Chapter 177 End of live broadcast (5k)
"Are you alone responsible for judging all projects?" Lei Jun couldn't help but ask.
There was no prior preparation for this live broadcast, not to mention rehearsal, even the questions were improvised.
Because Chen Yuanguang is very tight on time, he can only spare half a day to respond, and he will return to Mianyang soon.
A Chinese expert team on an important topic is already on its way to Mianyang, and there is a lot of work that requires his cooperation.
Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Yes, I will rely on my own professional ability to judge the project.
So all I can guarantee is that I will not have any interests in any relationship with the applicant of the project, regardless of the prior Or even afterwards, it won’t happen.”
Lei Jun asked: “Junior brother, your ability in scientific research is absolutely top-notch. I believe that no one in the audience will question this.
But I have the same doubts as them. Can you cover so many fields by yourself? "
Chen Yuanguang replied: "So I will only do the screening within my ability. .
I will select some fields, subdivide some keywords in these fields, and then do a fuzzy search around these keywords in the background.
Select the searched topics one by one. "
Lei Jun said: "In other words, if it is outside the range, even if it has potential, you will not look at it? "
Chen Yuanguang replied: "Yes, because this special natural fund is also established to solve key problems.
I think with my experience in industry and academia, I have the ability to judge which issues are critical and of sufficient value.
In order to be responsible for the results, I also need to determine whether there is data fraud or distortion at the end of the course. It is impossible for me to do this in a field that I am not good at.
If I set up a company and recruit a group of Ph.D.s to cooperate with me in doing this, then the special nature of this fund will be lost. Even the professionalism of these Ph.D.s is not as good as the judges of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. .
And I can’t guarantee that I will recruit people to do this. They will not be selfish and they will not exchange benefits.
So I think it’s up to me to decide. I think I have the qualifications and the ability. ”
The courage shown by Chen Yuanguang surprised Lei Jun, because in terms of class, he believed that he and Chen Yuanguang were in the same class, that is, entrepreneurs.
This status will be very embarrassing in China, especially in the current China. You need to take extra care of your feathers. If you are not careful, you will set off a wave of public opinion and get yourself involved.
No matter how low-key you were before, it is difficult to avoid it. The founder of Nongfu Spring is a typical case.
In his opinion, what Chen Yuanguang did was to risk his life personally. If there was any problem in the end, it would be easily stained.
"Junior brother is worthy of being the man who said in an interview that he will bring everyone the next golden age. I cannot match this courage."
In fact, public opinion is still right. Chen Yuanguang is very friendly, but it is only because young scholars, masters and doctors who have vital interests involved, that they are small in number and have great say, and attract much attention, that they create the illusion that many people question him.
In a platform like the live broadcast room where everyone can speak out, the ordinary group with an overwhelming majority of people do not care at all whether this is reasonable or not. They are more concerned about Chen Yuanguang's live broadcast itself.
The Weibo barrage is full of crazy people.
Lei Jun then asked: "Can you give some examples, such as which types of topics do you think are valuable?"
Chen Yuanguang said: "Either for industrialization in the real world Production is valuable.
Take the perovskite battery I made as an example. If you just want to refresh the data, change the composition of the perovskite, change the structure, and then try to convert as much photoelectricity as possible. Boosting efficiency points is actually just laboratory data, and this path to the industrial world is simply not feasible.
I will not pass this kind of subject, and if you are doing something like stability, how to further improve the stability of perovskite cells, like the recent results in the perovskite field made by Academician Zhang of Suzhou University.
They found a synergistic combination strategy using methylammonium chloride as the dopant and the Lewis base ion-liquid additive 1,3-bisimidazole chloride as the doping-additive. This strategy greatly improves the stability of perovskite cells.
Let the photoelectric conversion efficiency of perovskite cells decline below 0.01% after 1,000 hours of sunlight exposure.
Subjects like this are very promising. For topics in materials science, I will focus on its significance to the real industry and whether it is practical.
Of course, this is a little too difficult for everyone. As a scholar who has never worked in the industry, even if he takes over some corporate projects, it is difficult to truly understand what the company needs.
I'm not that utilitarian. I think it's valuable only when it produces economic benefits in the real world. It's just that this way of judgment better measures the final effect.
The other thing is that you can come up with a framework method that can solve a type of problem, such as what I did before, training artificial intelligence models to predict the properties of small molecule metals.
For example, take Professor Yan. I don’t know Professor Yan. I use her as an example because she is very famous and was recently elected as an academician. Everyone is relatively familiar with what she does.
The polymer protein analysis she is doing is a subject that I would not pass. It is very difficult. I can also publish articles, but what about other than publishing articles? It doesn’t make much sense in purely scientific terms either.
If your topic is to find a general solution to the analysis of a type of polymer protein, such as designing new tools to more efficiently solve polymer proteins, I would prefer this kind of topic.
I know this is difficult. For example, cryo-electron microscopy was the result of a Nobel Prize.
