Hammer of Technology

"I think classmate Ji can indeed be a leader, and I will be strict with him. But classmate Ji, there is another problem. If you are a graduate student of mine, you may have to give up many opportunities to exchange abroad. You have to consider this. Okay. It’s not that I’m hypocritical. I don’t want you to go out and broaden your horizons. The main reason is that you will participate in some of the projects I took over after the second year of Ph.D. It lasts until about ten years after graduation, so it shouldn't affect your future plans, right?"

Ning Wei turned to look at Ji Mingzhi again and asked.

Ji Mingzhi immediately replied: "Hoo...it's okay, it's okay, Professor Ning, if you want to study in other fields, you need to go abroad to broaden your horizons, I can understand. But if it's about artificial intelligence, I think it's enough to learn from you There is really no need to go abroad to communicate with other experts. On the contrary, if other countries really want to promote exchanges in this field, they should choose to come to China to participate in some meetings to communicate with you more.”

How should I put it, Ning Wei thinks this guy in front of him is not like a top student in Hongyi Academy?Whether it is EQ or IQ, they are all very high...

These words literally hit his heart.

Ning Wei is still struggling with the fact that this year's three world's top computer conferences still did not choose to be held in China, which seems somewhat of a failure.Of course, invitations were sent to him without exception for these meetings, but he rejected them all.

Ning Wei smiled and said casually: "Okay, I remember that the interview schedule is on the 13th, right? It doesn't matter whether you go or not, you can consider finishing your undergraduate course as soon as possible, do a good job in your graduation thesis, and report early next year. In addition, I It’s better to look at the papers sent to you by email, they are all very basic things, if you have any questions, send me an email immediately, and I will get back to you after I see it.”

These words also gave Ji Mingzhi a reassurance.

This interview is not very important. It is a new theory and application direction. The undergraduate level basically does not involve the professional knowledge that graduate students need to learn, so this interview does not have much professional knowledge. .

As for the test of professional knowledge at the undergraduate level, it is even more unnecessary. After all, the students recommended to Ningwei at this stage are basically top students from top-notch universities with double strength, and their grade points are ranked among the best in their respective majors.Coupled with the continuous communication with these students in March, Ning Wei has long been provided with a relatively scientific ranking. The main purpose of the interview is to examine the personality characteristics of the students and whether they can match Ning Wei's eyes.

This time, since Ning Wei came to Jiang University to meet Ji Mingzhi once, he probably understood his thoughts, so it was completely unnecessary for Ji Mingzhi to go to the capital.

"Subtotal, why don't you hurry up and thank Professor Ning. Haha, but Professor Ning, I think it's better to go to Subtotal during the interview, so as not to gossip. And the credits of Subtotal have already been completed, and it's only a matter of time. I have finished my graduation thesis, and I won’t be able to learn anything if I stay in school. Why don’t I just stay at Yanda and follow you after the interview is over? If there is anything that needs to be done, just ask him. Wait for the defense next year Just come back. What do you think? Professor Ning." Kong Mingde suggested.

When talking to Ning Wei, Kong Mingde felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

I communicate with WeChat by phone on weekdays, but I still don't feel that every time I face Ningwei, there is always a sense of unreality.

He couldn't help but think that Ning Wei's appearance was not much different when he first came into his eyes three years ago, but his status was completely different.Three years ago, Ning Wei was just an ordinary senior undergraduate student, but now he is a doctoral supervisor, and he is also the most popular academician candidate for the Academy of Sciences this year. In other words, by the end of the year, Ning Wei has a high probability of being just like him. Become an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A 25-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this is no longer an exception.In the past, being able to become an academician at the age of forty was already a young hero with an unlimited future.Ning Wei moved the age limit down by 15 years without much resistance.

Of course, there are still many different opinions within the Academy of Sciences. For example, Ning Wei is still too young, and young and vigorous people should have more experience, but in the end they were suppressed by louder voices.There is no way for many big shots. After all, there are many academicians in the School of Engineering who have recommended Ning Wei. This time, it is the result of the coordination between the two parties.

If there is something wrong with the Academy of Sciences and it is not judged, it is estimated that the Academy of Engineering will directly rob people.

What's more important is that those big bosses who have been retired for a long time and have rarely publicly expressed their views on these issues have spoken out, and all of them have agreed to support the promotion of the young man in front of them. The neat voices of these big bosses Enough to silence all dissonant voices.

In three years, from undergraduate to academician, it can be said that it takes more than ten or 20 years to complete the journey, and it is still the kind of academician who keeps receiving projects, which is not acceptable.

"Eh? This seems to be okay, but the dormitories at Yanbei University seem to be very tight now. If you don't officially enroll, you will definitely not be able to arrange dormitories on campus..." Ning Wei thought for a while and said.

