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The most influential scientist selected by hundreds of Western media?

This kind of thing is not unusual. In fact, the Western media will make some selections every once in a while, such as the greatest scientific achievements of the decade, the selection of scientists in history, such as the selection of influential figures of the millennium at the turn of the old and new centuries, and the selection of influential figures of the millennium. What are the rankings of safe cities, etc., etc.

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’ votes are counted as a certain score, the number of times they appear on major news websites is counted as a certain score, the number of times a scientist makes headlines is counted as a certain score, various world scientific research awards are counted as a certain score, and finally After these scores are added, divided by a constant, a ranking score is finally obtained, and then the scores are ranked in order.

How to put it, obviously this scoring method is not very scientific. For example, reporters vote and score points.

As we all know, the media knowledge chain that journalists need to learn is systematic news and media knowledge, which belongs to social and humanities subjects and has little to do with science. In other words, most reporters are born in liberal arts, and their mode of thinking about problems and the way they view the world are generally fundamentally different.

So asking journalists to vote to rate scientists is outrageous.

In addition, generally speaking, many well-known scientists do not like to deal with the media.

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 overly energetic freaks, such as Ning Wei, others rarely take the initiative Appearing in front of the media, let alone making headlines.

The only thing that is still considered scientific is probably the score for scientific research awards.

But this area is very vague. There are actually many world-wide scientific research awards, both 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 also awards the Crawford Prize, and The Crawford Award is actually an award as famous as the Nobel Prize in the academic world. In addition, there are the Ralph Schock Award and the Eminoff Award...

These are just the awards selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They are expanded to the world, including the Franklin Award, the Dirac Award, the Lasker Award, and the March Award that is currently being prepared for selection...

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

So when Ning Wei learned online that he had been 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 king, although people can’t help but question their professionalism in judging scientific awards, their social influence is very great, especially when hundreds of media are involved, it is even more Incredible.

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

Especially for Chinese people, this is definitely an honor!

After all, in previous similar selections, let alone a Chinese scientist, even a Chinese scientist has never appeared in the top three. This is the first time that a Chinese scientist has been directly ranked as the number one scientist in the world by Western media.

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

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

Even in China, people don’t trust Ning Wei very much. The main reason is that everyone doesn’t trust the integrity of the media.

In this era where many people are willing to do anything for traffic, especially in an era where self-media is rampant and good and bad are mixed, many news will make people feel that it is fake news at first glance, inaccurate and just a product to attract attention.

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

Because the news really came too suddenly, there was no foreshadowing, and there was no announcement that this selection was going to be done before. Then the results came out, which caused the domestic media to explode, and directly started the second viral spread on the Internet.

As a result, every incident that Ning Wei had done was once again exposed by various self-media. In Ning Wei’s words, it was not the age to finalize the coffin, but he wanted to expose everything and be whipped again. corpse……

The originally low-key recruitment of direct PhD students was revealed by careful media people.

This time, even the first batch of direct PhD students recruited by Ningwei became popular.

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

Ning Wei will definitely not accept media interviews for such boring things. He also has dedicated people to help him refuse such boring interview invitations. Ning Ban is at Yanbei University. As the most important group of the school, there is also a group of People are taking good care of them and they won't be disturbed too much, but these ten people felt the feeling of being noticed in advance.

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

Others are not doing much better, especially those from other places who have returned to school to continue their studies and are waiting to report after graduation. There are also local media who hope to be interviewed face to face. Everyone is at a loss...

Of course it is impossible to reject them all.

Especially at the school level, due to various considerations, we still hope to have a good relationship with some official media. Especially this is not a bad thing for the school. It will not waste too much time for outstanding students to accept one or two interviews. To say the least, this is a good publicity opportunity.

So the young people who had not yet received the influence of Ning Wei's knowledge were baptized by Ning Wei's inexplicable influence.

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

"That...actually we can't say that they were Professor Ning Wei's first batch of students. After all, Ning Ban was there first. As for the pressure, there must be some, but to be honest, I didn't feel very stressed before, but Now I feel a lot of pressure.”

"Oh? Why?"

"Because after this matter spread on the Internet, many people also talked about us. Then Professor Ning posted a message in our WeChat group, saying, students, let me tell you some good news. In view of the fermentation of the news on the Internet, , as well as the attention of countless Chinese netizens to you, my requirements for you will definitely be higher, the requirements will be higher, and the difficulty of graduation will increase accordingly. In other words, if you can successfully graduate in five to seven years, your ability There will also be greater responsibilities. In addition, I was specifically mentioned, saying that I was the only girl among this batch of students. People on the Internet said that there were fewer female recruits, so they should be stricter with me..."

"Are these Professor Ning's original words?"

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

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"Meng Meng, do you think the media comment that Professor Ning Wei is the first living scientist in our time is a fair evaluation?"

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

"Oh? Can you tell me what Professor Ning's evaluation is?"

"Professor Ning actually told us not to believe too much in the compliments people say when flattering us. He also said that if our future research results can make others afraid of others, we can also take turns to be the first. of……"

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"Student Ji, we have noticed that you come from Professor Ning's alma mater - Jiangsu University. As the number one person in the contemporary world of science, does Professor Ning have any special expectations for you?"

