Hammer of Technology

"I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and I can't find the papers. You should review these three papers according to the steps I taught you. If anyone asks you to review the manuscript again, they will review the manuscript based on you The level of feedback comes from. Generally speaking, if you review quickly and well, more editors will ask you to review the manuscript. Conversely, if the manuscript you review is full of errors and omissions, no editor will be as head-on Tie will continue to look for you, understand?"

Hearing this, Sanyue lay down on the screen again, wagged her tail, pulled down the chat box feebly, and replied briefly and forcefully: "There are a lot of things!"

Well, this is a typical linear thinking, straight line, one-way, one-dimensional, lack of change, and it often happens to children who can’t eat sugar. Ning Wei laughed, couldn’t help but reached out and patted the screen, and then said: "Okay, trust me, with your level, there may be more manuscripts looking for you to review soon. Everyone likes free labor that works fast and well."

When Ning Wei stretched out his hand, Sanyue began to roll on the screen, narrowed his eyes cooperatively, raised his little paws slightly, revealing a ring of white hair on his stomach...

After teasing March for a while, Ning Wei glanced at the time. It was already early in the morning. After yawning, he said, "Okay, I'm going to sleep, you checked and you're fine, and you can reply emails to those editors at any time. That's it, good night! "

"Meow..." the little guy yelled, and then the screen went dark.

Ning Wei shook his head, walked out of the study room, and saw that the lights in Yu Xingwei's room were still on, the door was ajar, and there were constant clicks of typing on the keyboard, so he leaned over to take a look, and saw Yu Xingwei was sitting at the table with his back to the door, typing on his laptop very seriously.

"Brother Yu, are you still asleep?" Ning Wei asked.

"Huh? Mr. Ning? Are you done with your work? Rest so early today." Yu Xingwei turned his head and responded.

"Yeah! What are you doing so late?"

"Hey, didn't I tell you two days ago, I already have an idea, and I plan to start designing an algorithm based on your thesis. A separate strong compression algorithm, after the design of this algorithm is successful, I will start to prepare for my graduation thesis Yes. I plan to go back and get my graduation certificate and degree certificate by this time next year at the latest." Yu Xingwei replied with a smile.

According to his plan, he basically finished his Ph.D. in two years. If he can complete it smoothly, he will definitely be able to brag about this awesomeness for the rest of his life.

You must know that it is not easy to graduate with a Ph.D. from 985 University, but with Ning Wei's spring breeze, it is not difficult for him.He was the first to come into contact with the theory given by Ning Wei. Now he has gained experience and a brand new direction. It should not be easier to write a few papers. With tangible results, it will be easier to graduate, let alone Director Lu has already made it very clear that he is now in the stocking stage, and he will graduate immediately after showing results.

"At this time next year? Brother Yu, are you asking too little of yourself? I think at this time next year, you should be thinking about how to win the von Neumann Award, right? Just think about graduating with a doctorate?" Ning Wei stared. He glanced at Yu Xingwei and said.

"Von Neumann Award?" Yu Xingwei felt his little heart skip a beat twice, seeing what Ning Wei said, how could such an international award be so easy to win?

Ning Wei nodded and said: "Yes, the Turing Award may be a bit difficult, but I don't think there is any problem with the Von Neumann Award. As long as you follow my plan and come up with a real strong compression algorithm before others, it will definitely be enough. You won the award. I discussed this issue when I had lunch with Smith and Mr. Michael I in Montreal. He just won the Von Neumann Award the year before last, and he is now one of the judges."

"At that time he said, if I can really develop applicable software or an algorithm that can be applied to software based on what is expressed in the paper, the first thing he will do is recommend us to get von Neumann award. So now the opportunity is in front of you."

Yu Xingwei murmured: "But this award shouldn't be awarded to you, Mr. Xiao Ning. Even if I really have achieved results, it is only under your guidance! If this award is really given I'm sick, and I'm guilty too."

Ning Wei spread his hands and asked back: "Do you think I still need a Von Neumann Award to prove myself? Or in the future, even if I want to get a project, evaluate an academician or something, I still need to get a Westman Award first." Awards, to set off how good I am? It’s just icing on the cake, which means nothing to me. It’s different for you. After you get the award, whether you want to apply for the outstanding youth project, join the leading project, or be judged as a computer academician in the future Yes, those are all qualifications."

