In a small lecture hall on the Zijingang campus. The leaders of three or five schools and colleges accompanied Academician Qiu and listened to the reports and discussions of the representatives of outstanding young teachers and students of the school.

The people were all pre-arranged, each holding a thick script; Only Gu Mojie, who was accompanying the last seat, did not have a speech script at hand, and he only had time to clean up his clothes before he was dragged to the venue.

Fortunately, Principal Pan also knew that he was temporarily arranged, so he put him last and let the chatter with the speech in front of him flash one by one, so as not to have too many onlookers and an embarrassing atmosphere.

The lecture hall was getting fewer and fewer, and the false masks were getting thinner. When Gu Mojie, who was only left in a polo shirt and slacks, appeared in front of Academician Qiu, Academician Qiu's first reaction was:

This man is too young, too energetic.

Academician Qiu had already obtained Gu Mojie's resume from the school, and glanced at it hastily, but when he saw people with his own eyes, he still showed a trace of disbelief: "Classmate Gu is ...... This year's freshman? ”

"Yes, I'm Class 03, law school. In terms of computers, it's just luck, hobbies, and occasional gains. ”

Of course, Gu Mojie knew what was going on with him today, and if he pretended to be modest and asked a question and an answer, it would be too insincere, and he might be despised by the big bull, so he also asked one and three questions, and poured out the bamboo tube like beans.

Academician Qiu took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Young man, what's the point of talking like us old men in the twilight? I think you should be considered a professional algorithm practitioner and a student in your spare time. ”

Dean Cai laughed on the side: "Academician Qiu, this is saying that you are not doing your job." In my opinion, at the end of this academic year, it is better for Gu to change his major and come to our Academy of Mathematical Sciences, and then it will be considered a well-deserved name. We at the Academy of Mathematical Sciences are very welcome. ”

Gu Mojie laughed, did not say anything, and did not give a letter. Academician Qiu didn't hear the trick behind this. Just pick up the topic he is interested in and continue to ask:

"Gu is so young, and his software programming and algorithm skills are so solid, it is really not easy. But I still have a curious question: at the beginning, how did you think of starting from the perspective of making input methods, to cut into the field of 'deep learning algorithms'? When I was in the United States, I met several scholars in this direction. No one else expected to break through from here. ”

Academician Qiu's words came out, and Gu Mojie knew that the other party still didn't pay much attention to him. In other words, the other party feels that he has achieved today's results not entirely because of his knowledge and strength, but because of the element of "luck" in it-

In Academician Qiu's view, Gu Mojie certainly has the ability, but more because he happened to choose the pinyin input method, which is the simplest and easiest to break through in the algorithm, he has been lucky enough to achieve this degree of success. If Gu Mojie and Google try to study "deep learning and self-evolution of software" from the perspective of "image search" or "portrait recognition technology". Maybe I don't even see any epoch-making achievements now.

This kind of speculation is human nature. After all, Gu Mojie is too young, if he doesn't rely on luck at all and relies purely on strength to achieve today's achievements, it will be too rebellious, and it is easy for older people to feel that years of rigorous study are not worth it.

Gu Mojie doesn't intend to puncture this misunderstanding, others think he is lucky, that is, luck, why bother to expose it? A true achiever. I don't care if others look down on me. So he threw out the lines that had been carefully prepared for several days.

"Actually, I chose this direction in the first place. It was also luck and chance, and I feel fortunate to look back on it now. Later, after choosing this direction, in the process of hard work, many teachers and teachers of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences also gave me a lot of advice and help, so that I can get to where I am today. ”

First of all, it was attributed to the leadership, and Dean Cai also danced with his eyebrows. I feel that this son is on the way. Then Gu Mojie changed his words and began to sensationalize.

"As for why it's an input method,It's actually based on a story I personally saw."

Academician Qiu was originally here to chat today, and the more story-like Gu Mojie's matter was, the more interested he naturally became. At the moment, he cooperated and asked: "I don't know whose deeds inspired you?" ”

"It's the deeds of Mr. Li of Baidu. Growing up, I loved to watch the struggles of my Internet predecessors. I've heard. The reason why Mr. Li wanted to be a search engine was originally because of what happened to him in middle school.

Mr. Li went to middle school in the small city of Yangquan, and after learning computer programming for a year, he went to Jinyang, the provincial capital, to participate in a programming competition for middle school students, and finally failed miserably. After the defeat, he went to the Xinhua Bookstore in Jinyang to see that there were several bookshelves about programming; And when he was in Yangquan, there was only one version of the relevant book in the city, which was the textbook he used in class.

He felt that people were not equal in their access to knowledge. Some people can't afford to buy books, and even if they can, they can't buy them all because of their remoteness. So no matter how hard they try, they have no chance of winning. Because of this, Mr. Li returned from his studies many years later and chose to be a search engine - at least the search engine can allow everyone to always find relevant advice when they want to find a certain word; Let everyone who wants to learn at least get equal opportunities. If a person fails because he is not good at learning, he is to blame, but if he fails because he is eager to learn but has nothing to learn, it is a bad fate.

When I chose to do Hatsune Input and Hatsune Translation, I was actually inspired by Mr. Li. I think that in the Internet era, the talent of Chinese in learning computer technology is not weaker than that of English-speaking civilized countries. However, the programming language is English, the keyboard input habits are English, and the original text of Frontier Technology Consulting is English. Americans don't have to do anything, and they save us a lot of trouble when it comes to getting the latest advice.