"Well, actually Professor Ning told us that he doesn't like the title of the world's first scientific person, saying that it's all for fools. Professor Ning also talked to us specifically about this issue. He thinks that many ordinary people now actually have a negative attitude towards modern science. There are many misunderstandings about the scientific system, including many people who have received higher education, so they are excited about this ranking. In fact, there is no first or second place in the modern scientific system, because now there are various interdisciplinary and subject details. Differentiation has made scientific research a field with extremely strong professional barriers, especially at the theoretical level."

"Oh, can you give me more details about Professor Ning's views on this question?"

"Well, let's take the artificial intelligence we want to learn in the future to explain. The mathematical theory of artificial intelligence is just a big framework. Everyone's understanding may be that we just follow Professor Ning to learn how to make an artificial intelligence software. But that's not the case. In this way, Professor Ning has clearly told us that he will arrange different topics for us according to our learning situation. For example, the dynamic intelligent layout of the power system, the construction of urban smart transportation, the construction of artificial intelligence smart judicial system, and the medicinal biological platform Comprehensive intelligent determination 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 a situation where achievements that are strongly related to people's direct life experience are more likely to be taken seriously and then widely praised; but results that are weakly related to people's direct life experience Related results are even more important academically than the former, but maybe because people have no sense of experience, they don’t know it at all, so the title of the world’s first scientific person is itself unscientific.”

"Oh? According to your statement, are there any specific examples of strong correlation or weak correlation with ordinary people's lives?"

"Of course, for example, we introduce artificial intelligence into some disease treatment fields, analyze various data through big data platforms, and develop a new drug that can effectively cure the vast majority of cancers and significantly extend the life expectancy of this population. This It is closely related to people's lives. 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 to artificial intelligence. The difficulty in big data mining and integration often lies in getting more medical institutions willing to share the 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 China's overall power resource loss or waste by up to 30% or more. This is technically more difficult to achieve, and it is a more advanced level of artificial intelligence. application, because we have to face extremely complex situations, such as the imbalance of the distribution of the power system itself from China's overall perspective, the imbalance of different power sources such as thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, etc., especially the natural power sources, must be solved These are difficult. If two results appear at the same time, which one are you more willing to report in depth as a media?"

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"Classmate Meng..."

"Actually, I didn't want to be interviewed, but since the school hopes that I can say a few words, I will say a few words. First of all, Professor Ning himself does not take this title given by the Western media to heart at all. Professor Ning's original By the way, those reporters don’t understand science, and the assessment of scientific achievements cannot be decided by their votes. Secondly, please also ask the media not to 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 that I especially agree with. Professor Ning said that hyping the various rankings given by others is actually a manifestation of lack of confidence in one's own evaluation system. He has not been, is, or will be in the future. We need to be recognized and praised by foreign media. We don’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 anyone else’s recognition.”

"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 Olympics, and there is no need to do things like rankings. Contributions made in any unknown field of science are of the same level. Yes, there is no need to give first or second place.”

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Yes, although most of the media who wanted to interview Ning Wei failed to do so, Ning Wei's ten new disciples directly explained everything they usually talked about, which was probably equivalent to doing Ning Wei's job in disguise. An interview was conducted, and a more comprehensive interview.

It was obvious that the person involved was not too concerned about this assessment, and even seemed to be slightly resistant. After all, it still made people feel uninterested.

In particular, the sentence "hyping up the rankings given by others is essentially a lack of confidence in oneself" has directly become a hot search. This sentence has indeed produced extremely positive consequences. In this October, China Network is paying attention It is no longer just the Nobel Prize issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. More attention has begun to pay attention to the March Intelligence Prize, Mathematics Prize, Physics Prize and Computer Prize jointly launched by Ningwei and Huawei.

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

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

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Ning Wei himself is not too taboo about the fact that the students spoke out some of the things everyone usually talks about in interviews without hesitation.

Anyway, there is nothing shameful about him. He is different from other tutors in that he is only a few years older than the students he recruits. He usually talks about what comes to mind in the WeChat group. Of course, the ultimate purpose of most speeches is to inspire these students. Students can focus more on their studies.

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

Especially Lu Dongyi.

There is no doubt that Senior Brother Lu's mathematical foundation is extremely solid, not to mention his IQ, and his level of concentration when studying can put many people to shame. But even so, it has been almost a year since I changed my research direction under Ning Wei's suggestion, and I am still in the stage of diligent study.

So it is still very challenging to graduate with a PhD within five years.

However, Ning Wei really didn't expect that after his remarks were published and amplified by the media, he would also help promote the March Award.

This is probably an unexpected surprise.

According to the foundation's plan, the results of the Future March Award will be announced in December every year. It is indeed during the review period, but the selection process is not the same as the ordinary award selection process.

Since this is the first time, candidates for all awards are invited by the March Foundation to nominate some well-known scholars and relevant scientific research institutions in various fields via email. However, the final nomination list is determined by March through an algorithm. Make a second judgment and decide.

The subsequent selection process is even more closed.

There is no voting process. After the scientific research achievements of all candidates are described, they will be evaluated by non-related experts in the industry through fee assessment. At the same time, March will also model and score the research results of all candidates based on simulations. Finally, a comprehensive answer was arrived at.

In other words, even the committee that established the award didn’t know who the final winner of the March Award would be until the announcement was made in March, and there was no way it would be possible to get this hot spot...

loss!