"Besides, why don't you dare to take it? Didn't you write your name on the second work of my thesis? Although you are a bit bored and don't chat with those big shots every time you attend a meeting, none of them know You? Don’t underestimate yourself, don’t worry, as long as you can achieve the results as soon as possible, I think you still have great hope of winning the prize next year. They must dare to operate in secret, the achievements of the winners are not as good as yours, I will help you and those The guy said it."

After hearing these words, Yu Xingwei was stunned.What kind of bullshit talk are these?Does it make people want to cry?

Is it because he has a boring temper that he has not been able to have a deep chat with the bosses at the conference twice?Obviously it was because those bosses ignored him directly.

however……

Distinguished youth?Leadership program?Computer academician?To be honest, Yu Xingwei has thought about all of the above, but it was only in a dream, and it was still the most beautiful dream.But according to Ning Wei, this is the upgrade route Mr. Xiao Ning has already planned for him?

For a moment, Yu Xingwei felt that he couldn't calm down anymore.

"President Xiao Ning, are you serious?" Yu Xingwei swallowed and asked.

"You're not classmate Jiang, so I'll be idle until midnight to tease you?"

Ning Wei glanced at Yu Xingwei contemptuously, and continued: "But you have to be mentally prepared, it will be very hard in the future. At least before the age of 40, don't think about having too many holidays, you need to stay for a long time In the computer lab or in the classroom, there may not be much time for dating, or even much time for yourself, because you need to really work hard to achieve results if you want to get all of this, and you first think about whether you want to."

Yu Xingwei immediately expressed his opinion: "Mr. Xiao Ning, do you still need to ask? I have been single for 27 years just to study, and I still care about being single for more than ten years? There is no such thing! Don't worry, Mr. Ning, I am willing! "

Ning Wei blinked, feeling that the words sound familiar, and then suddenly remembered that about two years ago, he also said something similar, willing to be single for ten years in exchange for figuring out what's wrong with his brain. Thinking of this, Ning Wei Wei suddenly felt that Yu Xingwei's impassioned statement was not credible.

So he smacked his lips and said: "Well, it might not be that bitter. Maybe you can meet your significant other in the laboratory. I don't have any other hobbies, but I like to do experiments with you? Doing a laboratory instead of a date, and Save money and be romantic."

"Farewell, Mr. Ning, I can just work hard alone! Find a wife who loves the laboratory? Forget it, really forget it, I can't bear it..."

"Too many things!" Ning Wei glared at Yu Xingwei, transferred San Yue's evaluation of him to Yu Xingwei, and stretched: "Sleep, take your time."

The chicken blood on both sides is over, and it's time for him to rest.

……

At the same time, in the dormitory of 202, several girls were still asleep.

"Chen Shuang, I think something is wrong with you today. I brought a linear algebra book to read in class. To be honest, did your doctor, Dr. Ning, give you some trouble?"

"That's right, Chen Shuang, I saw that you were studying mathematics during the economic law class today. Could it be that the online substitute exam will be difficult this year? I'm most afraid of mathematics."

The girl was lying on the bed, her face blushing unconsciously, and she didn't know how to explain it. Could it be that she found out that she was in a relationship with Ning Wei, and if she didn't know more about mathematics, it would be easy for her to get dizzy?

"No, in fact, I just want to understand the general optimal solution and the unique optimal solution of linear programming."

"Oh? But you won't think about researching this out of nowhere! Today I saw that your family, Ning Wei, took you back to the dormitory, and then you started to read the thread when you came back. Could it be that Dr. Ning knew about us? The test questions for the mid-term exam, so I asked you to review in advance?" Xi Yuxuan simply lay on the bed, poked out half of his head, and asked Jiang Chenshuang's bed.

No way, for many economics students, mathematics-related advanced mathematics B and line algebra B are definitely the two most difficult undergraduate courses, none of them.

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185 maybe the solution

The brain power of the roommates is too strong, Jiang Chenshuang sighed in his heart, and then he couldn't help but imagine the scene where the three roommates were studying the optimal solution of the line generation together the next day... The brain power of human beings has always been very strong .

