The time leading up to the opening ceremony of the meeting passed quickly.

Jiang Wenping walked on stage and tried the microphone twice, and finally politely reminded the order of the venue.

Wang Hao could only stop talking with Schulz in regret and find his seat to sit down.

Like most conferences, computer science conferences start out as speeches, but they don't say much that doesn't make sense.

Jiang Wenping and another chairman took the stage and talked about welcoming everyone to the meeting and talking about the significance and purpose of the meeting.

These can all be classified as 'meaningless'.

Then it entered the formal content, talked about the process of convening the conference, introduced the three academic lecture halls, as well as the process of conference paper review and collection, and finally selected several awards, and so on.

This part takes about 20 minutes, and after all the explanations are completed, the opening ceremony is over.

The people in the venue can freely choose three lecture halls, including Wang Hao, a special judge, or they can enter any of the lecture halls at will, the difference is that they can sit directly in the first row of 'invited judges' seats.

Invited review, there is no definite work, to put it bluntly, it is just an 'honorary title', and the review of the paper report is mainly responsible for the review team.

Each lecture hall will have several judges who are responsible for the review of the report, and the judges will be seated on the left and right sides of the podium, which will look like the referee seat of a sports competition.

Wang Hao also knew such a complicated distinction when he participated in the meeting, but he exhaled lightly, there was no corresponding work, and he was able to sit directly in the first row, which felt really good.

Zhang Zhiqiang chose the No. 1 lecture hall, and many of the reports in the No. 1 hall are related to information reception and processing, which has a lot to do with his research.

Wang Hao went to Hall 2.

When I came to the first row of invited judges, I found that Hall 2 did not seem to be very popular, probably because there were few major results in theory-related research, and there were only a few people sitting in the invited judges' seats.

Although none of them were familiar, Wang Hao nodded lightly to them, said hello, and then found a seat on the left side and sat down.

Considering that there are a few middle-aged people in their forties and fifties on the other side, and a foreign professor who looks a little sloppy, as if he has not taken a bath for a long time, it is quite comfortable to sit alone.

However, he was not able to be quiet for long.

A white-haired white old man sat next to him with a teenage white girl, the girl was sitting next to Wang Hao, and the old man was separated from him by a seat.

Wang Hao glanced at it with curiosity.

The old white man took off his shirt and jacket and put it on the chair, sat down and looked at Wang Hao, and said, "You are Dr. Wang Hao, right?" I've seen your pictures. My name is Jeffrey Hinton and I'm here for your report. ”

A name that reveals a lot of information.

Jeffrey Hinton, one of the three giants of artificial intelligence and former vice president of Gugo, won the Turing Award with Joshua Bencio and Jan Lekan for his scientific research on neural networks and intelligent deep learning.

"Mr. Hinton."

Wang Hao greeted politely, looked at the teenage girl next to him, and asked, "Your student?" ”

"Just call me Jeffrey." Jeffrey Hinton pointed to the little girl and said, "She's my granddaughter, Helen, in fact, another reason for coming here to the meeting is to bring Helen to see the world, her parents gave her to me, but I don't know much about children, so I just came here." ”

Helen complained, "Jeffrey, I'm not a kid anymore. ”

"Of course, you're fifteen years old, and you're a big girl." Jeffrey Hinton said seriously, but anyone could tell that something was wrong.

Helen pouted in dissatisfaction.

Wang Hao said in a slightly complaining tone, "So, you brought her to the computer academic conference?" ”

Jeffrey Hinton looked at the podium flatly, "It's Helen's request." ”

Helen turned her head to look at Wang Hao, opened her eyes wide, and said seriously, "I'm about to finish my college course, and I'm thinking about the subject direction of graduate school, and I don't know whether to choose mathematics, computer science or biology." ”

"My dad suggested that I study biology, and Jeffrey thought computers were good, but I liked math."

Jeffrey Hinton adds, "Helen is about to get two bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics and one in biological sciences. ”

He added, "I suggested that she study computer science or biology, and to put it bluntly, math is not for women." There are very few female mathematicians as proof of this, but she has always believed that my views are discriminatory against women. ”

"Uh~~"

Wang Hao felt that the pair of grandchildren seemed to have come to Versailles specifically.