"It's okay, Professor Ning. I think Dean Kong's arrangement is very good. Don't worry, if there is no dormitory, I can rent a room off campus." Ji Mingzhi said quickly.

If there are opinions from both sides...

"That's okay. You can do something with Senior Brother Yu when you go. Senior Brother Yu Xingwei is currently working on a project. He is very creative. You can ask Senior Brother Yu for advice if you don't understand anything. If you rent a house ... Well, let me tell you, our Dean Kong is very generous, if he wants to sign a graduation contract with you, you can ask him for housing subsidies in the capital, and he will definitely be willing to give it." Ning Wei suggested with a smile .

"Eh..." Ji Mingzhi glanced at Kong Mingde.

"Haha, Professor Ning has said so. We must not be petty. Housing prices around Yanbei University are indeed more expensive. President Du, why don't you go say hello to the comrades in the Beijing Office and find a way to arrange a meeting around Yanbei University?" room, we will pay for the cost." Kong Mingde looked at the accompanying principal and said.

"Okay, no problem, I have to thank Professor Ning!"

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Generally speaking, this trip to Jiangcheng really made the guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

For Ningwei, the face of his alma mater is enough, and for the school, the person recommended by him has become the first default candidate for Ningwei's direct PhD student, which can be regarded as a further binding relationship with Ningwei.

In fact, Jiang University originally wanted to take this opportunity to award Ning Wei a lifelong honorary professor certificate, but Ning Wei resolutely declined.The tight schedule is part of the reason, and the main reason is that Ning Wei feels that he hasn't made much contribution to the school after graduation. He deserves it for coming to receive the tenured honorary professor certificate at this time.

But it was also because Jiang Da didn't insist too much.The consideration at the school level is to wait until the end of the year when Ning Wei is added to the academician sequence of the Academy of Sciences. It will be more festive to celebrate Ning Wei becoming the youngest academician in China and awarding certificates at the same time.

If I have to say that I have any regrets about this trip to Jiang University, it is probably that I did not get to see Academician Lu and Liu Cong.

Speaking of this matter, Ning Wei provoked it...

Huawei decided to set up Ningsi Laboratory to make desktop-level chips, which requires a high degree of cooperation in the EDA project. points of attention.

Therefore, Lu Changbin, Lao Han, the head of the Jiangda Software Laboratory of the EDA project team, and Liu Cong, the contact person of both parties, were invited to the Huawei headquarters in Shencheng for a round-the-clock meeting during the National Day, so as to ensure that the two parties can cooperate at all levels and ensure that the The design software won't hold back Ningsi's lab...

It must be said that this is very Huawei, and it never considers whether it is a holiday or not when doing things.

Of course, it probably has something to do with the importance of this project.

So after returning to the capital, Ning Wei, who finally enjoyed a complete vacation, began to devote himself to the design of the [-]D instruction set again.For a brand-new instruction set, to abandon the bloated parts of the previous instruction set and make features that meet the needs of users of the era naturally requires careful design.

High frequency and high performance need to be considered, the preprocessing link of each instruction, multi-level cache, branch prediction, fetching, decoding, distribution, out-of-order, loading, launching, and finally execution, so that the CPU can efficiently complete various instructions It has never been a simple matter to consider both the execution speed and the power consumed by the execution process...

Even with March as an assistant, this is an extremely huge project.A little bit of design, followed by simulation verification by March, there are hardly any shortcuts.But there is no way, the awesomeness has already been blown out before, so at this time, I can only plunge into this project.

Fortunately, Huawei quickly set up the Ningsi laboratory, and the main person in charge of each project also met with Ningwei through remote video, and opened a WeLink account for Ningwei, which is convenient for both parties communicate.Ning Wei was also able to hand over some auxiliary work directly to the docking technicians, which is equivalent to having a support team of hundreds of people behind him, so that he would not be able to fight alone.

In this way, a week passed almost instantly.

When the work of designing the instruction set was about half completed, it was time for the interview with direct Ph.

Ning Wei still attaches great importance to this interview. If his decision was taken as the main basis for the interview assessment of Ning’s class before, then his decision is the final opinion for the interview assessment of direct PhD students. In theory, Ning Wei even It is okay not to listen to anyone's opinion.

After all, this is to pick students for yourself.

And compared to Ning's class interview, this interview is more important to Ning Wei.

As an undergraduate class, the Ning class can be adjusted after admission. If the academic performance cannot keep up with the class, or if you find that this major is not suitable for you, Yanbei University still has a relatively loose way to change majors.

But direct PhD students are different.

After the tutor is confirmed, it is very troublesome whether the tutor wants to change students or the students want to change tutors.