It's not good for everyone to waste time on this. Thinking of how well her roommate treats her, Jiang Chenshuang blushed and roughly repeated Ning Wei's argument today. Of course, it is only limited to the non-empty bounded convex set. The best solution.

Then he said softly: "So I just want to learn about this section of line generation planning."

The dormitory was very quiet. In fact, it had been quiet since Jiang Chenshuang started talking softly. After she finished speaking, no one said anything for a long time, but Jiang Chenshuang knew that her roommates and sisters were still awake, so she could tell by the sound of her breathing.

Sure enough, after a while, the eldest sister Xi Yuxuan in the dormitory was the first to speak: "I can't take it, I can't take it, I suddenly want to find a boyfriend from the math school, my God, we are the best solution to the linear programming of love, If someone dared to confess his love to me like that, I immediately obeyed him. Isn't this more useful than those confessions of love? Xiaoyan, how did your boyfriend confess his love to you back then?"

"Don't mention him. He didn't even say a word of earthy love. He just told me that he likes me very much, like the moon, and let me be his girlfriend. Bah, bah, bah, now I think about it. It's a shame, don't worry about it at all." Wang Xiaoyan said quietly.

After hearing this, Wang Jiaying, the youngest in the dormitory, commented: "So I think science majors are more romantic than boys majoring in liberal arts! Who will tell me that science majors don't understand romance? I will tell her this story! Chen Shuang Sister, you are so happy. Think about it, you play the piano for him, he listens quietly, and after listening, you wave your hand and solve a math problem, wow, what a romantic love!"

Is Ning Wei very romantic?

Jiang Chenshuang was in a daze. Although she had never been in love, at least she had seen love. No matter what level she looked at, Ning Wei didn't seem to have anything to do with the romance depicted in the movie.

But she simply felt that when she was with Ningwei, she felt very safe and relaxed, as if the men around her could support them when the sky fell, and she didn't need to worry about anything at all.

However, compared to the romantic scenes arranged by the male protagonist depicted in the book, she seems to enjoy the ordinary life now, helping Ningwei bring meals every day, helping him clean the room, playing the piano for him, and letting him hold hands Sending herself back to the dormitory made her feel at ease.

Well, maybe the two of us are really the best solution for each other.

Just like that, Jiang Chenshuang quietly listened to the sisters chatting, until the conversations became slower and slower, then closed her eyes, until she fell into a deep sleep...

……

In Princeton City, in the Institute of Advanced Mathematics at Princeton University, Charlie Keller was really staring at the email he replied in March, and he experienced Huaxia speed for the first time.

If he remembers correctly, he saw Ning Wei's email when he was about to get off work yesterday, and then he passed the manuscript that Ning Wei had originally reviewed to the person Ning Wei mentioned in the email. The email address of the mathematics master.

I had a meeting this morning, and then went to listen to a lecture. In the afternoon, when I came to my work station and opened my work mailbox, I found that the reply email from March was already lying in the mailbox.He specifically checked the time, basically it was about eleven hours after he forwarded it, and the reply came.

Speaking of this speed, as far as the mathematics papers he handled, the longest review time was one and a half years.Of course, that paper did cause a lot of controversy, and it went through several revisions in the middle, so it cannot be counted as an example, but relatively speaking, generally speaking, it is considered fast to reply within three months after being reviewed. The fastest one is about two weeks to reply.

eleven hours?

Charlie Keller very much doubted whether the reviewer had seriously read the paper three times, even though the paper was only eight pages long.However, his professionalism made him take a closer look at March's comments.

Then the whole person was even more confused. For many problems in the paper, the reviewer made detailed annotations, and gave at least reasonable reasons in his opinion, and even a lemma proof process seemed to be flawed. , the March boss proved it again.

It's just that the comments on the thesis made him feel that the big guy in March was a little too much.

What does it mean for me to help you prove the lemma again just to express that I understand your deviation?

What does it mean that papers that have known such mistakes can also be submitted to journals? I should submit seventy, eighty, ninety papers a year, and maybe a dead mouse will knock down the blind editor?

Based on such an evaluation, the final conclusion is still to suggest revisions. Charlie Keller can't imagine what evaluation he would give if it was a paper that was directly rejected by the March boss.