But the purpose of the fund I manage is to solve difficult problems.
As long as you can achieve phased results, I will give you enough time. I can even provide funds every year and continue to allocate funds to make it a long-term project until you achieve the results. It will be no problem for five or ten years.
If you can automate cryo-electron microscopy with the support of AI and use a large number of new technologies to automatically remove noise, this is enough to be a staged achievement.
To sum up, it can either have economic benefits or it can solve a type of problem. Purely theoretical innovation belongs to the latter. ”
Lei Jun had already heard that Professor Yan was used as a negative example. He had already realized that something was wrong. After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, he quickly added: "I believe that junior brother did not mean to belittle Professor Yan."
Chen Yuanguang I understood and said quickly: "Of course not, Professor Yan must be very powerful. I am not trying to make up for it or flatter you. I really think she is very powerful and her academic ability is absolutely top-notch.
I have seen many voices on the Internet Protein analysis relies on funding and resources. She is the only one in China who has so much funding and resources. I want to explain that many foreign groups also have this funding and resources. Under the same starting line, Professor Yan is the most productive structural biology Scientist.
In addition, now that artificial intelligence is used to decompose polymer proteins, a lot of structural biology will be unemployed. Professor Yan is because artificial intelligence cannot be used in structural biology on a large scale. I just returned to China. I also explained to her that the things solved by AI cannot be used at all, and are not even a reference at all.
In terms of structural biology, AI is just a toy at the moment. There is still a long way to go before a replacement.
I take Professor Yan as an example, but I think it is a pity for her. Her academic taste is far from matching her academic ability. I think she should do more valuable problems instead of always measuring her work by papers. the only standard.
This is my purely subjective opinion. "
After Chen Yuanguang made amends, things got much better immediately, but Lei Jun felt that he had offended someone. He continued: "Junior brother, you just mentioned that you will anchor some subdivisions. Can you talk about this in detail? ? "
Chen Yuanguang said: "Of course, this is a function that they will help me add after I communicate with the Natural Science Foundation of China.
They need to add tags for me on the background project application page. The applying scholar will add some tags to his project. If you are doing perovskite battery stability improvement, you will add perovskite Mine batteries are added.
I will do the screening. After screening, I will select the topics that I am satisfied with. I will reply to you an email and there will be a question and answer. You need to answer the content in my email. If there are no questions, you will be approved. . The candidates I want have sufficient academic ability and I hope for a long-term grant. "
Chen Yuanguang paused for a moment and then continued: "I don’t know if you are paying attention to the China Association for Science and Technology. The Association for Science and Technology has been collecting major scientific issues, engineering and technical problems, and industrial technology issues since 2018. , they solicit every year.
The questions collected last year were divided into cutting-edge scientific issues, such as how to realize low-energy consumption artificial intelligence; how to achieve maneuverable flight of aircraft in the upper atmosphere; whether new coincident measurement methods can be used to search for magnetic monopoles and axion dark matter Existence and so on.
Engineering technical problems include how to realize real-time, real-space imaging of microscopic dynamics at the intrinsic scale of atoms and electrons; how to solve the problem of efficient separation of trace impurities in rare earth matrices and break through the engineering of high-purity rare earth materials Preparation technology and equipment, etc.
In short, there are many. How to develop independent controllable SoC chips for high-performance and low-cost industrial upgrades? It is an industrial technical problem, which I have initially solved through the application of topological semi-metal.
Our semiconductor industry is now making high-performance industrial upgrades around topological semi-metals. It is completely independent and controllable. The only regret is that it has not been able to achieve low cost yet. Once it is achieved, it will be Completely resolved.
Since I can solve it, I believe everyone can solve it too.
The Association for Science and Technology has helped me screen out these issues. I will screen out subdivided topics within the scope of my understanding, then select these young scholars, and finally let them slowly approach the end. problem.
For example, last year’s engineering technical problem was about what is the long-term energy storage method suitable for new power systems? There are many solutions to it. The long-term goal is to make a super battery, which will not be damaged no matter how many times it is charged and discharged. Causes reduction in battery capacity.
At the same time, it also has sufficient advantages in terms of service life, economic cost, energy storage efficiency, construction scale, and operational safety.
Of course this is very difficult. If you can make it, the brothers next to you should ask you to cooperate. I believe every new energy car company needs a battery that does not lose capacity.
This is a long-term goal, so your topic this time must be related to content. After you prove yourself, we will slowly get closer to this ultimate goal.
That's about it. "
After hearing this, Lei Jun smiled and said: "Yes, if anyone makes it, just contact me, Xiaomi can give options.
I believe that everyone has a full understanding of the natural fund that the junior brother is responsible for, so the next step is the question and answer session.
Everyone’s questions will appear later, and I will select some to ask.
