Chapter 81: On the Deep Influence of Genetics on IQ
The time before the opening ceremony of the meeting passed quickly.
Jiang Wenping walked up to the stage and tried the microphone twice, and finally politely reminded the order of the venue.
Wang Hao could only regret that he stopped talking with Schulz, found his seat and sat down.
Just like most conferences, computer academic conferences start with speeches, but they don’t say too much meaningless content.
Jiang Wenping and another chairman came on stage and welcomed everyone to the meeting and talked about the significance and purpose of the meeting.
These can all be classified as "meaningless".
Then we entered the formal content, talking about the process of holding the conference, introducing the three academic lecture halls, the review and collection of conference papers, and the final selection of several awards, etc.
This part takes about twenty minutes. After everything is explained, the opening ceremony is over.
People at the venue can freely choose from three lecture halls, including specially invited judges like Wang Hao, and they can also enter any lecture hall at will. The difference is that they can sit directly in the first row of 'specially invited judges' seats.
Specially invited reviewers do not have specific tasks. To put it bluntly, they are just an ‘honorary title’. The review work of the paper report is mainly responsible for the review team.
Each lecture hall will have several review experts who are responsible for reviewing reports. The seats of the review team are on the left and right sides of the podium, which looks like the referee's seat in a sports competition.
Wang Hao didn't know such a complicated distinction until he attended the meeting. He breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have a corresponding job and could sit directly in the front row. It felt really good.
Zhang Zhiqiang chose Lecture Hall No. 1. Many of the reports in Hall No. 1 are related to information reception and processing, which are closely related to his research.
Wang Hao went to Hall 2.
When I arrived at the first row of special review seats, I realized that Hall 2 didn’t seem to be very popular. Probably because theoretically related research rarely produced big results, there were only a few people sitting in the special review seats.
Although none of them were familiar, Wang Hao still nodded slightly to them as a greeting, and then found a seat on the left side to sit down.
Considering that there were several middle-aged people in their forties and fifties on the other side, and a foreign professor who looked a bit slovenly, as if he hadn't taken a shower for a long time, it was quite comfortable to sit alone.
However, he could not stay quiet for long.
An old white man with white hair sat next to him with a teenage white girl. The girl was sitting next to Wang Hao, and the old man was one seat away from him.
Wang Hao took a look with curiosity.
The old white man took off his shirt and jacket and put it on the armchair. He sat down and looked at Wang Hao and said, "You are Dr. Wang Hao, right? I have seen your photo. My name is Jeffrey Hinton." , I’m here for your report.”
A name reveals a lot of information.
Jeffrey Hinton, one of the three giants of artificial intelligence and former vice president of Google, won the award together with Joshua Bengio and Jan Lecan for his scientific research on neural networks and intelligent deep learning.
Turing Award.
"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 at the little girl and said, "She is my granddaughter, Helen. In fact, another reason why I came here to attend the meeting is to bring Helen to meet her.
In the world, her parents gave her to me, but I'm not very good at taking care of children, so I just came here."
Helen complained, "Jeffrey, I am no longer a child."
"Of course, you are fifteen years old and you are a big girl." Jeffrey Hinton said seriously, but everyone could tell that there was something wrong in his words.
Helen pouted in dissatisfaction.
Wang Hao said in a slightly complaining tone, "So, you brought her to attend a computer academic conference?"
Jeffrey Hinton looked at the podium calmly, "It's Helen's request."
Helen turned her head to look at Wang Hao and said seriously with her eyes wide open, "I am about to complete my college course and am considering the subject direction for graduate school. I don't know whether I should choose mathematics, computer or biology."
"My father suggested I study biology, and Jeffrey thought computers were good, but I liked math."
Jeffrey Hinton added an explanation, "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. To put it bluntly, mathematics is not suitable for women. There are very few female mathematicians as evidenced by this, but she always believed that my views were discriminatory against women."
"Uh~~"
Wang Hao felt that this pair of grandfather and grandson came to Versailles specially.
A fifteen-year-old girl is about to get two bachelor's degrees? She is confused about the choice of future graduate school. She doesn't know whether she should study mathematics, computer or biology?