Well, he is just an editor. Although this March has a bit of a bad mouth, it can be seen that his mathematics level is indeed very high.Sure enough, the boss who can make even a mathematical genius fall in love with him still has two talents.

The only thing that Charlie Keller couldn't understand was, since the March boss had such a level, why did he have such a low reputation.

Just when Charlie Keller felt that his view of mathematics was subverted again, a colleague walked into the office, patted him on the shoulder with a mobile phone, and said with a smile: "Hey, Charlie, have you seen Emily?" Today's Facebook content? I'm dying laughing."

"Oh? What did she send?" Charlie Keller asked.

Although Stockholm is very far away from Princeton, Emily studied here after all, and as a colleague, everyone often meets at some mathematics conferences and is very familiar with it.

"Haha, you can see for yourself." The colleague smiled and sat down at his desk.

Charlie Keller shook his head, then took out his phone and opened Facebook, found Emily from Follow, and then saw the female colleague's complaints.

"As a journal editor, we have our own professional ethics, one of which is that we will never exchange any interests with any author!"

This sentence seemed to be nothing, and then Charlie Keller saw a screenshot below.

"As the editors of the paper, you have accepted the benefit of a big house from the author of the paper, and it is not easy to reject him, her or it directly, so you decided to send this paper to the reviewers to waste the time of the reviewers? My The suggestion is to reject the manuscript immediately, and then close the author's account immediately to prevent him from contributing in the future!"

Charlie Keller grinned subconsciously, and he could imagine the mood of this female colleague when she saw the reviewer give such an evaluation.Well, which reviewer is this, with such a rough temper, he is really not afraid of offending people!

After all, as a fellow in the industry, Charlie Keller knows very well that if he dares to submit a manuscript to the "Acta Mathematica", and it can pass the preliminary review by the editor-in-chief, it must be of a certain level. Generally, it is at least a PhD in mathematics from a top university. It is worthless, and there is a high probability that it has been screened out by the editor-in-chief.

There is only one case where the contributor or introducer is very familiar with the editor-in-chief and will greet the associate editor specifically, but this situation is rare in top journals. Sometimes I will be very selective, and I will definitely not find such a stunned reviewer.

But then again, the manuscripts that the editor-in-chief accepts because of face, are generally big bosses or disciples of big bosses in the industry, and the comments they get are not likely to be so extreme, right?

After laughing, Charlie Keller suddenly felt that something was wrong. Why does this reply style look familiar?So he decisively called out the reply email just now in March, and after browsing for a while, Charlie Keller turned on the phone again, called up whats, found Emily, and decisively took a few photos of March Reply with a picture and send it over.

After a while, a "?" came back from the other side.

Charlie Keller quickly replied: "I sent Ning Wei a review invitation a few days ago, but he rejected it and then recommended me a professor named March, and attached his email address. That manuscript was forwarded to that professor March, and I received a reply today, which is what you saw just now."

Soon, three "!!!" came back in the chat history.

this woman...

Charlie Keller was about to complain about why Emily was so busy, and didn't know what to say, when an audio communication from the opposite side came directly, Charlie Keller connected the phone, and Emily's voice on the other side also passed it on.

"Hey, Charlie, did you just send that March invitation yesterday?"

"Yeah! Don't tell me, the screenshot you posted on Facebook today is also the review reply from Professor March?"

"Oh my God! You're right, not only her, but I also sent her the invitation letter yesterday, so what kind of monster is she? That Ning Wei is already amazing enough, how this March gave me It's even more amazing! I know why she never publishes papers, probably because she thinks that if she publishes papers, she can't give opinions so unscrupulously! Are you right?"

Charlie Keller could sense that the woman on the other end of the phone was genuinely angry.Of course, this is also understandable. As editors of top mathematics journals, they usually deal with some mathematics professors with eccentric personalities, but most of the time everyone’s replies are very kind. It’s not that the professors who study mathematics have a good temper. Everyone still has scruples.

The comments I gave when reviewing peers today were too extreme, and if I am not sure when I publish a paper next time, I will be caught making mistakes and ridiculed.Of course, there are also some reviewers who are very vicious, but most of them are aimed at the paper. This time, the reviewers even pointed their finger at the editing room...

It was too much, too much, but Charlie Keller felt that everyone should be more rational at this time.