Fifteen-year-old girl about to get two bachelor's degrees? She was feeling confused about her future graduate school choice, not knowing whether to study mathematics, computer science, or biology.

Is this a random choice?

He pursed his lips vigorously and said for a long time, "Jeffrey, Helen is very good." ”

Jeffrey Hinton seemed to have just heard something very ordinary, and his face did not have the joy of being praised at all, not even a trace of change, just said two words flatly, "I-Know." ”

I definitely can't talk about it anymore this day.

Helen took the initiative to speak, "In the eyes of others, my family is very good, my father is a biology professor and my mother is a neurologist. ”

Wang Hao was about to say something when he heard Helen continue, "But I looked through the history of the family and found that my parents' generation had declined. ”

Helen pointed to Jeffrey Hinton and said, "My grandfather's father's name was Howard and he was an entomologist, while Howard's younger brother was a teacher and his sister was a chemist. ”

"Jeffrey's uncle was an economist and a well-known diplomat."

"Further up, Geoffrey's grandfather, my grandfather's grandfather, George Buhler, was a mining engineer and botanist who ran silver mines in Mexico, George's brother Sebastian was a famous inventor, and his wife, Carmelita, was the founder of the Putney School."

"Sebastian's son, William Howard, was a well-known scholar of Marxism-Righteousness, and it is worth mentioning that William was involved in the Manhattan Project."

Further up, George and Sebastian's father, Charles, was a mathematician and science fiction writer who developed the concept of three-dimensional hypercubes and was a professor at Princeton University, where Charles's wife's father was famous, George Boolean, Boolean algebra, Boolean circuits, Boolean types, Boolean expressions...... You should know. ”

Helen traced back to her ancestors for six generations in a row, and then pointed to Jeffrey next to her, and said with regret, "After carefully studying the family history, I found out that the reason for the family's decline is on Jeffrey." ”

Jeffrey Hinton covered his face with his hands, as if he had done something wrong.

Then I heard Helen say, "My grandmother, just an ordinary person, dropped out of school after graduating from high school, and then didn't come out to work. ”

"Jeffrey only chose to spend his life with her because he liked her beauty, but he didn't consider at the time how negatively a decision made by hormones in his body would have on future generations."

Helen pointed to her head as she spoke, the expression on her face visibly dissatisfied.

Wang Hao pursed his lips extremely hard, feeling that the corners of his mouth were about to reach the back of his head, looking at his grandson with a lonely look, he couldn't help but feel sad for the 'grandmother' who didn't know if he had passed away.

However, I have to admit that what Helen said seems to have some truth.

Every one of the ancestors of a hundred years ago was extremely good, even going back to the famous 'George Bull', and every subsequent generation was also very good, how did it come to the next generation of Jeffrey, and it became ......

That's not right!

Wang Hao suddenly reacted that Helen's parents are also biologists and doctors, and no matter how they make judgments, they are also social elites.

This is Versailles?

No.

Jeffrey and Helen's loneliness doesn't seem fake, in other words, they do think that the family has declined, probably because Helen's father is just an 'ordinary' biologist?

Wang Hao thought about it carefully, tried to put himself in the shoes of Jeffrey and Helen, and said, "Actually, you don't have to feel sad. It is indeed possible for mediocre wisdom to be passed on to future generations, but Helen also inherited beauty from her grandmother. ”

"The progress of human genetics is not only about intelligence, but also about physical appearance."

He was just trying to persuade.

Helen thought about it carefully for a while, and a stirring spirit reacted, and suddenly realized, "I understand, you mean that excellent appearance can increase the range of mate selection, and there can be more and better choices to complete the combination of genetics and produce better offspring." ”

"No wonder most of my distant cousins are mediocre, because Jeffrey's generation is very mediocre in appearance, coupled with the social environment, the choice of mate is very small, so it is impossible to find a good man to correspond to."

"Uh~~"

"Does that mean that?" Wang Hao had nothing to say, he kind of understood why Helen's parents would decide to hand Helen over to Jeffrey to take him.

Looking at the appearance of the grandfather and grandson, their personalities are probably similar.