Is this a random choice?
He pursed his lips hard, and it took him a long time to say, "Jeffrey, Helen is very good."
Jeffrey Hinton seemed to have just heard a very common thing. There was no joy at being praised on his face, and there was not even a trace of change on his face. He just said two words plainly, "I-Know."
I definitely won't be able to talk any more today.
Helen took the initiative and said, "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 after hearing this when he heard Helen continue, "But I looked through the family history and found that the family had declined in my parents' generation."
Helen pointed at Jeffrey Hinton and said, "My grandfather's father is Howard, an entomologist. Howard's brother is a teacher and his sister is a chemist."
"Jeffrey's uncle is an economist and a famous diplomat."
“Further up, Jeffrey’s grandfather, my grandfather’s grandfather, George Buller, was a mining engineer and botanist who ran silver mines in Mexico, and George’s brother Sebastian was a famous
inventor, and his wife Carmelita was the founder of Putney School."
"Sebastian's son, William Howard, is a famous Marxist scholar. It is worth mentioning that William participated in the Manhattan Project."
"Further up, George and Sebastian's father, Charles, was a mathematician and science fiction writer who proposed the concept of a three-dimensional hypercube and served as a professor at Princeton University. Charles' wife's father was the famous George Boole.
, Boolean algebra, Boolean circuits, Boolean types, Boolean expressions... you should know."
Helen traced her ancestors back to six generations, then pointed to Jeffrey next to her and said with regret, "After carefully studying the family history, I discovered that the reason for the family's decline lies with Jeffrey."
Jeffrey Hinton covered his face with his hands, as if he had done something wrong.
Then I heard Helen say, "My grandma is just an ordinary person. She dropped out of school after graduating from high school and didn't work after that."
"Jeffrey only chose to spend his life with her because of her beauty, but he did not consider at that time how much negative impact the decision made under the control of hormones in the body would have on future generations."
Helen said, pointing to her head, the expression on her face was obviously very dissatisfied.
Wang Hao pursed his lips so hard that he felt as if the corners of his lips were almost pulled to the back of his head. Looking at his grandfather and grandson with lonely expressions, he couldn't help but feel sad for the 'grandma' who didn't know whether he had passed away.
However, I have to admit that what Helen said seems to make sense.
Each of the ancestors from a hundred years ago were extremely outstanding, and they could even be traced back to the famous 'George Boole'. Each subsequent generation was also extremely outstanding. How come it was the next generation of Jeffrey that became...
its not right!
Wang Hao suddenly realized that Helen's parents were also biologists and doctors, and they were also social elites no matter how they judged.
Is this Versailles?
no.
Jeffrey, Helen's loneliness doesn't seem to be fake. In other words, they really think that the family has declined, maybe because Helen's father is just an 'ordinary' biologist?
Wang Hao thought about it carefully, tried to put himself into the perspective of Jeffrey and Helen, and said, "Actually, you don't have to feel sad. It is indeed possible to pass on mediocre wisdom to future generations, but Helen also inherited the wisdom from her grandmother.
Beauty.”
"The progress of human genetics is not only about intelligence, but appearance is also very important."
He was just trying to persuade.
Helen thought about it carefully, then she reacted with excitement and said with sudden enlightenment, "I understand. What you mean is that excellent appearance can increase the scope of choosing a spouse, and you can have more and better choices.
To complete the combination of genetics and produce better offspring."
"No wonder most of my distant cousins are mediocre. It's because Jeffrey's generation is very mediocre in appearance. Coupled with the influence of social environment, the range of choices for spouses is very small, which makes it impossible to find outstanding men corresponding to them.
"
"Uh~~"
"Do I mean that?" Wang Hao was speechless. He understood why Helen's parents decided to hand Helen over to Jeffrey.
Judging from the appearance of the grandfather and grandson, they probably have similar personalities.
Helen said a lot of things that were difficult for ordinary people to accept. A lot of them were about Jeffrey himself, and they even involved 'insulting' his grandmother for her low IQ. Jeffrey didn't refute a word, and seemed to think that what he said was right, so he
Feeling ashamed of this.
