study can make many people feel ashamed.But even so, under Ning Wei's suggestion, it has been almost a year since I changed my research direction, and I am still in the stage of diligent study.

So it is still very challenging to complete a Ph.D. within five years.

But Ning Wei really didn't expect that after his remarks were announced and magnified by the media, he would also help promote the March Awards by the way.