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academician zheng weimin: popularizing science to eliminate information gaps for non-professionals

2024-10-02

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cover news reporter yan wenwen and intern wu yijun

he has silver hair, a smile on his face at all times, and speaks slowly and slowly. academician zheng weimin gives people a feeling of spring breeze both inside and outside the camera.

outside the camera, he is an academician of the chinese academy of engineering and a professor of the department of computer science and technology of tsinghua university who has been engaged in high-performance computer architecture, parallel algorithms and systems research for a long time; behind the camera, he is a well-known up owner of station b and a person who has been "touched". one of the 13 "silver zhibo" "podcasters" named "china's person of the year 2022".

recently, academician zheng weimin accepted an exclusive interview with cover news and sent a message to young scientific and technological workers to "settle down and do one thing down-to-earth."

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"yinfa zhibo" moves the platform to the cloud



"the spring silkworms never grow old, and the sunset is red. classrooms without walls, universities without thresholds. the traffic created by white-haired people converges into real energy. knowing and spreading, spreading knowledge and culture, is always the direction you are dedicated to. "this is the award speech written by the organizing committee to the "silver zhibo" group composed of 13 people including academician zheng weimin at the "moving china 2022 people of the year" award ceremony.

"it is very important and not easy to do a good job in science popularization. when we were doing science popularization at that time, we just felt that every time we came up with a concept, everyone would follow suit. some bloggers would make some information gaps. in fact, they themselves i don’t know much about this matter. i want to tell the public in a more understandable way, especially those who are not professionals.” since 2022, academician zheng weimin has been sharing information about the computer field on the video website bilibili. professional knowledge videos are updated almost every month. so far, academician zheng weimin has released 76 videos and received 177,000 fans and 568,000 likes.

in the video content of academician zheng weimin, there are no fancy editing transitions. there is just academician zheng weimin with silver hair at the end of the screen, wearing silver-rimmed glasses, explaining to his young friends outside the screen.cloud computingblockchain, chips and other technology hot spots.

"we older people also have certain advantages in doing science popularization. one is because we older people are not as busy as young people and have relatively plenty of time; in addition, we happen to understand this matter, so it is up to us to do it. popularizing science is also a good thing,” said academician zheng weimin.

academician zheng weimin not only interprets technology hot spots, but also pays special attention to the growth of young friends. he also gave advice from his own perspective in the video on the professional choice issues that affect young friends' lives. he said: "i think we young people should settle down and do one thing in a down-to-earth manner. whether you are doing basic large-scale model training, professional large-scale model training, or even reasoning, there will be a lot of things to do. "as long as you do it well, you can do it."

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making good use of large models in a certain field is also a way



in recent years,aiit is increasingly widely used in many important fields, and the demand for computing power for large ai models has also experienced explosive growth. data is the core of large model capabilities, and high-quality training data is one of the keys to the success of large models.

"now we have more and more data. the more data we have, the more regular problems we may find. a large model must have data. without data, it will be useless no matter how many large models and computers we have." academician zheng weimin said, "when we do training, we need to train big data. data is the most important, not only must it be abundant, but it must also be of good quality, so that the effect of my training will be good."

according to the "national data resources survey report (2023)", the overall management and utilization of data resources in my country is in its infancy. currently, there is still insufficient effective supply of data, computing power needs to be deployed appropriately in advance, the diversified data circulation model needs to be improved, and the value of data challenges such as further releases await.

"on top of the basic large model, secondary data training is performed, such as in different fields such as medical care, finance, and intelligent manufacturing. the mature large model will become ai doctors, bankers, etc.," said academician zheng weimin. , "when it comes to basic large-scale models, the americans are indeed better than us, but as long as we use it well in a certain field, we are not necessarily worse than them. this is also our other approach."



brief information about academician zheng weimin






in 1946, zheng weimin was born in yinzhou, ningbo, zhejiang. in 1959, zheng weimin entered junior high school. to go to school, he had to walk from his home at the top of caojiashan, taogong mountain, dongqian lake, across an hour's gravel road to the middle school where he attended. during this bumpy journey, he trotted barefoot almost every day, rain or shine, but was never late. because "a young man should have high ambitions and compete for romance in the sky thousands of miles away", this difficult experience had a profound impact on his life and forged his perseverance, hard-working character. zheng weimin said: "the university taught me knowledge, and the middle school taught me how to be a good person, which cultivated my hard-working and collectivist spirit."


in 1965, zheng weimin was admitted totsinghua universityautomatic control system. after graduating in 1970, zheng weimin stayed at the school to teach. for more than 50 years, academician zheng weimin has remained at the forefront of scientific research. as an expert in the field of computer system structure, zheng weimin has won the first prize of the national science and technology progress award once, the second prize of the national science and technology progress award twice, and the second prize of the national technology invention award once.


in 2016 and 2017, the projects that zheng weimin and his team participated in won the "gordon bell award", known as the "nobel prize" in the field of supercomputing applications, twice in a row. breakthrough above zero. in 2018, academician zheng weimin became the first recipient of the china storage lifetime achievement award.

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