I can’t complain!
Wang Hao decided not to talk to this strange pair of grandfather and grandson, and listened carefully to the report on the podium.
The level of reports at the conference is still very high, reaching the lowest level of ordinary SCI. The contents are all cutting-edge to a certain extent, and some of them are eye-catching.
Of course, there are also those who pull the crotch.
The main thing that pulls my hips is not the content. Most of them are in English. Even international academic conferences held in China have to be spoken in English. Just like the STACS conferences held in Germany and China, they are also all in English.
The reason for giving a report is that English is an international language and everyone who comes to listen to the report can speak English.
If it were in another language, many people would not understand it.
At this computer conference, there are more than 600 scholars from abroad, and one-third of the review team is foreign scholars. It is definitely not practical to give a report in Chinese.
However, some scholars who gave reports had very average English proficiency, which made it a bit awkward to give a report on stage. Fortunately, the papers that could pass the review were all of a certain standard, which slightly made up for the embarrassment of speaking.
In fact, similar situations are normal. Even if it is an international conference, some top scholars' English proficiency is still poor, and some even have the accent of their hometown, which sounds awkward and unsmooth.
This is all normal.
Wang Hao listened carefully to the lectures throughout the day. He arrived on time in the morning and afternoon and sat motionless in his seat. Most scholars could not last a day.
Scholars are not like officials. When it comes to content that they are not interested in, most of them will not listen carefully, or communicate quietly with other people, or simply leave the conference hall and go to other conference halls to read the content.
The same goes for the special judges’ seats in the first row.
Wang Hao was the only one who persisted throughout the whole day. The weird Mr. and Mrs. Hinton only listened to the report for two hours before walking away.
Others in the distance did not stick around until the end, especially when the last session in the afternoon was halfway through, only Wang Hao was left in the first row, and the others left early.
The person who took the stage was a postdoctoral lecturer from Shenzhen University. Halfway through his speech, he noticed that many people had left and his tone became very unconfident. Fortunately, there was still one person left in the first row.
After the report was finished, the person who gave the report came over, held Wang Hao's hand 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 out of politeness.
In fact, Wang Hao did not listen too seriously. He would listen carefully to reports related to his own research or some interesting content.
It was really hard to listen to content that was of little interest, irrelevant, and lacked research highlights, but he still persisted until the end, hoping to learn more about the content so that he could have a reference for his own research.
Unfortunately, most computer conferences have nothing to do with basic mathematical research.
【Task 3】
[Inspiration value: 73]
A day's increase of '9' points is acceptable, but considering that talking to Peter Schulz increased '7' points of inspiration, and listening to a day's report only increased the remaining '2'
'Point, the efficiency of listening to reports is indeed too low.
Wang Hao left the lecture hall and walked towards the restaurant. On the way, he met Mr. Hinton and his grandson Sitting leisurely by the pool.
Helen stopped Wang Hao with a cheerful smile on her face, "I made a bet with Jeffrey that you would be able to persist until the end, and I won."
Jeffrey said depressedly, "Why did you come out so late? What's the point of those reports?"
Wang Hao said with dull eyes, "Others' reports may be helpful to my research."
"What research?"
"Prime numbers."
"Prime numbers?"
Jeffrey stood up and stared at Wang Hao's face carefully for a long time before he spoke, "I was telling Helen just now that you also have good genes in terms of appearance, but now, I think you should start earlier
Take advantage of this genetic talent."
"Why?"
"You are studying prime numbers, which is analytic number theory, right? When you are thirty, your hair will become very thin, and by forty, your hair may not be as good as mine. You know, a person's appearance
Appearance and genes are indeed important, but body shape is just as important as hair."
Wang Hao was silent for a long time, then he thought about it and said, "Maybe I should consider getting a hair transplant?"
Jeffrey thought about it carefully and said with approval, "Then it won't matter." He called Helen and prepared to go to the restaurant to eat together.
Wang Hao looked at the behavior of the grandfather and grandson and thought that he should find a reason to leave?
have a meal together?
If you stay in contact with them for a long time, your way of thinking may be greatly affected!
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