For tutors, it is actually troublesome to pick out students who are dissatisfied, especially for those serious and responsible tutors. Well, the whole team is abolished.

Another issue is the number of places. The number of places allocated to each tutor by colleges and universities is relatively fixed.

This is due to double considerations. One is to take care of all the tutors. Otherwise, students will apply for some popular tutors all at once, which may lead to a situation where some popular tutors have too many students and some tutors are not interested. Second, the energy of tutors is also limited. , and some tutors themselves have the task of scientific research and undergraduate teaching, so there are too many graduate students and doctoral students recruited, and they can't take care of their energy.

Ning Wei happened to be the kind of doctoral supervisor with aspirations, and there was no shortage of students who signed up. If the students he recruited didn't get along well, it would be just adding to his own troubles.

The students recruited this time basically have to get along with each other for five to six years. In addition to the field of strong artificial intelligence number theory, except for Ning Wei, the research in other places is still at a very early stage, so the entire academic community is very interested in Ning Wei. The first batch of direct Ph.D. students have high hopes. After they complete their studies, they must be serious and stand alone. If they are not sure, they will be observed by everyone with a magnifying glass, at least not too stretched.

So no matter how busy he was, Ning Wei put everything down one day in advance and carefully studied the materials of all the students who participated in the interview. They were all excellent students.

After all, this has been screened in March, and finally 80 people were selected from more than 35 people to participate in this interview.Then pick nine of them...

It is also because these students who hope to learn from Ningwei are too good, so the school has adjusted the interview time very early. If Ningwei is not selected here, these children can still have enough time to go to the interview. Get in touch with other mentors you're interested in.

In this way, at nine o'clock in the morning on October 10th, the interview was held at the Mathematics Research Center on time, and it was expected to be completed in one day. Each student had about [-] minutes to express their ideas.

In order not to be disturbed by off-site factors, Ning Wei only asked Lu Dongyi, Yu Xingwei and Lucy to support the interview.

These three were also carefully selected by Ning Wei.

Lu Dongyi will not raise opinions due to any off-court factors, and Yu Xingwei will generally fully agree with Ning Wei's opinions. As for Lucy's opinions, Ning Wei may not listen to them at all.

Soon, the first student walked into the interview office. The interview was called directly, and March was in charge. The order of the interview was also the order given by March when he communicated with these students by email.

"Hello, Professor Ning, hello teachers, I am Meng Runze from the Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Yanbei University. I have excellent grades during my studies in the Department of Mathematics. The current average grade point is 3.8772, and I rank first in my professional grade. I joined the school when I was a sophomore. The undergraduate scientific research plan, the tutor is Wang Haize, the research topic is the extremum combination and the extremum graph theory. During the undergraduate period, I wrote two papers on the turan problem, one of which was published in the "Acta Mathematics" under the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ", another article was published in the mathematics magazine JMathPureAppl with the help of Director Wang..."

Ning Wei has actually seen these past honors and achievements, but it’s actually quite good to see the student who is studying next door, especially the self-confidence and vitality revealed in the tone of self-introduction. Still very convincing...

"Well, classmate Meng, thank you very much for choosing me as your future supervisor, but being my direct doctoral student will have a very real problem. During the scientific research stage, you may have to come into contact with some classified research, which will have an impact on your future study abroad. , there may be a long period of time without or even requiring you to give up the opportunity to go abroad for exchange, are you willing? Don’t rush to answer, you can think about it.”

In the face of outstanding students, Ning Wei asked questions very directly.

"No, Ning, why do you want to do this? Isn't extensive communication in the industry necessary for academic improvement?" Before Meng Runze could answer this question, Lucy looked at Ning Wei in surprise and asked.

Ning Wei is quite satisfied, this woman is really cooperative...

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"Because there is a secret-related project at the research center!"

"You can sign a non-disclosure agreement if you are involved in secrets, and you promised me that you will let me join the project. Is it possible that I can't go back to the country after I go to the laboratory?"

"That's right, if you want to join our project team and have access to confidential information, you must sign an agreement, and you can't return to China for at least five years. Is this a problem?"

"What? You're kiddingme, Right?" Lucy Ron was so excited that she uttered her mother tongue.

"No, I'm serious! Lucy, it's normal that any secret-related things require certain confidentiality measures. If you want to get it, you need to pay first. It's just that you can't return to China for a few years, and it's not like you can't return to China for a lifetime. What are you so excited about? And if you can't accept it, you can only teach in the Ning class, so you don't need to worry about the confidentiality agreement." Ning Wei replied seriously.

Lu Dongyi raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them, then turned his eyes to Meng Runze, who was stunned across the street, and kept smiling, using this method to encourage the top students of Yanbei Mathematical Academy.

