At the age of 43, I have nothing to do with age

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"At the age of 43, doctorate, have nothing to do with age ｜ West Lake has new life"

Bao Guangsheng was surrounded by the media and at the opening ceremony of the doctoral student of West Lake University.

He answered every question with a smile. After the video release, some people said that he looked like 30 years old, and some people speculated that he had financial freedom. Big data may also be pushed to similar people, and some people say that they are also in their 40s and are also studying doctors.

Young middle school youth graduates, self -study colleges and self -study undergraduates, and admitted to graduate students from the University of Science and Technology of China. After graduation, they entered Microsoft and Alibaba. After many years of work, he studied Dr. Artificial Intelligence with a 43 -year -old "old age".

Telling stories in this way is in line with the social label about age: As you grow, pursuing your own ideas will become more and more difficult. If there are special cases, it must be praised, but this is not daily.

However, Bao Guangsheng's story should not be told like this. "Why do we always like to label people? Age, gender, origin ..." Bao Guangsheng asked with a smile.

In 2017, Bao Guangsheng and his daughter were in the UK. This year he decided to study for a PhD, and he prepared for 5 years for this.

Please answer 1998

1998 was a special year, and the Yangtze River and other basins experienced a large flood. Tencent, Jingdong, Netease, and Sina, all of which were founded that year, and the north and south of the motherland were broadcasting "Returning Pearls".

19 -year -old Bao Guangsheng stood by the Yangtze River. He just graduated from secondary school and was about to enter an unit in Anqing. Anqing's water level has reached 18.5 meters. Bao Guangsheng watched the water surface only one or two meters away from the dam. In some places on the dam body, the water began to seep, flowing down, and meandering at his house.

He grew up on the Yangtze River in Anqing since he was a child, and often played along the Yangtze River, and once even rode a bicycle into the pond. The world is very big. The side of the Yangtze River is the sea and the snow mountain. The world is too big, and Bao Guangsheng, who does not like to talk, is filled with imagination.

Li Bai has a poem "House of Changsheng, two small guessing", the last sentence of this love poem, "The meeting is not far away, until Changfeng Sands", Changfeng Sand is in Anqing. In order to welcome you, I will not be afraid of far away, and walk until the end of the world full of wind and sand.

Three years ago, in 1995, because of his excellent academic performance, Bao Guangsheng was admitted to a technical secondary school. This is not a joke. At that time, his grades were in the top five grades, with full scores of physics and chemistry, and excellent students could get the best technical secondary school. This is a technical secondary school in Hefei and distributed after graduation. But Bao Guangsheng was the last year, and then this policy would be canceled. Many people around him advised him that he could not miss such opportunities.

Bao Guangsheng has two sisters, and the three children are a bit heavy for the family. Moreover, a sister and Bao Guangsheng are the middle school entrance examination at the same time. So both siblings went to the technical secondary school and could work early.

He was still depressed for several months. The school is in Hefei, and the major is accounting for accounting. For three years, he came back and forth between his home and the provincial capital, and found that Hefei was changing rapidly, but Anqing has not changed much.

Bao Guangsheng glanced at the dam under the dam. The troops were stationed, and most of them were similar to their age. The villagers have not evacuated because it is not the first time that they have accepted danger. Jiang Yue was hung up, and Bao Guangsheng couldn't fall asleep, and there were the same young faces under the dam.

Ten years ago Bao Guangsheng

Generation of seams

In 1860, a famous war occurred here. The Taiping Army was besieged by the Hunan Army for nearly a year. The food was spoiled. Anqing alias "Yicheng", the "Tongcheng School" of the prose of the Qing Dynasty originated from this, facing the heart, fresh and refined.

Although I learned accounting, I did not do accounting when I went to the unit, but went to measure first. In order to integrate into the new environment, Bao Guangsheng learned to drink and play cards with colleagues. But in the past, Bao Guangsheng still felt that this was not his life. Yicheng is not suitable. He doesn't want to sleep in Anqing, so he goes to work during the day and prepares his running plan at night.

During the technical secondary school, Bao Guangsheng began his self -study college degree. After work, Bao Guang Shengli spent 4 years in the evening and took 4 years of self -examination. He usually studies in Anqing and goes to Hefei twice a year to take the exam.

"I am the generation of the seams, and I want to get out of the faults of life." Bao Guangsheng said. At that time, the last package was allocated. Unfortunately, he had a feeling of being caught in the middle.

He had not experienced the college entrance examination, and later learned that the college entrance examination was also the "seam" of many people around him, as if it was a life rules, which was a "only -talent" grammar. "Actually, the book is there, and I want to learn." Bao Guangsheng, who has not taken the college entrance examination, has more free and easy in learning.

Six years after entering the society, Bao Guangsheng started to prepare for a full -time graduate student. He still planned to go to Hefei. There was a top Chinese University of Science and Technology. He still wanted to continue his studies in computer majors. "If there is no way for a master's degree, I am going to officially study the university." Bao Guangsheng said.

But the exam is not the advantage of Bao Guangsheng. In the past two years, there were no passers -by around him, and he was lonely. He said that it was the feeling at the time, but he still had to stick to it stubbornly.