Everyone, please slow down the barrage. If there are too many barrages, I may not be able to see the problem. "
"The first question, junior brother, this is a very good question. A netizen on Weibo named Fengzhongyilang said that the standard set by Guangshen is too high. It is entirely up to you to judge the shortage of manpower. 20 The budget of 100 million yuan is too much. Is it possible that it will not be used up? "
Chen Yuanguang said: "Of course, I have an attitude of preferring nothing to nothing. You can think of this as a long-term cooperation. Rather than choosing projects, it is better to choose people.
I hope to select scholars who can cooperate for a long time and can finally produce some truly meaningful results. I will provide them with long-term sponsorship through this fund.
So maybe I only found 10 people in the first year, then I will still cooperate with these 10 people in the second year, and find another 10 people, then it will become 20.
As the number of people gradually accumulates, we will be able to spend the 2 billion.
Of course as mentioned before, I will not have any contact with them except for work. "
Lei Jun joked: "The loss is still a bit big. In order to apply for this fund, I have to lose the opportunity to become friends with my junior brother. If it were me, I would definitely give up." ”
"Okay, the second question is, if we say we are cooperating with people, does that mean it will lack liquidity?"
Chen Yuanguang replied: "No, the pool will flow.
< br>In addition, it is more about raising gu than a pond. The major problems just mentioned are very difficult, and even I cannot completely solve them.
This means that problem A, I. I may have selected 10 people to do this this year. One year later, when I apply next year, if the interim results of 5 of them are not satisfactory to me, then they will not have funds.
I will not do so. It is measured by the results of published papers, but there is still something to prove that you can do it, even if it is just some ideas and some supporting materials, these are enough
Then maybe all the last 10 people in Project A will be eliminated, and there will be no one left. Then next year I will select new people to come to this pool, and then give them the information that I think is valuable before.
To put it simply, you can think of it as us choosing the right problem-breakers for these major problems. Wall-facers always know that problem A is the wall-facer, so we have to select wall-breakers. Wallbreakers can be replaced. "
Mr. Lei continued to read the barrage: "The third question, user 2048122134 asked, if there is no paper as proof of thesis, and the application relies entirely on your personal subjective judgment, then this is not just a matter of words. Already? "
Chen Yuanguang said: "Yes, this is unavoidable. I can only say that I will not make profits from this and will not collude with the applicants, but this is indeed what I said.
But I am also responsible for the results. If I don’t do a good job, I may be replaced after five years.
You can think of it as an experiment. If I do a good job, some scholars may get similar powers in the future.
If I can’t do it well, I might change someone else, or I might just stop doing it this way.
No one in the real world can do something bad without having to bear the consequences. "
After Chen Yuanguang's live broadcast ended, public opinion was calmed to a certain extent. After all, sincerity is a surefire weapon in this era.
"Guangshen is so crazy, I watched it from beginning to end. Something went wrong, crazy. ”
"Of course, you are crazy too. Didn't you hear Guangshen say, have I solved one of the major problems? Other scientists can solve those major problems, and they can be as crazy as Guangshen."
Original Science No one pays attention to the major issues of the Association every year. At most, it is a hot search. Related questions on Zhihu have only a few answers, and it is difficult to even break into double digits.
With Chen Yuanguang's live broadcast, major issues suddenly broke out of the circle. Young scholars dug out and looked at them to see which one they could relate to.
“It’s not just one. What Guangshen mentioned is just one of the major problems he has solved. Like the reuse of space transportation system design and evaluation technology in 20 years of engineering and technical problems, the Pioneer rocket has perfectly solved it. The last time it was successfully launched, it exceeded the Falcon 9 in terms of thrust and carrying capacity.”
In addition, Professor Yan mentioned in the live broadcast was also discussed by a large number of netizens. Netizens already had a lot of opinions about her, so everyone simply ignored Chen Yuanguang's mention of strong academic ability and focused on her poor academic taste.
"Is Professor Yan considered a social death? Being dragged out by the God of Light to be publicly executed? Are you saying he has poor academic taste?"
"Professor Yan is pretending to be dead. I wouldn't be able to hold back if it were me."
“I was only elected as an academician last year, and I was criticized by Guangshen this year.”
Of course, some people think it’s inappropriate:
“Guangshen is still too young and holds great power to guide the country. , I always feel that I will be besieged if I lose power in the future.”
"Why would anyone dare to besiege him? Room-temperature superconductivity alone is enough for Guangshen to lie on it for a lifetime, not to mention topological semimetals.
If room-temperature superconductivity laid the foundation for Guangshen in academia, status, then the large-scale production of topological semi-metal has established its position in China, and the semiconductor industry, which has not yet been solved, will directly break through. If there is such a result and it will be counterattacked in the future, then who will dare to work? < br>
These are not even moral flaws, at best they are youthful and energetic. "Some people don't think so.
After the end, Lei Jun took the opportunity to post a selfie on Weibo. He took a selfie with Chen Yuanguang and captioned it:
"After working overtime, drive Xiaomi Ultra to send my junior brother home."
All in all, the audience was very satisfied with this live broadcast, and it was topical enough, but the scholars with relevant interests were not satisfied.
(End of this chapter)