Helen said a lot of things that are 'difficult for ordinary people to accept', a lot of which was said by Jeffrey himself, and even involved 'insulting' his grandmother's low IQ, Jeffrey did not refute a word, as if he felt that what he said was right, and he felt ashamed of it.

I can't complain!

Wang Hao decided not to talk to the strange grandfather and grandson, and listened carefully to the report on the podium.

The level of reporting of the conference is still very high, and the lowest is an ordinary SCI level, and the content has a certain degree of cutting-edge, and some will be eye-catching.

Of course, there is also a crotch pull.

Even if it is an international academic conference held in China, it is necessary to speak in English, just like the STACS conference held in Germany and China, and the report is also made in English, because English is the international language, and everyone who comes to listen to the report can speak English.

If it were a different language, there would be a lot of people who wouldn't understand it.

More than 600 scholars came from abroad, and one-third of the review team was from abroad.

However, some scholars who make reports have a very average level of English, which makes it a little embarrassing to make a report on stage, but fortunately, the papers that can pass the review are of a certain level, which makes up for the embarrassment of the speech.

In fact, it is normal for similar situations to occur, even if it is an international conference, some of the top scholars have the same level of English proficiency, and some have a hometown accent, which sounds awkward and very uncomfortable.

This is all normal.

For a day, Wang Hao listened carefully to the report, arrived on time in the morning and afternoon, and sat in his position without moving, while most scholars could not last a day.

Scholars are not like officials, and most of them don't listen carefully to content that they are not interested in, or whisper to others, or simply leave the chamber and go to other chambers to see the content.

The same goes for the guest judges in the first row.

Wang Hao was the only one who persevered for the whole day, and the weird Xinton grandson only listened to the report for two hours and walked away.

The others in the distance didn't hold out until the end, especially when the last game in the afternoon was halfway through, Wang Hao was simply left alone in the first row, and the others left early.

The person who came to the stage was a postdoctoral lecturer from Shencheng University, and after half of the speech, he found that many people had left, and his tone became very unconfident, but fortunately, there was still one left in the first row.

After the report was finished, the person who made the report came over, held one of Wang Hao's hands with both hands, and expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart, he felt that Wang Hao must have continued to sit and listen carefully because of politeness.

In fact, Wang Hao didn't listen too carefully, he would listen carefully to the reports related to his research, or some interesting content.

It was really hard to listen to the content that was not interesting, irrelevant, and had no highlights in the research, but he still persevered to the end, hoping to learn more about the content so that he could have a reference for his research.

Unfortunately, most computer conferences have nothing to do with basic research in mathematics.

[Task 3]

[Inspiration: 73]

The number of '9' points added in one day is still acceptable, but considering that talking to Pete Schultz increased the inspiration value of '7' points, and listening to the report of the day only increased the remaining '2' points, the efficiency of listening to the report is indeed too low.

Wang Hao walked out of the lecture hall and walked in the direction of the restaurant, and on the way, he met Xinton's grandson who was sitting leisurely by the pool.

Helen stopped Wang Hao with a cheerful smile on her face, "I bet with Jeffrey that you will definitely be able to hold on to the end, and I won." ”

Jeffrey said depressedly, "Why did you come out so late, what are those reports to listen to?" ”

Wang Hao said with a blank look in his eyes, "Other people's reports may be very helpful to my research." ”

"What research?"

"Prime numbers."

"Prime numbers?"

Jeffrey stood up, stared at Wang Hao's face carefully, and spoke for a long time, "I was still telling Helen just now that you also have good genes in terms of appearance, but now, I think, you should give full play to this genetic specialty earlier." ”

"Why?"

"You're studying prime numbers, which is analytic number theory, right? By the time you're thirty, your hair will be thinning, and by forty, your hair may not be as thin as mine. You must know that a person's appearance and genes are indeed important, but body is as important as hair. ”

Wang Hao was silent for a long time, thinking about it and said, "Maybe I should consider going for a hair transplant?" ”

Jeffrey thought about it carefully and said approvingly, "Then it doesn't matter," he said, calling Helen to the dining room to eat together.

Wang Hao looked at the behavior of the pair of grandchildren and thought that he should find a reason to leave?

Eating together?

If you are in contact with them for a long time, your way of thinking may be greatly affected!