I don't think I'm trying to bridge the trouble: I hope Chinese don't need to master one more skill than Americans to be able to type text fluently; I also hope that Chinese do not need to know one more language than Americans to find cutting-edge advice.

It's just that after choosing this direction; On the one hand, foreigners don't do this thing, and no one in China sees what profit model is behind this software, so no one thinks of coming to compete with me for business. I went back and forth, and finally I got an extra harvest by accident, which may be my fate. ”

From beginning to end, Gu Mojie did not say that he had any far-sighted vision. only said that he happened to have good intentions and good rewards, and he walked the dog Shi Yun. But these words sounded extremely true, and in the ears of Principal Pan, I only felt that this example was too positive and inspiring.

Full of positive energy!

Academician Qiu was not satisfied with this, this answer did not show how Gu Mojie was successful. He is not like President Pan and Dean Cai, who can call Gu Mojie to talk every day. Naturally, I hope to solve all the doubts in my heart at once.

At that moment, he asked a question: "Luck is naturally important, and this is also your kindness." But technical and theoretical skills are also required, otherwise there are so many people who will only dream, and they have not seen their success - about the idea of deep learning of input methods, how did you first come up with it? How dare you insist on going in this direction? ”

Gu Mojie took a deep breath, knowing that the positive energy just now could not completely deceive the Americans after all. The reason why President Pan believed it was nothing more than being carried away by positive energy for a while.

Fortunately, Gu Mojie was prepared. He had been grinding his guns with Jeff Hinton for a month, so he naturally made excuses.

"In this regard. Actually, there was some luck. For example, Professor Jeff Hinton, he came from a psychology background, and later switched to computers, so when he solves algorithm problems, he always likes to use 'How does the internal logic of the human brain work when facing this kind of problem?' This question comes from the reverse thinking. I didn't study computers in the first place, so I wasn't bound by the traditional thinking of computer algorithms. This. Let me happen to change the angle, from a direction that the professionals did not expect. A breakthrough was made.

Ten years ago, before Professor Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's theorem, he was not a number theorist; From the research direction of elliptic curves, he solved a problem that has not been solved by professionals in the field of number theory for 400 years.

More than 20 years ago, when you proved the 'Calabi-Chow manifold', you also borrowed some knowledge from the field of string theory in physics. Did you make a breakthrough? Perhaps, in this era, it is the era when it is easy for those who are not only specialized in a certain point, but can also find a wide range of connections between all things, so that they can easily achieve success? ”

Gu Mojie's academic achievements are really in the eyes of Academician Qiu. That's just a fraction of the value. Even if Gu Mojie reported the results today, Academician Qiu would not take it to heart, at most, he just felt that this child might have a little future in the future, and that was limited to that.

However, Gu Mojie's last words happened to scratch the itch of Academician Qiu, because Academician Qiu also happened to be a generalist who touched the bypass - he was both a mathematician and a physicist.

The theorem of "Calabi-Yau manifold" was originally a conjecture put forward by the Italian mathematician Calabi in 1954, and was finally proved by Academician Qiu in 1977, which was the first proud thing in Academician Qiu's life. It was because of this achievement that he won the Fields Medal, which can be described as the pinnacle of his life's achievements.

After the "Calabi-Yau manifold" was proven, it immediately became a major mathematical pillar in the field of string theory in physics. The theory of string theory in physics was only proposed in 1968, 14 years later than the Calabi conjecture. In other words, when Calabi proposed his conjecture, he did not think that the mathematical tool he proposed could be used in the future by string theory in physics. It was Academician Qiu's thorough study of mathematics and physics, as well as all other studies, that he was able to get through the tricks, solve this conjecture in a unique way, and win the Fields Medal.

In other words, if he is a pure mathematician, or a pure physicist, no matter how deep his attainments in his own field are, he will not be able to handle this matter. It is necessary to have a person who has the talents of both a mathematician and a physicist to do this.

As soon as Gu Mojie's words were said lightly, Academician Qiu felt a sigh of "those who know me" in his heart. It's like when Huang Yaoshi first saw Yang Cheng-

When Huang Yaoshi first saw Yang Guo, Yang Guo's martial arts naturally couldn't enter Huang Yaoshi's eyes at all. It's a pity that with Huang Yaoshi's status in the rivers and lakes, the person who touted his martial arts strength has seen not 10,000 but 8,000 in his life, and people have long been familiar with him. However, the world says that Huang Yaoshi is an Eastern Evil, and they don't understand his proud detached birth and informal temperament, which only Yang Guo can be similar to Huang Yaoshi, which is very rare. The two of them are called evil and crazy, and they can naturally become friends who forget the year.

The kid on the other side, although he is still very scumbag in learning, is a generalist in his style of doing things. And people know how the generalist's brain works.

I'm a man of the Tao! You can make friends! (To be continued.) )

PS: This paragraph, since it has been bypassed, there are too many academic things, and I can't ignore it.

Otherwise, it will be a shock to the tiger's body, and the cattle will bow down one after another. So, it can only be around like this.

I also know that this chapter is too academic, so let's add one more today, and there is a third one before going to bed at night.

In the future, everyone doesn't like to watch this level of academic force, so they still don't pretend. Take it easy. In fact, it's still a more moderate tone, easy to write. I'm writing fast, too.

Too romantic or too academic, slow to write.