As for Yu Xingwei, who just felt that he was here to make soy sauce, he had already set his sights on the scenery outside the window.

Autumn is here, the leaves outside are all yellow, so beautiful...

"I can not believe it!"

"Okay, Lucy, this is the interview site. You are an interview teacher now. Please don't affect the mentality of the students. If you don't understand the future or my thoughts, we can communicate in private, OK?"

"OK! You are not allowed to run away after today's interview!"

"Okay, classmate Meng, have you considered it?"

"Well, Professor Ning, in fact, Principal Tian and Director Liu had a conversation with all those in our class who wanted to find you as a mentor. Principal Tian said that if you want to read a direct blog with you, you must have access to the source code of March , These source codes must be confidential, let us all think about future plans, if there is a plan to go abroad in 20 years, it is best to give up."

"Eh? Principal Tian held a meeting with you?" Ning Wei really didn't know that Tian Yanzhen had greeted these top students from Yanbei University in advance.

"Director Tian talked about this with everyone when you went out." Lu Dongyi explained next to him.

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded, unexpectedly, the bosses had already thought of these things ahead.

"That's all right. The interview has officially started. Take it easy. It's a very simple question, just answer it with your heart. Why do you want to take my graduate degree?"

"Reporting to Professor Ning, I participated in the artificial intelligence exhibition held at the school when I was a sophomore. When you made March appear at the exhibition, I became very interested in strong artificial intelligence technology. Originally, I After I came back, I planned to turn my undergraduate scientific research plan to the direction of strong artificial intelligence, but at that time Director Wang said that I already had a certain foundation for the study and research of extreme value combinations. If I changed the direction, it would not only waste the time and energy before, but also Sometimes I can’t find a mentor to guide me accordingly. And the thinking mode of research is interlinked.”

"So I can only give up, but I have been studying the papers you wrote, including the 209-page paper you published at the STOC conference, and the "Amathematical model of consciousness based on onisomorphism" you published as Professor March, and your outstanding youth Thesis and doctoral dissertation. Although there are still many things I don’t understand, I hope that after five years of study, I will know how to give machines consciousness and the ability to think independently.”

"Hmm... OK, it will be very hard to do research with me..."

"I'm ready!"

"That's fine, I hope we can cooperate happily in the next five to six years."

"Thank you, Director Ning."

……

"Student Liu, I noticed that I contacted you by email before. You almost never reply to emails on weekends. Is it because you attach great importance to personal rest time on weekends?"

"No, Professor Ning, I heard from my brothers and sisters that after graduate school, if the study and scientific research tasks are heavy, basically there will be no holidays. So I choose to give myself more time to think about the future when I have enough time, so as to Guaranteed to have a good attitude after starting to do research.”

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"Student Li, did you have a boyfriend during college?"

"Uh... we talked about it."

"Still together?"

"Well, he has confirmed that he will be sent to this school, which is Huaqing, which is opposite."

"Oh, if you choose me as your tutor, you might be so busy that your boyfriend might end up in a long-distance relationship in Huaqing. Will he accept it?"

"It's okay, Professor Ning, he is a biology student, and he didn't change his major as a graduate student. If I am in Yanbei and he can be in a long-distance relationship in Huaqing, then the responsibility will definitely not be on my side."

"..."

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"Student Lu Ying, how do you understand a win-win situation?"

"Well, if Professor Ning chooses me to be your graduate student, you win twice, I win once, and we win three times."

"Explain in detail, why can you win twice?"

"Because being able to participate in this interview has proved my hard work and excellence. For you, choosing me not only gives you a hardworking and good student, but also proves that your ability to train students is no less than scientific research ability. For me, being able Accepting the guidance of an excellent mentor like you must be an important turning point in my life."

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"Student Zhang, if you find that you can't fully understand the theoretical logic of strong artificial intelligence in the later stages of study, what should you do?"

"Professor Ning, I have confidence in my intelligence, and I also have confidence in your teaching method. My supervisor has talked with me. This is the first time you recruit graduate students. Generally speaking, the first batch of students are tutors. The group with the most energy, especially in a brand-new field, basically there will be no small tutors who are competent, so I believe that they will be able to learn something in the future."

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"Student Lu, if after you graduate, companies such as Google and Microsoft offer you tens of millions of annual salary to invite you to design an intelligent system architecture for them, what would you think?"

"Reporting to Professor Ning, I think these big companies are too petty. I think that as your first batch of students, these big companies are hooligans if they don't offer an annual salary of [-] million yuan a year."

"Okay, what if they offer you an annual salary of hundreds of millions?"

"Report to Professor Ning, I think they dare to offer me an annual salary of hundreds of millions. It must be that you have taught me very well. You will definitely give me some suggestions for my future life before they make a move."

"..."