"Emily, don't worry about this. Don't you think that Professor March is very powerful? How long would it take if you were asked to review the paper at hand like him? I don't know if she reviewed your paper. There is no detailed marking of every point that may be questionable, but this article in my hand, she really did this. Although she did not comment on every question marked, she gave a supplementary proof at hand I’ve seen the process, and it’s very incisive.”

The other person paused obviously, and then said: "Well, that's why I said she is amazing. I thought she only reviewed one of my manuscripts in the past ten hours, but I didn't expect it to be three. Three manuscripts, my God, I'm going crazy! Tell me, Charlie, is this March going to be a math machine? A machine where you throw papers in and it comes out automatically?"

"Three articles? Which one else?" Charlie Keller asked after being stunned.

"Yes, three articles. Before you, Neil from analysis & pde asked me in a private message on Facebook if I invited the manuscript reviewed in March. Look, her style is very obvious. I just intercepted a paragraph of her You can tell that this is the manuscript reviewed by the same person." Emily replied.

Charlie Keller suddenly thought of a possibility: "Do you think it is possible that March is not alone?"

"Not alone?"

"What I mean is that March may be a team. They are rooted in China, and most of them conduct research. Of course, it must be the same person who gave the final reply. In fact, don't you think that this reply style is a bit like The tone of Mr. Ning Wei? You should have seen his performance at the computer conference..."

Charlie Keller probably didn't expect his guess to turn a corner when it was close to the truth. At least if Ning Wei heard what he said, he would definitely refute it without hesitation. How could he be like March? What about that poisonous tongue?

But when these words fell into Emily's ears, she felt very reasonable.

"It's possible that I happen to have a few manuscripts on hand. I will invite that Professor March to review the manuscripts again. Maybe she can give more pertinent opinions."

Charlie Keller pondered for a moment and said: "Emily, don't be so hostile to this March professor. The above is just a guess. In fact, I think it might be better not to be March. We are now There is a lot of pressure, but if this professor in March is not inferior to Ningwei in mathematics, maybe we should help her stand up, so that no matter whether she is Ningwei in the end, everyone's attention will be diverted, maybe it will not Just look at what happened before."

"I think we should find a way to let the negative influence that old gentleman brought to us pass as soon as possible. Today I went to listen to Mr. Conrad's lecture. During the questioning session of the lecture, some students were asking about Lucasson. That's not very pleasant. Maybe we can go and make some suggestions to the editor, don't you think, ma'am."

"I think you're absolutely right! Wait a minute, I'll bring Neil in, we should set up a group chat and discuss a charter. That thing should really be over! God knows if I'll be caught if it continues. Those messy emails every day are going to collapse! You wait!"

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186 New home in March

Although Ning Wei felt that March was indeed a bit poisonous, he probably didn't expect that a poisonous tongue could be a major feature, and immediately let several editors recognize March, and even made March's reputation begin to spread in the world. Western mainstream academic circles are rapidly fermenting, and some people even hope that March can replace Ning Wei as a new benchmark. After all, the two are also from China, and the only difference is that Ning Wei became famous a little earlier.

If Ning Wei knew this, he would most likely be grateful to the editors of these top journals. No matter what, it would be a good thing to let March become famous first.If possible, Ning Wei would not even mind sharing half of his achievements with March.

So when he received a call from Zhang Yusheng when he arrived at the institute the next day, Ning Wei was in a very good mood.

"Zhang Gong, have you returned to the capital?"

"Yes, after I reported your needs to Mr. Yan yesterday, Mr. Yan arranged for someone to go directly to the airport to pick up the documents we sent. By the way, he helped us book a ticket back to the capital that night, so we returned last night. It’s the capital, and by the way, I made an appointment for you to go to a super-computing asset that the other party also intends to sell today. If you have time, I will drive to pick you up now.”

"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the research institute."

After hanging up the phone, Ning Wei only felt that the partner had been chosen right, not to mention anything else, the efficiency and speed of the work was amazing enough.Within 10 minutes, Zhang Yusheng called again, and the car had already arrived outside the institute.

"Mr. Zhang, thank you for your hard work. This matter has been settled. I invite you to dinner today." After getting into the car, Ning Wei said.