"Postgraduate entrance examination? You may not be able to return to this unit if you graduate." He learned that he was going to take a graduate student, and the people around him gave a sincere employment guide. Thinking of the news, such as a doctoral goal to a cigarette factory, this sentence is not magical. In 2005, he was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China. After ten years, he came to Hefei again, once for his family, once for himself.

Bao Guangsheng in 2007 when he was in an internship in Microsoft

Narrate life

Many years later, in the face of Hume's tombstone, 40 -year -old Bao Guangsheng will recall the situation of reporting to the university campus for the first time. This is a "Centennial Lonely" -style opening, but few people talk about its ending: Oreriano has finally decippped the sheepskin rolls, and the century of time gradually shows him in front of him. For a moment, he pursued all the way until he saw the moment he was spent, as if meeting with his own mirror.

Bao Guangsheng has the strength of Oreriano's deciphering sheepskin roll. For a child by the Yangtze River, when the 26 -year -old was finally waiting for the exploration, the 15 -year -old was purely curious about the world, and he still had it.

After nearly three years of graduate studies, Bao Guangsheng's test scores are not particularly picky. At that time, Microsoft came to the school to choose a person to choose an internship. According to the school's recommendation standards, his grades could not reach.

Bao Guangsheng made a voice recognition procedure with his classmates because of his interest, and he trusted the person to submit the work to Microsoft, and as a result, this was exactly what Microsoft valued. At that time, the related technologies of natural language treatment were developing rapidly, and Bao Guangsheng made this procedure with interest.

The performance indicators almost became his "seam", but did not expect to be resolved because of his extracurricular research. Bao Guangsheng went from Hefei to Beijing. He worked with people of different skin colors, and there were many doctors around him. In his first code, colleagues helped him modify it 16 times. His first lesson in Microsoft was to learn to slow down and excel.

He saw more possibilities. In Microsoft, some people resigned to travel around the world, and some resigned to develop the garbage classification system. He met his wife in Beijing today, and she was studying in ancient Chinese doctors. The two are "peers", and she studies the language in history, and he studies the language processed by computer. What is very interesting is that his wife also reads a PhD from a school, and the two have extra common words.

In 2015, Bao Guangsheng and his wife came to Hangzhou to develop. At this time, he was 36 years old and joined Alibaba. The two experiences of Microsoft and Ali have allowed him to accumulate sufficient work experience in natural language processing. "In an enterprise, you can't have the opportunity to study the problem." Bao Guangsheng said that this is still different from the ideal state in his heart.

Two years later, he resigned. At this time, his wife happened to have the opportunity to visit the scholar at the University of Edinburgh. He took his daughter and followed his wife and stayed in Edinburgh for more than a year. In that city full of history, he has four days of libraries soaked in university every week. He sees the old man who has white hair and studying.

Bao Guangsheng can often meet the cemetery in Edinburgh. He will turn in and look at various epitaphs. One day, he encountered Hume's cemetery. This philosopher has written "Research on Human understanding", which reads the tombstone in 1776:

Born in 1711, died in _______.

The philosopher torn off the age label of a person naughty. "In this year in Edinburgh, I feel that the whole person has been opened, and doing research is what I really like." Bao Guangsheng said. He began the derivation of the general theory of relativity in the library.

After returning to China, Bao Guangsheng started to prepare for a PhD. He contacted Zhang Yue who was influential in the field of natural language treatment, but Zhang Yue responded frankly that he had not met the conditions for applying for a PhD, and his research experience and ability were not enough. It was not easy to join Zhang Yue's door. At that time, a technical manager of a large Internet factory wanted to read doctors and was also rejected.

However, in the conversation with Bao Guangsheng, Zhang Yue felt his curiosity about academic problems and liked to think more about the essential level. For example, the deep neural network is a bit like a "dark box". Human beings cannot understand the process well.

It is a great challenge to change from an industrial programmer to academic research. Programmers are concerned about technical applications, and academic research needs innovation, and put forward the methods, ideas, and views that predecessors have not had. Just as the copywriting of West Lake University's opening ceremony: Explore the situation that the predecessors have not reached.

In the process of research, a researcher often withstand the test of loneliness and subversion. One research idea is right, and even self -doubt. But for Bao Guangsheng, this is not painful. "Even if the person who found the answer was not me, I would enjoy the process of searching."

Since applying for a doctorate in 2019, Bao Guangsheng has been preparing for almost 3 years. This process has also been a lot of professional guidance from Zhang Yue. Before receiving the doctoral admission notice email, Bao Guangsheng has made two top -level conference papers.

At the beginning of school, some doctoral students would quietly ask him, how Microsoft is, how Ali is. There is a wonderful cross point in the order of two kinds of life. Woody Allen said a backside life: waking up from the nursing home, becoming younger every day, getting a huge amount of pension, then working, and then going to school.

He is becoming younger every day. He joked with his daughter, saying whether to go to school with his dad, and laughed at the 5th grade daughter: "Am I still a primary school student? My doctoral student dad." Smile wrinkles.

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